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Religion Generalized and Naturalized
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2000 Much of contemporary scholarly opinion rejects the attempt to construct a general theory of religion (that is, its origin, structure, and functions). This view says that particular religious traditions are unique, sui generis, incommensurable, and cannot therefore be generalized.
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Crime Against History: Slavery, Race, and the 1776 Report
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the 2025 executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K‐12 Schooling,” the Trump administration reestablished the 1776 Commission, which produced The 1776 Report. This article argues that this report, which is an unsubtle response to The 1619 Project, reveals how White Christian Nationalists wish to mandate that a hyper‐patriotic ...
William V. Trollinger
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Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 This article illustrates the religious diversity of coastal Nigeria by analyzing the Igbe religion, a monotheist religion practiced mainly by Urhobo speakers.
Fortune Afatakpa
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Worldhood Competence and Performance:\ud The Site for Wittgenstein"s Religious Language [PDF]
, 2003 It is common knowledge that Wittgenstein cannot be called\ud fundamentally a religious writer. All the same, he did not\ud dismiss the reality 'religion' as nonsense. It is opined here\ud that, Wittgenstein was very consistent in his references to\ud it.
Okonkwo, Jerome Ikechukwu
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White Christian Nationalism: Adult Education and Threats to Democracy
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adult education has a historical and ongoing commitment to fostering democratic relationships, demonstrated by the tendency of adult education to be called upon when social change and realignment are most desirable. This article considers the philosophical and pragmatic possibilities for adult education at this moment, when White Christian ...
Ralf St. Clair, Lyn Tett, Rob Black
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God of iron and iron working in parts of Ǹsúkkā cultural area in Southeast Nigeria
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis study is aimed at evaluating the influence of the god of iron on ironworking communities in Ǹsúkkā cultural area. In the study area, the Supreme God – Chúkwú Òkìkè, Chínēkè or Chúkwú Ábíàmà is believed to control the affairs of humanity.
Joshua O. Uzuegbu, Christian Agbo
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Intersectional Bias in Causal Language Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 To examine whether intersectional bias can be observed in language generation, we examine \emph{GPT-2} and \emph{GPT-NEO} models, ranging in size from 124 million to ~2.7 billion parameters. We conduct an experiment combining up to three social categories - gender, religion and disability - into unconditional or zero-shot prompts used to generate ...
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And Power Corrupts…: Theology and the Disciplinary Matrix of Bioethics [PDF]
, 2006 What role should religion play in a religiously pluralistic liberal society? Public bioethics unavoidably raises this question in a particularly insistent fashion.
Lysaught, M. Therese
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Adult Education Confronting White Christian Nationalism: A Thematic Analysis
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a way to conclude, this article elaborates key themes that emerged from the collected articles in this volume. Each article carries its own important message about the role of adult education in confronting White Christian nationalism, while here, Prins and Carr‐Chellman offer a thematic interpretation of the volume as a whole. These themes
Esther Prins, Davin Carr‐Chellman
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Debiased Large Language Models Still Associate Muslims with Uniquely Violent Acts [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Recent work demonstrates a bias in the GPT-3 model towards generating violent text completions when prompted about Muslims, compared with Christians and Hindus. Two pre-registered replication attempts, one exact and one approximate, found only the weakest bias in the more recent Instruct Series version of GPT-3, fine-tuned to eliminate biased and toxic
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