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Religious Violence and Twitter: Networks of Knowledge, Empathy and Fascination

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Twitter analysis through data mining, text analysis, and visualization, coupled with the application of actor-network-theory, reveals a coalition of heterogenous religious affiliations around grief and fascination.
Samah Senbel, Carly Seigel, Emily Bryan
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The Global Consequences of Mistranslation: The Adoption of the “Black but …” Formulation in Europe, 1440–1650

open access: yesReligions, 2012
This article investigates the genesis of a linguistic model occasioned by a mistranslation that was taken up in the Renaissance, and had an enduring global impact.
Kate Lowe
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Not Just the Time of the Other—What Does It Mean for Christians Today to Remember Shabbat and Keep It Holy?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this essay, I explore how Christians can relate to the Sabbath in a way that adequately expresses Christian traditions about sacred time while showing respect for distinctly Jewish practices.
Barbara U. Meyer
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Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts

open access: yesReligions, 2014
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness.
Glen Alexander Hayes
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Challenge and Revolution: An Analysis of Stanislas Julien’s Translation of the Daodejing

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Retranslation constitutes a special case. as it involves a double creation of values that are determined not only by the ones inscribed in the source text but also by the ones inscribed in the previous translations.
Can Zhang, Pan Xie
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Spiritual Discernment, the Incorporated Organization, and Corporate Law: The Case of Quaker Business Method

open access: yesReligions, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which practices from the spiritual traditions—in our case, spiritual discernment—may offer opportunities for management innovation in non-religious organizations in designing collaborative
Nicholas Burton, Jonathan Bainbridge
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Liturgical Framing of Trials in 10th to 11th Century Catalonia

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper focuses on the question of how place, time, ritual, and liturgy were interconnected before, during, and after trials in the tenth and eleventh centuries in what is today Catalonia. It does so by highlighting cases that show that Visigothic law
Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch
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A Context-Grounded Approach to Religious Freedom: The Case of Orthodoxy in the Moldovan Republic

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This paper explores the relationship between human rights and social analysis within the main historical and theoretical perspectives adopted by social sciences. In particular, religious freedom will be analysed as one of the central issues in the recent
Davide N. Carnevale
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Understanding Islam between Theology and Anthropology: Reflections on Geertz’s Islam Observed

open access: yesReligions, 2022
There is a divergence between religion and its modes of application, or religion and religiosity. This essay provides a critical analysis of Clifford Geertz’s book Islam Observed and tries to attempt the question of whether Islam is better understood ...
Mustapha Tajdin
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‘Tataḥ Śrī-Gurus-Tasmai Sūrimantraṃ Dadyāt’, ‘Then the Venerable Guru Ought to Give Him the Sūrimantra’: Early Modern Digambara Jaina Bhaṭṭāraka Consecrations

open access: yesReligions, 2019
As recent research on the former bhaṭṭāraka lineages of Western and Central India has shown, the early modern Digambara tradition, rather than constituting a distinct, and defective, ‘bhaṭṭāraka era’, shows much similarity to contemporary ...
Tillo Detige
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