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Devotional Islam and democratic practice: The case of Aceh’s qanun jinayat

, 2012
Devotional Islam and democratic practice: The case of Aceh’s qanun ...
D Kingsbury (14449155)
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Tracing Sacred Intercession in Childbirth Across Byzantine Tradition and Its Western Reception, from the Virgin’s Girdle to Saints Julitta and Kerykos

Religions
This article explores devotional responses to childbirth in Byzantine and medieval Western Christianity, focusing on the interplay between maternal experience, sacred objects, and saintly intercession.
Şükran Ünser
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The role of Muslim devotional practices in the reversal of language shift [PDF]

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Fishman’s 1991 scale for evaluating language vitality proposes a stage in language shift\ud where exclusively the older generation takes part in ‘rituals’, ‘concerts’ and ‘songfests’ in\ud the minority language. Once this generation dies away, according to the scale, these cultural\ud practices disappear with them.
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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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Entre polémique et affaire pastorale : la prédication des indulgences en France de 1550 à 1650

Etudes Epistémè, 2021
The Reformation in Germany was sparked – inadvertently – by the preaching of Johan Teztel on indulgences. Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses opened up a new polemic on the nature and significance of pardons that found a response throughout the western ...
Elizabeth Tingle
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
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Total Devotion: Dismantling Religious Practices and Training Devotion in 2 Kings 22-23

Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2020
Abstract The demise and disappearance of religions are processes rarely analysed or theorised in depth in the study of religions. This article engages the discussion of how religious traditions disappear by focusing on religious demise as an active process and suggests that ...
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That Which Was Ecstasy Shall Become Daily Bread

Religions, 2017
This paper attempts to answer three questions: (1) Was Emerson a mystic? (2) If so, what is the nature of his mysticism? (3) How has his understanding of mysticism influenced by Unitarian theology and spiritual practice?
Barry M. Andrews
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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
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