Pope Benedict XVI’s Critique of Legal Positivism with Special Regards to the Role of Tradition in Contemporary Legal Systems by Vid Žepič

“…In addition to this, he cast doubt on the adequacy of scientific legal positivism and scientism in comprehending law and the realm of reason. …”
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The unknown face of in vitro fertilization by José María Pardo Sáenz

“…After briefly mentioning the 2010 Nobel Medicine Award granted to Robert Edwards, the father of in vitro fertilization, we analyze the two roots that support the big tree of artificial human reproduction methods: scientism and sen- timentalism. Then we study the ethical aspect of these procedures. …”
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Acerca de la nada: de la naturalización de la nada a la nada de pensamiento by A. Sánchez-Bayón

“…There is treason of tradition, a rejection of humanism and culture, replaced by scientism, a mix between technology and ideology (no real science); so there is not a real reflection about politics and common good. …”
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Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences by Morrison, Scott

“…Both Husserl and Davutoğlu perceive a crisis in humanity and identify its causes in scientism and logical positivism, against which they develop their respective phenomenological alternatives. …”
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The role of parents in teaching the Environmental Concepts to Child Of Kindergartens "Afield Study on Kindergartens in Tartous City" by ٍSalwa Mortuada, Yousef Shaheen

“…The research results showed that the role of parents in teaching the environmental concepts to child of kindergartens in Tartous City were a medium degree, as it was shown that there were no differences of statistical indication about the role of the parents in teaching the Environmental Concepts to Child of Kindergartens according to the sex, whereas statistical indicating differences were shown regarding the different according to scientism certificate in favor of the higher certificate, The research also provided suggestions of interest in education Environmental and care of Children in Kindergartens and house. …”
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Ciência, construção da nação e exclusão social. São Paulo-Brasil (1889-1930) by Mariza Romero

“…By the end of the Nineteenth century and during the first decades of the Twentieth Century in big Brazilian cities such as São Paulo, there was a great diffusion of hygiene and health patterns which had already been largely adopted in Europe and empowered by scientism, the utmost expression of the progress of science at that time. …”
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“Cross Is Fix”: Christianity and Christian Community as Vehicles for Overcoming Settlement Crises of Chinese Immigrant Families by Yining Wang

“…Mainland Chinese grow up in a nation with Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism as their cultural heritage, and are educated with atheism, materialism, and scientism in contemporary China. However, the high rate of conversion to Christianity among Chinese immigrants in Anglo-Saxon countries constitutes a distinctive feature in studies of migration. …”
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Ultramodern Psychology: A Vision Construction with Culture, Religion, Cognitive Science and Neurotheology by Yusuf Fırıncı

“…On the other hand, some arguments regarding the commercialization of research targets, the transformation of science into neoliberal market discourses leading to some kind of social Darwinism, or regarding some of the influences of some of the sponsors; some of the leaders; some of the foundations; some of the scientism ideologies; and various global agendas are shared to illustrate the necessity to be cautious.…”
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Comparing Martin Heidegger’s and Ali Shariati’s Views of Technology by Seyyed Javad Miri, Hossein Rouhani

“…The premise of this article is based on the fact that although Ali Shariati, as a critic of the modern world, criticizes scientism and mechanism, his critique of technology and mechanism is more political and sociological. …”
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The role of parents in teaching the Environmental Concepts to Child Of Kindergartens "Afield Study on Kindergartens in Tartous City" by سلوى مرتضى, يوسف شاهين

“…The research results showed that the role of parents in teaching the environmental concepts to child of kindergartens in Tartous City were a medium degree, as it was shown that there were no differences of statistical indication about the role of the parents in teaching the Environmental Concepts to Child of Kindergartens according to the sex, whereas statistical indicating differences were shown regarding the different according to scientism certificate in favor of the higher certificate, The research also provided suggestions of interest in education Environmental and care of Children in Kindergartens and house. …”
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A reformed-theological engagement with the resurrection of Jesus Christ by Jan H. Van Wyk

“…Since the Aufklärung of the 18th century, with its rationalism and positivism, the discussion built up momentum and the message of the resurrection was put into question from the side of science and scientism. This implied that the author had to discuss the relation between faith and science, trying to find an answer.…”
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Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach by Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht

“…In contrast, there are those who believe that the core idea of physicalism is an ontological deference to science (especially physics); the idea that is usually called scientism and is closely related to methodological naturalism. …”
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Transforming the Food System is the People’s Work: Experiential Knowledge Shows Us the Way by Branden Born

“…Instead of reporting knowledge simply based in science and scientism, the editors have brought together a group of author participants who share an under­standing of a broader set of knowledges driven by co-production in nonhierarchical dialogue, includ­ing multiple indigenous epistemologies. …”
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Critical Examination of Meaning and the Possibility of Paradigm Shift by Accepting Emergentism by Seyed Hassan Hosseini, Massoud Toossi Saeidi

“…This article first provides a general analysis of the components of the scientific paradigm by examining the main themes of positions such as naturalism, reductionism, scientism, and the like. In the course of this analysis, the various components of the scientific paradigm are explained, and the relation of these components to each other is examined. …”
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Entheogens and Sacred Psychology by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

“…Now that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAT) is being developed, we must avoid repeating the mistakes of modern psychology, which misguidedly seeks to situate entheogenic therapy on a desacralized foundation of materialism, reductionism, and scientism. Nevertheless, although the full benefit of entheogens can likely be gained only in the context of a sacred tradition, they may still have some measure of therapeutic value even when used in conjunction with secular psychotherapy. …”
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The Institutionalization of International Law at a Crossroads: Pacifists, Jurists, and the Creation of the ILA and the IDI by Xiaohang Chen

“…The aim was to marshal the scattered reformist forces of international law in furtherance of international legal reform—“international law needed to be institutionalized,” as Gerald Fitzmaurice put it.1 This resulted in the almost simultaneous establishment of the pacifism-originated ILA and the legal-scientism-oriented IDI, and helped to explain the similarity in institutional telos and the high degree of overlap in membership between the two institutions in their early years.2 Nevertheless, the ILA and the IDI differed in their working agendas and strategies. …”
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Taste-shaping-natures: making novel miso with charismatic microbes and new Nordic fermenters in Copenhagen by Evans, J, Lorimer, J

“…We situate the rise of kōji’s allure in the context of New Nordic Cuisine, framed as a high-end response to anxieties about globalization and subsequent nationalisms, a reworking of the scientism of molecular gastronomy, and a postpastoral mobilization of different natures for the reconstruction of regional identity. …”

How Much Should or Can Science Impact Theological Formulations? An Ashʿarī Perspective on Theology of Nature by Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Nazif Muhtaroglu

“…The motivation and methodology of localising or modifying God’s nature or attributes to fit the science of the day would be seen as theologically very costly and a form of scientism.…”
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Kulturell kritik och komplexitet by Sten Dahlstedt

“…In Sweden, where interest in Hegelian philosophy never had been great and Anglo-American scientism was highly regarded, Adorno was often understood undialectically and against a naturalistic background. …”
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Ethics and Science: Challenges and Possibilities by Dalimir Hajko

“…The author asks the question if such management is principally possible. Scientism and socio-ethical nihilism have increased their influence which manifests itself, among other things, in attempts to seclude 'a unique ethics of science' based on objective postulates of knowledge alone, separated from social praxis as well as from ethical values of humanity. …”
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