Jihad and Hijra Concepts Emergence in Face of Globalization and Postmodernism
Journal: RUDN Journal of Philosophy (Vol.24, No. 4)Publication Date: 2020-11-23
Authors : Esteban Horacio;
Page : 704-719
Keywords : Globalization; Postmodernity; Instrumental Reason; Jungian approach; Jihad; Hijra;
Abstract
The hypothesis of our work is that the concepts of globalization, the information technology boom and Postmodernism are closely linked and that somehow eroded the ontological concepts of identity, individual and cultural diversity, in terms of the relationship “I and the other”. In the international strategic framework that “other” has fallen on Arab-Islamic culture. The thought of the Western world, with its logic of instrumental rationality has built stereotypes about that culture, ignoring its archetype. This reality is the one that perceives the concepts of the Arab-Islamic tradition of “Jihad” and “Hijra” only as ideas that lead to the destruction and not as a heritage of the philosophical and religious thought for the development of humanity. From a Jungian interpretation, both concepts and the psychic behaviors that derive from them, outside the fallacious and violent interpretations, are valuable contributions to humanity in the current situation.
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