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Introduction. The article examines the views of the last major Byzantine philosopher George Gemistos Plethon on the immortality of the human soul. Scholars are still debating whether Plethon was a pagan who completely rejected Christianity, or a
Tatyana Senina
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BREAD AS A FORM OF METEMPSYCHOSIS IN THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF UKRAINIANS
Urgency of the research. In view of the development of the national identity of the Ukrainian people during the war, the appeal to folk culture, including elements of folk beliefs, their understanding in the context of the Christian context, there is a ...
Iryna Rachkovska
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On the Mission of Humanitarian Education in Higher Technical School
The paper follows into the critical pedagogy tradition. It analyzes discourses of renewing the sense of teaching liberal disciplines, philosophical ones in the first place, in higher school, with factors of lowering their status identified in it.
A. A. Polonnikov
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Metempsychosis and Individual Identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Pythagoras and Empedocles are not generally believed to have left an indelible imprint on Edgar Allan Poe’s oeuvre, despite the direct allusion to each of these Presocratic thinkers in the poet’s writings. It is also quite remarkable that “The Black Cat”
Anna Michelle Sabatini
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As one of the main tenets of mainstream Shiʿa, the radjʿa doctrine is potentially open to radical interpretations. In the background of this belief, the concept of ghayba (occultation) with the special meaning attributed to it has vital importance ...
Aydın Bayram
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The Druze Minority in the Middle East: Religion, Community Structure, and Policy in Minority–State Relations in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan [PDF]
This paper examines the Druze minority across Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, linking their eleventh-century theological origins (tawḥīd, reason/knowledge, metempsychosis) to kinship-centered institutions that sustain resilience and adaptation. Using
Imad Abu Reesh
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Chingiz Aytmatov’s Fictional World [PDF]
In Aitmatov’s works, there are three dimensions of reality. The first one is that of the modern or recent history that conveys the element of transformation, changeability, and fragility.
Andrey F. Kofman
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Sentidos da extravagância dos contos em Le Sopha e Ah Quel Conte! de Claude Crébillon
In Le Sopha and Ah quel Conte!, Crébillon turns to extravagance in order to question marvellous exoticism in coeval literature and to propose careful consideration about some issues of both moral and political nature.
Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho
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The article deals with the processes around procreation, childbearing and birth as they are described in Lithuanian tales, legends and customs. It asks the question at which moment the fetus or child aquires a soul.
Bernd Gliwa, Daiva Šeškauskaitė
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Maternal mortality and the metempsychosis of user fees in Liberia: A mixed-methods analysis
: Liberia, a country recently afflicted by civil conflict and an epidemic of Ebola virus disease, has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. A biosocial analysis of this problem can help identify and address barriers impeding access
Elsie G. Karmbor-Ballah +7 more
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