Tamara Prosic
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1069771 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tamara Prosic |
| PRENOMES | Tamara |
| SOBRENOME | Prosic |
| ASSINATURA | PROSIC T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4099-6709 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Pythagorean ‘Metempsychosis’, the ‘Psyche’ and Post-mortem Physicalism
Doctrines of reincarnation are traditionally based on body/soul dualism and maintain that it is only the immaterial soul of the person which passes through cycles of life and death, resulting in what is in this article described as post-mortem non-physicalist immortality. The ancient Pythagorean metempsychosis and psyche—habitually translated as ‘soul’—are usually understood along the same lines. This article, however, argues that they are differ…
Religious Utopianism
This paper intends to make an important contribution to the studies of religious utopianism by considering religions as comprehensive utopian systems which have an ontological and a social utopian mode. It argues that the ontological mode/utopia is related to human finality and that its fantastical content, abstractness and ontological Othering undermine the transformative powers of left religious social utopianism, while it encourages pernicious…
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis
Christianity is a religion with deep utopian undercurrents that find their articulation in narratives about a utopian past, a dystopian present and a utopian future. The natural world is also part of this utopian trend, most prominently in the form of the lost Garden of Eden. While both Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity recognize nature as part of this past utopia, their views regarding its role in the dystopian present, the future utopia…
The theological possibilities of communism
In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch claims that the Russian Orthodox Christian Church was theologically more open towards the ideas of October than its Western counterpart. The remark is intriguing, but Bloch does not offer any detailed explanation except to say that Orthodoxy considers the revelation "unconcluded." This article is an attempt to provide a slightly more detailed background to Bloch's remark and present some elements of Orthodox …
The 1917 Russian Revolution and Eastern Orthodox Christian Utopianism
This article attempts to open an alternative perspective in thinking about the role Eastern Orthodox Christianity played in the 1917 Russian revolution by challenging the prevailing paradigm that it was a conservative cultural element resisting social change. Weber claimed that Calvinism managed to turn a particular conception of the world into a corresponding practical norm that aided the development of capitalism. This article proposes a simila…
Between Support for the State and its Betrayal
Church–state relationships in countries with Eastern Orthodox Christian heritage are often characterized as caesaropapist, implying that churches are subservient to the state and that political rulers hold the reins of power over both secular and spiritual/ecclesiastical matters. The Orthodox insistence on tradition is also often understood to involve Byzantine autocracy, so Orthodoxy as a whole is habitually portrayed as a docile, politically ap…
Annual Festivals in the Hebrew Bible II
From the perspective of biblical studies Pentateuch’s annual festivals (Passover, First Sheaf, Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Blowing of the Shofar, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles) are usually regarded as a more or less artificial collection of heterogeneous cultic occasions. Application of ritual studies findings and methods, however, reveals that there are multiple syntagmatic links between these festivals and that their explicit and implicit dynam…
Annual Festivals in the Hebrew Bible I
Taking into account recent developments in the historical studies of ancient Israelites the article raises questions regarding the continuing use of the old theoretical platforms and the validity of source criticism as a method in searching for the origins of biblical festivals. Using different arguments it attempts to invalidate the widely held view of Pentateuch’s annual cycle of festivals as a more or less random collection of heterogeneous ce…
Religious Utopianism
This paper intends to make an important contribution to the studies of religious utopianism by considering religions as comprehensive utopian systems which have an ontological and a social utopian mode. It argues that the ontological mode/utopia is related to human finality and that its fantastical content, abstractness and ontological Othering undermine the transformative powers of left religious social utopianism, while it encourages pernicious…
The theological possibilities of communism
In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch claims that the Russian Orthodox Christian Church was theologically more open towards the ideas of October than its Western counterpart. The remark is intriguing, but Bloch does not offer any detailed explanation except to say that Orthodoxy considers the revelation "unconcluded." This article is an attempt to provide a slightly more detailed background to Bloch's remark and present some elements of Orthodox …
The 1917 Russian Revolution and Eastern Orthodox Christian Utopianism
This article attempts to open an alternative perspective in thinking about the role Eastern Orthodox Christianity played in the 1917 Russian revolution by challenging the prevailing paradigm that it was a conservative cultural element resisting social change. Weber claimed that Calvinism managed to turn a particular conception of the world into a corresponding practical norm that aided the development of capitalism. This article proposes a simila…
Annual Festivals in the Hebrew Bible I
Taking into account recent developments in the historical studies of ancient Israelites the article raises questions regarding the continuing use of the old theoretical platforms and the validity of source criticism as a method in searching for the origins of biblical festivals. Using different arguments it attempts to invalidate the widely held view of Pentateuch’s annual cycle of festivals as a more or less random collection of heterogeneous ce…
Annual Festivals in the Hebrew Bible II
From the perspective of biblical studies Pentateuch’s annual festivals (Passover, First Sheaf, Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Blowing of the Shofar, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles) are usually regarded as a more or less artificial collection of heterogeneous cultic occasions. Application of ritual studies findings and methods, however, reveals that there are multiple syntagmatic links between these festivals and that their explicit and implicit dynam…
Annual Festivals in the Hebrew Bible I
Taking into account recent developments in the historical studies of ancient Israelites the article raises questions regarding the continuing use of the old theoretical platforms and the validity of source criticism as a method in searching for the origins of biblical festivals. Using different arguments it attempts to invalidate the widely held view of Pentateuch’s annual cycle of festivals as a more or less random collection of heterogeneous ce…
Between Support for the State and its Betrayal
Church–state relationships in countries with Eastern Orthodox Christian heritage are often characterized as caesaropapist, implying that churches are subservient to the state and that political rulers hold the reins of power over both secular and spiritual/ecclesiastical matters. The Orthodox insistence on tradition is also often understood to involve Byzantine autocracy, so Orthodoxy as a whole is habitually portrayed as a docile, politically ap…
The 1917 Russian Revolution and Eastern Orthodox Christian Utopianism
This article attempts to open an alternative perspective in thinking about the role Eastern Orthodox Christianity played in the 1917 Russian revolution by challenging the prevailing paradigm that it was a conservative cultural element resisting social change. Weber claimed that Calvinism managed to turn a particular conception of the world into a corresponding practical norm that aided the development of capitalism. This article proposes a simila…
The theological possibilities of communism
In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch claims that the Russian Orthodox Christian Church was theologically more open towards the ideas of October than its Western counterpart. The remark is intriguing, but Bloch does not offer any detailed explanation except to say that Orthodoxy considers the revelation "unconcluded." This article is an attempt to provide a slightly more detailed background to Bloch's remark and present some elements of Orthodox …
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis
Christianity is a religion with deep utopian undercurrents that find their articulation in narratives about a utopian past, a dystopian present and a utopian future. The natural world is also part of this utopian trend, most prominently in the form of the lost Garden of Eden. While both Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity recognize nature as part of this past utopia, their views regarding its role in the dystopian present, the future utopia…
Religious Utopianism
This paper intends to make an important contribution to the studies of religious utopianism by considering religions as comprehensive utopian systems which have an ontological and a social utopian mode. It argues that the ontological mode/utopia is related to human finality and that its fantastical content, abstractness and ontological Othering undermine the transformative powers of left religious social utopianism, while it encourages pernicious…
Pythagorean ‘Metempsychosis’, the ‘Psyche’ and Post-mortem Physicalism
Doctrines of reincarnation are traditionally based on body/soul dualism and maintain that it is only the immaterial soul of the person which passes through cycles of life and death, resulting in what is in this article described as post-mortem non-physicalist immortality. The ancient Pythagorean metempsychosis and psyche—habitually translated as ‘soul’—are usually understood along the same lines. This article, however, argues that they are differ…
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