Cogent Arts and Humanities
October 5, 2026
Khaled Al-Kassimi, Layal Hmaidi
Mainstream secular psychology is grounded in an epistemological framework that privileges reason while largely excluding revelation, thereby limiting its capacity to engage the spiritual dimensions of contemporary mental health and socio-political crises. Yet recent decades have witnessed growing scholarly and clinical interest in non-secular epistemologies that affirm the spiritual essence of...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
July 30, 2026
Riya Dutta, Seema Singh, Indranil Acharya
This essay examines faith healing in the select texts of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud (2016) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (2016) as a spiritual and ecological practice that extends beyond the biomedical paradigm of healing. By analyzing both texts, the study foregrounds how narratives of healing are embedded in the ecological consciousness of the oral traditions. Faith healing...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
July 11, 2026
Junichi Kanzaka
This study examines the features of religious experience in the Soka Gakkai (SG) compared with William James’s theory. Religious experiences in the SG are not as ‘mystical’ as those James describes. Daisaku Ikeda asserts that everyone should dedicate their full effort to resolving the problems they face. The doctrine of ‘voluntarily assuming the appropriate karma’ (gan-ken-o-go)...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
July 3, 2026
Muhammad Irfan Riyadi, Ahmad Choirul Rofiq
The Java War (1825–1830) is commonly interpreted through economic grievances, colonial exploitation, and elite political contestation, while the spiritual foundations of leadership that enabled sustained mass mobilization remain insufficiently theorized. This article addresses that gap by examining the spiritual leadership of Prince Diponegoro as represented in Babad Kedung Kebo (BKK) and...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
July 16, 2025
Federico Divino
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This paper is a proposal for analyzing the Pārāyanavagga as a text that fundamentally expresses a theory of intentionality in early Buddhism. Through a comparison with Husserl’s phenomenology and Peirce’s phaneroscopy, the paper argues that the contents of the Pārāyanavagga—as reintroduced in later suttas that further develop these reflections and which will be analyzed in depth—reveal how...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
January 21, 2025
Suyami Suyami, Fakhriati Fakhriati, Ninawati Syahrul et al.
In the current digital era, despite technological advancements and increased access to education, there remains a significant population in Indonesia that believes in traditional healing practices associated with ‘mystical’ illnesses. One such illness is sawan. This research aims to provide a comprehensive description of the forms, factors, as well as treatments or prevention of sawan through...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
November 26, 2018
Ivani Lucia Oliveira de Santana
Situated cognition seems to be one of the relevant pillars in the literature on embodied cognition: a matter of understanding the subject and its cognition in involved and mutual manner. This is a continuous process in which the flow of information affects the body, the world, and the very process of engagement. Dance should be deemed as situated cognition. Thus, assuming that contextual...