Świat pełen bogów: pogaństwo czy politeizm? [PDF]
(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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Multianalytical Study of Amuletic and Talismanic Islamic-African Paper Manuscripts in the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. [PDF]
The image illustrates a multi‐technique analysis of Islamic‐African manuscripts from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights methods like microscopy, hyperspectral imaging, FTIR, LIF, Raman, LIBS, and furnish analysis used to study paper fibers, inks, and dyes—revealing a blend of local and trade materials and a rich fusion of Qur’anic and
Elnaggar A +12 more
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A Criticism of the Opinions of Jerald Hawthing about Idolatry and Polytheism in the Qur'an [PDF]
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]
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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A Comparative Study of Semantic Foundations of Monotheism and Polytheism Proposed by Maturidism and Deobandism [PDF]
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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The role of the 'Natural history of religion' in Hume's critique of religious belief [PDF]
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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Impurity in Terms of Human Ontology: al-Tawba 9/28
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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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]
Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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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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Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics
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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