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Divinités conceptuelles et pouvoir dans le polythéisme romain
Pallas, 2019 This paper discusses some aspects of the deities that bear the names of concepts. After discussing the problem of defining this kind of deities within the history of modern historiography, the article concentrates on three topics.
Daniele Miano
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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The Concept of polytheism in the Religious Studies as a Result of lingual misunderstanding
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2019 In 1921 was published the book of the famous Austrian-British philosopher and funder of the analytic philosophy Ludwig Johann Wittgenstein, in which he wrote, that the big part of our philosophical problems, which were subject of the thinking of the ...
Oleh Shepetyak
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The doctrinal semantics of false species in the Holy Quran [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2020 . Review: According to the semantic implications of the verses, it belongs to invalidity, belief, existence, action, or promise. False belief can be traced in the Qur'an in two ways: One: False causal belief: False belief that leads to the realization ...
morteza motaqinejad
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Evidential Vulnerability of Religious Beliefs in the Context of Petitionary Prayers
Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 12, December 2025.Abstract Petitionary prayers—requests made to a deity for specific outcomes—are widely practiced across religious traditions. While their efficacy remains a subject of theological debate, they exhibit remarkable resilience to disconfirmation. In three pre‐registered studies—a field study in China and two global surveys via Prolific—we examined how ...
Ze Hong, Cheneryue Zhang, Anzhuo Wang
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Le fait religieux sacrificiel comme révélateur de présupposés éthiques et théologiques
Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2016 For over a century, historians of religion have interrogated the notion of sacrifice. After several attempts at theorisation, it seems now more appropriate to challenge any theoretical approach, and even to criticize the validity of the category of ...
Christophe Lemardelé
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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MythosWith the exception of the eponymous priesthoods of dynastic cults, the royal priesthoods of the Hellenistic period have been scarcely explored in modern research.
Dechevez Julien
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TheoLogica, 2017 Our standard scheme for describing and classifying different sorts of religious belief, the trichotomy monotheism-polytheism-atheism, is confused and confusing.
Dale Tuggy
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Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2023 Lipka, Michael (2022). Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism. Textual Genres and “Reality” from Homer to Heliodorus. Berlin: De Gruyter / Schöter, Jens, Nicklas, Tobias & Puig I Tàrrech, Armand (EDS.) (2021). Dreams, Visions, Imaginations.
Bronwen Neil
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