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Religious cultures and gender cultures: tracing gender differences across religious cultures [PDF]
This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion focuses on varying empirical connections and theoretical relations between ‘religion’ and ‘gender’.
Winkel, Heidemarie, Arweck, Elisabeth
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The relationship between secularity or modernity and religious belief choices is a hot topic of academic concern. However, there has been scarce attention from the academic community regarding the religious belief choices and driving factors of China’s ...
Li Chen, Sheng Zeng, Zaizhen Tian
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Re-thinking the dynamics of a pluralistic society in Acts 15:1-35 and contemporary Zimbabwean society: A Narratological Approach [PDF]
From time immemorial, ethnic diversity in society often resulted in conflict instead of cooperation. Religion played a pivotal role in uniting or dividing people.
Tobias Marevesa (PhD)
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Hagiographical tales tell us that some Buddhist monks who lived during the Early Medieval China (220–589) possessed considerable medical skills. Some were proficient in foreign medicine, while others had mastery over traditional Chinese medicine.
Dawei Wang
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Religious Commodities or Cultural Elements? [PDF]
Abstract This article is a case study of a lay Buddhist community that employs a business model called “living hall” (Shenghuo guan 生活馆) to facilitate the practice of Tibetan Buddhism among its members. The living hall model is explored in the context of the politics of religion in the People’s Republic of China (prc) and the dynamics of Tibetan ...
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The future of parish churches in Flanders, Belgium: a dialogue on municipality level
This paper provides an overview of the actual discussion on the future of circa 1800 parish churches in Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.
Jonas Danckers +2 more
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Sacred Symbolism in the Context of Globalisation: An Interpretation of Mircea Eliade’s Religious Hermeneutics [PDF]
The aim of the study was to identify the directions and patterns of transformation of sacred categories within Mircea Eliade’s hermeneutical system under the conditions of the globalised and digital culture of the twenty-first century.
Tolen Barakbayeva +4 more
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A Discourse Analysis of State Approaches to Religious Diversity in Multi-Ethnic Societies [PDF]
The study aimed to provide a discursive analysis of state approaches to religious diversity in the multi-ethnic society of the Republic of Kazakhstan. To achieve this goal, a contextual analysis of the religious diversity of the Republic of Kazakhstan ...
Arailym Abubakirova +4 more
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3D VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE STOA IN THE ATHENS ANCIENT AGORA [PDF]
Reconstruction is an action that re-builds a ruin or a non-existing structure trying to reproduce its form and shape at a given moment of its past.
G. Kontogianni +4 more
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The Main Methods of Islamic Da’wah in the Context of the Qur’an [PDF]
The aim of this study was to identify the linguo-stylistic features of the realisation of Qur’anic forms of daʿwah in contemporary Kazakhstani preaching discourse.
Nauryzbay Utpinov +3 more
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