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Religious Customs and Institutions
2023Abstract Chapter 11 traces the geographical distribution and changing nature of sanctuaries across the archaic period. The iconographic evidence from pottery and from the votive assemblage arguably reveals changing attitudes towards the gods.
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ECONOMICS AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
Humanomics, 1994Justice requires that public institutions treat each person as an equal. A complete theory of justice should provide an account of those principles which both best organize and defend our various sentiments about justice and tell us which institutional arrangements and public policies will, in a given set of circumstances, best serve to ensure that our
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Reshaping Religious Institutions
2023Abstract “Reshaping Religious Institutions” looks at the structural and personnel changes made by Emperor Wu and Augustus as they reformed their respective religious institutions. In particular, it finds that both rulers recruited men from outside of the established court elite to serve in their religious institutions and as advisors ...
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Religious institutions and practices
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1982For the outsider religion ranks high among the more difficult aspects of Soviet life to study and to understand. This is in large part a function of official Soviet sensitivity on the subject,—a sensitivity rooted in the nexus of an assumed anti-religious ideology on the one hand, and the need to produce an occasional show of religious toleration on ...
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The Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Healthy Habits in Religious Institutions
Journal of Religion and Health, 2013The growing obesity epidemic in the West, in general, and the U.S.A., in particular, is resulting in deteriorating health, premature and avoidable onset of disease, and excessive health care costs. The religious community is not immune to these societal conditions.
Mark H, Anshel, Mitchell, Smith
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Associates and Religious Institutes
2018This chapter is based on two national surveys of associates and vowed religious that CARA conducted in 2015, replicating a 2000–2002 CARA study of the same population. Both studies were commissioned by the North American Conference of Associates and Religious (NACAR).
Jonathon Holland +2 more
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The Making of a Religious Institution
1995Abstract Reading contemporary colonial descriptions of African Methodism, one imagines swarms of “Negro” agitators—“alien demagogues of colour”—“stumping the country,” spreading their “hatred of the white man” throughout the furthest reaches of the subcontinent, poisoning “the good relations which have hitherto existed between ...
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Religious Institutions and Democratization
2017Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD ...
Aliyev, Fuad +2 more
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Religious Diversity And Democratic Institutional Pluralism
Political Theory, 2003Strict separation of church from a presumed ‘religion-blind’and strictly ‘neutral’state still is the preferred model in liberal, democratic, feminist, and socialist political theory. Focusing on the full, reciprocal relationships between society-culture-politics-nation-state and (organized) religions, this article makes a case in favor of ...
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