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Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
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PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT IN THE ARAB WORLD
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper reveals the role of Islam in the Arab countries policy, highlights secular and spiritual aspects of Islamic government policy. The principles of Islamic government and the requirements of Sharia to the political practice of the Arab world are ...
V. V. Zheltov, M. V. Zheltov
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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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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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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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STUDI LIVING QUR’AN TERHADAP AMALAN IBU HAMIL DI KECAMATAN BERUNTUNG BARU KABUPATEN BANJAR
Jurnal Studia Insania, 2015 Along with the times, study the Koran and Hadith experiencing developments study area, from the study of texts to the socio-cultural studies, which is then referred to as “living Koran” and “living tradition”. In addition, living study the Koran that not
Isnawati Isnawati
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Kata-kata Serapan dalam Alquran Perspektif Ulama Tafsir
Jurnal Fuaduna, 2019 One of the issues debated by Arab linguists and interpreters of the Quran is whether all the words in the Koran come from native Arabic, or are there uptake words from foreign languages used in the Koran.
Fajriyani Arsya
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