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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Comparative Religion"”.
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H.P. Blavatsky, theosophy, and nineteenth-century comparative religion
… her engagement with late nineteenth-century comparative religion has not been appreciated. This thesis offers the first sustained analysis of H. P. Blavatsky's theosophical comparative religion. Despite the fact that one of the original goals of the Theosophical Society was advancing …
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Nietzsche's comparative religion : an analysis of The Anti-Christ
… is the comparison between Christianity and other religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam. Another is the comparison between different forms or even levels of Christianity. And yet another is the comparison between Christianity, science, and Buddhism, based on their degree of …
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The Ideology of the Sabbath: A Study in Comparative Religion
it is the purpose of this study to interpret the ideas associated with the Sabbath in the Old Testament in the light of relevant aspects of the culture of the ancient Near East, thus to clarify and relate the several motivations behind the emphasis with which the Sabbath was finally presented in …
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The making of Wilfred Cantwell Smith's "world theology"
… study is an exploration of the manner in which religion historian, W. C. Smith, has attempted to harmonize intellectual discourse with religious discourse. Using his writings, which span a period of fifty years, the evolution of his analysis of the tension between history and religion is traced, …
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Faith embodied: A comparative analysis of the body’s connection to religion through ritual in the Hindu and Christian context
Academic discourse on comparative religion is compelled to explore the body. The body is the site of communication and experience. This paper seeks to examine the body in context of identity and religion. By challenging traditional assumptions of dualism and religious dismissal of embodied reality, …
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From religious discrimination to religious tolerance: an analysis of illness and healing in African religion and Christianity
In southern Africa, comparative religion was conducted on frontier battlefields. Comparisons were not merely intellectual exercises. They were entangled in the European conquest and subjugation of Africans. Initially, Europeans observers denied the existence of any indigenous African religion. The …
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Buddhist Śūnyatā and Christian Apophaticism : A Typology of Negativity with Special Reference to Derridean Khôra and Différance
Within the field of comparative religion, the methodological problem of comparing traditions that differ in their histories, theologies, and linguistic constructs persists. Rather than immediately establishing a cognitive bridge between two differing traditions, this study adopts the approach that …
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Tratado juridico: Edici on critica y estudio del manuscrito
… the rites for indoctrinating newborn into the religion of Islam. Our editorial principles have been formulated with reference to methods conforming to the standards established by Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes for the “Colección de literature Española aljamiado-morisca”. Difficulties and …
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WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH
… as a continuation of the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago the year before. While the Parliament arranged representatives of the “world religions” speaking side-by-side, the Greenacre Conferences emphasized conversation between religious and social movements, as well as encouraging …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this …
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Biopolitics and Belief: Governance in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… dissertation offers an analysis of two American religions–the Church of Christ, Scientist (CS), and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)–and the ways that their particular/peculiar ideologies regarding the body govern the everyday realities of their respective memberships. …
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Cyril Against Julian: Traditions in Conflict
<p>When the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus—better known to many as Julian the Apostate—perished on a Persian battlefield in 363 CE, his efforts to turn back the Christianizing currents of the Roman Empire died with him. In the final decades of the fourth century, subsequent Christian …
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Mobile People, Mobile God: Mobile Societies, Monotheism, and the Effects of Ecological Landscapes on the Development of Ancient Religions
… landscapes on the development of ancient religions. Although the influence of the natural environment is considered among the variables in explaining the development of various economic, political, and other social systems throughout history, there is a specific gap concerning its impact …
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Questioning the Promotion of Friendship in Interfaith Dialogue: Interfaith Friendship in Light of the Emphasis on Particularity in Scriptural Reasoning
‘Friendship’ is among the buzzwords such as ‘peace’, ‘tolerance’, and ‘understanding’, that are part of a shared vocabulary in the interfaith world. In discussions of the goals and benefits of interfaith dialogue, buzzwords such as ‘friendship’ are often implicitly presented as a common currency, …