Dony Sinanda Putra

What connects twenty-two years of insurance risk to book authorship on misrecognition, a research program in the psychology of religion, and a deep contemplative practice? A single question that recurs in every domain: how do human beings decide what is real, what is valuable, and what deserves to be protected?

In Insurance & Risk Management, that question takes the form of a pricing problem — what is worth protecting, and how do you calibrate the cost of losing it?

In Beyond Tolerance, it becomes a formal research question — what psychological capacities does genuine inter-religious recognition require?

In Buddhist KTP (first book), it becomes a sociological and psychological problem — how does a society decide which traditions are legitimate, and at what cost to those it fails to recognize?

In Shadow of the Sun (second book), it becomes an epistemological problem — what happens when the world’s most mocked system of knowledge has never actually been tested, because the tests were aimed at the shadow instead of the substance?

In Astrological Analysis, it becomes a pattern problem — how do humans construct meaning from celestial structure, and what do those constructions reveal about the human need for coherence?