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From canopies to conversations: the continuing significance of "plausibility structures" [PDF]
, 2018 Among the most generative – but oft-misunderstood – ideas found in Peter Berger’s magisterial work is the idea that religions depend on plausibility structures. This assertion points toward the social worlds in which religious ideas and practices take on
Ammerman, Nancy T.
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 Terrorism in the name of religion continues to occur in various places around the world. Religious motives are often used as the basis for acts of terrorism.
Oinike N. Harefa
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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers
, 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.
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Reflections on Swami Vivekananda\u27s Speeches At the World Parliament of Religions, 1893 [PDF]
, 1993 Much has been written about Swami Vivekananda\u27s appearance at the World Parliament of Religions in 1893. On the whole, the assessments of his appearance from both academics and non-academics has been positive, emphasising Vivekananda\u27s ...
Neufeldt, Ronald
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Introduction to Special Issue, Music in World Religions: A Response to Isabel Laack
Religions, 2021 This article serves to introduce a special issue of Religions, titled Music in World Religions. A 2015 article by religion scholar Isabel Laack claimed that the study of music and religion has been neglected by Laack’s peers in the field of religions ...
Heather MacLachlan
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Inclusion ideals and inclusion problems: Parsons and Luhmann on religion and secularization [PDF]
, 2015 This paper builds upon the theoretical work of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann and offers a critical reconstruction of their views on religion (Christianity) and secularization in the western world.
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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ReligionsThe discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC) in 1945 rates as one of the two most profound occurrences for Biblical archaeology and interpretation during the last hundred years, along with the Dead Sea Scrolls (1946–1956).
David W. Kim
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Українське Pелігієзнавство, 1998 The geography of religions is one of the religious sciences, which is intended to study the spatial pattern of the process of the origin and distribution of different religions, to give a modern religious map of the world and statistical data on the ...
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
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Paganism and the world forum of religions [PDF]
, 2016 Using the sociological tool known as the ideal-type, there is a distinction to be made for ancient, indigenous and contemporary paganisms vis-à-vis the more established world such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.
York, Michael
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Tale of a theologian without walls [PDF]
, 2016 This article provides a detailed autobiographical account of two oddly coupled things. On the one hand, the author has been firmly committed to theology without walls since early childhood, including high school publications in a church newsletter and ...
Neville, R. C.
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