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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Why Do Theologians Need to be Scientists?

Zygon, 2000
The postmodern situation has given rise to a quest for new understandings of the relationship between theology and science. Drawing illustrative material from an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, I look at three paradigmatic answers to the questionn posed ...
doaj   +2 more sources

How Does Higher Education Influence Attitudes Towards Muslims? Examining Mechanisms That Reduce Prejudice Within UK Universities

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between encounters with religious diversity and the perspectives people form about Muslims. Its empirical focus is individuals studying at UK universities. Previous research suggests Muslims are amongst those most subject to negative prejudice in the UK, this being structured around racial or ethnic ...
Tom Fryer, Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Lucy Peacock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Church tradition and psychological type preferences among Anglicans in England [PDF]

, 2009
A sample of 290 individuals attending Evangelical Anglican churches and Anglo-Catholic churches in central England completed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a measure of psychological type preferences.
Andrew Village, Brown, Charlotte Craig, Costa, Craig, Craig, De Vellis, Duncan, Eysenck, Fearn, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Goldsmith, Goldsmith, Goldsmith, Hylson-Smith, Hylson-Smith, Jung, Keirsey, Keirsey, Kendall, Kendall, Kendall, Kendall, Kline, Leslie J. Francis, Myers, Quinn, Richter, Richter   +35 more
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

“No Church in the Wild”? Hip Hop and Inductive Theology

Open Theology
Building on recent debates in Open Theology on inductive theology – debates that call for theological reflection to be more deeply grounded in lived religion – this article explores how Hip Hop can serve as a productive dialogue partner for this approach.
Tretter Max
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Eerste treë in die Praktiese Teologie - waarheen?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1991
First steps in practical theology A new title, First steps in practical theology, has recently been released. This publication addresses the problem of the scientific base and methodology of this discipline. In accordance with the viewpoints of Zerfass,
T. F.J. Dreyer
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Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
wiley   +1 more source

Effective factors in the psychotherapy of religious obsessive‐compulsive disorder: A qualitative study

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Religious obsessive‐compulsive disorder (religious OCD; scrupulosity) presents unique challenges in psychotherapy due to the interaction between religious beliefs and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms. Understanding how individuals benefit from psychotherapy in this context can inform more effective and culturally sensitive treatment ...
Taha Burak Toprak
wiley   +1 more source

Dual-Aspect Monism, Mind-Matter Complementarity, Self-Continuity and Evolutionary Panentheism [PDF]

, 2017
Physicalism as a worldview and framework for a mechanistic and materialist science seems not to have integrated the tectonic shift created by the rise of quantum physics with its notion of the personal equation of the ...
Todd, Peter B.
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