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The Failure of the Contact Hypothesis—Exposure to Religious Diversity Conditions Apocalyptic Politics

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 6, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Background The recent jump to study worldviews like apocalypticism and Christian nationalism has left open questions about the social role of religion in the production of prejudice and politics. Objectives We take up the longstanding finding that social contact across lines of difference can tamp down prejudice, especially when such contact ...
Paul A. Djupe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mehdîlik İnancı Üzerine Bir İnceleme

open access: yesArtuklu Akademi, 2017
Mehdîlik, toplumların siyasi ve kültürel eğilimleri doğrultusunda ortayaçıkmış; rüya, keşf ve te’vil yolu ile sonradan inanç haline getirilmiş bir olgudur.Mehdîlik siyasi, kültürel ve dini boyutları ile beraber incelendiğinde daha iyianlaşılmakta, dini ...
Faruk Gün
doaj  

The Ethnicity of the Antichrist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A widely held belief throughout the history of the church has been the notion that Antichrist will be of Jewish origin. This view is still somewhat popular in our own day. However, upon closer examination we find no real Scriptural basis for such a view.
Ice, Thomas D.
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Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens

open access: yesJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality.
Clair J. Hutchings-Budd
doaj   +1 more source

Faith in Fear: Conspiracy Theories as an Explanatory Tradition Within the American Christian Right

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, the Christian right in America has developed from a movement deliberately detached from politics into a lobbying force wielding influence in the heart of the American political system. Along this journey, the Christian right fostered and developed a number of conspiracy theories which played numerous roles in their ideology ...
Billy Mann
wiley   +1 more source

‘The non‐dormant beast’: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 361-377, April 2025.
Abstract The article explores the specifics of Russian antisemitic discourse of recent years using the example of three nationalist communities on Vkontakte, the most popular Russian social networking site, by means of critical discourse analysis. The main strategies they employ to frame the Jews online are stereotyping Jews as ungrateful and greedy ...
Petr Oskolkov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Studies in Islamic Antichrist Theology and Christian [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2010
 One of the common matters in Abrahamic religions, that is a person who is savior at end of the world, upon which are the witness being dismantled injustice in the word.
S. Mahdi emami Jomeh   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Frau Ava’s, the first named German female writer’s, poem Jüngstes Gericht ‘The Last Judgement’ and its Lithuanian translation

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2019
The present article offers an overview of several poems written by Frau Ava (1060–1127), a German poetess whose literary works are virtually unknown in Lithuania.
Aleksej Burov, Ignė Vrubliauskaitė
doaj   +1 more source

Who are Nietzsche's slaves?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1116-1129, December 2024.
Abstract This paper argues that Nietzsche is deliberately imprecise in his characterization of what he calls the slave revolt in morality. In particular, none of the people or groups he nominates as instigators of the slave revolt, namely, Jewish priests, the Jewish people, the prophets, Jesus, and Paul, were literally slaves.
Ken Gemes
wiley   +1 more source

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