Search results for "History of Religion"
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Ape in India
2021
The honey bee is mentioned in some ancient Indian religious texts as a symbol of the sacrificial act; it also appears in some myths throughout Indian religious history with meanings partly related to representations of the divine feminine.
Quando l'eroe disturba il mostro. Uno studio comparativo sulla figura del mostro-custode: Ḫubaba, Ladone e il serpente della Colchide
2013
Narrazioni e rappresentazioni del sacro femminile. Un rapido bilancio
2021
Prefazione al volume "Narrazioni e rappresentazioni del sacro femminile. Atti in memoria di Giuseppe Martorana" Preface to the volume "Narrations and representations of the sacred female. Proceedings in memory of Giuseppe Martorana"
Jesus Our Redeemer. A Christian Approach to Salvation
2008
Peter Brown & Rita Lizzi Testa (eds.), Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: The Breaking of a Dialogue (IVth–VIth Century A.D.). Proceeding…
2013
Nietzsche Und Der Buddhismus
1985
The Holy Sinful Church: Towards a More Realistic Catholic Ecclesiology
2021
Abstract This article demonstrates that in Roman Catholic ecclesiology, it would be more justifiable and realistic to fully accept the concept of the sinfulness of the Church as a whole, not only that of its individual members. The piece begins with a short review and commentary on the doctrinal position of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) that provides a doctrinal basis for adopting and developing the notion of a ‘sinful Church’. Then, two contemporary activities of the Roman Catholic Church are analysed in which the notion of the ‘sinful Church’ has played an important role: the Great Jubilee act of confession, with the related explanations and commentaries, and the ecumenical dialo…
Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland. Berlin: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. 268 pp. ISBN…
2013
International Scientific Conference "Socio-Political and Religious Ideas and Movements in the 20th-21st Centuries", Latvia, Riga, 4-5 October 2018 : …
2018
The conference facilitated the exchange of ideas and the results of the latest studies on the reciprocity and significance of religious and socially political ideas (ideologies) in contemporary society. In the modern-day ever-changing political situation, an increasing danger to the safety and stability of society is caused by the manipulations of the seemingly traditional conceptions of ethical, religious and cultural values evident in the public discourse and media space. Under the impact of global processes, social anxiety and ethical disorientation facilitate a dangerous trend to trust the populist ideologies and quasi-religious ideas, as well as increase the level of radicalisation of …
The Centrality and Interpretation of Psalms in Judaism prior to and during Medieval Times: Approaches, Authorship, Genre, and Polemics
2020
Abstract This study discusses the centrality of the book of Psalms among the Jews and in Judaism. It outlines the seven most important and influential rabbinic exegetical works on Psalms, in the period before and during the medieval age: Targum Psalms and Midrash Psalms Shocher Tov, from some time in the Talmudic period; and five prominent medieval commentaries: Saadia Gaon, Moses haCohen ibn Gikatilla, Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, and David Kimchi. I briefly introduce each interpretative work and focus on selected aspects: The commentators’ distinct exegetical methods, their approaches to the questions of the authorship and genre of Psalms, and polemics with inside (e.g., Karaites) and outside…