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Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 307-325, September 2025.
This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic Deism and Probabilistic Theism

open access: yes, 2018
The aim of my paper is to clarify the conceptions of epistemic deism and probabilistic theism and to demonstrate that the two doctrines do not finally collapse into one.
Darek Łukasiewicz
core   +1 more source

Offering Alternatives to Biblical Literalism May Be the Key to Increasing the Public's Acceptance of Evolution

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 328-340, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Evolution acceptance is lower among religious than nonreligious individuals. One potential factor involves how Judeo‐Christian individuals interpret the Bible. We administered a nationwide survey to investigate the relationship between religiosity, biblical interpretation, and evolution acceptance.
Grant Rousseau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Manifesting: New Thought Takes on New Life Among Adolescents in the COVID‐Era United States

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT “Manifesting,” a metaphysical spiritual practice that claims that one's mind has the power to attract anything upon which it is focused, came roaring onto the social media scene in 2020, just a few months into the COVID‐19 pandemic. Google searches for the term shot up by 600% and by mid‐2024, videos related to manifestation had amassed over ...
Kristen M. Balzer
wiley   +1 more source

Ahiret İnancının Temel Dinamikleri Açısından Deizm Eleştirisi

open access: yesKocatepe İslami İlimler Dergisi
Tanrı inancı ile doğrudan ilişkili olan âhiret inancı, deizmin Tanrı-insan ilişkisi açısından incelenmesi gereken önemli bir konudur. Ruhun ölümsüzlüğü ve yapılan eylemlerin karşılığı olacağını kabul eden ilk deistlerin yanı sıra bazı deist düşünürler ...
Mücteba Altındaş
doaj   +1 more source

ФІЛОСОФІЯ ВОЛЬТЕРА: ПРИРОДА ЛЮДИНИ ТА ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ РЕЛІГІЇ

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2013
Мета. Виявити та переосмислити ключові ідеї Вольтера стосовно релігії й природи людини. Для цього потрібно виконати такі завдання: проаналізувати дослідницьку літературу стосовно своєрідності тлумачення Вольтером феномену релігії; розкрити базові ідеї ...
Yu. Zimaryova
doaj   +1 more source

Deism Revisited: A Modern Approach

open access: yes, 2017
An evaluation of the history of Deism and its modern counterpart, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, in light of Theistic Naturalism is done in order to place the several forms of deism into a proper context in modern society.
Johnson, Tina
core  

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism: A Classical Critique

open access: yes, 2023
In 2005, American sociologist Christian Smith coined the term “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” in his book, Soul Searching, The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
Cunningham, Michael W
core   +1 more source

Charity, Conviction, and Social Norms: Personal Worldview Conviction as a Predictor of Charitable Giving

open access: yesJournal of Philanthropy, Volume 30, Issue 3, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This study offers a novel contribution to the charitable giving literature by empirically linking specific personal worldview convictions, particularly self‐transcendent versus physical‐self orientations, to both the likelihood and magnitude of charitable giving.
Shane Enete, Timothy Todd
wiley   +1 more source

Atheism in The Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2018
The author considers the problem of atheism. She discusses the history of atheism, forms of atheism, and the causes and motives of atheism. She concludes that (a) the history of the negation of God indirectly confirms the endurance of the idea of God and
Zofia J. Zdybicka
doaj   +1 more source

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