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Философия и космологияThe ubiquity of science fiction has kindled an unparalleled enthusiasm in the general public with regards to the topic of aliens. Add to that various UFO sightings, mysterious abduction testimonies or strange occurrences in general and we find ourselves ...
Hayyan Sheikh
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Turin Shroud, Resurrection and Science: One View of the Cathedral [PDF]
, 2016 In a topic as controversial as the Turin Shroud, it is always surprising to note that there remains a large area of consensus among scholars who hold opposite opinions on the origin of this piece of fabric.
Casabianca, Tristan
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In Defense of Realism and Selectivism from Lyons’s Objections [PDF]
, 2019 Lyons (2016, 2017, 2018) formulates Laudan’s (1981) historical objection to scientific realism as a modus tollens. I present a better formulation of Laudan’s objection, and then argue that Lyons’s formulation is supererogatory.
Park, Seungbae
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2017 The no-miracles argument (Putnam, 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications ...
Park, Seungbae
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To Make a Rainbow - God’s Work in Nature [PDF]
, 2015 The Torah lays out a rich idea of God’s governance in the Scroll of Esther: Circumstance lays the warp, but human choices weave the woof of destiny. God remains unseen.
Goodman, Lenn E.
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Literatūra (Vilnius)The article analyses the book of miracles ‘‘Historia abo powieść zgodliwa...” (Vilnius, 1622), compiled by Theodosius Borowik, as a means of forming the cult of the Zhyrovitse icon. The chronology, typology, and geography of the miracles of Our Lady of
Viltė Stukaitė
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Understanding the Qur’anic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2015 In the introduction to her Understanding the Qur’anic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age, Isra Yazicioglu writes about the dilemma of how readers are to understand such stories.
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
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