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Religions, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2020 - 61 articles

Cover Story: How humans and the divine are brought into communion with each other often has a material character. Food and meals frequently play an important role. Sometimes the deity is consumed by humans, while sometimes humans are eaten by the deity. This explores divine–human communion and consumption in the work of Ignatius of Antioch, an early Christian bishop. According to him, the body is of key importance: he is eaten by wild animals in the Roman arena. This martyrdom is the way in which Ignatius hopes to enter into perfect communion with the divine. His body thus becomes, in its annihilation, an instrument of divine–human communion. As he suffers martyrdom, Ignatius’ ideas about the body and the divine are subversive: through Ignatius’ theological imagination, the punishment of his body is transformed into a means of achieving his goal in life: attaining to God. View this paper
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Articles (61)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,912 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2020

The relationships between sport and religion have been examined from a number of perspectives, and parallels between sporting activity and worship are often observed, positively or negatively. Elite sports participants often perform religious gesture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,159 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2020

The burial of unbaptized fetuses and infants, as seen through texts and archaeology, exposes friction between the institutional Church and medieval Italy’s laity. The Church’s theology of Original Sin, baptism, and salvation left the youn...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,348 Views
22 Pages

17 December 2020

Seng Zhao and his collection of treatises, the Zhao lun, have enjoyed a particularly high reputation in the history of Chinese Buddhism. One of these treatises, The Immutability of Things, employs the Madhyamaka argumentative method of negating duali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,032 Views
33 Pages

16 December 2020

Names are a subject which concerns us all. Although in recent times the interest in them has grown, until now, most of the research carried out on names in both England and Spain has been devoted to the exploration of surnames and place names. The Bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,733 Views
10 Pages

15 December 2020

This paper presents and compares similarities and differences between nurses’ and patients’ reports on comfort levels with spiritual assessment. Spiritual care is a part of nurses’ professional responsibilities; however, nurses cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,510 Views
29 Pages

15 December 2020

Previous studies have reported that religious words and religiosity affect mental processes and behaviors. However, it is unclear what psycholinguistic features of religious words (e.g., familiarity, imageability, and emotional aspects) are associate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,525 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2020

This study examines a set of unique isolated lived-experiences to offer some general observations concerning Afghan-Hazara migration, relocation, and individuation in Australia. Culture may have the appearance of immutability. However, like any socia...

  • Addendum
  • Open Access
2,199 Views
1 Page

14 December 2020

The authors would like to make the following corrections in relation to the published paper (Parker and Spennemann 2020) [...]

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