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A Context-Grounded Approach to Religious Freedom: The Case of Orthodoxy in the Moldovan Republic
This paper explores the relationship between human rights and social analysis within the main historical and theoretical perspectives adopted by social sciences. In particular, religious freedom will be analysed as one of the central issues in the recent
Davide N. Carnevale
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Understanding Islam between Theology and Anthropology: Reflections on Geertz’s Islam Observed
There is a divergence between religion and its modes of application, or religion and religiosity. This essay provides a critical analysis of Clifford Geertz’s book Islam Observed and tries to attempt the question of whether Islam is better understood ...
Mustapha Tajdin
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Requests of Brown by LC Classification: July 2009 [PDF]
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Souto, Ruth E..
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Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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As recent research on the former bhaṭṭāraka lineages of Western and Central India has shown, the early modern Digambara tradition, rather than constituting a distinct, and defective, ‘bhaṭṭāraka era’, shows much similarity to contemporary ...
Tillo Detige
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Interreligious Dialogue and Pilgrimage: The Case of the Tamil Community in Palermo
This ethnographic research on the territory of Palermo is a comparison between the old immigrant Tamil generations, coming from Sri Lanka, and the new, native residents of Palermo.
Rossana M. Salerno
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Adhiyajña: Towards a Performance Grammar of the Vedas
Recent scholarship has challenged the anachronistic projection of the modern category of the poem onto premodern texts. This article attempts to theorize how one might construct an alternative to modern conceptualizations of “the poem” that ...
Caley Charles Smith
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Introduction to Special Issue: Organ Transplantation in Islam: Perspectives and Challenges
It has been suggested that tissue and organ transplantation, as a surgical procedure to restore lost or mutilated body parts, is a centuries-old practice confirmed in an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery called the Sushruta Samhita in circa ...
Jan A. Ali
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Requests of Brown by LC Classification: May 2008 [PDF]
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Souto, Ruth E..
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