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Management of Religious Diversity in Chile: Experiences from Local Governments

Religions
This article analyzes the origins, characteristics, and functioning of the Chilean public institutions dedicated to managing religious diversity at the municipal level.
Nelson Marín Alarcón, Luis Bahamondes González   +1 more
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The Ark and Other Bubbles: Jewish Philosophy and Surviving the Disaster

Religions, 2022
The story of Noah is the story of a near-total biocide. And yet, in popular imagination, it appears as more of a floating petting zoo, a charming menagerie that follows the far more serious Edenic storylines of Genesis 1–5.
Dustin Atlas
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The Talmudic Rabbi as Triage Officer: Decision-Making in Times of COVID-19

Religions
The essay outlines a four-phase triage process made by a fictive Talmudic rabbi working on an equally fictive hospital COVID-19 ward. The rabbi bases his decision on four different Talmudic texts, proceeding one by one, with each text building on the ...
George Y. Kohler
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Jacob Gordin: The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought

Religions, 2022
This article offers an English translation of an essay published in 1946 by Jacob Gordin (1896–1947), a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, who is considered the founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought (École de pensée juive ...
Ori Werdiger
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Un studiu lexical și teologic al unor aspecte iudeo-elenistice din epistola către Coloseni

TheoRhēma, 2019
The philosophy in Colosse has been the subject of many debates in theology. Different theories have been proposed: Jewish Gnosticism, pagan religion, Jewish-pagan syncretism, even a non-philosophy theory.
Marius Mitrache
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Postsecular Jewish Thought: Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, Leo Strauss

Religions
This article traces the emergence of what is nowadays called “postsecular” religion from German-Jewish philosophy of the 1920s and 1930s. The three different cases of Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, and Leo Strauss impel us to pay particular ...
Philipp von Wussow
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The Linguistic Method of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Interpretative, Linguistic, and Cognitive Aspects

Religions
Abraham Joshua Heschel proposed a linguistic method that he applied in his interpretation of biblical texts and rabbinic teachings. A central feature of this method is the reinterpretation of certain terms beyond their direct, literal meaning. While this
Yonatan Karish
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Ritual as Mnemonic: Weaving Jewish Law with Symbolic Networks in Likkutei Halakhot by R. Nathan Sternhartz

Religions
Ritual has long served as a central axis of religious life, not only structuring practice but also transmitting meaning across generations. This article offers a new perspective on how Hasidic thought reconfigures the medieval Jewish genre of ta‘amei ha ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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The Idea of Time and the Evolution of History. Thoughts on a Dialectic in Spanish Medieval Judaism

Cauriensia
From its origin, Israel has been determined by history. The Jewish people was shaped historically as such around the Torah. However, Jewish history itself witnessed in its bosom the birth of spiritual experiences that go beyond historical and ...
José Antonio Fernández López
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R. Shmuel Mohiliver and R. Yitzhak Yaakov Reines: Two Types of Religious Zionism

Religions
A typology presents ideal concrete types, and probing their personality and character enables the creation of general patterns. The study of the personality thus grants access to the depth of an idea not only in abstract terms but also in its function as
Dov Schwartz
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