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Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 971-987, December 2025.Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
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When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Why do rituals persist in human societies despite their frequent and observable failures to produce intended outcomes? This paper advances a two‐part argument to explain this resilience. First, at the individual level, I argue that belief in ritual efficacy is maintained through Bayesian‐rational processes, where the invocation of auxiliary ...
Ze Hong
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A Comparative Study of the Conceptology of Divine Attributes (Ahud and Wahid) in the Holy Qur'an from the Point of View of Fariqin Commentators [PDF]
پژوهشنامه کلام تطبیقی شیعهOne of the objectives of the Holy Qur'an is to recognize and know God. To this end, it refers to divine attributes in various instances. However, due to the focus of interpreters on achieving Qur'anic knowledge and uncovering the divine intent of the ...
maryam alizadeh, zary pishgar
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Evidential Vulnerability of Religious Beliefs in the Context of Petitionary Prayers
Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 12, December 2025.Abstract Petitionary prayers—requests made to a deity for specific outcomes—are widely practiced across religious traditions. While their efficacy remains a subject of theological debate, they exhibit remarkable resilience to disconfirmation. In three pre‐registered studies—a field study in China and two global surveys via Prolific—we examined how ...
Ze Hong, Cheneryue Zhang, Anzhuo Wang
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The foundations and characteristics of the state society in the Quran with emphasis on the interpretation opinions of Ayatollah Khamenei [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنیIn the interpretation view of Ayatollah Khamenei, belief in monotheism is one of the most important foundations for the formation of a state society, among the levels of monotheism is monotheism in divine lordship, divine lordship has various levels ...
ghafar shahedi
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Inspiration of Quran on Monotheistic Topics in Nahj-ol-Balagha [PDF]
تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2013 Nahjolbalagheh is the most valuable book of human guidance and perfection next to Quran in which the reflection of the divine verses of the Holy Quran is evident far and wide.
Nosret Nilsaz, Zohreh Bana Ahmadi Milani
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, 2021 AbstractErnest Renan remains the most important figure in the French study of religion. His attitudes to both Judaism and Islam must be understood against the backdrop of his notion of the two main races of humankind, the Semitic and the Indo-European, an idea which he had already developed in his early work on the Semitic languages and which continued
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