TOK situations for knowledge and religion
How religious knowledge systems establish, transmit and revise their claims, and what standards of justification, authority and interpretation operate within them.
- Latin America
Twenty-seven books, one afternoon
Diego de Landa burned Maya codices in 1562 as works of the devil, and only a handful of pre-conquest Maya books survive anywhere today. Much of what…
Enduring · History
- Power
- Culture
- The Middle East and North Africa
Finding the direction of prayer
Determining the qibla from any city is a problem in spherical trigonometry, and medieval Islamic mathematicians developed sophisticated solutions and…
Enduring · Mathematics
- Explanation
- Culture
- The Middle East and North Africa
The scrolls only a committee could read
For decades after their discovery, many Dead Sea Scrolls could be studied only by a small editorial team, while outside scholars waited on official publication…
Enduring · History
- Power
- South Asia
Painting by prescribed proportion
Tibetan thangka painters work to iconometric grids specifying proportions for each figure, deviation from which makes the image religiously ineffective rather…
Enduring · The arts
- Truth
- Culture