A Selection of Articles by Justin Aptaker
Author’s Favorites:
- Suffer to Learn: Pagan Knowing, Learning, and Openness to Experience
- Creating and Destroying, but Never Destroyed: Rastafari Mission and Survival
- Drawing Together: Themes of Connecting in Neo-Paganism
Academic:
- Birth and Rebirth: Emergence and Change in the Rastafari Individual and Collective
- A Light in the Darkness – A Commentary on Two Not Entirely Rationalistic Treatments of Religion
- Iliad 22.326 – 354 Commentary
Popular:
- A Sociological Analysis of the Movie “Crash”
- End the War on Drugs
- Is Hinduism Monotheistic or Polytheistic?
- Parallels Between Maoism and Pre-Modern Religion in China
Eastern Philosophy & Religion:
- How State Ambivalence Towards Religion Profited Chan in Song China and Soto Zen in Tokugawa Japan
- Complicating the Duel – Toward a More Complex Reading of Chan Self-Understanding in the Tang and Song Dynasties
- What Are the Sacred Texts of Hinduism?
- Was There a Founder of Hinduism?
- Confronting Buddhism in the Han Dynasty: Heterogeneities Interacting With Idiosyncrasies
- The Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of Daoism
- The Goals of Spiritual Practice in Lingbao Daoism
The Greek and Latin Classical Period:
- Heraclitus and Parmenides–A Reconciliation of “Opposing” Worldviews
- Epicurus: Gods and Death – To Be or Not To Be?
- Learning Greek and Latin – Benefits Anyone Can Enjoy by Studying Classical Languages
- Roman and Greek Mythology: Names, Gods, Planets, and Astrology
- Roman and Greek Mythology: Names, Gods, Planets, Astrology (Part 2)
Christianity
- Gender and Asceticism in Early Christianity: An Ambivalent Relationship
- A Church in Flux: The Shifting Ethos, Doctrines, and Organization of Christianity Between the First and Fourth Centuries
- Christian Orthodoxy and Heresy: Definition and Change
- Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Or “Dives” and Lazarus)
Misc.
- Lessons from the Salem Witch Trials
- Existential Psychotherapy, Viktor Frankl, and Jean-Paul Sartre – To Clear a Misunderstanding
- Legalization: A Case for Ending the War
Popular Articles on Christian Spirituality & Theology (Non-Academic)
- “Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind” Bible Verse Analysis
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The “Do Unto Others” Bible Verse - Lord of the Rings- An Analysis of Symbolism and Archetypes in the Trilogy
- The “God Is Love” Bible Verse: Original Greek, English Translation, and Commentary
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