Common Epistemology and Its Natural Limitations for Analysis and Interpretation of Religious Epistemological Thought [PDF]
As the psychological tendency to accept a proposition as true, belief has two aspects; on the one hand, it leads to practical consequences. When we hold a belief, other psychological tendencies emerge as a result.
muhammad ali abbasian chaloshtari
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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS
Purpose of the article is the reconstruction of ancient Greek and ancient Roman models of religiosity as anthropological invariants that determine the patterns of thinking and being of subsequent eras. Theoretical basis.
A. V. Halapsis
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Polytheism - folk beliefs in customary Law of Raglai
Customary law of Raglai is a system of prescribed creeds about personal, family and social life in Raglai ethnicity, have an important role in all activities of the community. In addition to the regulations on human behavior toward the social environment,
Vũ Văn Chung
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Divinités conceptuelles et pouvoir dans le polythéisme romain
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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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Western Suspicion of Polytheism, Western Thought Structures, and Contemporary Pagan Polytheisms
This paper argues that in contemporary Western culture, polytheism meets with strong theoretical opposition because it is implicitly subversive of powerful thought structures.
Maria Beatrice Bittarello
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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The doctrinal semantics of false species in the Holy Quran [PDF]
. 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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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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