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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]

, 2012
An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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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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Wayfaring and Seafaring A Theological Reading of the “Mediterranean Journey”

The Person and the Challenges, 2011
The article dwells upon the theme of the journey in the Mediterranean, the cradle of the three great monotheistic religions. Taking some paradigms for the journey from mythology, history and from Revelation, the physical ...
Hector Scerri
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The Protection of Places of Worship in Armed Conflicts in the Viewpoints of Islamic and International Law [PDF]

پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2015
ious places has its place under the rubric of the cultural and historical properties in the international humanitarian law. This protection includes a ban on any kinds of attack or destruction against these places, the prohibition of utilizing these ...
Gholamali Ghasemi
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Science and Religion: Stepping Toward the Light at the Mouth of the Cave [PDF]

, 2012
In analyzing the dialogue between science and religion, the author finds that it is hampered by three semantic problems. The first denies, or at least undervalues, the two modes of knowing most apropos to religion: the emotional and the intuitive ...
Honeycutt, Richard
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Book Review: Indian Theology in Dialogue [PDF]

, 1988
A review of Klaus Klostermaier\u27s Indian Theology in ...
Neufeldt, Ronald
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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The Effect of Diaspora on Modern Jewish Belief [PDF]

, 2014
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph: The religion of Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, dating back to as early as the second millennium B.C.E. It is the oldest surviving monotheistic religion and shares some
Colmerauer, Jessica
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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If Analytic Philosophy of Religion is Sick, Can It Be Cured? [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, I argue that, if ‘the overrepresentation of Christian theists in analytic philosophy of religion is unhealthy for the field, since they would be too much influenced by prior beliefs when evaluating religious arguments’ (De Cruz and De ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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