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Religion and Attitudes Toward Xenotransplantation: Results of a Nationwide Survey in the United States. [PDF]

open access: yesXenotransplantation
ABSTRACT Religious viewpoints have been shown to influence the ways in which many persons approach medical decision‐making and have been noted as a potential barrier to xenotransplantation acceptance. This study sought to explore how attitudes toward xenotransplantation differ among various religious beliefs.
Hurst DJ   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Ethiopian Grammar Treatise (Säwasəw) in the Manuscript NLR Eth. n.s. 11 as a Textbook for the Future Metropolitan of Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2017
This article deals with a remarkable example of Ethiopian grammatical and lexicographic treatise (Säwasəw) kept in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg.
Ekaterina Gusarova
doaj   +1 more source

Categorization of symbolism in religious architecture; a case study of the Coptic Orthodox church architecture

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2020
In the discipline of architectural history and theory, it is of crucial importance to analyze buildings and building styles that came from the past, thus attempting to interpret the meanings projected by the architecture of these heritage buildings ...
Marianne Nabil Guirguis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem: New approaches

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay traces the far‐reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus's The Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
Mo Pareles
wiley   +1 more source

The Coptic Church in South Africa: The meeting of mission and migration

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Previously identified as an entrenched Egyptian community, Copts have propelled themselves into the greater Africa through two main phenomena: migration and mission.
David A. Ogren
doaj   +1 more source

Interaction of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church with Christian communities in Egypt and Ethiopia in the second half of the 19th — early 20th century

open access: yesРоссийский журнал истории Церкви, 2022
The article presents the history of the relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Christian communities of Egypt and Ethiopia. The article is also concerned with the issue of contacts between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church ...
V. Michael Nigusie Kassae   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1231-1258, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Malthus predicted that fertility rises with income and that people regulate fertility via regulating marriage. However, evidence on the Malthusian equilibrium has been mostly confined to Europe and East Asia. We employ Egypt's population censuses of 1848 and 1868 to provide the first evidence on the preindustrial Malthusian dynamics in the ...
Yuzuru Kumon, Mohamed Saleh
wiley   +1 more source

Unsound and Informally Fallacious Preterist Arguments for Mark 13:24‐27

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 796-811, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Abstract: The following article evaluates two common arguments for preterist interpretations of Mark 13:24‐27, collectively dubbed the ‘time‐text’ argument. These two arguments support symbolic and/or historicised interpretations. Our thesis is that the first argument is unsound and the second commits the informal fallacy of false dilemma ...
Elton L. Hollon
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of public engagement in clinical xenotransplantation [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Care Sci
Xenotransplantation (cross‐species transplant) of pig‐to‐human organs is moving ahead toward clinical trials in the United States. However, little is known about how the public and, specifically, certain patient populations feel about this novel therapy.
Hurst D, Cooper D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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