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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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The universal polytheism and the case of the Jews [PDF]
, 2020 This essay considers Robert Parker’s theory of “the universal polytheism” in relation to the case of ancient Jews, who are widely thought to have excepted themselves from the cross-cultural translation of gods (most famously in Jan Assmann’s influential ...
Novenson, Matthew
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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]
Ground WaterAbstract 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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Postmodernist Relativism: A Return to Polytheism? [PDF]
, 2018 Despite distancing themselves from traditional religions, (Western) post-secular societies are still heavily concerned with ‘spirituality’ and other forms of self-realisation.
Ortiz Cabrero, Lorena
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