First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China by Julia Bolzon

“…Even for non-believers, it’s still a deeply Christian culture. An American researcher would hesitate to say that ‘the cloned embryo under my microscope is life that I created,’” ibid…”
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İSLÂM KÜLTÜRÜNDE ON İKİ RAKAMI by Adnan Demircan

“…Both in Jewish and Christian Cultures and in Islamic Culture as well, one of the numbers that take attention is number 12. …”
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Christianity and politics by Anna Haapalainen, Minna Opas, Marika Räsänen

“…The editorial presents the conference "Religion and Politics" arranged by the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures at the University of Turku in November 2018. …”
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Obispo, comunidad y organización social: el caso de la ‘Vita Emiliani’ by Manuel López Campuzano

“… This article analyses how the function of a Christian cultural center, concretely that of Aemilianus, acted as a factor of social aglutination using the social function of redistribution in areas where the native pagan communities were still latent and contributing in this way to an aculturation process versus conversion. …”
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THE BAROQUE: GENESIS AND CONSTANT OF BRAZILIAN CULTURE. by Marcos Barbosa da Silva

“…The text analyzes, from the conceptual point of view, the western and Christian cultural influence in Brazil. It points to anthropology and archeology as the genesis of the Baroque and its transfer to history. …”
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FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF "CAPITALISM» by E. I. Naumova, E. G. Sokolov

“…It is also important that in its discursive and semantic characteristics the notion and the concept of "capitalism" follows the Christian cultural paradigm.…”
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Religious and confessional identification and faith in God among the citizens of Serbia by Blagojević Mirko

“…The study named “Religiosity in Serbia and the EU integration process” was conducted twice, in 2010 and 2011, by the Christian Cultural Centre from Belgrade with the financial assistance of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Center for European Studies from Brussels. …”
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ANTIQUE AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS IN THE IMAGE OF THE GARDEN IN THE NOVEL BY BORIS PASTERNAK “DOCTOR ZHIVAGO” by Anna A. Skoropadskaya

“…The article studies the image of  the  garden in  the  novel “Doctor Zhivago” that demonstrates the infl uence of  the Ancient and Christian cultures on  Boris Pasternak’s artistic and philosophical views. …”
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Religion and Sexuality: Reading the Sixth Commandment (“You Shall Not Commit Adultery”) in the Context of Late Ming China by Haihua Tian

“…A cross-cultural study of the Six Commandment not only illustrates the complex interaction between religion, sexuality, and gender but also presents early encounters of the Chinese and Christian cultures and the dialogues between them.…”
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The role of the Logos concept in the Christian paradigm by Oksana Gorkusha

“…One of the initial concepts of the theoretical level of the Christian cultural tradition is the concept of λ λόγоς, which came to Christianity from ancient philosophy, where it was largely understood as a discursive process of unfolding being and thinking in their proportions, objectively-logical law of the implementation of this process and epistemology), conventional, human words, or concepts (in philology). …”
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The Experiment Is Not Over! Reflections on the New Book by A.B. Kovelman Those Who Entered Pardes by Shamilli Giula B.

“…This book is not just about culture, metaphor and its literalization, or idioms and codes that permeate through the Judeo-Christian cultural dialogue. At the center of the research is the question: where are we standing and what is under our feet, the desert or Jacob’s ladder?…”
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Intercultural Political Models in Egils Saga and Other Literary Sources. A Philological Study by Costel Coroban

“…Our aim is to explore the foundations of the political ideology of Early Medieval Norway, which were consolidated in the 12th and 13th centuries, when the authors and sources constructed an intercultural model of kingship based on the recently Christianized culture over which the influences of the old faith was overlapping.…”
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Language as a Means of Communication with God by Peter Žeňuch, Svetlana Šašerina

“… The communicative function of the language of translation, as can be seen from the examples of God's names contained in the oldest Slavic translations of a biblical nature, is an important component of understanding a whole range of liturgical texts and part of the Christian cultural identity of the believer. The need to translate biblical and liturgical texts therefore stems from the needs of believers. …”
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Islam and Democracy by Edgard Weber

“…To illustrate this, he puts forth the case of the Muslim-Arabic culture, which grants the individual in society a statute different from that of other Western, Judaic-Christian cultures. The author centralizes his study on the concept of democracy and shows the distinctiveness of the Islamic conceptions of State and of the individual when compared to the West’s. …”
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Entangled genealogies and false dichotomies: anthropology, theology, and the post-secular paradigm in world Christianity by Richman, N

“…By unraveling some of the guiding theoretical principles of the study of religions more generally, the author reveals the conditions that have ultimately rendered the “problem of belief” in fact a “problem” for (purportedly) secular explorations of Christian cultures. The author reflects upon the theoretical principles of an emerging group of anthropologists of Christianity who are seeking to address the problems raised by their secular orientations and cultivating what is fast becoming known as a “theologically engaged anthropology.” …”

Olive Oil in the Mediterranean Diet and Its Biochemical and Molecular Effects on Cardiovascular Health through an Analysis of Genetics and Epigenetics by Renata Riolo, Riccardo De Rosa, Irene Simonetta, Antonino Tuttolomondo

“…Ancient medicine considered many foods as remedies for physical performance or the treatment of diseases and, since ancient times, especially Greek, Asian and pre-Christian cultures similarly thought that they had beneficial effects on health, while others believed some foods were capable of causing illness. …”
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Our Lady at the Seder Table by Zsófia Buda

“…Having demonstrated this similarity, this article attempts to explain it by exploring to what degree the concept of the ‘ideal woman’ was shared in Jewish and Christian cultures. Since the lady in the Haggadah is clearly interacting with a book, the article also surveys textual evidence of female education in medieval Ashkenaz and women’s participation in religious rituals, to examine to what degree portraying the lady this way could reflect the reality of fifteenth-century Ashkenaz. …”
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“I Will Throw All on the Altar”: Christianity, Hinduism, and “Human Rights” in Jane Eyre by Jason Emmett Collins

“…In positing it, I hope to interrogate the Western tendency to treat “human rights” as a “universal” and therefore politically neutral discourse, ignoring the ways in which it has been conditioned by its emergence in a Western and Christian cultural context.…”
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Finding Wholes in the Metaverse: Posthuman Mystics as Agents of Evolutionary Contextualization by Ryan K. Bolger

“…From the standpoint of Christian cultural engagement, a contextual theology has yet to be developed. …”
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La Cappadoce chrétienne ottomane : un patrimoine (volontairement) oublié ? by Aude Aylin de Tapia

“…In this article we will study the paradox of heritagization of Christian cultural heritage in Cappadocia: Byzantine heritage is at the heart of attentions while that of the Ottoman period is abandoned. …”
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