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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

Popular:

• A Sociological Analysis of the Movie “Crash”
• End the War on Drugs
• Is Hinduism Monotheistic or Polytheistic?
• An Argument for Christian Universalism: Why I Don’t Believe in an Eternal Hell
• Parallels Between Maoism and Pre-Modern Religion in China

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

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
• Pornography May Have Harmful Effects on Certain Male Consumers–A Sociological Perspective
• Legalization: A Case for Ending the War

Popular Articles on Christian Spirituality & Theology (Non-Academic)

• “Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind” Bible Verse Analysis
• 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