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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

open access: yesTeaching 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
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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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Evidential Vulnerability of Religious Beliefs in the Context of Petitionary Prayers

open access: yesCognitive 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
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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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

The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
wiley   +1 more source

Greek Polytheism: A Historical Subject

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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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Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the face of the Indigenous Religions of New Spain (reprinted)

open access: yes, 2021
Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the face of the Indigenous Religions of New ...
Sergio Botta
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