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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 480-488, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
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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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God's Presence in the Aisle: How God Salience Encourages Preference for Ultra‐Processed Foods

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 1859-1877, August 2026.
ABSTRACT God‐related cues are pervasive in consumers' daily lives, yet little research has examined how God salience shapes consumer food choices. Drawing on compensatory control theory and the literature on symbolic healing, we present findings from six studies, including a field experiment, demonstrating that high (vs.
Ali Gohary, Hean Tat Keh
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Max Weber’s “Value Polytheism”: Contexts, Origin, Logical-methodological Foundations

open access: yesСоциология власти
Weber's concept of "vocation" in science implies "anti-monumentalism”: research can always be continued, and the results obtained can be used in 69 various ways.
Ilya V. Presnyakov
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 696-706, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
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Druidry and Priority Polytheism

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This paper will focus on conceptions of the divine in Modern Druidry. While acknowledging the diversity among Druids in their beliefs about the divine, this paper will have a particular focus on forms of polytheism that include belief in some form of ...
Harvey Cawdron
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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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“Anche se sono qui, la mia mente è altrove”. Paesaggi drammatici nello Ione di Euripide

open access: yesMythos
The study examines the relationship between spaces and divine powers in Euripides' Ion, highlighting how the dramatic landscape is constructed as a network of interactions among material contexts, divine actions, cultic functions, and mythic narratives ...
Giulia Re
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