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Nygaard, Simon. "Sacral rulers in pre-Christian Scandinavia: The possibilities of typological comparisons within the paradigm of cultural evolution." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 52, no. 1 (2016): 9–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.49454.

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This article offers a new perspective on the century-old discussion of sacral rulers in the history of religions generally, and pre-Christian Scandinavian religions specifically, namely the application of a cultural evolutionary theoretical framework based on the work of Robert N. Bellah. In doing this, the article opens the possibility of wider typological comparisons within this paradigm and suggests a nuancing of Bellah’s typology with the addition of the category of ‘chiefdom religion’. This is utilised in the main part of the article, which features a comparison between the figure of the

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Kolodnyi, Anatolii M. "Tenth Anniversary of the History of Religion in Ukraine." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 1 (March 31, 1996): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1996.1.27.

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The Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies together with the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine began writing this fundamental work. This will not only be the history of the church or denominations, but the religious process in our native lands. Thematic content of the ten-volume is as follows: 1. Religions of the pre-Christian age; 2. Ukrainian Orthodoxy; 3. Orthodoxy in Ukraine; 4. Catholicism in the Ukrainian lands; 5. Ukrainian Greek Catholicism; 6-7. Protestantism in Ukraine; 8. Religions of national minorities

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HINES. "THE PRE-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS OF THE NORTH." Medium Ævum 91, no. 2 (2022): 343. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27306189.

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Oyekan, Adeolu Oluwaseyi. "John Mbiti on the Monotheistic Attribution of African Traditional Religions: A Refutation." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 10, no. 1 (2021): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v10i1.2.

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John Mbiti, in his attempt to disprove the charge of paganism by EuroAmerican ethnographic and anthropological scholars against African Traditional Religions argues that traditional African religions are monotheistic. He insists that these traditional religious cultures have the same conception of God as found in the Abrahamic religions. The shared characteristics, according to him are foundational to the spread of the “gospel” in Africa. Mbiti’s effort, though motivated by the desire to refute the imperial charge of inferiority against African religions ran, I argue, into a conceptual and des

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Zhamashev, A., and E. Talasbayev. "ISLAM, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY." Danish scientific journal, no. 66 (November 25, 2022): 54–61. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7391183.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> The Article is an attempt to investigate formation and interactions of Islam, Judaism and Chris- tianity in diachronic view. During the past centuries the treatment of Islam based on Christian theolog- ical positions. Christian polemists and theologists tried to approve that Islam was a heresy and its Prophet Muhammad was a liar. In the 19-th century the scientific religious studies had grown up, but the principles of Islamic academic studies aimed to present the religious doctrine and the cult of Islam as borrowings from pre- vious religions of Christianity and Judai

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Cooper, Michael. "Missiological Reflections On Celtic Christianity." Mission Studies 20, no. 1 (2003): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338303x00142.

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AbstractThe cultural context of contemporary western culture suggests that people continue to demonstrate strong religious and superstitious beliefs. Many suggest that pre-Christian religions such as Druidry, Asatru and Wicca (although debatable as a pre-Christian religion) are successfully confronting the west European context. With ideals of egalitarianism and environmental responsibility, Paganism criticizes western Christianity for its oppressive nature. While western culture has benefitted from modernization, however, it does not seem all that dissimilar from the religious climate of the

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Rüpke, Jörg. "Hellenistic and Roman Empires and Euro-Mediterranean Religion." Journal of Religion in Europe 3, no. 2 (2010): 197–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187489210x501509.

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AbstractThis article argues that two important phenomena that are characteristic for the image and self-image of religions in and beyond Europe can be traced to Mediterranean antiquity in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The first is the transformation of religious practices and beliefs that led to the formation of boundary-conscious and knowledge-based religious groups that could be called 'religions.' At the same time, however, religious individuality is shown to be much more important than is usually admitted in dealing with ancient pre-Christian religion. The first process is clearly gai

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Perdih, Anton. "Staroverstvo - the Old Religion - the Slovene Pre-Christian Religion." Review of European Studies 13, no. 2 (2021): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v13n2p114.

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The data about staroverstvo, i.e. about the pre-Christian religion in three regions in Slovenia are reviewed. The most archaic of them is the Poso&scaron;ko staroverstvo - the Old Religion around the upper Soča River valley. For it is characteristic the single, female god, the Great Mother, a number of spirits, importance of triangular features, rocks, caves, stone and wood, way of life in peace, reincarnation of souls. The Kra&scaron;ko staroverstvo - the Old Religion in the Karst region is intermediate between it and the East Slavic pre-Christian religion. The influence of the arriva

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Mondry, Henrietta. "Synthesizing Religions: Vasily Rozanov’s “Phallic Christianity”." Religions 12, no. 6 (2021): 430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12060430.

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Vasily Rozanov was one of the first Russian writers of the fin de siècle to create a nexus between the study of the history of world religions and the history of sexuality. He viewed Christianity’s asceticism as a source of the disintegration of the contemporary family. This article examines Rozanov’s strategy to synthesize religions and to use pre-Christian religions of the Middle East as proof of common physical and metaphysical essence in celestial, human, animal, and mythological human/animal/divine bodies. I argue that while his rehabilitation of the physical life by endowing it with reli

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Andreassen, Bengt Ove. "Perspektiver på hva en førskolelærer trenger å kunne om religion: Rammeplananalyse og preskriptive innspill." Tidsskrift for Nordisk barnehageforskning 4, no. 1 (2011): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/nbf.295.

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Title: Perspectives on what a preschool teacher need to know about religion: Curriculum analysis and prescriptive suggestions.Abstract: What does a pre-school teacher need to know about religion? This question is discussed in two separate parts of the article. The first part is a curriculum analysis of the framework surrounding Early Childhood Education and the three year undergraduate program for pre-school teachers in Norway. The analysis leads to a critical discussion on the bias towards Christian values in this framework. The second part of the article is prescriptive, answering the articl

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Podolecka, Agnieszka, and Austin M. Cheyeka. "Ng'angas - Zambian Healers-Diviners and their Relationship with Pentecostal Christianity: The Intermingling of Pre-Christian Beliefs and Christianity." Journal for the Study of Religion 34, no. 2 (2021): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2021/v34n2a7.

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The aim of the article is to establish if pre-Christian beliefs in Zambia are influencing the Pentecostal Christianity, and to establish what the healers-diviners' relationship with different Pentecostal churches is. During field studies undertaken by both authors, it has been established that many Bantu speaking people still believe in some aspects of their native religions, especially in the powers of the ancestral spirits. Christianity is the dominant religion in Zambia, but it is far from homogenous. Apart from world religions like Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, there is a plethora o

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Rotiroti, Francesco. "Religion and the Construction of a Christian Roman Polity." Studies in Late Antiquity 4, no. 1 (2020): 76–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sla.2020.4.1.76.

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This article seeks to define a theoretical framework for the study of the relation between religion and the political community in the Roman world and to analyze a particular case in point. The first part reviews two prominent theories of religion developed in the last fifty years through the combined efforts of anthropologists and classicists, arguing for their complementary contribution to the understanding of religion's political dimension. It also provides an overview of the approaches of recent scholarship to the relation between religion and the Roman polity, contextualizing the efforts

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van Veelen, Wouter. "‘The Right To Be Different’: Tite Tiénou's Engagement with Ali Mazrui's Synthesis of Religions." Studies in World Christianity 31, no. 1 (2025): 26–46. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2025.0493.

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This article analyses Tite Tiénou’s engagement with Ali Mazrui’s proposal for a synthesis of religions. Kenyan scholar Ali Al’amin Mazrui (1933–2014) is widely acclaimed as one of Africa's intellectual giants of the twentieth century. One of Mazrui's main convictions was that Africa’s contemporary problems are tied to the long (and continuing) Western domination of Africa, which has utterly destroyed African societies. He pointed to the problematic link between colonialism and Christian missions, claiming that missionary Christianity has caused the religious and cultural alienation of Africans

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Wasik, Moh Ali. "“ISLAM AGAMA SEMUA NABI” DALAM PERSPEKTIF AL-QUR’AN." ESENSIA: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Ushuluddin 17, no. 2 (2016): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/esensia.v17i2.1289.

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This article examines the religions held by the messengers of Allah, as it represented in the Qur’an. It explains that the religion brought by the messengers of Allah is Islam. Islam, in the sense of the non-Muhammadan religion, can be seen as the attribute or the adjective entity, whereas Islam in the religious sense which brought by the prophet Muhammad, refers to both the attribute and the name. The distinguishing character between between pre-“Islamic” Muhammad and Islam brought by the last prophet lies in the difference of the “syari’ah”. However, the goal remains the same; to perform the

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Lvova, Eleonora Sergeevna. "ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES: THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN “FOLK” BELIEFS AND WORLD RELIGIONS YESTERDAY AND TODAY (USING THE EXAMPLE OF PEOPLES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA)." LOMONOSOV HISTORY JOURNAL 65, no. 2024, №1 (2024): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0083-8-2024-65-1-135-160.

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A signifi cant portion of the world’s population, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, cannot conceive of atheism or a life without religion. In traditional societies, local beliefs permeate every aspect of life from birth to death, sanctifying all stages of socialization. However, in modern times, these be-liefs have largely vanished in their pure form. World religions have not completely supplanted them, as this complex and contradictory process has taken many cen-turies. With the spread of world religions, many characteristics inherent in pre-industrial societies’ beliefs have rec

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Fonneland, Trude, and Tiina Äikäs. "Introduction: The Making of Sámi Religion in Contemporary Society." Religions 11, no. 11 (2020): 547. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11110547.

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This Special Issue of Religions approaches “Sámi religion” from a long-term perspective seeing both the past religious practices and contemporary religious expressions as aspects of the same phenomena. This does not refer, however, to a focus on continuity or to a static or uniform understanding of Sámi religion. Sámi religion is an ambiguous concept that has to be understood as a pluralistic phenomenon consisting of multiple applications and associations and widely differing interpretations, and that highlights the complexities of processes of religion-making. In a historical perspective and

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Severino, Valerio S. "The Irreligiousness of Fascism." Numen 63, no. 5-6 (2016): 525–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341437.

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This essay aims to reexamine the debate on the impact of Fascism on religious studies, by reconstructing what Raffaele Pettazzoni, one of the founding fathers of this field of research in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, meant by “religion of the state.” His research on the origin of the religious state in Iranian history and in the Greek polytheistic prototype of thepolisoffers a key to the interpretation of his further analysis of the religious Fascist phenomenon. Mingling approaches of both political science and history of religions, this study constitutes an introduction t

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Kolodnyi, Anatolii M. "Familiarity: Origins, trends, trends." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 1 (March 31, 1996): 41–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1996.1.15.

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Familiarity creates its own specific continuum of spiritual life in Ukraine, becomes a notable phenomenon in the field of Ukrainian national revival. With this phrase, we identified a group of related phenomena in the spiritual life of present-day Ukraine, based on the idea of a revival in one form or another of pre-Christian religion, which is considered by the organizers of the Homeland Movement as the authentic worldview of Ukrainians. It is impossible to call each of the currents of native religion a neo-religious denomination, because, first, some of them, by virtue of their belief-conc

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Lagervall, Rickard. "Representations of religion in secular states: the Muslim communities in Sweden†." Contemporary Arab Affairs 6, no. 4 (2013): 524–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2013.856081.

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The presence of Muslim populations in Western European societies is a relatively new phenomenon which is raising questions about how these societies treat religious minorities. This article considers the situation in Sweden, beginning with a brief history of the development of the Swedish state from one based on the Lutheran faith to today's secular society in which state and religion are officially separated. It moves on to discuss the emergence of a sizable Muslim population in the latter part of the 20th century and considers the ways in which the secular character and religious neutrality

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Kennedy, John. "The pre-Christian religions of the north, research and reception, vol. 1: From the middle ages to c. 1830 [Book Review]." Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 16, no. 1 (2020): 212–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.12.

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Review(s) of: The Pre-Christian Religions of the North, Research and Reception, vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to c. 1830, by Clunies Ross, Margaret (ed.), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) hardcover, xxxiv + 637 pages, 37 b and w + 24 colour illustrations, RRP euro130; ISBN: 9782503568799.

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Hutton, Ronald. "When Is an Ancient Site a Sacred Site (and Who Makes It One)?" Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 11, no. 1 (2022): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/preternature.11.1.0063.

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ABSTRACT Britain has one of the richest collections of evidence for pre-Christian religions to be found anywhere in Europe. During the twentieth century it developed a body of historians and archaeologists to interpret that evidence and heritage managers to present it. During the same century Britain was also the birthplace of a revived Paganism, consisting of a complex of modern religions inspired by the pre-Christian past, which has spread across much of the Western world. Towards the end of the twentieth century, the two bodies of people increasingly interacted with each other, in contexts

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Bregman, Jay. "Synesius of Cyrene and the American “Synesii”." NUMEN 63, no. 2-3 (2016): 299–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341424.

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This article explores the Hellenic/Christian synthesis of bishop Synesius and its later influence, especially on nineteenth-century America. Synesius accepted a bishopric despite Neoplatonic reservations concerning Christian doctrine: the uncreated soul pre-exists; the uncreated cosmos is eternal; and the “resurrection” an ineffable mystery, beyond the vulgar. Whether or not born a Christian, his study under Hypatia brought about a conversion to “pagan” Neoplatonism. His attempted synthesis of Hellenism and Christianity was unique, unlike that of any other late antique Christian Platonist. Lat

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Navarro-Prado, Silvia, Jacqueline Schmidt-RioValle, Miguel A. Montero-Alonso, Ángel Fernández-Aparicio, and Emilio González-Jiménez. "Unhealthy Lifestyle and Nutritional Habits Are Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases Regardless of Professed Religion in University Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 12 (2018): 2872. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122872.

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To date, few studies have evaluated the possible association between religion and nutritional habits, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk in the university population. This study identified differences in the eating habits of Christian and Muslim university students and determined a possible association between the impact of religion on their lifestyles and the parameters related to cardiovascular risk. A cross-sectional study was performed with a sample population of 257 students (22.4 ± 4.76 year) at the campus of the University of Granada in Melilla (Spain). An anthropometric evaluation and a

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Davidsen, Ole, René Falkenberg, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, and Simon Nygaard. "Anmeldelser." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, no. 60 (December 1, 2013): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v0i60.20414.

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Anmeldelser af Bernhard Lang, Jesus - en jødisk kynikers liv og lære; Enno Edzard Popkes & Gregor Wurst, eds., Judasevangelium und Codes Tchacos; Jørgen Ledet Christiansen, Niels Hyldahl & Mogens Müller, Justins dialog med jøden Tryfon; Catharina Raudvere & Jens Peter Schjødt, eds., More than Mythology. Narratives, Ritual Practices and Regional Distribution in pre-Christian Scandinavian Religions

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Stratonova, N. O. "TRANSFORMATION REFLEXES OF PRE-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN KIEVAN RUS LITERATURE." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 7 (May 29, 2015): 150–57. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr2015/43736.

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<strong>The purpose</strong> of this article is to review the literature of Kievan Rus' in the light of interaction and mutual influence of Christian and pre-Christian worldviews; to open and show the character of the relations of pre-Christian and Christian religions; to reveal some aspects of these relationships in the literature of Kievan Rus in XI-XIII centuries. <strong>Methodology.</strong> Among the general scientific approaches in solving the problems that have been used was primarily theological and philosophical. This approach allowed us to explore and ob

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Naeem, Fuad S. "Monotheistic Hindus, Idolatrous Muslims: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautvī, Dayānanda Sarasvatī, and the Theological Roots of Hindu–Muslim Conflict in South Asia". Religions 16, № 2 (2025): 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16020256.

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Contrary to popular notions of a perpetual antagonism between ‘Hinduism’ and ‘Islam’, played out on Indian soil over the centuries, this article examines the relatively recent origins of a Hindu–Muslim conflict in South Asia, situating it in the reconfigurations of ‘religion’ and religious identity that occurred under British colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The multivalent and somewhat fluid categories of religious identification found in pre-modern India gave way to much more rigid and oppositional modern and colonial epistemic categories. While much has been written

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Bell, Daniel. "The End of Ideology Revisited—Part II." Government and Opposition 23, no. 3 (1988): 321–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00088.x.

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In the twenty-five years since The End of Ideology was published, the concept of ideology has unravelled completely. What is not considered an ideology today? Ideas, ideals, beliefs, creeds, passions, values, Weltanschauungen, religions, political philosophies, moral systems, linguistic discourses — all have been pressed into service. One hears about ‘communism and capitalism as competing ideologies’, and ‘the failure of the United States [before Reagan] to develop an ideology’. In an essay in the Partisan Review, ideology is defined as ‘fantasy cast in the form of assertion’, a loose and asso

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Clunies Ross, Margaret. "‘The flowing-haired friend of the fire of altars’." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift 74 (March 25, 2022): 459–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v74i.132115.

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ABSTRACT: There are very few sources, other than material remains and spatial arrangements revealed by archaeological excavation, that can give modern researchers access to the thought-world of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Some skaldic poetry presumed to have been composed before the Conversion may offer a window onto this thought-world. This article investigates how a single kenning from a stanza composed by the tenth-century Icelander Egill Skallagrímsson conceptualised the relationship between the dominant Viking-Age deity Óðinn and the conduct of religious ritual. RESUME: Der

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Mihály, Vilma-Irén. "The Pilgrimage as Inner and Outer Journey in Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 7, no. 1 (2015): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0037.

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Abstract The present paper aims at analyzing the significance and occurrence of pilgrimages as inner and outer journeys, focusing on their form(s) and role(s] in today’s postmodern society. The introductory part presents the phenomenon from a theoretical point of view, that is taking into consideration its possible definitions (e.g. as a religious phenomenon in pre-Christian and Christian cultures from the Middle Ages to the present: and pilgrimages in literature). The core of the paper then discusses Paulo Coelho’s novel entitled The Pilgrimage. A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom, which,

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Garcia Quintela, Marco V. "La construcción del paisaje cristiano de Galicia: hacia la definición de un modelo de transformación." Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, no. 12 (July 21, 2015): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30893/eq.v0i12.121.

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El monoteísmo y el universalismo cristianos llevan implícita su difusión por todas partes. Se convierten las personas y sus prácticas, pero también el orden del tiempo y las percepciones del espacio. En el artículo se estudian los procedimientos seguidos para construir el paisaje cristiano de Galicia. La metodología empleada es una combinación de arqueología del paisaje, arqueoastronomía e historia de las religiones. Se aprecia una reutilización coherente de los paisajes paganos preexistentes, sobre todo de la Edad del Hierro celta, sin que ello suponga una subordinación de la Iglesia sino, po

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Haque, Riffat. "The Institution Of Purdah: A Feminist Perspective." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 1, no. 1 (2008): 47–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v1i1.255.

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Though purdah is associated with Islam and Muslim traditions, its origins can actually be traced to pre-Islamic times and other religions such as the Jewish, Christian, and also to non-religious sources of influence, such as to the Hellenic, and the Bedouin cultures. Most religious and cultural systems in the world endeavor to control men’s and women’s lives and activities in order to ensure the continuity of society, although the extent of control exercised over women varies from one culture or religion to another. The institution of purdah has religious and cultural origins and has implicati

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Macaranas, Juan Rafael G. "Understanding Folk Religiosity in the Philippines." Religions 12, no. 10 (2021): 800. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12100800.

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This paper argues for the appreciation of Filipino folk religiosity as part of cultivating authentic faith expressions among Filipinos. It presents historical, anthropological, sociocultural, and theological views on significant folk religious groups, traditions, and practices in the Philippines, including but not limited to the millenarian movements and popular Catholic feasts. Despite the varied influences and variegated Philippine culture, folk religiosity among Filipinos can be generalized as a syncretic blending of pre-colonial beliefs with the Catholic faith. As an academic and practicin

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Blom, Alderik H. "Celtic Studies, Scholarly Networks, and Modernekritik." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83, no. 2 (2023): 250–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340293.

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Abstract This study is concerned with the contribution of Jan de Vries (1890–1964), a controversial Dutch scholar of Germanic and Old Norse philology, folklore, and comparative religion, to the discipline of Celtic studies. First, therefore, his work is located within the context of De Vries’ biography and of his scholarly network of the post-war era, notably his correspondence with likeminded colleagues such as Dumézil, Höfler, Wikander, and Eliade. Subsequently, his theories of Celtic and Germanic ethnogenesis are examined, as well as his ideas about the connections between the Celtic and Ge

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Ištvan, Kasuba. "People of the book: Fundamental issues of the regulation of Christian, Jewish and Muslim marriage rights." Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine 96, no. 3 (2024): 720–36. https://doi.org/10.5937/gakv96-49196.

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The relationship between the system of civil matrimonial law and denominational and religious rights in the European context is quite clear to any lawyer because civil matrimonial law evolved from canon law, particularly Catholic canon law. The system of canon law influenced and shaped the thinking of legal scholars who formed civil matrimonial law, and this is also true of Protestant marriage. Jewish and Islamic marriage law, however, differs significantly from the Christian conception and is definitely contractual in nature. This study aims to compare the marriage law rules of Christianity,

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Tan, Loe-Joo. "The Catholic theology of religions: a survey of pre-Vatican II and Conciliar attitudes towards other religions." Scottish Journal of Theology 67, no. 3 (2014): 285–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003693061400012x.

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AbstractThis article analyses the Catholic view of religions by examining its beginnings as a theology of salvation for non-believers summarised by the aphorism extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It notes that Catholic attempts to examine the capacity of religions per se in attaining salvation for their followers took place in the period before and during Vatican II when the church began assessing the non-Christian person not just as an isolated individual but also by taking into account her wider affiliations to a religious community. This analysis has revealed there were hermeneutical tensions wit

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Kolodnyi, Anatolii. "Nature and manifestations of Ukrainian religious plurality." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 92 (January 3, 2021): 89–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2020.92.2174.

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The article reveals the nature and manifestations of Ukrainian religious pluralism. Despite the constant interest in the topic - the plurality of religious life in Ukraine, science has not yet clarified the causes and roots of this phenomenon. The author analyzes the historical, psychological, socio-political factors that caused the religious diversity of Ukraine. The presence of many religious traditions within one ethnic and state territory promotes tolerant relations between bearers of different religious beliefs. Ukraine's religious plurality distinguishes Ukrainians from other nations. Th

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Pétursson, Pétur. "Religion and Politics – The Icelandic Experiment." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 50, no. 1 (2014): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.46253.

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In a comment on Richard F. Tomasson’s 1980 book about Iceland, the American sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset notes that Tomasson ‘traces the ways in which Icelandic culture developed out of the medieval pre-Christian society – in its language, relations between the sexes, egalitarianism and the high frequency of illegitimate births. He also points out the areas of contradictions and discontinuity, noting that Iceland has been transformed in the twentieth century by modernization of the society and international influences upon the culture.’ The purpose of this essay is to give a more in-depth

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Lehkykh, Kyrylo. "IMPACT OF WORLD RELIGIONS ON THE NEED TO CONSIDER THE PRINCIPLE OF TRUTH IN THE JUDICIAL DECISIONMAKING PROCESS." Journal of International Legal Communication 8, no. 1 (2023): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32612/uw.27201643.2023.8.pp.7-17.

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The article analyzes the influence of world religions on the awareness of the need to consider the principle of truth in the process of making Court decisions as a relevant scientific issue, the solution of which will allow establishing ideological grounds for the implementation of moral principles through justice. The author analyzes specific religious norms of the pre-state period, Christian beliefs, Judaism, norms of Muslim law, Buddhism. Taking into account the review, conclusions regarding the influence of world religions on the awareness of the need consider the principle of truth in the

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Shafan-Azhar, Zainab, Jae Won Suh, Henry Delamain, et al. "Psychological Therapy Outcomes and Engagement in People of Different Religions." JAMA Network Open 8, no. 4 (2025): e254026. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.4026.

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ImportanceIdentifying whether people of minoritized religious identities are less likely to benefit from psychological therapy is key to tackling inequalities in mental health treatment.ObjectiveTo assess inequalities in the effectiveness of routinely delivered psychological therapy across religious groups and by the intersections with ethnicity.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsRetrospective cohort study including all patients who completed a course of treatment at 5 London-based National Health Service Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression (NHS TTad) services between 2011 and 2020. Ind

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GROSU, Emanuel. "DA REFRIGERIUM AL SUO CONTRARIO. ALCUNE SFUMATURE DEL CONCETTO NELLE VISIONES ANIMARUM MEDIEVALI." Classica et Christiana 19, no. 2 (2024): 447–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/cetc-2024-19.2.447.

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From refrigerium to its opposite. Some nuances of the concept in occidental visiones animarum. The term refrigerium/refrigera re acquired two fundamental semantic values in early Christianity: one relating to commemorating the dead, the other to eschatology. Both meanings have been the subject of extensive research linking the Christian meanings either to the etymon and uses of the term in pre-Christian Latin or to beliefs and practices in other cul tures and religions of Antiquity. In the following lines, I will delve further into the nuances of this term in its sense of temporary and cyclica

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van Veelen, Wouter. "Between Rejection and Revitalization: Tokunboh Adeyemo and African Traditional Religions." Exchange 50, no. 2 (2021): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341592.

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Abstract This article analyzes Tokunboh Adeyemo’s assessment of African traditional religions in relation to his allegiance to the worldwide evangelical tradition. In the 1970 and 1980s, Adeyemo, who served as the General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa, was involved in the so-called salvation debates within evangelical circles. Concerned about the rise of contextual theologies on the African continent, Adeyemo, like his predecessor Byang Kato, advocated the exclusive character of Christianity in terms of salvation. Therefore, he is sometimes described as someone who att

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Anderson, Allan. "Stretching the Definitions? Pneumatology and 'Syncretism' in African Pentecostalism." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 10, no. 1 (2001): 98–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096673690101000106.

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AbstractSome observers regard as 'syncretistic' many forms of African Pentecostalism that have developed a pneumatology with a presumed link to the pre-Christian past, and will also deny the term 'Pentecostal' to these groups. This does not fully recognise the parallels between biblical pneumatology and the holistic African worldview, and the significant contribution that African Pentecostalism makes to a dynamic understanding of pneumatology. This encounter between African religions and biblical pneumatology reflects a genuine desire to make the doctrine of the Spirit relevant in an African c

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Mellor, Scott A. "The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume II: From c. 1830 to the Present." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120, no. 2 (2021): 270–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.2.0270.

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Bradford, Clare. "Muslim–Christian Relations and the Third Crusade: Medievalist Imaginings." International Research in Children's Literature 2, no. 2 (2009): 177–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1755619809000684.

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This article takes as its starting-point the responsiveness of children's literature to socio-political events, considering how contemporary anxieties about relationships between Muslim and Christian individuals and cultures inform three historical novels set in the period of the Third Crusade (1189–92): Karleen Bradford's Lionheart's Scribe (1999), K. M. Grant's Blood Red Horse (2004), and Elizabeth Laird's Crusade (2008). In these novels, encounters between young Christian and Muslim protagonists are represented through language and representational modes which owe a good deal to the habits

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Liberman, Anatoly. "The Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Research and Reception, vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to c. 1830." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 119, no. 1 (2020): 130–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.1.0130.

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Lushnikov, Dimitri. "Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies: Criticism of Buddhism by the Kazan Theological Academy Professor A.F. Gusev (1845–1904)." Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches 8, no. 2 (2024): 68. https://doi.org/10.21146/2587-683x-2024-8-2-68-85.

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The article is devoted to the study of the fundamental theology heritage of the Kazan Theological Academy professor Alexander Fedorovich Gusev (1845–1904), a prominent representative of national apologetic science in theological academies of the synodal period, whose legacy has been very little studied. It is noted that religious issues in the curriculum of pre-revolutionary education in theological academies were mainly presented within the framework of the second section of fundamental theology – “demonstratio christiana”, in which comparative religious studies were aimed at solving a genera

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Willoughby, Jay. "Jewish Revival and Respect for Islam in Nineteenth-Century Europe." American Journal of Islam and Society 30, no. 3 (2013): 150–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v30i3.1111.

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On May 17, 2013, Joseph V. Montville, director of the Esalen Institute’s “Toward the Abrahamic Family Reunion” project (http://abrahamicfamilyreunion. org), addressed a select audience at the IIIT headquarters on pre-Zionist Jewish scholarly interest in Islam. He began by recalling how German and Austro-Hungarian Jewish scholars discovered remarkable similarities in the Torah, the Talmud, and the Qur’an. While hardly a surprise to Muslims, this was a “major revelation and surprise” to European Christian philologists and historians of religions. This&#x

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Krysztofiak, Maria. "O pojmowaniu „rozwiązłości” w czasach przedchrześcijańskich: zjawisko prostytucji sakralnej." Studia et Documenta Slavica 10, no. 4 (2020): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.25167/setds/2019/4/5.

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The article presents the phenomenon of sacred prostitution which was characteristic of many ancient cultures and religions throughout the world. It shows a few of the most important issues connected with the sacred prostitution (also called religious or ritual): its origins (the cult of deities of love and fertility, typical of the pre-Christian cultures); its forms (one-time prostitution as an act of sacrificing one’s virginity or one-time sacrifice of a woman who was no longer a virgin, and constant prostitution practiced by priestesses or temple prostitutes); its main purposes (unification

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Hultgård, Anders. "The Sacrificial Festival at Uppsala." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift 74 (March 25, 2022): 600–621. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v74i.132125.

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ABSTRACT: The source value of Adam of Bremen’s description of the pre-Christian sacrificial ritual at Uppsala is hotly debated. Some scholars emphasize that it rests on the account of an eye-witness, others that it is a compilation of Christian stereotypes of pagan cult in general. The aim of the present study is to find out what derives from genuine sacrificial cult among the Svear and what is drawn from Christian polemics. A critical analysis of Adam’s text is presented, and the sparse information from other sources on Scandinavian ritual practices is discussed. However, the essential thing

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Smorzhevska, O. "THE NEOPAGANISM IN UKRAINE: SPIRITUAL QUEST OF A CITY DWELLAR." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 132 (2017): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2017.132.1.12.

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The papers deals with the Neopaganism as a spiritual quest of city dwellars in Ukraine in the late 20th – the early 21st century. We focused on differences in perception of the Neopaganism in 1990s and assessing its prospects during his appearance and some distribution in Ukraine and, since the 2000s to nowadays, especially with the popularization of the "virtual world" and accessibility of information. Singled out the main trends of this process: on the one hand, increasing the number of Self-pagans, especially among those who joined the movement in the early 21st century; and concern by the

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