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Sensing More in Ancient religion
Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2014 This essay uses three examples to demonstrate the importance of the physical senses for ancient Christianity. First, I consider the fifth century Christian historian Sozomen on the nature of ancient religion and its practices.
Susan Harvey
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Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma [PDF]
, 2019 Euthyphro is a Socratic interlocutor claiming enormous religious expertise, while his portrayal in the eponymous dialogue raises questions the reliability of his beliefs.
Eckert, Maureen
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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The Rationality of Humility [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper I explore humility as a paradigm, with reference to recent debates over the morality and rationality of emotions, and to the relation between religion and emotion.
Barth, Roderich
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Menorah Review (No. 21, Winter, 1991) [PDF]
, 1991 Van Gogh: A Case History in Religion and Art -- Book Briefings -- Lesson From the Holocaust -- Evil Is Alive and Well -- Religion and State: The Israel Model -- Book ...
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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Religion and education in the ancient Greek world
, 2021 The present volume explores the interdependent relationship between religion, education, and knowledge in ancient Greek cultures. While in modern scholarship Greek religion has been widely studied as embedded in society, the socio-religious aspects of education and knowledge have not yet been investigated in depth. The essays look for contexts, agents,
Irene Salvo, Tanja S. Scheer
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El fitónimo σατύριον [saturion]: un estudio sobre la denominación de plantas, el mundo vegetal y la religión griega [PDF]
, 1994 The phytonym Οατύριον has been explained through a formal resemblance between the flower and the satyr. The significance, however, of this phytonym can only be fully understood from a religious perspective. Regarding to this, on the one hand, the ancient
Salvador, Jesús A.
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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