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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

The Epistemological Articulation between Science and Theology

open access: yes, 2015
This paper aims to examine some considerations concerning the science-theology debate and to take a fresh look at the subject in the light of contemporary critical epistemology.
Celebrating Galileo : On the occasion of the 400th Anniversary of Galileo’s Letter to Christina of Lorraine   +1 more
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Shaping eschatology within science and theology

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2007
Traditionally, questions about the reign of God, death and resurrection, God s judgment and eternal life, have belonged to eschatology, specifically as presented by Biblical scholars.
M Pretorius
doaj   +1 more source

A History of ‘Religious History’

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Christ and the Quantum: Fundamentals of Theology of Science

open access: yesStudia Philosophiae Christianae
In light of recent scholarly dissatisfaction with ‘science and religion’ as the preferred nomenclature for an international research discipline, I explore the terminology of ‘theology of science’ as a way of clarifying the problems and aims.
Mark Harris
doaj   +1 more source

SCIENCE AND RELIGION: AN ORIGINS STORY

open access: yesZygon, 2021
In recent scholarship, the science and religion debate has been historicized, revealing the novelty of the concepts of science and religion and their complex connections to secularization and the birth of modernity.
doaj   +2 more sources

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

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