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Religion and Attitudes Toward Xenotransplantation: Results of a Nationwide Survey in the United States. [PDF]
XenotransplantationABSTRACT Religious viewpoints have been shown to influence the ways in which many persons approach medical decision‐making and have been noted as a potential barrier to xenotransplantation acceptance. This study sought to explore how attitudes toward xenotransplantation differ among various religious beliefs.
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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 232-254, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The noted Jewish scholar Harry Wolfson (d. 1929) claimed in youthful writings that the fifteenth‐century rabbinic thinker and physicist, Hasdai Crescas, was a pragmatist. This essay introduces evidence that there are, indeed, significant analogies between elements of Hasdai Crescas’s critique of Aristotle and elements of Charles Peirce’s ...
Peter Ochs
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Child &Family Social Work, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 725-736, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The term ‘sibling sexual dynamics’ (SSD) describes (in this study) a continuum of childhood sexual behaviours that are inconsistent with age‐appropriate curiosity and can include abuse (SSA). The present qualitative study, based on 20 semi‐structured interviews, conducts an analysis via constructivist grounded theory on the perspectives of ...
Amitai Marmor +3 more
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Pediatric Transplantation, Volume 26, Issue 7, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Background The supply of viable organ donations falls significantly below the demand. Discrepancies concerning the availability of transplants cannot be explained solely by the various consent models used in different countries. There is evidence that religious beliefs of patients, potential donors, and healthcare professionals also play an ...
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Nordisk Judaistik, 1997 Magie und Halakha. Ansätze zu einem empirischen Wissenschaftsbegriff im spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Judentum (Giuseppe Veltri, 1997) is reviewed by Eva-Maria Jansson.Dødehavsteksterne og Bibelen (eds. Niels Hyldahl & Thomas L.
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A Short Assessment of Gerson Cohen’s View of Judaism and His Contributions to Conservative Judaism
Amasya İlahiyat Dergisi, 2021 Cohen was born in New York to a Hebrew-speaking, moderately Jewish Orthodox and Zionist family of Russian origin. Cohen completed his undergraduate education in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA) in 1943, which is the main center of ...
İsmail
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Late Roman Law and the Quranic Punishments for Adultery
, 2022 The Muslim World, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 207-224, Spring 2022.
Juan Cole
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Rabbi Avraham Yizhak HaCohen Kook: between exile and messianic redemption
Nordisk Judaistik, 1988 Until the 19th century and to a certain extent, somewhat into the 20th century, most adherents of traditional, orthodox Judaism were reluctant about, or indifferent towards the active realistic Messianism of Maimonides who averred that only the servitude
Judith Winther
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