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Reconciling Christianity and Paganism

, 2014
In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte works to bring opposing ideas of Christianity and Paganism together to strengthen her protagonist, Jane. Bronte uses symbols of supernaturalism, nature, and the moon to highlight Jane\u27s complex spiritual ...
Mills, Susanna L.
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Dilemmatic Deliberations In Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling [PDF]

, 2011
My central claim in this paper is that Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling is governed by the basic aim to articulate a real dilemma, and to elicit its proper recognition as such.
Gong, Ping, Huang, Bo, Ye, Jun, Zeng, Hua   +3 more
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Embodying Tradition and Ascribing Meaning: Israeli Jewish Atheists Choosing to Circumcise Their Sons

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 442-454, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings Israeli–Jewish atheists ascribe to their choice to circumcise their sons. Despite their lack of religious belief, many choose to engage in this practice, often seen as a typical representation of Jewish physical embodiment. Employing a lived religion approach, which emphasizes the multifaceted nature of human
Tammar Friedman
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Paul Within Judaism Within Paganism

Religions
Judaism was not Paul’s background, but his context, and much of his gospel’s content. Modern Pauline Studies, however, often see Paul’s mission as an expression of what he found wrong with Judaism, a Judaism that supposedly discouraged relations with ...
Paula Fredriksen
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RETRACTED: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A PRINCE IN ANCIENT RUSSIA: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
RETRACTED ARTICLEThe article examines the responsibility of the ruler for the dysfunctional state of affairs in the country. A careful study of the biblical evidence shows that it is the legacy of the pagan past.
Igor Lisyuchenko
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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THE PROBLEM OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN WEST EUROPEAN NEOPOLYTHEIST IDEOLOGY

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2017
In the article the situation and practice of cross-cultural interaction interpreted by modern Western European Neopaganism is considered. The main attention is paid to Neopaganism's consideration of cross-cultural communication proceeding from the "blood
A. V. Lutsenko
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe

Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
The jawbones of enemies killed by the Bamum were hung from these calabashes. These symbols of victory were the used for rituals and considered the dynasty’s regalia.
Ninon Arbez-Gindre
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Christian pagans? Pagan idolaters?

Antíteses
Book Review of DRAGNEA, Mihai. Christian Identity Formation Across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
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Imperial Christianization in Corinth: 300-600 AD [PDF]

, 2010
Despite Greece’s longstanding traditions of paganism in late antiquity, the city of Corinth seems to have experienced a top-down process of Christianization— where the government led the process of transition from paganism to Christianity, basically ...
Maloney, Ashley
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