‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’: Pagans, Christians, and Marius the Epicurean’s Religious Hermeneutics by Jude Wright

“…‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’ argues that Marius’s developing religiosity is a construct uniting Christianity and Roman paganism by foregrounding subjective aesthetic experience. …”
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Othering Nature in Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things': A Postcolonial Ecocritical Study by Ghulam Yasin

“… By mainly referring to Huggan and Tiffin (2010) on postcolonial ecocriticism, the study aims to explore how Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things (1997) contributes new perspectives on the intertwining between postcolonial studies and ecocriticism. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…In his novel A curse from God (1970) Ngubiah challenges obliquely but unmistakably the long-accepted position of his fellow Gikuyu (and first national leader of independent Kenya) Jomo Kenyatta, particularly as argued in Facing Mount Kenya, that a return to tribal folkways was a precondition to economic and social upliftment. …”
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God's Holy Spirit: a back-story from the Joseph narrative (Genesis 37-50) by Barbara Green

“…With the help of the philosopher/theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, the narrated experience of the character in seven scenes is examined for evidence of Judah’s journey of transformation – presumably guided by God’s widening and inspiring Spirit, with special attention given to the scene (Genesis 44) where Judah must persuade his (unrecognized) brother Joseph, serving as Viceroy of Egypt, to allow Judah to take punishment in place of their brother Benjamin for the sake of their father. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…Taylor’s theory of religion as presented in After God. Taylor redescribes religion as an emergent, complex, adaptive network – a term he adopts from the biosciences and physics. …”
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Not by order, nor by dialogue: the metanoetic presence of the kingdom of God in a fluid new world and church by S. Joubert

“…Therefore, the emphasis on order, predictability and open dialogue in religious circles, as preferred ways of responding to change and problems, must be augmented by a metanoetic understanding of the kingdom of God. As a subversive, upside-down new reality, God’s kingdom is relationally driven, open-ended and in constant flux. …”
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À mourir de peur/rire : The Great God Pan d’Arthur Machen (1894) by Sophie Mantrant

“…The Great God Pan, Machen’s first major success, is a dark tale that exploits late Victorian anxieties about scientific progress, especially the post-Darwinian fear/fantasy of regression to bestial levels. …”
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The Heart of the Current Reception of the Ecclesiology of the People of God. "New paths in the theology and practice of sensus fidei" by Rafael Luciani

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The transformation of the image of God during the development of eating disorders and eventual therapy: a sociological study by Dariusz Tułowiecki

“… The text aims to present the image of God – a Higher Power being discovered as part of eating disorder therapy and the changes in the informant within her life. …”
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Did God Cause the World by an Act of Free Will, According to Aristotle? A Reading Based on Thomistic Insights by Carlos A. Casanova

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Cast as Written: Protestant Missionaries and their Translation of Molimo as the Christian God in 19th-century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…The essay argues that molimo's departure from the material to personal interiority privileges space over time because, reconstituted as the Christian God, molimo gets cast in the language of writing. …”
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Mom Knows More than a Little Ghost: Children’s Attributions of Beliefs to God, the Living, and the Dead by Dawoon Jung, Euisun Kim, Sung-Ho Kim

“…In a location-change false-belief task, which involved a story of a mouse protagonist that was either eaten by an alligator or not, 4- to 6-year-old Korean children (<i>N</i> = 114) were asked about the mental states of the protagonist, an ordinary adult (mom), and God. The results showed (1) older children’s tendency to respond in a way that differentiated (the living) mom from the dead protagonist, (2) an increasing trend of differentiating God’s super-knowingness from ordinary minds with age, and (3) inconclusive evidence regarding children’s differential responses to the dead versus living protagonist. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH OF RAISING GODLY CHILDREN TO FACE PRESENT CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE by UJATA SHAIBU AMOS, LADI UKA UJATA

“…In cultivating strong characters which children are better equipped to navigate the challenges they may face and demonstrate godly traits in their interactions with others. A philosophical approach to raising godly children thus emphasize the importance of spiritual development. …”
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FOR GOLD AND THE BLESSING OF GOD: THE RATIONAL CHOICE FOR USING THE RABU WEKASAN AMULET IN THE EAST JAVANESE MUSLIM COMMUNITY by Devi Suci Windariyah, Maskud

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"Having fellowship with God" according to 1 John: dealing with the intermediation and invironment through which and in which it is constituted by D. G. van der Merwe

“… For believers to have fellowship with one another and corporately with God, is one of the main objectives stated for the proclamation of the gospel by the author of 1 John. …”
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The World as God’s Property in Psalm 24:1-2 as the Source of Man’s Right Attitude Towards Creation by Janusz Nawrot

“…That is how, the beauty and richness of creation can become a path to God, its Creator. …”
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Growing with God: Using stable isotopes to compare childhood and adult diet among the Cistercian Nuns of Almanarre by Jane Holmstrom, Anna Runquist, Yann Ardagna, Tosah Dupras, David Ollivier

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Believing and Willing Within the Correlation Between the Willing and the Willed in Blondel’s Action: A Reinterpretation of Immanentism and Transcendence by Francesco de Nigris

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Concerning miracles: An existential analysis of some critical insights from Hume and Lewis by N.U. Ukwamedua

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