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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating reconciliation with God: Exploring divine forgiveness experiences during confession among Catholic priests from four Spanish-speaking countries. [PDF]

PLoS One
Callizo C, Rodríguez-González M, Calatrava M, Martínez-Díaz MP, Cook K, Cowden RG.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

Christian perspectives on palliative sedation: a literature study. [PDF]

BMC Palliat Care
Lambaerts J, Broeckaert B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Christian Nationalism and the Vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election: A State‐Level Analysis

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the US electoral system, where states are conceived of and vote as discrete entities, state‐level characteristics are vital to consider because they reflect sociocultural context influencing voter behaviour. Though numerous studies have documented the connection between Christian nationalist ideology and voting for Donald Trump in 2016,
Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry
wiley   +1 more source

"Praying in or preying on my skin": a narrative study of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals' experiences with religion and gender identity in India. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Ashok S, Saranya TS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Deliver us from evil. [PDF]

Palliat Support Care
Schimmoeller E.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Response to the 1977 Book <i>The Myth of God Incarnate</i>. [PDF]

Anglican Theol Rev
Revington R.
europepmc   +1 more source