Divine LLaMAs: Bias, Stereotypes, Stigmatization, and Emotion Representation of Religion in Large Language Models [PDF]
arXivEmotions play important epistemological and cognitive roles in our lives, revealing our values and guiding our actions. Previous work has shown that LLMs display biases in emotion attribution along gender lines. However, unlike gender, which says little about our values, religion, as a socio-cultural system, prescribes a set of beliefs and values for ...
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Religious and Scientific Faith in Simplicity [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Both religion and science start with basic assumptions that cannot be proved but are taken on faith. Here I note that one basic assumption that is rather common in both enterprises is the assumption that in comparing different hypotheses that all equally explain the observations, the simpler hypotheses are more probable (Occam's razor or the law of ...
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Temporal evolution of adherents of the major religions in Mexico: Avrami model application-Kolgomorov solid training [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 It applies a mathematical model of solid formation, the model of Avrami-Kolgomorov [Ausloos & Petroni, 2007] to model the time evolution of percentage of adherents of the major religions practiced in Mexico, adjusting the corresponding parameters with available records in the period from 1950 to 2000 [Molina-Hernandez, 2003; INEGI, 2005].
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The place of water in the Ndau religion of Zimbabwe
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThere is a gap in studies focussing on Ndau traditional religion and water. Most research addresses nature conservation rather than examining how water is perceived by the Ndau people.
Elijah E.N. Dube
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Finding beauty in the eyes of justice: A socio-religious perspective [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 The subject of “beauty” and the “beautiful” is often found within the basic category of aesthetics and aesthetic education. In that regard, no philosophical work on aesthetic education is ever complete without the description of the category of beauty ...
Joel Mokhoathi
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Religion and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We study the effect of religion and intense religious experiences on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two facts: First, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic calendar is not synchronized with the solar cycle.
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Spirituele vorming om ’n missionale karakter in gemeentes in die praktyk te bewerkstellig
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018 Spiritual formation to bring about a missional character in congregations in practice. This study applied literature review to focus on missional ecclesiology and, more specifically, on the important role and impact of spirituality in supporting a ...
Philippus C. Pretorius +1 more
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The Banach-Tarski paradox or what mathematics and religion have in common [PDF]
Pi in the Sky 2 (2000), 13-15, 2002 We give a popular account of the Banach-Tarski paradox and its connections with the axiom of choice.
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African Christianity: The search for an African Personality [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 African Christianity, as the synthesis between Christianity and African Traditional Religion, seems to evoke an inquiry relating to the issue of African personality.
Joel Mokhoathi
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Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 I discuss some connotations of mathematical notion of "truth" in the context of humanistic ...
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