International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, The, 2020 Within the cognitive science of religion, some scholars hypothesize (1) that minimally counterintuitive (MCI) concepts enjoy a transmission advantage over both intuitive and highly counterintuitive concepts, (2) that religions concern counterintuitive agents, objects, or events, and (3) that the transmission advantage of MCI concepts makes them more ...
James R. Beebe, Leigh Duffy
exaly +5 more sources
A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
doaj +1 more source
Politics lost in translation: the African concept of time as a method to understand African conflicts [PDF]
Review of Economics and Political Science, 2020 Purpose – This paper aims to explore John Mbiti’s concept of African time in line with the studies on the crisis of the post-independence African state.
Ramy Magdy
doaj +1 more source
Traces of the Cultural Journey of “Kayiperenler” (The Invisible Saints) Kayıperenlerin Kültür Yolculuğundan İzler [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2022 In this research we will examine Kayıperenler (The Invisible Saints) which are accepted as guardian souls and which appear with various duties in different historical and religious stories of Turkish Culture.
Ayşe Duvarcı
doaj +1 more source
Discourses about Miracle: Spectrum of Positions
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023 The study is devoted to construct a typology of discourses about a miracle. Discourses are interpreted in this case not in a linguistic, but in a philosophical sense, as a certain “way of talking” about a chosen phenomenon.
Elena V. Zolotukhina-Abolina
doaj +1 more source
Path to Viy: features of the artistic conflict
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2023 The author undertakes a study of the symbolic-religious conflict, a man and Viy, as a structural and content basis for the integrity of the novella Viy .
Olga R. Khomyakova
doaj +1 more source
Surrealism based on free thought with the centrality of the concepts of freedom and wonder: The views of contemporary Arab critics [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2023 Introduction: Influenced by the intellectual movements of the Renaissance, the flow of the contemporary literature moved away from the imitative frameworks in structure and content and found a new approach based on questioning and searching in the view ...
Abolhassan Amin Moghaddasi +2 more
doaj +1 more source
On Hindutva and a Hindu-Catholic, with a Moral for our Times [PDF]
, 1992 The purpose of this article is to comment on the term hindutva, viz. Hinduness, with special reference to a 19th century Bengali thinker who sought to indigenise his Christian faith, and to draw some topical conclusions.
Lipner, Julius
core +2 more sources
Renegotiating religious imaginations through transformations of "banal religion" in "Supernatural"
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 Supernatural is saturated with a wide range of religious representations. These elements often serve to instigate the storyline for one or more episodes, but do so in a way that is removed from their original setting in, for example, traditional ...
Line Nybro Petersen
doaj +1 more source
The Agent of Miracle from the Perspective of Shi'ite and Sunni Commentators [PDF]
پژوهشهای تفسیر تطبیقی, 2017 Miracle is a supernatural act beyond human power, which proves the truthfulness of prophecy claim. Some Quranic verses have explained miracle and its types in the story of the prophets.
seyede saeedeh gharavi
doaj +1 more source