Religions, 2022 A silkworm deity was a Trade God worshipped by the court and the folk, and was also a spiritual symbol of sericulturists in medieval China. Images of the silkworm deity in ancient Chinese art are important relics of material heritage for studying culture
Fei Ju
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Świat pełen bogów: pogaństwo czy politeizm? [PDF]
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2022 (A World Full of Gods: Paganism or Polytheism?): Terminology is one of the more difficult issues facing academics investigating ancient religious imaginations.
Danuta Musiał
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A Criticism of the Opinions of Jerald Hawthing about Idolatry and Polytheism in the Qur'an [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2020 Jerald Hawthing, the British Qur’ān researcher, has examined the qur’ānic verses related to idolatry and polytheism. The study at hand adopted a descriptive-analytical approach to criticize his opinions about the foregoing topic.
Hasan Rezaee Haftadur, safar nasirian
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The Old Gods Are Fighting Back: Mono- and Polytheistic Tensions in Battlestar Galactica and Jewish Biblical Interpretation [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 The representations of religious tension between the polytheistic humans and the monotheistic Cylons in the Sci Fi (now Syfy) channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) is nowhere more evident than in the human “convert” to monotheism, Gaius ...
Shayna Sheinfeld
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The role of the 'Natural history of religion' in Hume's critique of religious belief [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2021 I argue that Hume's naturalistic explanation of religious belief in the Natural History of Religion has significant epistemic consequences. While he argues in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (and in other works) that belief in God is not ...
Goodnick Liz
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A Comparative Study of Semantic Foundations of Monotheism and Polytheism Proposed by Maturidism and Deobandism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2017 In Sunni Islam, the school of Deobandism emerged from the theological school of Maturidism about two centuries ago, claiming to follow the theology of the latter as its most important characteristics.
Mahdi Farmaniyan +1 more
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Impurity in Terms of Human Ontology: al-Tawba 9/28
Kader, 2021 In this article, the literature set forth in the Muslim tradition of thought on the nature of social relations with polytheists is discussed in general terms.
Rabiye Çetin
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Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics
Religions, 2021 Apocalypse is a phenomenology of disorder that entails a range of religious affects and experiences largely outside normative expectations of benevolent religion. Vindication, judgment, revenge, resentment, righteous hatred of one’s enemies, the wish for
Christopher Douglas
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Spendemic: Japan’s Marketing of Mythical Creatures and the Business of Selling Hope
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022 With their roots in animism and Shintōism, Japan’s mythical creatures known as yōkai have been feared, revered, and used to explain calamities or inexplicable phenomena.
Antonija Cavcic
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Klossowski's Polytheism: An Introduction to Klossowski's "Nietzsche, Polytheism, and Parody"
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2004 none
Russell Ford
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