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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060731

Renzhong Cui, Siyi Han

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Religious and Spiritual Diversity in Multiple Modernities: A Decolonial Perspective Focusing on Peripheral Religious Expressions 多重现代性中的宗教和精神多样性：关注边缘宗教表现形式的非殖民视角

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060726

Cristián Parker

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Theōria as Cure for Impiety and Atheism in Plato’s Laws and Clement of Alexandria 柏拉图的《法律篇》和亚历山大的克莱门特将 "Theōria "作为治疗不诚实和无神论的方法

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060727

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

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“Relief of Man’s Estate”: The Theological Origins of the Modern Biomedical Project "人类财产的救济"：现代生物医学项目的神学起源

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060729

Todd T. W. Daly

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Mashhadis and Immigration: Redemptive Narratives and Practical Challenges 马什哈迪人与移民：救赎叙事与实际挑战

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060730

Hilda Nissimi

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Transitions in Patristic Cosmology: From Cosmophobia to Universe-(Re)Making 教父宇宙学的过渡：从宇宙恐惧症到宇宙（再）创造

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060728

Doru Costache

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Religion and Violence: Help from the Egyptian Desert 宗教与暴力来自埃及沙漠的帮助

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060723

Stuart E. Parsons

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Representations of the Ottoman Empire in the West: Abdülhamid II’s Portrait in the French Press 奥斯曼帝国在西方的表现形式：法国报刊上的阿卜杜勒哈米德二世肖像

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060724

Selim Argun, Hatice Rumeysa Dursun

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Secular Religiosity: Heretical Imperative, Jewish Imponderables 世俗宗教性：异端的必然性，犹太教的不确定性

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060725

Paul Mendes-Flohr

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Paul’s Christology in the Corinthian Letters 哥林多书信中的保罗基督论

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Religions Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.3390/rel15060721

David K. Bernard

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