{"id":4688,"date":"2019-02-06T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gilgameshmag.com\/en\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:10:49","slug":"fountain-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilgameshmag.com\/en\/4688\/fountain-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For answering such a set of questions we need a theoretical framework to clarify the concepts, and an accurate and objective methodology to organize the facts. I will try to deal with these cases through a systemic approach, related to my complex-systems-theory based model of socio-cultural evolution, which is called the Zorvan paradigm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">First of all, the facts and factors: we need a vivid understanding of civilizations and their sphere of influence, plus a documented history of the emergence of the main religions. For determining the boundaries of a civilization with an integrated national identity, we employ two acknowledged criteria: duration of a central political entity governing a certain geographical realm, and normative presence of a national language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The rest of this article is published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilgameshmag.com\/en\/magazine\/4316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3rd number of Gilgamesh<\/a>\u00a0international edition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For answering such a set of questions we need a theoretical framework to clarify the concepts, and an accurate and objective methodology to organize the facts. I will try to deal with these cases through a systemic approach, related to my complex-systems-theory based model of socio-cultural evolution, which is called the Zorvan paradigm. First of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[812,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-study-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fountain of Faith | Quarterly on Cultural Heritage, Tourism and the Environment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gilgameshmag.com\/en\/4688\/fountain-of-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fountain of Faith | Quarterly on Cultural Heritage, Tourism and the Environment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For answering such a set of questions we need a theoretical framework to clarify the concepts, and an accurate and objective methodology to organize the facts. 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