Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing
Abstract Social surveys normally assume that respondents adhere to a single religious faith in belonging, believing, and practicing congruently. Some surveys even take religious identity as the singular measure of religiosity and examine its relationship with other variables. This practice, however, fails to capture nonexclusive and hybrid religiosity,
Fenggang Yang, Brian L. McPhail
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism
Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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WHEN TO BE WHAT? WHY SCIENCE‐INSPIRED NATURALISM NEED NOT IMPLY RELIGIOUS NATURALISM
Abstract In The Aristos, John Fowles imagined the human situation as that of a diverse group of people on a raft, apparently between a wreck in the past and a shore where they will land. But there was no wreck, there is no shore. The conference on which this thematic set of papers draws was about a similar multitude of perspectives.
Willem B. Drees
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Muslim pilgrims surrounding the sacred site Kaaba in the Great Mosque of Mecca Abstract A growing body of research stresses the importance of religion in understanding and addressing climate change. However, so far, little is known about the relationship between Muslim communities and climate change.
Jens Koehrsen
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The Genesis of Myth in V. Solovyov’s Early Writings. Myth as Theogon [PDF]
In Vladimir Solovyov’s works myth is presented in two ways: as the authorial myth, which is a part of the future “universal religion”, and as an object of theoretical refl ection in the process of philosophical and religious research.
Vaganova Natal'ia
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A Backdrop to the Development of "Sol Invictus" Cult in Ancient Rome
Even though the ancient solar cult had already appeared back in the days of the Roman Republic, it had to wait for a long time to gain far-reaching importance.
Tibor Tonhaizer
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Ideological Background of Emperor Constantine’s Religious Policy
By the middle of the 3rd century the once glorious Roman Empire was past its prime. It was considerably weakened both economically and socially. Emperor Constantine the Great expected the intensification of monotheistic religiousness to solve the severe–
Tibor Tonhaizer
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Ideological Background of Emperor's Constantine's Religious Policy
By the middle of the 3rd century the once glorious Roman Empire was past its prime. It was considerably weakened both economically and socially. Emperor Constantine the Great expected the intensification of monotheistic religiousness to solve the severe–
Tibor Tonhaizer
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Returning to "Normal"? Evolutionary Roots of the Human Prospect. [PDF]
Ehrlich PR, Ehrlich AH.
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The problem with pseudoscience: Pseudoscience is not the antithesis of professional science but thrives in science's shadow. [PDF]
Gordin MD.
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