Gitlane by Cyril A. Hromník

“…Stone structures build during that period of Indo-African interaction reflect the religious cosmology of ancient Dravidian India and this enables us to understand them. …”
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Cosmology, Prophets, and Rebellion Among the Buddhist Karen in Burma and Thailand by Mikael Gravers

“…Religion, religious movements, and prophetic leaders are important elements in Karen identification and their relationship with neighboring peoples, states, and colonizers. Religious cosmology and rituals are not merely the essentials of their world view but also constitute modes of empowerment, which are analyzed and discussed in this paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork begun in 1970 among the Karen in Thailand on the border with Burma, as well as on archival research in London.…”
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“Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers!” From Ethiopianism to Pan-Africanism by Frühwirth Dominik

“…It will also show how Ethiopianism was not only a mere forerunner of Pan-Africanism that ceased to exist once Pan-Africanism was in place, but that Ethiopianism constitutes a whole religious cosmology, in which pan-African unity plays a central role, that has survived the twentieth century and is now most visibly upheld and still developed within the Rastafarian movement.…”
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Eschatological Christology in African Christianity: A Reflection on Relevance and Implication by Edward Agboada

“…It is therefore reflective of the repositories of religious and theological reflections from Africa’s rich cultural and religious cosmology as well as already existing and available Western Christian theological Christopraxis.…”
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Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy, and its Feminist Implications by Per Faxneld

“…Rather, they should be analyzed both as part of a religious cosmology and as having strategic polemical and didactic functions related to political debates, or, at the very least, carrying potential entailments for the latter. …”
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The Green Revolution in the World’s Religions: Indonesian Examples in International Comparison by Thomas A. Reuter

“…For some eco-spiritual groups, a heightened environmental awareness has become the central tenet of their monistic religious cosmology. The more significant phenomenon, however, is a socially much broader shift toward more science-friendly and contemporary religious cosmologies within the mainstream of major world religions. …”
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Aging and the End Times: Evangelical Eschatology and Experiences of Elderhood in the United States and South Africa by Douglas Bafford

“…U.S. evangelical churches often address existential concerns faced by a growing population of elders while downplaying the significance of race, yet white South African Christians employ a similar religious cosmology to place their actions during the apartheid era in a symbolically legible narrative. …”
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How about a Green Caliphate? by Wardah Alkatiri

“…Drawing on Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful and Ovamir Anjum’s “Who Wants the Caliphate”, this article broaches the concept of a socially and environmentally-responsible caliphate governance which might be in congruent with the Schumacherian pursuit of the “Fourth World” where government and economics are under genuine human control because the size of such units are small, sensible, and human scale, and where the pace of development is in accordance with the religious cosmology of their members to adapt. The Green Caliphate is envisioned on a decolonial horizon of pluriversality towards a multipolar world order.                     …”
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Theology and cosmology in the Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosa by Kobus Krüger

“…The need to find clarity concerning (1) the relationship between scientific and religious cosmological discourses and (2) the imagining of a space where various religions could meet in fruitful conciliation as far as (1) is concerned, formed the basis of the article. …”
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Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias by Thomas Reuter

“…Comparative analysis reveals that ancestor veneration is a key-shared feature among "Austronesian" religious cosmologies; a feature that also resonates strongly with the ancestor-focused religions characteristic of East Asia. …”
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Girando a lente socioantropológica sobre o corpo: uma breve reflexão Moving the sociological and anthropological lens on the body: a brief reflection by Marco Antonio Separavich, Ana Maria Canesqui

“…In addition, it discusses other medical rationalities and religious cosmologies, in which the conceptions of body, health and illness differ from those of the Western Medicine. …”
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