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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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ISLAMIC ETHICS BASED ON AL-QUR'AN AND MULLA ṢADRĀ’S ESCATOLOGY

Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism, 2015
Mulla Ṣadrā is one of the philosophers who provide philosophical views and answers to the principles of eschatology (ma'ād) that have not been answered by the philosophers of his predecessors.
Kerwanto Kerwanto
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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Reconfiguring a theological-spiritual vocabulary about death: Mysticism, “magic” and the case of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore

Acta Theologica
Even to the most casual reader, J.K. Rowling’s overarching story about the “Boy who lived” is about death. Since the publication of the first book of the Harry Potter series in 1997, theologians and scholars of philosophy of religion have explored this ...
T. van Wyk
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Milton's Macbeth: Time, Irony, and Evil in Paradise Lost

Milton Quarterly, EarlyView.
Gary Kuchar
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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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‘To what end? Eschatology in art historiography’ [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2013
To study eschatology in art historical texts is to study the revelations or the resolution that mark their explicit or implied goals. It is, in this respect, to investigate a feature inherent to any story.
Jeanne-Marie Musto
doaj  

The revelations of Q. Dissemination and resonance of the QAnon conspiracy theory among US Evangelical Christians and the role of the Covid-19 crisis. [PDF]

Z Relig Ges Polit, 2023
Beyer H, Herrberg N.
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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“The future of death in the present of love”: Eros as an ethical pas encore in Levinas's Totality and Infinity

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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