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Why are the Raelians and other new religious movements not considered ‘religions’ in Poland? A comparative analysis of the definitions of religion used by the Supreme Administrative Court in the sociological context

Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 2020
In 1980, in Poland, there were about 30 religious minorities. The socio-political transformation changed the religious landscape dramatically. In 1999, there were already 155. Not all new religions, however, were registered. In the case of The Church of
Maciej Krzywosz
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Parsons on Christianity [PDF]

, 2015
In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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The Theoretical and Methodological Status of the Concept of Religion According to the Essentialist Interpretation of Ethnic Community in Foreign Researches

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2020
The article focuses on the theoretical and methodological status of the concept of religion in the essentialist interpretation of ethnic community by analyzing the material of foreign researches. The key effort is to reveal whether the essentialist views
D. Kh. Dobrynin
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What Is the Philosophy of Religion?: A Thomistic Account

Religions, 2023
The article seeks to address and answer two questions: “What is Religion?” and “What is the Philosophy of Religion”? It gives a definition of the first and defends it.
Michael D. Torre
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Japanese Buddhism, Relativization, and Glocalization

Religions, 2017
Within the field of study on Japanese religions, the issue of globalization tends to be associated with the missionary activities of some successful new religious movements, and there is a certain reluctance to approach analytically the dynamics of ...
Ugo Dessì
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ESSENTIALISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM IN APPROACHES TO DEFINING RELIGION

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2019
The article touches upon different approaches to religion's conceptualization. The author makes an attempt to check the accuracy of the proposition according to which many ways of conceptualization of religion are reduced to two main approaches.
D. Kh. Dobrynin
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Compassionate response: Intersection of religious faith and public policy [PDF]

, 2017
Much of social work practice is rooted in compassion. Addressing compassion as a virtue, this article examines the possibilities for compassion to be more explicitly and purposefully built into actions at community and policy levels.
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مفهوم مصطلح الدين في الفكر الإسلامي

الآفاق اسلامی و تحقیقی مجلہ, 2023
The research discusses the problematic concept of the concept of religion in Islamic thought. The researcher extrapolates the definitions of religion, presents models for study and analysis, and then devises a comprehensive academic scientific ...
Ali Zalmat
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Key psychological issues in the study of religion [PDF]

, 2007
The current article considers the role of scientific (experimental) psychology in the study of religion and argues that many of the questions central to the history, sociology and anthropology of religion are often psychological and hence require the use
Petrović Olivera
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Czym zajmuje się filozofia religii? ( What does philosophy of religion deal with?) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
I take a methodological point view, i.e. my interest is not so much in the religion itself but in the epistemological status of the discipline called philosophy of religion – its subject, main goals, problems, and how it justifies its theses.
Andrzej Bronk
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