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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"polytheism"”.
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
… and theological questions concerning Greek polytheism, including how ancient worshippers constructed, cultivated and understood the plurality of the divine world through the material they deposited in sanctuaries. I simultaneously consider gift-giving in relation to the mental and emotional …
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A study in religious worldview and subjective well-being
… 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 worldview may …
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Conquering the World: The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
… (belief/faith) over and against the prevailing polytheism of the Greco-Roman culture.
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… the epic tradition associated with classical polytheism. My third chapter explores how Milton uses epideictic rhetoric within Paradise Regained to reshape his readers' understanding of the respective natures of kingship, glory, and wisdom. My final three chapters focus on Lucy Hutchinson's …
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
… East-West dichotomies which emphasize “Japanese polytheism” and “Western monotheism,” and scholarly assumptions about devotional practices. This thesis begins to address this classificatory impasse by first expanding on recent advancements in the taxonomy of religion, including a definition of …
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In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese
… has implications for our understanding of Greek polytheism in general and for the interconnected religious landscapes of the ancient Peloponnese.</p>
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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
… (associating the Creator with the created — polytheism). The two theologians borrowed from and developed the theological constructs of their predecessors as demonstrated by the thesis. Other topics include: the shaping of theological constructs by the Muslim milieu, lexical amendments due to …
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Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece
… of beings, a distinctive feature of ancient polytheism was the clear-cut delineation of the beings aspiring to the divine order.
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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 …