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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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Post-Supernatural Cultures: There and Back Again
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2020 The abandonment of supernatural religious beliefs and rituals seems to occur quite easily in some contexts, but post-supernaturalist cultures require a specific set of conditions that are difficult to produce and sustain on a large scale and thus are ...
Wesley J. Wildman +4 more
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Religious Spirituality and the Meaning of Life: the Problem of Absurdity [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 Religious spirituality faces various challenges in the new world. One of these challenges is the question of meaningfulness or emptiness of life. While in the traditional world, few thinkers see life as empty and absurd, today there are many such views ...
Vahid Sohrabifar, Abolghasem Fanaei
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Grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism: the failed strategy of ruling the supernatural out of science by philosophical fiat [PDF]
, 2012 According to a widespread philosophical opinion, science is strictly limited to investigating natural causes and putting forth natural explanations. Lacking the tools to evaluate supernatural claims, science must remain studiously neutral on questions of
Blancke, Stefaan +2 more
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Theism in Historical Perspective [PDF]
, 2011 I will discuss some familiar problems in the philosophy of religion which arise for theistic belief. I will argue that it may be most worthwhile to focus on a particular sort of theistic belief, capital-T ’Theism’, central to which is a particular ...
Chappell, Timothy
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SUPERNATURAL A-TERM INFLATION [PDF]
Modern Physics Letters A, 2010 Following Ref. 10, we explore the parameter space of the case when the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking scale is lower, for example, in gauge mediated SUSY breaking model. During inflation, the form of the potential is V0 plus MSSM (or A-term ) inflation. We show that the model works for a wide range of the potential V0 with the soft SUSY breaking mass m
Lin, Chia-Min, Cheung, Kingman
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Il contributo di Frege all’attuale dibattito sul naturalismo
Rivista di Estetica, 2010 In this paper I shall address two main questions, namely: (1) Is Frege’s criticism against psychologism still relevant to the present debate on naturalism vs. anti-naturalism? And (2) Does Frege’s suggested alternative to reductive naturalism amount to a
Elisabetta Sacchi
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Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event
Religions, 2021 Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic
John D. Caputo
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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 J. Ghiloni
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