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On the Origins of the Alexandrian School: Rhizomes, Episcopal Legitimation, and a Tale of Two Cities

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article revisits an important and much-discussed question: how and why was Christian learning in second- and third-century Alexandria institutionalised, leading to what came to be known as the “Catechetical School”?
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
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Nora’s Ironic Longing for Christlike Love: Self-Sacrifice, Self-Love, and the “Religion of Torvald” in Ibsen’s A Doll House

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This essay argues that in Ibsen’s A Doll House, both Nora and her husband, Torvald Helmer, exhibit a “religion of Torvald” characterized by their respective devotion to Torvald himself.
David V. Urban
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The Titles of the High Priest of Jerusalem in the Pre-Hasmonean Period

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article studies the main titles documented for the high priest of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible as well as in a few other sources from the Persian and Hellenistic periods.
Christophe Nihan
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Ecce Homo—Behold the Human! Reading Life-Narratives in Times of Colonial Modernity

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The essay explores Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Krishnacaritra—published in 1886—the life of a humanised god, as engaged in cross cultural dialogues with John Robert Seeley’s Ecce Homo, Natural Religion, and The Expansion of England in particular, and the ...
Nandini Bhattacharya
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Theology and Liturgical Principles at the Service of Evangelization—Towards a Catholic Renewal

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Evangelization is not only about the preaching of the kerygma (prophetic evangelization) but also has a liturgical tone (priestly evangelization) and a charity aspect (royal evangelization).
Przemysław Sawa
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges [...]
Anna Halafoff   +3 more
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Revisiting the Experiential World of Women’s Bhakti Poetry

open access: yesReligions, 2023
My recent research on an early female bhakti saint brought to the fore differences between her perspective as represented in poetry attributed to her and her medieval biographer’s representation of her concerns.
Karen Pechilis
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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Indigenous religious leaders can be the most trusted organic helping agents within vulnerable communities, but often lack orientation to the language and paradigms of the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) professionals responding to their ...
David William Alexander   +1 more
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Robert Boyle, the Bible, and Natural Philosophy

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The great chemist Robert Boyle was also a serious student of the Bible and Christian theology, both of which profoundly influenced his natural philosophy.
Edward B. Davis
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The Nexus of Digital Authoritarianism and Religious Populism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This paper delves into the intricate relationship between religious populism and the legitimization of digital authoritarianism in Turkey. Specifically, it investigates how the ruling party, AKP, has strategically linked Islamist values to state policies
Ihsan Yilmaz
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