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Can symbols be ‘promoted’ or ‘demoted’?: Symbols as religious phenomena
Religious symbols are part of our world, relating to another world. In order to understand the process by which symbols grow and develop, the particular context of a symbol is important.
Jaco Beyers
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection [PDF]
Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son,
Arel, Stephanie
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eSacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
Book Review of Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions. Edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey.
Pflueger, Lloyd W.
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Briefly Noted: \u3cem\u3eGod’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
Book Review of God’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India. By Bradley Malkovsky.
Chirico, Kerry San
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Violent intergroup conflicts are often motivated by commitments to abstract ideals such as god or nation, so-called ‘sacred’ values that are insensitive to material trade-offs.
Nafees Hamid +10 more
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eChristian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
Book review of Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers: Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993. By Mario I. Aguilar.
Soars, Daniel
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Sculpture portraits of Japanese religious figures
Japanese portrait sculpture developed in Buddhist context and never completely divorced itself from that religious setting. From the beginning, the majority of the subjects portrayed were religious personages, whether legendary or historical.
Y. L. Kuzhel
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Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism
Violent extremism is often explicitly motivated by commitment to abstract ideals such as the nation or divine law—so-called “sacred” values that are relatively insensitive to material incentives and define our primary reference groups.
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Objective Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) use in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) is relatively uncommon because of the lower fibrotic burden and the predominance of vascular complications. In vitro observations and clinical data from transplanted patients suggest a protective effect of MMF on endothelial function.
Enrico De Lorenzis +77 more
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Abstract In the Hellenistic period, cities increasingly organized major festivals in honour of their principal gods, often as an ‘echo’ of the great Panhellenic games, sending out invitations to cities and kings for support and participation. Cities thus opened up their prime sanctuaries to the Greek world through their festivals. At the
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