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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Religion -- Philosophy"”.
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Scholia on vireos: a field guide to the family Vireonidae
… family of birds, the poems take inspiration from religion, philosophy, and mythology.
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… to ourselves and others. Using the study of religion, philosophy, and aesthetics, we can better understand the effects and consequences of contemporary VR, specifically as they relate to notions of human embodiment, experience, and subjectivity that assume essential differences between mind …
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Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage
… of discourses influenced by shifts in industry, religion, philosophy, and technology, as well as by the changing needs of adults in response to these forces. From being a valuable source of labor and/or income to objects of sentimentality, Western childhood is engaged in a perpetual process of …
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The Fire Image in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… seen an ever-increasing image-consciousness in religion, philosophy, anthropology and related sciences, literature, and the arts. Nevertheless, the image, deriving its efficacy from the composite nature of man, has played an important role in the life of man from primitive times. Although …
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A Change of Heart: Internal Narratives, Forgiveness & Health
… thesis includes research in narrative medicine, religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, as well as health and healing.</p>
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Metaphysics as a science in the "Summa Contra Gentiles" of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The general historical study of the works of St. Thomas under the aspect of metaphysics has for its purpose the reconstruction of Thomistic metaphysics. This thesis is a contribution to that study. In its present form it is concerned with metaphysics as a science as exposed in the Summa Contra …
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The doctrine of divine adoption in the sermons of Saint Peter Chrysologus
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Perspectives historiques et doctrinales sur le "De Natura Materiae"
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The significance of divine adoption according to St John Chrysostom
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Free to Play: An Analysis in Aesthetic, Ethical, and Religious Movements
In this dissertation, I investigate five forms of play with reference to freedom and constraint in order first to ascertain what relationship holds between play and liberty and then to see how the activity of play - and the attitude of playfulness - might contribute to a full and flourishing human …
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The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition
Insufficient attention has been given to Nietzsche's critique of Christianity as a disease, while too much has been given to the theme of the death of God. Nietzsche's use of the language of health to describe Christianity is not a mere side-effect of his mid-career embrace of the natural sciences; …
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Religious "Interpersonal Network Proximity" and the Case for Recognition
… and interesting ways. This has implications for religion as religious communities can also be seen as increasingly networked. Such developments might have the potential to challenge more traditional forms of religious authority. In light of these ideas, a consideration of philosophical …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
… is antireligious, I argue for his positive philosophy of religion, and for an affirmative religiousness of his own which finds expression in the figures of Dionysus and Zarathustra. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity must not be taken for hostility toward religion in general: he insists …
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John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr: An Uncommon Faith
… their conflicting views of the value of ""religion"" and the ""religious"" in modernity?"
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Materialism and Mental Attribution
This dissertation argues that contemporary materialism constitutes a viable position between dualism on the one hand and so-called analytical behaviorism on the other hand only if it can hold both that sentences containing mental terms are standardly used to talk about 'inner' processes, states, …
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Ritual and religion: Responses to positivism
… between Kant's and Wittgenstein's views on religion, is designed as a philosophical counterpoint to the positivist picture developed in Part 1. it is claimed that, while a Kantian analysis of religious belief is superior to a positivist account of it, its emphasis on the claims of reason, …
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The Numinous and the ethical dimensions within holiness
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An Analysis and Rejection of Arguments for Religious Accommodation
This dissertation provides a comprehensive critical analysis of six main arguments for religious accommodation, with a specific focus on fundamentalist religious groups and the accommodation of their practices within liberal democratic societies. This analysis reveals that the types of practices …
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Religious belief and the problems of cognitivity and commitment: A reappraisal based on contemporary philosophy of science
… to RB. Both perspective sharply differentiate religion from science, maintaining that religious beliefs are either not cognitive or cognitively different and that religious commitment (RC) must be absolute. I suggest that both perspectives utilize inadequate and unnecessary perceptions of …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
This thesis explores the theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual …
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