Teaching Democracy by Teaching Supernaturalism
Religions, 2019 This paper analyzes critiques of the supernatural by John Dewey, a celebrated American philosopher. Dewey rejected the supernatural on scientific and cosmological grounds, but his most significant critique was made on political grounds. In A Common Faith
Aaron Ghiloni
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Measuring Counterintuitiveness in Supernatural Agent Dream Imagery [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The present article tests counterintuitiveness theory and methodology in relation to religious dream imagery using data on religious dream content. The endeavor adopts a “fractionated” or “piecemeal” approach where supernatural agent (SA) cognition is ...
Andreas Nordin, Pär Bjälkebring
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Ethnobotany of religious and supernatural beliefs of the Mising tribes of Assam with special reference to the 'Dobur Uie' [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011 Assam is very rich in plant biodiversity as well as in ethnic diversity and has a great traditional knowledge base in plant resources. It is inhabited by the largest number of tribes and they lead an intricate life totally dependent on forest plants. The
Pegu Shyamanta, Sharma Uma Kanta
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The epistemological irony of postcolonialism: A perspective from Paul’s flesh-Spirit dichotomy
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 Among other things, postcolonialism claims to react against western epistemology. Although postcolonial approaches react to the traditional tendency in colonialism to silence the Other by political, social and economic structures and ideologies, non ...
Philip La. G. Du Toit
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Adler and the Debate on Revelation in Golden Age Denmark
Filozofia, 2023 In 1843, Adolph Peter Adler, a pastor of the Danish Church, claimed that he had received a supernatural revelation in which Christ spoke to him. The event triggered a religious controversy.
Nassim Bravo
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THE CONCEPT "SINN DES LEBENS" IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2020 Purpose. The paper considered the explication of the concept of "Sinn des Lebens" within the framework of Western philosophy and psychology of the ХІХ-ХХІ centuries.
V. Y. Popov, Е. V. Popova
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Yoruba-Irish Literature: Intersection in the Language of Supernatural in Yeats and Soyinka
Crossroads, 2018 The present paper aims at showing the intersection that Irish and Nigerian (especially the Yoruba) literatures share, particularly in the construction of the idea of supernaturalism, which is clearly exemplified in two of their most important works.
Mayowa Akinlotan
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The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is the product of an interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue aiming to outline some of the possibilities and rational limits of supernatural religious belief, in the light of a critique of David Hume’s familiar sceptical arguments ...
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The Genesis of a Philosophical Poem: Sri Aurobindo, World Literature and the Writing of Savitri
Aisthesis, 2020 Philosophical poetry has had a long and distinguished history in different cultural traditions. These traditions have always interacted to some extent, but today the barriers between them have largely broken down. Savitri, an epic in English by the early
Richard Hartz
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Schleiermacher and Otto on religion : a reappraisal [PDF]
, 2008 An interpretation of the work of Schleiermacher and Otto recently offered by Andrew Dole, according to which these two thinkers differed over the extent to which religion can be explained naturalistically, and over the sense in which the supernatural can
Smith, A. D. (Arthur David)
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