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Preface: The Sacred and the Secular in Taoism: Theories, Practices, and Communities

Religions
As an indigenous religion of China, Taoism has always been regarded as “Za Er Duoduan” 雜而多端 (Miscellaneous and Multifaceted), just as a famous scholar Ma Duanlin 馬端臨 (1254–1340) said in the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) [...]
Wu Guo
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Project Lx Conventos: Travelling through space and time in Lisbon's religious buildings [PDF]

12th International Conference on Urban History (2014)
Project Lx Conventos aims to study, in a systematic and integrated manner, the impact of the dissolution of religious orders in the dynamics of urban transformation in nineteenth century Lisbon. After the liberal revolution and the civil war, in the 19th century, the dissolution of religious orders led to the alienation, in Lisbon, of nearly 130 ...
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Arhaeoastronomical analysis of Levinsadovka sacrificial complex (South Russia) [PDF]

arXiv, 2013
The article presents research data using arhaeoastronomical methods of Levinsadovka settlement sacrificial complex in Northern Black Sea coast. In this work, new method of accounting terrain elevations using topographic maps was developed in arhaeoastronomical studies.
arxiv  

Review of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Study of the Growth of Religious Consciousness. [PDF]

, 1900
James H. Lueba
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Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Many discussions of artificial intelligence fail to address deeper questions being raised by advances in developmental biology, neuroscience, bioengineering, and philosophy of mind. Novel beings, including technologically and biologically augmented humans, engineered life forms, hybrots, and others, require tools of the emerging field of diverse ...
Michael Levin
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Paisaje celeste y arqueoastronomía: las iglesias históricas como indicadores de la planimetría de una ciudad ideal [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
According to popular tradition, the Canarian city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1999, emerged in the early sixteenth century with a novel organization, in line with a new peaceful social order inspired by the religious doctrine of the millennium and its expression through urban design [...] In this paper we ...
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Some Religious QuestsThe Gospel According to Saint Mark. A. W. F. BluntThe Religious Quests of the Graeco-Roman World: A Study in the Historical Background of Early Christianity. Samuel Angus [PDF]

, 1930
Ernest W. Parsons
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MOEHLMAN, CONRAD HENRY. The Wall of Separation Between Church and State: An historical study of recent criticism of the religious clause of the First Amendment. Pp. xvi, 239. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1951. $3.00 [PDF]

, 1952
William W. Sweet
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Religious Bias Landscape in Language and Text-to-Image Models: Analysis, Detection, and Debiasing Strategies [PDF]

arXiv
Note: This paper includes examples of potentially offensive content related to religious bias, presented solely for academic purposes. The widespread adoption of language models highlights the need for critical examinations of their inherent biases, particularly concerning religion. This study systematically investigates religious bias in both language
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On how religions could accidentally incite lies and violence: Folktales as a cultural transmitter [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
This research employs the Bayesian network modeling approach, and the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, to learn about the role of lies and violence in teachings of major religions, using a unique dataset extracted from long-standing Vietnamese folktales. The results indicate that, although lying and violent acts augur negative consequences for those
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