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From Title to Religious Symbolism: A Saussurean and Peircean Semiotic Reading of Ghassan Kenefânî’s Umm Saʿd

Religions
This study investigates how the title of Ghassan Kenefânî’s Umm Saʿd functions as a conduit for the novel’s religious symbolism. It addresses the question of whether a literary title can symbolically mirror the sacred imagery embedded within a narrative.
Figen Akay
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Exploring Prosperity Preaching: Biblical Health, Wealth, and Wisdom [PDF]

, 2014
Title: Exploring prosperity preaching: biblical health, wealth & wisdom Author: Debra J Mumford Publisher: Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2012 ISBN ...
Go, Johan
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Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Against the Nudity in Art: Eliasian Reading of National Conservative Catholic Habitus

Open Theology
The Cleaner Marina Abramović Retrospective Exhibition in the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland, sparked much protest. This article analyses the protesters’ attitudes to capture their habitus.
Laddach Agnieszka
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The Protestant Menace: Catholic Missionary Anti‐Protestantism during and after the First World War (1918–1922)*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

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

Analogy as Higher-Order Metaphor in Aquinas [PDF]

, 2009
At a Thomas Instituut conference in 2000, Otto-Hermann Pesch suggested somewhat enigmatically that the sharp distinction in scholastic Thomism between analogy and metaphor can no longer be maintained since on closer examination analogous statements are ...
Masson, Robert
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Theological knowledge and the knowledges of the university: beginning explorations [PDF]

, 2006
Paper presented at the conf Faith, freedom and the academy: the idea of the university in the 21st century, Univ of Prince Edward Island, O 1-3 ...
Hauerwas, Stanley
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