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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Zygon, 2001 Naturalism is often considered to be antithetical to theology and genuine religion. However, in a series of recent books and articles, Willem Drees has proposed a scientifically informed naturalistic account of religion, which, he contends, is not only ...
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A Mall Intercept Survey on Religion and Worldview in the Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa [PDF]
Journal for the Study of ReligionThis study analyzes worldviews and religious beliefs and practices in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, using a mall intercept survey of n=513 visitors to five shopping centers.
Thomas J. Farrar +4 more
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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What is Religious Naturalism? A Preliminary Report of an Ongoing Conversation
Zygon, 2000 Religious naturalism is an emerging construct that relies greatly on science and yet affirms attitudes and practices that are distinctly religious in nature. This article explores the meaning of the term as it is used by various proponents, contrasts it
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Naturalism and Christian Philosophy: Identifying Some Common Ground
Studia Philosophiae ChristianaeThe prospects for finding common ground between naturalists and Christian philosophers seems to be bleak. The typical naturalist is an anti-supernaturalist, the Christian philosopher would appear to be a supernaturalist par excellence, and we are told ...
Fiona Ellis
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Calenda, 2020 En refusant d’entendre la parole scientifique et en tentant de décrédibiliser le discours écologiste volontiers tronqué ou caricaturé, l’humanité, l’Amérique en tête, pose nettement la question d’une planète où l’être humain n’aurait plus sa place et serait, finalement, condamné à disparaître comme tant d’autres espèces avant lui.
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Preventing lower‐level gambling harms: Shifting from individual‐ to system‐frame approaches
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Gambling‐related harm is not concentrated solely among individuals meeting criteria for problematic or disordered gambling. Tackling harm at a population level is essential to reducing the total burden of harm and preventing escalation to more severe harms.
Robert M. Heirene
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