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Religions, Volume 15, Issue 12

December 2024 - 159 articles

Cover Story: The Hindu festival Rath Yatra, or Festival of Chariots, is celebrated by parading chariots containing statues of the deity Jagganath and his siblings through the streets. This article studies the festival as an artistic disruption of urban space through Rath Yatra parades in New York City and Los Angeles. Hindu temple worship is an aesthetically vivid experience in which arts such as music, dance, and theater serve to attach the devotee’s senses to the Divine through worship practices including darshan—the exchange of gazes; kirtan—the singing of sacred mantras; and lila—the re-creation of divine pastimes. The unique nature of Rath Yatra brings the practices of temple worship to the public, transforming urban space into sacred space through sacred imagery and sacred sound. View this paper
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Articles (159)

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23 December 2024

The precise description of the roles and qualifications of Saudi judges (qāḍī) in the legal process assist in understanding the actual practice of jurisprudence. This paper aims to shed light on the jurisprudential procedure and the responsibilities...

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30 Pages

23 December 2024

The article discusses Pope Francis’s visit to Bahrain in 2022, which, although religiously and politically important, has not yet been exposed to science. This is the second visit of the head of the Catholic Church to the countries of the Persi...

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23 December 2024

In this article, I delve into Wittgenstein’s early manuscripts to examine the idea of an “alien will”, which may have been inspired by Schopenhauer and Weininger. By contrast with other interpretations, I treat this notion not as a...

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3 Citations
3,600 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2024

This study explores the perspectives and experiences of three Muslim female headteachers in Islamic schools in England, each with over twenty years of experience, to understand how they perceive and negotiate their leadership roles. Using Allama Muha...

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16 Pages

21 December 2024

In Romans 2, Paul uses the Greco-Roman rhetorical technique of diatribe, i.e., a debate with a fictional partner. Reformation interpreters insisted that Paul confronts a hypocritical Jew; this thought remained prominent until the last century and has...

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31 Pages

21 December 2024

This study explores the intricate relationship between Baroque religious architecture and the transformation of the territory in Paredes de Coura, Portugal. Between the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 19th century, Paredes d...

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2 Citations
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13 Pages

21 December 2024

This paper investigates socioeconomic variation in motivations for ritual practices among Mauritian Hindus. Using cultural domain analysis, we explore individuals’ reported reasons for engaging in a variety of religious rituals. Our findings de...

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22 Pages

21 December 2024

The persistence of anti-Jewish and antisemitic stereotypes throughout history, from medieval times to the present, reveals the enduring power of visual and cultural narratives in shaping public perceptions of Jews. This paper examines how Yvan Attal&...

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20 December 2024

Is it possible for Aquinas’s moral theology to engage constructively with contemporary moral naturalism? The proposed question has already been a subject of scholarly interest, eliciting various responses. Some authors emphasize the difficultie...

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