Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 2-10, June 2026.ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Greek Polytheism: A Historical Subject
Greek polytheism was not a simple collection of juxtaposed gods and goddesses, but a complex interplay between deities at different levels – local, regional and panhellenic.
Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane
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Melusine, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference
The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 2, Page 131-142, Spring 2026.Abstract Though the foreign roots of Volksbücher such as Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine (1457) have long been recognized, these early modern German prose novels are still characterized as insular and folksy. Taking Melusine as an example, this article uses the framework of mobility to offer a new interpretation that posits the Volksbuch as an ...
Andrew C. Sternhagen Schwenk
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Religious Extremism Discourse and Its Critique from the Perspective of the Holy Quran (with Emphasis on Contemporary Afghanistan) [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعیThe phenomenon of religious extremism in the Islamic world is an unfortunate issue that, through its violent actions against followers of other Islamic denominations, has caused extensive social harm and consequences. The harmful effects of these actions
Sayyed Hossein Fakhrezare +1 more
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, 2023 Bernardino de Sahagún and the comparative construction of Mesoamerican polytheism through Augustine of Hippo's De civitate ...
Botta, Sergio
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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]
Comparative TheologyOne 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.
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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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شرط الاعتقاد في شرك العبادة Standard Faith for Polytheism in Worship [PDF]
, 2023 ملخص توحيد الألوهية (العبادة) متضمن للربوبية، فمن عبد الله تعالى بالقبول والرضا، فمقر له بالنفع والضر ضرورة، يحتج بهذا المرجئة على العكس: أن المشرك بالألوهية هو كذلك مشرك في الربوبية، ومن ثم فإن الربوبية مناط شرك العبادة، فلا شرك إلا باعتقاد النفع ...
khawjah, lutf allah
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The gorovodu (kunde) cult in the ritual practices of the Ghana, Togo, Benin tribes
Этническая культураThis article is devoted to – the Gorovodu / Kunde cult, which is one of the widespread cults of Vodun in West Africa. It is grounded in the Vodun religious system.
Nikolay A. Medushevsky
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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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