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
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"Like something supernatural in your house": an interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences and psychological challenges of parents raising children with autism spectrum disorder. [PDF]
Parents raising children with ASD face profound psychological challenges. While existing research predominantly focuses on parental distress, opportunities for growth and transformation remain underexplored.
Yevtushok T, Petronzi D.
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The most important and enduring input of Middle Platonism is the way it unveiled the fascinating depths of human nature in its supernatural dimension, and its greatest secrets, including the most important and most sacred mystery of human love, which is the initiation into divinity itself. The discovery of the supernatural dimension of the human nature
Kazimierz Pawłowski
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Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety
Growing evidence indicates that religious belief helps individuals to cope with stress and anxiety. But is this effect specific to supernatural beliefs, or is it a more general function of belief — including belief in science?
MIGUEL Farias +2 more
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Faith and Reason: Insight from John Paul II and Maurice Blondel Toward a New Apologetics
This article aims to explore the potential for a renewed apologetics, inspired by St. John Paul II and Maurice Blondel, particularly their insight into the dynamic relationship between faith and reason. Traditional apologetics often prioritizes rational
Lilin Wu
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Politics lost in translation: the African concept of time as a method to understand African conflicts [PDF]
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
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
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
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Traces of the Cultural Journey of “Kayiperenler” (The Invisible Saints) Kayıperenlerin Kültür Yolculuğundan İzler [PDF]
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
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Discourses about Miracle: Spectrum of Positions
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
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Path to Viy: features of the artistic conflict
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
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