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Religions, Volume 15, Issue 5

May 2024 - 113 articles

Cover Story: Biblical scholars have long debated the identity of ‘the sons of gods’ who father the heroic Nephilim in the brief story in Genesis 6. Are they gods or human elites or descendants of the line of Seth? I argue that the framing of the problem relies on the false assumption that the Bible promotes ‘monotheism’. Stimulated by the provocative Māori translation of Genesis 1–11 in He Tīmatanga (2023), this article adopts a hermeneutical strategy to counter monotheistic misreadings of the Bible, and their racist effects, by reading Māori stories of the ancient divine hero Tāwhaki alongside the Bible’s account of the Nephilim, thereby drawing out hitherto unnoticed elements in the biblical story. Supported also by analysis of the Sumerian King List, the article concludes that ‘the sons of the gods’ are at once gods, elite humans, and Sethites. View this paper
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Articles (113)

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15 Pages

Caring for–Caring about: Negotiations of Values in Pastoral Care

  • Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen,
  • Annette Daniela Haußmann and
  • Anne Austad

17 May 2024

The term “care” in pastoral care means caring for others. Yet those who care for others in pastoral conversations can also be defined existentially as people who care about the world, that is, people who hold values. This article explores...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,505 Views
7 Pages

17 May 2024

This paper seeks to deepen the understanding of religious plurality using a range of conceptual lenses and then to draw out some implications for a dialogical approach to religious education in Catholic schools. While what was, until very recent time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,887 Views
28 Pages

16 May 2024

This qualitative study explores the utilization of social media among Pakistani pilgrims during spiritual journeys and investigates its impact on their pilgrimage experiences. Thirty Pakistani pilgrims who had embarked on spiritual journeys to variou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,071 Views
14 Pages

16 May 2024

Theological education in Africa is currently at a crossroads and requires a thorough re-evaluation. The framework for teaching and learning introduced by missionaries during colonial times, which often prioritized Western perspectives and ignored ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,418 Views
11 Pages

16 May 2024

In this article, the authors will describe a creative writing therapeutic group program they developed based on narrative therapy and narrative medicine principles. This was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council—Partnership Engagemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,156 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2024

This article explores strategies for planning and leading multilingual worship. It offers an overview of translation and multilingualism for readers unfamiliar with the growing body of scholarship in these fields and connects them to the role of tran...

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  • Open Access
1,734 Views
22 Pages

15 May 2024

The aim of this paper is to establish a series of links between some of the main religious formulas that arise in Judaism and Christianism and the romantic and confluent love characteristic of modern societies. To carry it out, firstly, we analyze lo...

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