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The doctrinal semantics of false species in the Holy Quran [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش 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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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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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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Le fait religieux sacrificiel comme révélateur de présupposés éthiques et théologiques

open access: yesCahiers 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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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, EarlyView.
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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Comparison and the Franciscan Construction of Mesoamerican Polytheism through Augustine of Hippo’s De civitate Dei

open access: yes, 2023
Bernardino de Sahagún and the comparative construction of Mesoamerican polytheism through Augustine of Hippo's De civitate ...
Botta, Sergio
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Comment choisir son prêtre ? Modalités d’attribution et conditions d’exercice des prêtrises royales à l’époque hellénistique

open access: yesMythos
With 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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On Counting Gods

open access: yesTheoLogica, 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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Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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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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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