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Manichaean Mythology in Uyghur Documents

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Manichaeism, which began as a Gnostic doctrine, evolved into an institutional religion, creating its own rules and rituals, community, temples, and art, and continued to exist for centuries over a wide area until eventually, it took the form of a Gnostic
Serap Alper
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How Populists Rally Around the People: Evidence from the Yellow Vests Movement Using an Embedding Regression Model

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 557-573, September 2025.
Abstract This research bridges populism and populist social movement studies to address the question of how left‐ and right‐wing populists unite in a common social movement. Using the novel “à la carte” (ALC) embedding regression model, it analyzes a unique dataset of 5,342 protesters and supporters from the Yellow Vests movement in France, capturing ...
Frédéric Gonthier
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Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu

Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 2, July‐December 2025.
Short Abstract This paper examines how epistemic violence operates within Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry. Integrating conceptual work on epistemic violence with empirical fieldwork, it identifies four mechanisms through which such violence is enacted: distortion, imposition, devaluation and exploitation.
Johanna Tunn
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‘No es la democracia que míster superman quiere imponernos desde Washington’: An analysis of populist attitudes on democracy from Latin American legislators

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 229-249, May 2025.
Abstract In studies on Populism, extensive discussion has mounted around whether the phenomenon represents a threat to democracy or a corrective force. In line with this concern, we examine whether the populist attitudes held by legislators are related to their opinions on the functioning of and satisfaction with three central aspects of governance: (I)
Patricia Marenghi, Mercedes García Montero   +1 more
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Nomads of the Southern Urals and New Religious Doctrines of the Medieval Empires of Central Asia

Археология евразийских степей
The article is dedicated to the interpretation and systematization of pictorial images placed on the front side of toreutic items from medieval sites of the Southern Urals.
Sergey G. Botalov
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Moral Implications of Augustine's Philosophical and Spiritual Journey in his Confessiones

Communications, 2015
Aurelius Augustinus, though born to a Christian mother, had undergone a long and tedious spiritual journey in his search for truth and meaning. Youthful hedonism gave way to Skepticism, Manichaeism, and later on to Neo-Platonism as he searched for ...
Michal Valco, Roman Kralik, Lee Barrett
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'Religion' in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism: Developing a Term in Counterpoint

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020
This article evaluates the development of a generic term for ‘religion’ in late antique Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. It examines linguistic indications of the use of dēn/δēn as a generic term in the Manichaean Middle Iranian corpora, i.e.
Kianoosh Rezania
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Postcolonial Apologies, Politics of Regret and Temporal Manichaeism

História da Historiografia, 2023
The article analyzes the forms of temporality and morality which operate in the request for postcolonial apologies in modern democracies, focusing on the Mexican case.
Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Marcos Alonso Fernández   +1 more
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Religious Conversion, Transformative Experience, and Disagreement [PDF]

, 2018
Religious conversion gives rise to disagreement with one’s former self and with family and friends. Because religious conversion is personally and epistemically transformative, it is difficult to judge whether a former epistemic peer is still one’s ...
De Cruz, Helen
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Biblical Legends in the Folklore of the Turkic Peoples in Southern Siberia [PDF]

, 2017
The article deals with the ethnic specificity of biblical legends about the flood and the Tower of Babel in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia (the Altai, Tuva, Khakassia and Shor).
Oinotkinova, Nadezhda
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