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Science, Physicalism, and Supernaturalism [PDF]
, 2023 This lesson on science and the supernatural tries to explain that science is committed neither to physicalism, nor to supernaturalism. Mainly, it studies the physical world, and examines the claim that the physical world is all that exists.
Filice, Carlo
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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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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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Measuring Qatari Women’s Progress Through Reactions to Online Behavior
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2017 The close kinship structure of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) means that appeasing one’s family often supersedes personal aspirations. The family occupies a central
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Rumsha Shahzad
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Supernaturalism and the philosophical character of the traditional African thinker [PDF]
, 2013 Owing to the prevalence of belief in spiritual beings and in the reality of some non-physical events in traditional cultures like those of Africa, the orientation of the people is typically regarded as supernaturalistic.
Majeed, HM
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Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
, 1992 In the postscript to The Varieties of Religious Experience William James distinguishes two types of belief in the supernatural, conceived as an essential component in religion, crass or piecemeal supernaturalism, on the one hand, and refined ...
T. L. S. Sprigge
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HENRY NELSON WIEMAN ON RELIGION AND REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Zygon, 2017 Henry Nelson Wieman and Reinhold Niebuhr were theologically poles apart—Wieman a “new naturalist” and Niebuhr a “new super naturalist”—according to Wieman's nomenclature. Wieman devoted more time and attention to Niebuhr than Niebuhr did to him.
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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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Theistic humanism and a critique of Wiredu's notion of supernaturalism
, 2017 In decrying the evils of supernaturalism, African philosopher Kwasi Wiredu (1931–) proposes humanism, by making concern for human well-being the basis for morality.
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani
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Rethinking identity theory in light of the in-Christ identity in the African context
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesIn social identity theory, the in-Christ identity is understood as primarily a socially directed process in which people categorise themselves relative to other groups. Intergroup behaviour would cause them to discriminate against the so-called ‘outgroup’
Philip La G. Du Toit
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