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Devotion, Paintings, and the House: The Collections of Ercole and Giuseppe Branciforti, Princes of Scordia (Palermo, 1687–1720)

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This paper interrogates familial devotion and its relationship with parts of the house other than the chapel. In detail, it aims to problematize the issue of the devotional/non-devotional use of paintings inside the house by moving the focus from this ...
Valeria Viola
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The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Kingship in early medieval Kāmarūpa (Assam) was influenced by the collision of orthodox and heterodox Brahmanic traditions with various tribal cultures.
Paolo Eugenio Rosati
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River Goddesses, Personhood and Rights of Nature: Implications for Spiritual Ecology

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature conservation around the world and provide enforcement power for an ecocentric approach.
Kelly D. Alley
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Interaction between national and religious: secessionist conflicts in Ukraine

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2009
The deployment of interaction between national and religious, in particular in Ukraine, is one of the most significant phenomena that make history from the distant past to the present.
Olga V. Nedavnya
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State - Religion - Nation: Interaction in Ukrainian Society

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2009
The defining feature of the modern world community is the interdependence of peoples and states. The economic, social, cultural, religious, political existence of each state is now an integral structural element of a unified world order.
Oleg Vasyliovych Buchma
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Mind-Body Practices in Integrative Medicine

open access: yesReligions, 2012
Mind-Body practices have become increasingly popular as components of psychotherapeutic and behavior medicine interventions. They comprise an array of different methods and techniques that use some sort of mental-behavioral training and involve the ...
Niko Kohls   +3 more
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Teaching Dante in the History of Christian Theology

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Outside of core curriculum programs or Great Books classes, few undergraduates who are not literature majors read and discuss Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Bryan J. Whitfield
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Prayer, Meditation, and Anxiety: Durkheim Revisited

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Durkheim argued that religion’s emphasis on the supernatural combined with its unique ability to foster strong collective bonds lent it power to confer distinctive social benefits.
John P. Bartkowski   +2 more
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Why Are Suicides So Widespread in Catholic Lithuania?

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Religion as a protective factor against suicide was introduced in Durkheim’s theory of suicide and analysed from various perspectives in multiple studies.
Danutė Gailienė
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Religious Education and Sacred Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Yitshak Hutner

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Rabbi Yitshak Hutner (1906–1980) was a remarkable scholar, an enigmatic religious intellectual and a charismatic teacher. Drawing upon his public discourses and his written letters, I argue that Hutner’s vocabulary—which remained rooted
Ariel Evan Mayse
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