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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 This study affirmed the fact that there is the idea of salvation in all religions whether revealed or indigenous. This applies categorically to Christianity and Igbo traditional religion (ITR).
Omaka K. Ngele +3 more
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Religious aberration in Nigerian contemporary society: A critique
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Religion has been a part of sociopolitical movements from the dawn of history. With a strong emphasis on morality, religion and religious people were expected to live an exemplary life in society.
Chioma P. Onuorah
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Intercultural missional leadership: Theological foundation and biblical narratives
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 This article explores the concept and practice of the missional leadership from three perspectives: the biblical worldview, cultural mandate and narratives of biblical examples.
Seung M. Hah
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A Study of Chantepie’s Phenomenology of Religion and the Evaluation of its Critics [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Most of scientists of religion sometimes consider Chantepie de la Saussaye to be the founder of the phenomenology of religion. This study first explains Chantepie's view of the phenomenology of religion, and while analyzing the phenomenology of Chantepie'
Susan Anjom-e Rouz, Ghorban Elmi
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A model for the evolutionary diversification of religions [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology Volume 267, Issue 4, 21 December
2010, Pages 676:684, 2008 We address the problem of diversification in religions by studying selection on cultural memes that colonize humans hosts. In analogy to studying the evolution of pathogens or symbionts colonizing animal hosts, we use models for host-pathogen dynamics known from theoretical epidemiology.
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Pragmatist Perspectives on Theological and Religious Realism [PDF]
, 2014 This essay first applies the general issue of realism vs. antirealism to theology and the philosophy of religion, distinguishing between several different ”levels’ of the realism dispute in this context.
Pihlström, Sami
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Religious pluralism and its implications for church development
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Religious pluralism model holds the belief that there is virtue in every religion, just as all religions are good and are of equal value. It does not consider religion’s particularity but is interested in the ideas that have not favoured any religion ...
George C. Asadu +2 more
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Associations between religiosity and sexuality in a representative sample of Australian adults [PDF]
, 2007 Many studies have examined the influence on sexual attitudes and behavior of religious belief (i.e., religious denomination) or religiosity (e.g., attendance at services, subjective importance of religion). However, few studies have examined the combined
de Visser, Richard O +3 more
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Sacred Ecology: The Environmental Impact of African Traditional Religions [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Do religions codify ecological principles? This paper explores theoretically and empirically the role religious beliefs play in shaping environmental interactions. We study African Traditional Religions (ATR) which place forests within a sacred sphere.
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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012)
pp. 792-798, 2011 Benford's law states that the occurrence of significant digits in many data sets is not uniform but tends to follow a logarithmic distribution such that the smaller digits appear as first significant digits more frequently than the larger ones. We investigate here numerical data on the country-wise adherent distribution of seven major world religions i.
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