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Problems of Tolerating Interfaith Relations in Ukraine

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
Ukraine has been a religiously pluralistic country since its appearance on the world map. Already in its first power formation, the Kyivan Rus state coexisted in believing in their gods pagans of different tribes, an attempt to unite in one pantheon ...
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
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Deconstructing the symbolic city:Jerome as guide to late antique Rome [PDF]

, 2012
This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do
Grig, Lucy
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The plurality of religious life in Ukraine

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
Ukraine has been a religiously pluralistic country since its appearance on the world map. Already in its first power formation, the Kyivan Rus state coexisted in believing in their gods pagans of different tribes, an attempt to unite in one pantheon ...
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
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A pagan sophist and Christian bishops: correspondence between Libanius and Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, and Optimus, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia. Translation and Comments [PDF]

Hypothekai, 2023
This work presents a translation of two letters from Libanius addressed to his students, who later became bishops.
Nikolai WINOGRADOW
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From respect to reburial: negotiating pagan interest in prehistoric human remains in Britain, through the Avebury consultation [PDF]

, 2011
The recent Avebury Consultation on reburial has drawn considerable public and professional attention to the issue of pagan calls for respect towards the care of human remains.
Blain J., Blain J., Fowler F.J, Fox R.G., Hole B, Jenny Blain, Leahy K, Mays S, McKinley J, Payne S, Robert J Wallis, Wallis R.J.   +11 more
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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices

Religions, 2021
This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites.
Reuven Chaim Klein
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From Paganism to Christianity. General Remarks on the Religious Changes in Petra (1st–6th Cent. AD)

Studia Ceranea, 2018
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the period of Petra’s passage from paganism to Christianity, which saw the deterioration of pagan beliefs and the struggle for survival between paganism and Christianity.
Mohammed Al-Nasarat
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Between Sea and Land: Geographical and Literary Marginality in the Conversion of Medieval Frisia

Religions, 2021
Ancient and medieval Frisia was an ethno-linguistic entity far larger than the modern province of Friesland, Netherlands. Water outweighed land over its geographical extent, and its marginal political status, unconquered by the Romans and without the ...
Carole M. Cusack
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The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: development and application among British Pagans [PDF]

, 2010
This article builds on the tradition of attitudinal measures of religiosity established by Leslie Francis and colleagues with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (and reflected in the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, the Katz ...
Adamson G., Berger H.A., Cronbach L.J., Cush D., Cutting M., Edwards A.L., Eek J., Emyr Williams, Evans T.E., Ezzy D., Ezzy D., Farnell R., Ferreira V., Fishbein M., Flere S., Fowler J.W., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Francis L.J., Fulljames P., Gibson H.M., Gibson H.M., Greer J.E., Guttman L., Hathaway W.L., Heelas P., Hill P.C., Hjelm T., Hunt S., Jarvis C., Leslie J. Francis, Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Lewis C.A., Likert R., Maltby J., Maltby J., McSherry L., Munayer S.J., Osgood C.E., Partridge C., Pearson J., Sahin A., Schofield Clark L., Smith-Stoner M., Thurstone L.L., Ursula Billington, Wilson B., Yardley M., Youtika A.   +77 more
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The psychological-type profile of practising British druids compared with Anglican churchgoers [PDF]

, 2012
This study employs psychological-type theory to profile practising British Druids and to compare their profile with that of Anglican churchgoers. A sample of 75 participants at a camp organised by The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in celebration of ...
Billington, Ursula, Francis, Leslie J., Robbins, Mandy, Williams, Emyr   +3 more
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