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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"monotheism"”.
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
… issues, including too-narrow definitions of monotheism, nationalistic discourse in Japan, scholarly avoidance of “Western” terminology and concepts, essentializing East-West dichotomies which emphasize “Japanese polytheism” and “Western monotheism,” and scholarly assumptions about devotional …
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Mobile People, Mobile God: Mobile Societies, Monotheism, and the Effects of Ecological Landscapes on the Development of Ancient Religions
… marginal landscape and the development of monotheism. Specifically that the religions of the ancient Iranians and Israelites were shaped, in part, by the ecological landscapes in which they developed. Using comparative case studies (primarily: Judaism, Zoroastrianism; and including the …
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Will-Independent Mereological Trinity Monotheism: A Defense of the Logical Coherence of, A Priori Motivation for, and a Particular Model Concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity
<p>The doctrine posits that God is one being, but three persons. The orthodox parameters for affirming the Trinity are found in the early Ecumenical Creeds of Christendom, especially the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds. Four primary affirmations emerge as a summary of the essential content of the …
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Interpreting Aristotle's God
… concerning Aristotle's deity range from myth to monotheism. My objective is two-fold: first, I show how Aristotle's works build up to God by examining Posterior Analytics, De Anima , the Physics , the Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics . The texts are studied in the light of contemporary …
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A study in religious worldview and subjective well-being
… Participants were divided into six worldviews (Monotheism, Polytheism, Eastern Pantheism, Modern Humanism, Empiricism, and Naturalism) based on the factorial analysis computed by Spearman, the developer of the Personal Philosophical Belief Statements Scale (2006). The data suggest that one's …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… such as the Garden of Eden, idolatry, Satan, monotheism, Noachic descent, the location of Ophir, Hebrew rituals, and the Book of Nature to construct an Indian Ocean World which was an extension of the world of the Old Testament. This world was both observable and describable, giving rise to a …
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Foreigners in the Priestly Corpus
… of the conquest motif in Numbers, and inclusive monotheism in the Priestly Grundschrift, “P”), they so far pertain to only one particular Priestly layer, without deeper analysis across the layers in the corpus. However, probing the larger issues represented by these models, such as laws binding …
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Three paths to Zion
… dialogue called the Nathan Foundation for Monotheism, which will be run by a board made up of members of the three different traditions (including the current religious parities dwelling on Mt. Zion) and partner initially with the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network. In the …
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Alexandria in the Shadow of the Hill Cumorah: A Comparative Historical Theology of the Early Christian and Mormon Doctrines of God
… the divinization of Christ within the context of monotheism.. At the end of chapters five through seven I include a succinct, comparative study of each father's doctrine with Mormon doctrine. This work will also address the major theological and historical factors that influenced both the Mormon …
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Historical Distance and Difference in the Twelfth-Century Middle High German Kaiserchronik
… of demons disguised as gods with Christian monotheism is the driving motivator behind the selection of much of the narrative material up until Constantine and Theodosius. The aim here is not to device a teleological salvation historical trajectory but to negotiate the qualitative change of …
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A Case for the Traditional Translation of the Shema, Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God, the Lord Is One
… of the LORD, and is the fundamental statement of monotheism in the Bible.
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Angels in the Qur’ān: An Examination of Their Portrayal in the Light of Late Antique, Jewish and Christian Beliefs about Heavenly Beings
… confessional groups, who may have interpreted monotheism, and thus the nature of various intermediary beings, in different ways. It therefore contributes to a view of the Qur’ān as an active participant in religious dialogues, rather than merely as a passive receptacle, and thus as constituting …
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The Emergence of a Scholar from a Garrison Society: A contextual analysis of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's doctrine in the light of the Qur’ān and Hadīth
… of what Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhāb argued to be ‘monotheism’ in the worship of God was pivotal to his mission in the 18th century, opposing traditions which he considered to be contradictory to the practices of the Qur’ān and the Prophetic tradition. He therefore engaged in eradicating the …
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Defending divine unity in the Muslim milieu: the Trinitarian and Christological formulations of Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib and Iliyyā of Nisibis
… the inclusion of their community in the fold of monotheism. Key questions include the definition of the Trinitarian hypostases and their relation to the divine essence (How can God be one and three?). The nature of the union of divinity and humanity in Christ is equally critical given that …
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Mobile Societies, Mobile Religions: On the Ecological Roots of Two Religions Deemed Monotheistic
… that serve as referents for usage of the term monotheism. This dissertation shows that the presence or absence of certain building blocks in this set can be traced to the mobile pastoralist social and agriculturally marginal environmental contexts in which the communities of worship centered …
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… and publicly materialized their unique brand of monotheism into a distinct religious community.</p><p>This dissertation is the first attempt to map the Muslim religious discourse that expressed this deliberate turn away from Jews, Christians, and others across pre-modern Islamic history. First, I …
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The concept of motherhood in the Bible = Ha-Imahut ba-Mikra
… and understanding of the abstract concept of monotheism. The Language employed in the investigation is Hebrew
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Pagan History and Religion in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)
… of the historical relationship between Noachian monotheism and pagan idolatry. I hope that my thesis can emphasise, above all, two important developments in the context of the Christian study of these sources on pagan history and religion: firstly, that orthodox, late seventeenth-century …
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צדקה és társadalometika
… of the science of religion. We consider that monotheism and the unequivocal and consistent principle of making the world a better place constitute the non-branch-specific and eternal differentia specifica of Judaism.
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
Listening to Birth asserts that structures of power reproduce themselves by instituting particular modes of listening and sound production. Situating my research within feminist sound studies, I argue that meanings conjured around the audible, material bodies of women were carefully crafted by …
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