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Brief Exposition of Religious Experience in Semitic Religion

Rabbanica: Journal of Revealed Knowledge
The paper discusses the religious experience of Semitic faith in Abrahamic tradition. It firstly discusses its underlying approach as enshrined in classical religious thought concerning its meta-religious principle, methodology and traditional framework.
Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman
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Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's destruction illuminates the current conjuncture as an intensification of earlier authoritarian neoliberal tendencies.
Aleksandra Piletić
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When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Why do rituals persist in human societies despite their frequent and observable failures to produce intended outcomes? This paper advances a two‐part argument to explain this resilience. First, at the individual level, I argue that belief in ritual efficacy is maintained through Bayesian‐rational processes, where the invocation of auxiliary ...
Ze Hong
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The Wounding of the Earth: The Presence of the Ontological Rift and Eco-Dissonant Spiritualities

Religions
In this article, I argue that the climate crisis is a symptom of dissonant eco-subjects and relations that are, in part, produced by Abrahamic religious/spiritual traditions—traditions that function as apparatuses of the ontological rift between human ...
Ryan Williams LaMothe
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Introduction: Beyond public reason Introduction : Par‐delà la raison publique

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 965-983, December 2025.
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race,
Charis Boutieri, Samuel Sami Everett, Erica Weiss   +2 more
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The Khatim an-Nabiyyin (The Seal of the Prophets) and Its Inclusive Abrahamic Perspective: Muhammad and ‘Isa ibn Maryam in Dialogue

Religions, 2020
“Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men; he is God’s messenger and the Seal of the Prophets: God knows everything.” (33:40). The deconstruction of the concept of “the Seal of the Prophets” through identifying its different spiritual-historical
Marco Demichelis
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Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism

Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 810-820, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public‐facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude religious bioethics from public‐facing contexts.
Muralidharan Anantharaman
wiley   +1 more source

What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]

, 2012
This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
Adamson J., Andolina M. W., Assanangkornchai S., Banks J. A., Berliner D. C., Brewer J. D., Carnap R., Chakravarti S. S., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Choompolpaisal P., Clifford J., Clifford J., Cohen L., Cooper C., Crosby K., Cush D., De Silva P., Delmonico N., Denzin N. K., Erickson F., Fane R. S., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Furlong J., Garrison J. W., Glaser B. G., Glock C. Y., Hartas D., Hofstede G., Hood R. W., Hubbard J., Jackson R., Jackson R., Kay W. K., Kelly G. J., Kemp S., Khyentse D. J., Kluckhohn C., Loundon S., Loundon S., Maltby J., Pennington D., Phra Nicholas Thanissaro, Popper K. R., Pupatana S., Qualifications and Curriculum Authority [QCA], Rogers P., Scotton B. W., Smart N., Smart N., Smith D. L., Smith W. C., SPSS Inc, Thananart M., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Thanissaro P. N., Tooley J., Tori C. D., Wallace B. A.   +64 more
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Mimetic Desire and Fantasies of Deliverance: Crucifying Girard's Claims About Religious Violence and Revelation

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
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The Promised Land: A Postcolonial Homiletic of Promise in the Asian American Context

, 2018
Asian American Christians carry within them a triple consciousness by being Asian, American, and Christian. Being Christian specifically means being a pilgrim bound for the Promised Land.
Yang, Sunggu
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