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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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ReligionsThis article examines the ancestral belief system of fishermen in the Taihu Lake region through the worship of Xianfeng 先锋 (lit. “forerunner”). Existing studies of Taihu fishermen’s beliefs have primarily provided general descriptions of fishing ...
Zhaoyuan Qiu, Qianwei He
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A Study on the Ethical Thoughts in Ancestor Worship [PDF]
, 2012 中国的祖先崇拜是一种兼具宗教性与伦理性的扩散性宗教，它的宗教因素与中国社会的伦理学说、政治理念、人伦常理相联系，形成丰富的伦理思想。本论文以祖先崇拜中的伦理思想为研究对象，深入探讨祖先崇拜中伦理思想的社会基础与理论渊源，系统梳理祖先崇拜中的生命伦理思想、家族伦理思想、政治伦理思想和神学伦理思想。 传统的自然经济形态、以血缘家族为核心的社会政治结构，以及浓厚的人文主义传统是祖先崇拜伦理思想赖以存在和发展的土壤。祖先崇拜中的伦理思想，渊源于原始宗教的伦理意识萌芽和远古神话的伦理精神；在其发展过程中 ...
赖萱萱
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Kadabendag: The Role More‐than‐Human Persons Play in Anishinaabe kikendassowin
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops an Anishinaabe theory of moral education. It examines how Anishinaabe kikendassowin (“Anishinaabe teachings”) serve as a curriculum for forming learnings into right relationship and reciprocal consent with more‐than‐human persons.
Robert Hamilton
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The renewal of reformed worship through retrieving the tradition and ecumenical openness [PDF]
, 2000 Bibliography: leaves 116-123.The twentieth century has marked a huge interest in the renewal of Christian worship. It was essentially sparked off by the Liturgical Movement early in the twentieth century. The second Vatican Council also devoted much time
Bezuidenhoudt, Jacobus
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Comparisons Ancient and Modern: Was Cyril of Alexandria a Good Reader of Paul?
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he finds Cyril's appropriation of
Matthew R. Crawford
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ANCESTOR WORSHIP AMONG THE OVAHIMBA OF NAMIBIA
, 2014 The OvaHimba tribe of Southwest Africa have a tradition of ancestor worship that extends back into the past when their ancestors made the long trek from the Horne of Africa into present day Namibia. This subgroup of the Herero tribe are pastoralists with
Slade, Travis
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