Religion, Science, and Space Exploration from a Non-Western Perspective by John W. Traphagan

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Book Review Christopher Ocker : Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 32, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020, 249 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-32017-1 / Susanne Elm (eds.), Material Christianity Western Religion and the Agency of Things by Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria

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The Health/Salvation Nexus: Religion, New Forms of Spirituality, Medicine and the Problem of “Theodicy” by Antonio Camorrino

“…However, this occurs to different extents depending on whether we are in the field of Western religions or new forms of spirituality. Medicine deserves a separate discussion. …”
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Spiritual but not religious respondents in contemporary studies by K. KOLKUNOVA

“…But only a part of them can be called active «bricoleurs», that is, constructs own worldview, using elements of both Eastern and Western religions, as well as New Age and secular sources.…”
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The Unique Concept of God in Donghak (東學, Eastern Learning): An Emanation of the Religious Experiences of Suun Choe Jeu by Haeyoung Seong

“…Acknowledging the relationship between Suun’s religious experiences and Donghak’s concept of God reveals the weakness of the view that Donghak is merely a syncretism of Eastern and Western religions. Rather, Suun’s religious experiences are formative to Donghak’s unique conception of God; therefore, they are crucial to appreciating its religious and ethical creativity.…”
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The Black Madonna: A Theoretical Framework for the African Origins of Other World Religious Beliefs by Janet Michello

“…Acknowledging this influence challenges the simplistic notion of reified distinctions between Western and non-Western religions.…”
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Critical Synthesis Package: Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) by Kathleen Young, Molly Clark

“…Furthermore, the DUREL was designed to assess religiosity in Western religions and may be less accurate assessing religiosity in Eastern religions, and despite its translation numerous languages, it does not appear that the DUREL has been utilized with Eastern religion samples. …”
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A systematic theological comparison of religious iconography: Referring to Groeber and Kinkade by Johan A. van Rooyen

“…Academics from provisional religionists, developmentalists and psychiatrists harvested with explanation the vast plethora of data on the emphasised views within religion, notably within association with East as well as Western religions. In the new liturgical theology of Christian formalities, additional appraisal of religiously emphasised syntax has transpired. …”
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A Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Representation of Western Religious Beliefs in Ten Series of Chinese University English Language Teaching Textbooks by Yanhong Liu, Lawrence Jun Zhang, Li Yang

“…In fact, there is a paucity of research on Western religions in English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. …”
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Metaphtonymies We Die by: the Influence of the Interactions between Metaphor and Metonymy on Semantic Change in X‑phemistic Conceptualisations of Death by Adeline Terry

“…I argue that the interactions between metonymy and metaphor (see Goossens [2002], Geeraerts [2002], Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera-Masegosa [2011], Kövecses [2013]) partly account for the euphemistic nature of those metaphors: because of the pervasiveness of the mind-body dichotomy in Western religions and cultures, death metaphors are often combined to metonymies in which a dead person is either conceptualised as a dead body or as a soul. …”
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Patient privacy and autonomy: a comparative analysis of cases of ethical dilemmas in China and the United States by Hui Zhang, Hongmei Zhang, Zhenxiang Zhang, Yuming Wang

“…However, Chinese and American bioethics differ largely due to the influence of Chinese Confucianism and Western religions, respectively, and there is a dearth of comparative studies that explore cases of ethical dilemmas between China and the United States. …”
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Secular assemblages: affect, Orientalism, and power in the French enlightenment by Sullivan, M

“…</p> <p>In the second stage, I consider the way Orientalist representations of non-Western religions meshed with prevalent theories of political manipulation to generate an affective system of anti-Catholic propaganda geared towards the national good. …”

Menneskelig indsigt ved studiet af religion by Jacques Waardenburg

“…Just as for a long time non-western cultures were described in terms of western cultural values and in relation to the image which the researcher had of his own culture, non-western religions were described for a long time according to religious notions of western Christianity. …”
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Medical Malpractice in South Asia by Kasthuri Nair

“…Most western religions believe in the idea of heaven and hell, but one can also avoid going to hell through repentance. …”
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The passion of the western mind : understanding the ideas that have shape our world view / by 307786 Tarnas, Richard

Decoloniality on Culture and Religion: Anglican Ritual performed on the Zulu King by Phalatsi-Shilubana, M, Thinane, J.S, Masuku, M.T, Naicker, L, Hove, R, Baloyi, E, Bentley, W, Molobi, V, Khuzwayo, S

“…Consequently, several questions arise: Can one belong to a Western religion and practise African culture? Can an African traditional monarch belong to a Western religion, in particular Christianity? …”
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I promise to be faithful : Christian non-Christian interfaith couples and social capital in Singapore by Chee, Glenn

“…Christianity in Singapore is interesting as it is a Western religion among Asian religions in an Asian country. …”
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Afua Kuma’s Prayers and Praises as Evidence of a Vibrant Primal Substructure in African Christianity by Joseph Awuah Gyebi

“…This article thus contributes to the growing body of scholarship on African Christianity and its primal underpinnings and Christianity as a non-Western religion…”
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Effects of social change on wildlife consumption taboos in northeastern Madagascar by Christopher D. Golden, Jean Comaroff

“…Additionally, we quantitatively explored the mediating effects of migration, modernization, and the spread of Western religion on number of taboos and level of adherence. …”
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Pushing the Naked Envelop Further: A Missiological Deconstruction of the Empire and Christianity in Africa by Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick

“…The theology of ubuntu and other life-affirming African theologies should be used as liberating tools, not only from the empire but also from the myth that Christianity is a Western religion.…”
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