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Interreligious Dialogue and Pilgrimage: The Case of the Tamil Community in Palermo
Religions, 2022 This ethnographic research on the territory of Palermo is a comparison between the old immigrant Tamil generations, coming from Sri Lanka, and the new, native residents of Palermo.
Rossana M. Salerno
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Adhiyajña: Towards a Performance Grammar of the Vedas
Religions, 2019 Recent scholarship has challenged the anachronistic projection of the modern category of the poem onto premodern texts. This article attempts to theorize how one might construct an alternative to modern conceptualizations of “the poem” that ...
Caley Charles Smith
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Introduction to Special Issue: Organ Transplantation in Islam: Perspectives and Challenges
Religions, 2022 It has been suggested that tissue and organ transplantation, as a surgical procedure to restore lost or mutilated body parts, is a centuries-old practice confirmed in an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery called the Sushruta Samhita in circa ...
Jan A. Ali
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The Racialization of Islam in the United States: Islamophobia, Hate Crimes, and “Flying while Brown”
Religions, 2017 This paper explores the intersectionality of race and Islamophobia by using a set of empirical data relating to the experiences of American Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States.
Craig Considine
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Liberationist Perspectives on the Misa Criolla by Ariél Ramírez
Religions, 2022 The Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez is a symbol of liberation theology in South America. Written between 1963–1964, this musical work is the result of the decisions made on the sacred liturgy at Vatican II and the Indigenous Movements of the 1960s and ...
Adán Alejándro Fernández
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“None Come Closer to Us than These:” Augustine and the Platonists
Religions, 2016 This paper reflects on the importance of pagan Platonism to one of its most sympathetic Christian interpreters, Augustine of Hippo. Its goal is to uncover what Platonism meant to Augustine and why it mattered so much to him throughout his long career. To
John Peter Kenney
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Yehudite Imaginations of King Darius and His Officials: Views from the Province beyond the River
Religions, 2022 This article analyzes representations of the Persian king Darius and his officials in the Books of Haggai, Zechariah 1–8, and Ezra 4–6 in the current Hebrew Bible.
Kristin Joachimsen
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Religions, 2016 In the following, we characterize the contemporary conservative Evangelical movement as an example of contentious politics, a movement that relies on both institutional and noninstitutional tactics to achieve political outcomes.
Rebecca Sager, Keith Bentele
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Religions, 2022 The confraternity books (Libri vitae) of the Early Middle Ages record the names of individuals to be remembered in liturgical prayer. Since the middle of the 20th century, they have come more sharply into focus as historical source material.
Eva-Maria Butz
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Lear, Luke 17, and Looking for the Kingdom Within
Religions, 2019 The ending to Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Lear has generated much debate. Performance history and critical interpretations of the conclusion of the Folio version of Lear have been pronouncedly divided into readings intimating the tragic hero ...
Emily E. Stelzer
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