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From the reign of terror to the reign of peace: The role of state, religions and church in God’s mission amidst terror

open access: yesVerbum 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
doaj   +1 more source

Buddhism And Weapons Of Mass Destruction: An Oxymoron? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
One of the most enduring principles of Buddhist ethics is the teaching of nonviolence (ahimsa), and the first of the five basic moral precepts is not to take the life of a sentient being.
Swearer, Donald K.
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Introduction to Special Issue, Music in World Religions: A Response to Isabel Laack

open access: yesReligions, 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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The First Apocalypse of James in a Socio-Linguistic Perspective: Three Greek and Coptic Versions from Ancient Monastic Egypt

open access: yesReligions
The 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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Geography of Religion

open access: yesУкраїнське 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
doaj   +1 more source

Paganism and the world forum of religions [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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How Should Religion and Science be Creatively Related? A Christian Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Each of us, Hindu and Christian alike, must seek each other\u27s wisdom on one of the fundamental issues of our time: how should we relate religion and science?
Russell, Robert John
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Rapid Remodeling of the Human Gut Microbiome in Response to Short‐Term Animal Product Restriction and Associations with Host Molecular Phenotypes

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
A real‐world model of structured animal product restriction practiced for religious reasons reveals the dynamic adaptability of the human gut microbiome to dietary change and uncovers reductions in diversity and rare taxa loss. Integrated microbiome, metabolomic, and proteomic analyses uncover coordinated taxonomic and molecular shifts and identify ...
Christina Emmanouil   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

From canopies to conversations: the continuing significance of "plausibility structures" [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Bioenergy Cropping Reduces the Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Bacterial Biodiversity

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Consistent with patterns observed in plant and animal communities, soil bacterial communities exhibit significant species–time–area and phylogenetic–time–area relationships independent of nested structure. Bioenergy cropping significantly reduces the spatiotemporal scaling rates, particularly in sandy loam soils.
Zhencheng Ye   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

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