Search Results - "Entangled religions"

New Evidence on the Sixteenth-Century East Syriac Missions in the Malabar Coast: The Muttuchira Inscription (1581 CE) in Context by Perczel, István, Chandran, Saranya

“…The present study deals with an inscription on a granite stele in the township of Muttuchira, Kottayam District, Kerala, India. The inscription was written in…”
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I woke up and knew, spiritually, I have just accepted the faith: Agency and Dream Ethnography in the Bahá’í Faith by Makhani-Belkin, Tova

“…This paper focuses on how first-generation Bahá’ís view dreams and visions as confirming their choice to become Bahá’í. It presents life story interviews,…”
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Religious Conversion as a Form of Religious Contact: Special Issue Introduction by Makhani-Belkin, Tova, Mirshahvalad, Minoo, Papenfuss, Maria, Rimestad, Sebastian

“…Religious conversion is a phenomenon that has intrigued scholars, theologians, and sociologists for centuries. As the conscious choice of a particular form of…”
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Religious Conversion as Religious Contact—the “statement conversion” by Sebastian Rimestad

“…Some famous religious conversions, happening in a great variety of contexts, are carried out by intellectuals who use their conversion to make a statement…”
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Transforming Faith: Mualaf and Hijrah in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Hamzah Fansuri

“…This research delves into two conversion forms in post-Suharto Indonesia: mualaf (conversion to Islam) and hijrah (“migration”, meaning Muslims who reaffirm…”
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I woke up and knew, spiritually, I have just accepted the faith by Tova Makhani-Belkin

“…This paper focuses on how first-generation Bahá’ís view dreams and visions as confirming their choice to become Bahá’í. It presents life story interviews,…”
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American Conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity by Ksenia Medvedeva

“…This paper explores conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States. It discusses the analytic value of different categories used to describe…”
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Cursing Beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary Culture in Antiquity by Saar, Ortal-Paz

“…This article discusses curses found in ancient and late antique Jewish funerary inscriptions. It begins with a typology of imprecatory texts based on a survey…”
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Religious Conversion as a Form of Religious Contact by Tova Makhani-Belkin, Minoo Mirshahvalad, Maria Papenfuss, Sebastian Rimestad

“…Religious conversion is a phenomenon that has intrigued scholars, theologians, and sociologists for centuries. As the conscious choice of a particular form of…”
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Deconverted Hearts in a Deconverted Church by Ariane Kovac

“…In recent years, many evangelicals have been experiencing increasing discomfort with the conservative Christian subculture. While some leave organized religion…”
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Reversion, Revival, Resistance by Benedikt Römer

“…Both in Iran and India, Zoroastrian communities have traditionally possessed a strong and rigid ethno-religious identity. In recent decades, however, debates…”
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The Myth of Kauṇḍinya in Southeast Asia by William Southworth

“…The myth of Kauṇḍinya has had a profound impact on the writing of Southeast Asian history, being used by historians in the early twentieth century to explain…”
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Conversions to Shiʿism in Italy and Editorial Ventures by Minoo Mirshahvalad

“…This article presents an in-depth analysis of two interrelated topics, namely Italians’ conversions to Shiʿism and their contribution to disseminating…”
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Intuition, Rebellion and Tradition by Maria Papenfuss

“…Neopagans in Mexico City started to communitise only about 20 years ago. An initial analysis of related interview material shows that the narratives they…”
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Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary ‘Magic(k)’ by Otto, Bernd-Christian

“…This article illustrates textual-ritual entanglements in Western learned magic across almost two millennia through an analysis of Frater Acher’s Arbatel…”
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Introduction: On the Relations of Religion and Images by Jurczyk, Thomas, Krech, Volkhard, Radermacher, Martin, Stünkel, Knut Martin

“…In this special issue, we explore the role of depictions and images in religious traditions from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, covering a broad…”
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Antinomianism as Iconism: The Living Images of the Frankists by Stünkel, Knut Martin

“…Emerging in the context of messianic Sabbateanism in Eastern Europe, Frankism’s main characteristics are its stern opposition towards rabbinic Judaism and its…”
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Between Veneration and Destruction: The Venus of St. Matthias: Perspectives from the Comparative Study of Religion by Radermacher, Martin

“…This article discusses the so-called “Venus of St. Matthias,” a former Roman statue of the goddess Venus that has, throughout its history, been embedded in…”
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Forgeries, Falsifications, Fictions, Fälschungen?: Some Early Modern European “Vedas” by Sweetman, Will

“…This article examines—and rejects—the idea that, in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans who sought to obtain copies of the Vedas…”
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Religion as Mediation by Meyer, Birgit

“…Why and how is it productive to conceptualize religion as mediation? In this article, I 1) rehearse the intellectual trajectory of the move from studying the…”
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