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Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between racial composition of religious congregations and individual‐level perceptions of white discrimination and white privilege. Current framings suggest that organizations are racialized not solely because of their composition but also the implicit (or explicit) ideologies expressed within them ...
Jerry Z. Park, Brandon C. Martinez
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Mountain Jewish Community of Kabardino-Balkaria from 1944 to 1965

Научный диалог
This article addresses the issue of state-religious relations through the lens of the registered religious community of Mountain Jews in the city of Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.
A. A. Tatarov
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The Paradox of Threat: Vernacular Security Governance Among Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Four European States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do religious minorities proactively manage their safety amid global crises and local hostility? This article examines these dynamics, conceptualized as “vernacular security governance,” among Jewish and Muslim populations in four European states.
Tahir Abbas, May Tamimova, Irene Trebeschi, Paul Wabnitz   +3 more
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Summary Statements in the Gospel of Luke

The Biblical Annals
This article explores the summary statements within the Third Gospel, with the goal of identi fying which passages qualify as this distinct literary genre.
Piotr Herok
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Forgiveness in Judaism: from the Perspective of Yom Kippur Ritual

Paedagogia Christiana, 2016
The aim of the article is to present the main elements of the idea of forgiveness, which has developed over the centuries in Judaism, and link it with the ritual of Yom Kippur.
Krzysztof Pilarczyk
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Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022
Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual ...
Joseph Scales
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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

Prey of Pray: Allegorizing the Liturgical Practice

Arts, 2019
Numerous images embedded in the painted decorations in early modern Central and Eastern European synagogues conveyed allegorical messages to the congregation.
Zvi Orgad
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The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk

Arts, 2020
This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949.
Susan Nashman Fraiman
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source