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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices
Religions, 2021 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites.
Reuven Chaim Klein
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Pachamama in Vatican: Act of Tolerance or Revision of Course? [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2020 The use of a pagan symbol – figurines of the pagan goddess Pachamama – in religious ceremonies at the Vatican during the Panamason Synod in the late 2019 and the scandal that followed caused conflicting responses from catholics in the Europe and in ...
Veronica Yazkova
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, 2018 This study seeks to contrast absorption-addiction idolatry and identification-emulation idolatry. Whereas absorption-addiction idolatry progresses from entertainment/socializing to personalizing and obsession about the idol, identification-emulation ...
Xiao Dong Yue, Chau-kiu Cheung
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From Idol to Icon: Learning to See Through the Body
ReligionsThis paper starts from the assumption that the human individual and its concomitant, the human body, are conceivably idols of secularism. There is a certain irony, perhaps an irony shared with all idols, that such idolatry is so close to, and yet so far ...
Andrew T. J. Kaethler
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Una giustificazione cristiana dell'astrologia. Esseri umani e corpi celesti nel Cause et cure
I Quaderni del MAES, 2023 In the Middle Ages, authoritative voices of Christianity condemn astrology as a kind of idolatry that denies free will. This is the reason why, since the 12th century, the revival of interest in astrology led some thinkers to prove its compatibility with
Giulia Guidara
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Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The symptoms of anxiety and depression are commonly reported within military‐ and non‐military‐affiliated populations, with considerable evidence available to counselors regarding which relational characteristics function as protective factors among these populations.
A. Stephen Lenz +2 more
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Andrew Marvell’s "Bermudas," Paradisal Places, and the Protestant Critique of Sacred Space
Marvell Studies, 2023 In this article I look at Andrew Marvell’s “Bermudas” (1653-54), a work that continues to puzzle us. The poem describes an idyllic paradisal landscape, identified with the tropical Bermudas but which the reader knows belongs only to a cartography of the ...
Dominic Hubert Gavin
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, 2003 In his essay \u27Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine and the American Wilderness\u27,1 W.J.T. Mitchell explores what he terms the \u27paradoxical relation between landscape and idolatry\u27. Defining idolatry as a false god that displaces the true one with
Phillips, Georgette C +1 more
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Unveiling Saint Theobald: A Multidisciplinary Bioanthropological Investigation
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Saint Theobald of Provins (1033–1066), a French nobleman who embraced voluntary poverty, hermitism, and pilgrimage, represents an early figure in the medieval ascetic movement. He holds historical significance for the diffusion of 11th‐century ascetic ideals, as a hermit saint associated with the Camaldolese order and venerated across northern
Nicola Carrara +6 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Local religious traditions serve as informal environmental institutions, characterized by socially embedded norms that guide behaviour without formal enforcement and influence human–environment interactions. This study investigates the role of Bonbibi worship as a system of moral regulation in the Bangladeshi Sundarbans and examines the ...
Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique +1 more
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