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Specters of Spinoza in Iran: The Crisis of Theocracy and the Reception of Spinoza

Journal of Spinoza Studies
Although Spinoza and, for that matter, modern European philosophers were known among some Iranians for centuries, it was not until the final decades of the twentieth century that they were eventually received into the Iranian intellectual scene ...
Ali Ferdowsi
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Is prophetic witness the appropriate mode of Christian participation in public discourse in the Netherlands?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
Dutch Protestantism is characterised by a hidden tension between a theocratic tradition and the endorsement of democracy. In this article it is argued that the idea of prophetic witness has its roots in the theocratic tradition, and that it is not ...
Gerrit G. de Kruijf
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From Theocracy of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to the Hereditary Monarchy of Al-Waleed [PDF]

پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2010
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) carried out the greatest revolution in history. He annihilated all the political institutions, social, moral, cultural and religious communities and replaced new institutions in order to cause a massive upheaval among the Arabs ...
abolfazl abedini
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Paradox of Islamic Secularism: Review of the Book Islamic Secularism: A Critique on Muslim Intellectuals [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2018
Historically, after the movement of constitutionalism (Mashrouteh), secularism got engaged with Iran, but it was notattended as a problematic concern for the Iranian intellectuals.
Majid Behestani, Mohammadreza Amirzadeh
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THE ISLAMIC THEOCRATIC PRACTICE AND THE OTHER IN NIGERIA SINCE DEMOCRATIZATION

Ulul Albab, 2021
This paper’s hypothetical view is that theocracy as a concept is so self-explanatory that little or no special learning is required to discern it. This is based on the fact that almosteveryone has an idea of what government and religion mean and how they
Saheed Ahmad Rufai
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Abul A’la Maududi: Innovator or Restorer of the Islamic Caliphate? [PDF]

, 2018
This article reviews the political thought of one of the most important figures during the Islamic resurgence in the 20th century, Abul A’la Maududi.
Islam, Jaan
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The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth‐Century China

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Ze Hong, Yuqi Chen
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Active Resistors: The Women of Post-Revolution Iran [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, I challenge the notion that Muslim or Middle Eastern women are passive acceptors of discrimination. After examining how Iranian women resisted governmental discrimination following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, I consider a number of ...
Mouritsen, Sofia E.
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