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  • Cognitive Dissonance and the Psychology of Sin

    Going beyond psychology's objective description of human beings as rationalizing or justifying beings, religious sources suggest rejecting self-justification in most of cases. Published March - April 2011 - Selnur Hatice YERLI

  • Human Brain and Crossing beyond Self

    People everywhere seem to have an innate need to reach out to the ultimate, to connect with some larger reality beyond themselves.

    Published March - April 2011 - Mustafa TABANLI
  • Faith, Theology and Service in Peacebuilding

    Fethullah Gülen's work and thinking starts and ends in faith. In a world that commonly extends conflict by speaking of religion either in stereotyped or in ideologized terms, ...

    Published January - February 2011 - Stanley RIDGE
  • Each Child Is Born Knowing God

    She remembered the day when the world stopped being beautiful.

    As a child of 11, Rebecca thought she was going blind.

    Published January - February 2011 - Jennifer KNIGHT-ARI
  • Renewal in Belief: A Model for Modern Times

    If the definitive history of twentieth century Islamic movements is ever written, one wonders whether its author would be both perspicacious and brave enough to argue a point which, ...

    Published January - February 2011 - Colin TURNER
  • Faster Than the Dead

    Life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries brings distinct challenges and opportunities for peaceful coexistence between people of different religions and cultures.

    Published November - December 2010 - B. Jill CARROLL
  • Music of the Spheres

    Music surrounds us. We may not always be attuned to hear it, but it is there, whether it is recorded music, the music of nature, or sounds inaudible to human ears.

    Published September - October 2010 - Julie Ann CUNNINGHAM
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Virtue and Happiness

M. Fethullah GULEN: Those who promise happiness to people must equip them with virtues first. Happiness is out of reach for those whose hearts have not been saturated with virtue.

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Coping with Autism

Esen BAKHAUTDIN: "When I took my one-year old son to the supermarket, he never responded to other mothers' playful overtures. I used to tell them, 'Oh, he just woke up from his nap.' He was very unresponsive baby.

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The Optimizing Man

Devrim BULUT: In 1881, F. Edgeworth defines the first principle of economics such that every agent is motivated only by self-interest. The idea of self-interest motivation is conceptualized with a hypothetical economic agent named as "homo-economicus" who behaves rationally and in accord with logical principles, thus seeks to maximize his/her own benefits.

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Hearing the Light

Sermed OGRETIM: On a Saturday morning, I was sitting in the nearby park in our neighborhood. It was especially lovely to do it at this time of the year.

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The Difficulty of Modeling the Brain with Artificial Neurons

Fatih GELGI: If someone asks what you recall when you look at the following pictures, I can hear you say "President Obama" and "Statue of Liberty." You just see a fragment of the pictures and remember them.

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Same World, Different Lenses: A Brief Overview of Cultural Differences

Osman SENKAYA: According to the British writer Raymond Williams, culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in English.

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The Power Law

Murat YUKSEL: The desire of explaining things and trends around us has been a decisive component of wisdom. The complexity of nature challenges human thought and experience to answer the question of "why."

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