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29 October 2026

27 October 2026

  • 14:2214:22, 27 October 2026 Tian (hist | edit) [12,386 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} = {{FULLPAGENAME}} = <blockquote class="definition">'''Tian''' 天, conventionally translated as “Heaven,” is the Confucian '''ground of all being''' and the ultimate source of life, cosmic order, moral authority, and human nature. Its meanings range from the physical sky and spontaneous processes of nature to a purposive supreme power, the source of political mandate and personal destiny, and the metaphysical Way or Principle underlying existence. In it...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:4613:46, 27 October 2026 Confuscius (hist | edit) [10,970 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Confucius''' (Kong Qiu 孔丘, also known by his courtesy name Kong Zhongni 孔仲尼; 551–479 BCE) was a Chinese teacher, political thinker, and transmitter of the inherited Zhou tradition. He was born in the state of Lu in eastern China, traditionally at Qufu in present-day Shandong, into a once-aristocratic family that had fallen into poverty. Although he briefly held public...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:2413:24, 27 October 2026 He (hist | edit) [11,882 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''He''' (和, hé) is harmony: the appropriate, creative, and life-supporting coordination of different elements within the person, human relationships, society, and the cosmos. It does not mean uniformity or the elimination of difference; Confucians explicitly distinguish ''he'' from ''tong'' (同), mere identity or sameness. Harmony is both an ethical achievement and the destinati...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:5212:52, 27 October 2026 Dao (hist | edit) [9,283 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Dao''' (道, also romanised ''Tao'') is literally a road or path and, in Confucian thought, the Way that humans are called to discern, follow, practise, and embody. As Xinzhong Yao explains, “the original meaning of ''dao'' as a road or a path is enriched to mean the universal Way applicable and existent in every corner of the universe.”<ref name="yao140">Xinzhong Yao, ''An In...")
  • 04:4504:45, 27 October 2026 The Great Learning (hist | edit) [18,886 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Great Learning''' (''Daxue'' 大學) is a short Confucian classic, originally preserved as a chapter of the ''Book of Rites'' and later placed first among the Four Books in Zhu Xi’s educational curriculum.<ref>Anna Sun, ''Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 21...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 03:4503:45, 27 October 2026 The Five Classics (hist | edit) [1,371 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Five Classics''' are </blockquote> == Concept Map == === Key Terms === World System >{{#ask:Is a key term::World System|format=ul}}Human Development Framework >{{#ask:Is a key term::Human Development Framework|format=ul}} ===List of Human Development Frameworks=== {{#ask:Is a::Connection Framework|format=ul|format=ul}} === Confucian Terms === {{#ask:...")
  • 03:4403:44, 27 October 2026 The Four Books (hist | edit) [8,028 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Four Books''' are </blockquote> == Concept Map == === Key Terms === World System >{{#ask:Is a key term::World System|format=ul}}Human Development Framework >{{#ask:Is a key term::Human Development Framework|format=ul}} ===List of Human Development Frameworks=== {{#ask:Is a::Connection Framework|format=ul|format=ul}} === Confucian Terms === {{#ask:I...")

26 October 2026

  • 15:4415:44, 26 October 2026 Confucianism (hist | edit) [18,232 bytes] Kimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} = {{FULLPAGENAME}} = <blockquote class="definition">'''Confucianism''' is a Chinese Human Development Framework originating in the teachings of Kong Qiu, better known as Kongzi or Confucius (551–479 BCE), who understood himself primarily as a transmitter and renewer of the ethical and ritual traditions of the earlier Zhou period rather than as the founder of an entirely new doctrine.<ref>Confucius, ''Confucius: Analects: With Selections from Traditiona...") Tag: Visual edit

22 October 2026

  • 03:4703:47, 22 October 2026 Sociology Of Religion (book) (hist | edit) [2,032 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Notes== ===Chapter One=== Weber's opening chapter, "The Rise of Religions," offers a powerful corrective to the notion that religion is primarily about otherworldly salvation. Its central strength is the argument that religious behavior is fundamentally practical and interest-driven, rooted in the material realities of everyday life. Weber states this explicitly, noting that "religiously or magically motivated behavior is relatively rational behavior, especially i...")

18 October 2026

14 October 2026

  • 13:1213:12, 14 October 2026 Ritual Intensity (hist | edit) [6,013 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">For Collins, '''Ritual intensity''' is the degree to which a ritual succeeds in building mutual focus of attention and emotional entrainment — the strength of the self-reinforcing feedback loop that, at its peak, produces the Emotional Energy of Collective Effervescence.<ref>Randall Collins, ''Interaction Ritual Chains'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 42, 50...") Tag: Visual edit

12 October 2026

  • 15:3615:36, 12 October 2026 Consecration (hist | edit) [1,163 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <blockquote>Also, in the present day just as much as in the past, we see society constantly creating sacred things out of ordinary ones. If it happens to fall in love with a man and if it thinks it has found in him the principal aspirations that move it, as well as the means of satisfying them, this man will be raised above the others and, as it were, deified. Opinion will invest him with a majesty exactly analogous to that protecting the gods. . . . And the fact that...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 15:1115:11, 12 October 2026 Interaction Ritual (hist | edit) [8,341 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">An '''Interaction Ritual''' is, in Randall Collins's theory, the general mechanism by which bodily co-presence, barriers to outsiders, mutual focus of attention, and shared mood combine to produce moments of compelling emotional experience, whose outcomes are group solidarity, Emotional Energy, symbols of group membership, and moral standards. "We could call it, more generically,...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 14:4214:42, 12 October 2026 Emotional Energy (hist | edit) [12,035 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Emotional Energy''' (EE) is, in Randall Collins's interaction ritual theory, the short and long-term motivational byproduct of successful rituals: the "social emotion par excellence" that makes "the individual participant feel strong, confident, full of impulses to take the initiative." Part of the collective effervescence of a highly focused, emotionally entrained interaction "is...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 13:4113:41, 12 October 2026 The Harvest (hist | edit) [5,581 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''The Harvest''' is the capture, storage, and appropriation of the Emotional Energy (EE) — Collective Effervescence — that ritual generates. Every ritual technology that can raise emotional energy can also harvest it: whoever owns the vessel, i.e., temple, lodge, stadium, platform, is positioned to direct the stored charge toward actions ends of their choosing, convertin...") Tag: Visual edit

11 October 2026

  • 16:0116:01, 11 October 2026 Exchange Ritual (hist | edit) [3,341 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">An '''Exchange Ritual''' is a ritual whose primary function is to mediate reciprocity. Exchange rituals circulate goods, services, obligations, and loyalties among members of a group, and between members and the sacred. Where identity rituals ask "who are we?" and governance rituals ask "who is in charge?", exchange rituals ask "what do we owe each other?" They produce the emotional...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 15:5115:51, 11 October 2026 Collective Effervescence (hist | edit) [10,760 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Collective Effervescence''' is the heightened, shared emotional arousal that arises when people gather, focus on a common object, and act in synchrony — the sensation of being carried by a force greater than oneself that seems to come from outside yet acts within. The term is Emile Durkheim's, coined in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) to name both a phenomenologica...")
  • 14:4314:43, 11 October 2026 Governance Ritual (hist | edit) [3,526 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">A '''Governance Ritual''' is a ritual whose primary function is to regulate conduct and constitute authority. Governance rituals legitimate power, mark status, enforce the rule-set, and install order inside the person. Where identity rituals ask "who are we?", governance rituals ask "who is in charge, and what are the rules?" They produce the emotional energy of deference, awe, and s...")

4 October 2026

28 September 2026

  • 20:0120:01, 28 September 2026 Jingle-Jangle Fallacy (hist | edit) [4,379 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> In psychology, '''Jingle and jangle fallacies''' refer to conceptual inconsistencies and confusions where either different terms and constructs are labeled with the same term (jingle) or one construct is referred to with multiple terms (jangle).<ref>Hanfstingl, Barbara, Carina Mitterer, and Komal Abbas. "Uncovering Jingle and Jangle Fallacies: A Systematic Review Mapping Future Directions." _Zeitschrift für Psyc...")

19 September 2026

18 September 2026

  • 15:4615:46, 18 September 2026 Silent Worship (hist | edit) [3,065 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Silent Worship''' is an unprogrammed Connection Technique practiced in the Quaker tradition, in which participants gather in expectant waiting, laying aside worldly distractions in order to hear God's "still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12) and access the Divine presence within and among them.<ref>Holliday, Marsha D. "Silent Worship and Quaker Values." ''Friends General Conference...")

11 September 2026

5 September 2026

  • 15:1515:15, 5 September 2026 Cybernetic Religion (hist | edit) [10,581 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Cybernetic Religion''' is the secret, unacknowledged system of devotion that governs technologically advanced industrial society. In Erich Fromm's analysis, it is the religion of the Marketing Character and the cybernetic person: a frame of orientation and object of devotion centered on science, technique, and the machine, in which human beings imagine them...")
  • 12:2412:24, 5 September 2026 Industrial Religion (hist | edit) [5,553 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Industrial Religion''' is the secret, unacknowledged system of devotion that governs modern industrial society. In Erich Fromm's analysis, it is the real religion of the post-Reformation West: a frame of orientation and object of devotion centered on work, property, profit, and power, which reduces human beings to servants of the economic machinery they themselves constructed....") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:1312:13, 5 September 2026 Secret Religion (hist | edit) [4,733 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Secret Religion''' is the real, often unconscious, system of thought and action that provides an individual with a frame of orientation and an object of devotion, as distinguished from their official religion—the beliefs they profess but do not actually live by. In Erich Fromm's social psychology, the secret religion names the actual values that govern behavior, motivation,...")

4 September 2026

3 September 2026

  • 20:5420:54, 3 September 2026 Wak'q (hist | edit) [2,573 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Wak'q''' (often rendered wakan) is "the animating force of the universe," "the creative universal force," an "invisible energy or life-force." It is the power that makes things holy, powerful, or beyond ordinary understanding. When the Sioux encountered something difficult to explain—a natural mystery, a vision, a potent medicine, or even a poisonous plant—they called it wak...")
  • 14:4214:42, 3 September 2026 Full Actuation (hist | edit) [3,324 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Full Actuation''' is the complete realization of an individual's Human Potential, made possible by the full and consistent satisfaction of the Seven Essential Needs. When needs are met, the individual moves toward growth, development, and the progressive unfolding of their innate capacities. When needs are unmet, the individual experiences the 5Ds of Toxic Existence. F...")
  • 12:1112:11, 3 September 2026 Productive Activity (hist | edit) [3,423 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Productive Activity''' is, in Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis, a fundamental mode of relatedness in which the individual acts as the active bearer of their own powers, using reason, love, and imagination to realize inherent potentialities. ''It is not to be confused'' with economic productivity, occupational busyness, or the mere expenditure of energy; rather, it denotes an...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5211:52, 3 September 2026 Pathological Needs (hist | edit) [4,210 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Pathological Needs''' are defensive substitutes that emerge when Sane Needs are frustrated by social conditions; they feel subjectively compelling, but their satisfaction produces alienation, character deformation, and blocked development. Each sane need has a pathological counterpart: symbiotic submission or domination and narcissism in place of love; destructiveness in plac...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

1 September 2026

  • 13:4813:48, 1 September 2026 Circle of Self (hist | edit) [6,817 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Circle of Self''' (a.k.a. the Sphere of Socialization) is an iconic representation of the complex, connected, and embedded nature of Self/Human nature. We are who we are and what we are because of the totality of relations and the influence/impact they have had on us. </blockquote> ==Concept Map== ===Key Terms=== Lightning Path Human Development Framework > {{#ask:Is...")

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