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Same‐Sex Marriage Legalization and Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians: Evidence From a Natural Experiment

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether policy changes aimed at elevating the status of historically negatively constructed groups can sway previously unfavorable social images, using the legalization of same‐sex marriage as a critical empirical case.
Hung‐Yi Hsu
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கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies
Man's early life was encircled by dangers for many thousands of years. Nature plays a major role in such risks. In the early times, nature seemed a mystery to man. The Sun, the Moon, darkness and deadly animals created fear in man. Fear becomes a mode of
செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal
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Worship and Love. Semantic and Metatheological Considerations

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 462-477, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the attitude of worship by drawing on insights from the contemporary debate about the attitude of love. This seems justified because a certain kind of love appears to be an integral part of worship. Furthermore, the debate about love is much more developed and nuanced than the debate about worship.
Jacob Hesse
wiley   +1 more source

The problem of demonizing the image of a pagan hero in the church and secret literature of the 12th–14th centuries

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019
The adoption of Christianity as the dominant form of the religious world perception was the basis for fundamental changes in the field of socioeconomic, political, and spiritual life of the peoples of Central and Western Europe.
V.A. Ilichev
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Charity, Conviction, and Social Norms: Personal Worldview Conviction as a Predictor of Charitable Giving

open access: yesJournal of Philanthropy, Volume 30, Issue 3, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This study offers a novel contribution to the charitable giving literature by empirically linking specific personal worldview convictions, particularly self‐transcendent versus physical‐self orientations, to both the likelihood and magnitude of charitable giving.
Shane Enete, Timothy Todd
wiley   +1 more source

Croire aux dieux

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie, 2017
If one is attached to polytheistic rituals, the relevance of the distinction between belief and faith is simple enough to perceive – belief in the gods is invested in practices such that their existence is not the central problem.
Frédérique Ildefonse
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Personal Worldview Conviction Is a Missing Piece in Financial Well‐Being

open access: yesFINANCIAL PLANNING REVIEW, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel and potentially essential financial well‐being variable—worldview conviction—for financial professionals, researchers, and policymakers to more accurately predict an individual's financial well‐being. Using the results from a sample of 492 participants, this paper finds evidence that having convictions about how ...
Shane Enete, Eu Gene Chin
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Proving the Innocence of Prophet Noah in Facing His Son Based on the Appearances of the Verses with a Critique on the Theory of Allameh Tabatabai [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology
One of the doubts about Noah's innocence is how this Holy Prophet asked to save his child, while God Almighty had previously forbidden him from such a request.
mohammad daneshnahad   +1 more
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Birds of a Feather are Punished Together, or Not? Examining Heterogeneity in Career Advancements of Minority Groups

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 879-922, March 2025.
Abstract In this study we examine the heterogeneous effects of being affiliated with different minority groups on employees’ career advancements in organizations. We draw on the categories literature and its concept of category distance to hypothesize why some minority groups may be more (dis)advantaged than others in their career advancements.
Maima Aulia Syakhroza, Jan Lodge
wiley   +1 more source

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