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Scepticism against Intolerance? Moses Mendelssohn and Pierre Bayle’s “Dialogue” on Spinoza in Mendelssohn’s Philosophische Gespräche (1755) 怀疑论反对不宽容？摩西-门德尔松和皮埃尔-贝勒关于斯宾诺莎的 "对话"，载于门德尔松的《哲学对话录》（1755 年）

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010049

Guillem Sales Vilalta

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A Comparative Study of Medieval Religious Spirituality: Bonaventure’s Theory of Six Stages of Spirituality and Śaṅkara’s Sixfold Practice Theory of Advaita Vedānta 中世纪宗教精神的比较研究：博纳文图尔的六阶段灵修理论与圣Śaṅkara的六重实践理论（Advaita Vedānta

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010039

Yixuan Liu

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The Confederation between the Kingdoms of Portugal and Kongo, 1511–1665 葡萄牙王国与金刚王国之间的邦联，1511-1665 年

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010038

Jaime Ricardo Gouveia

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Is There a Place for Pantheism in (Post-)Christian Ecofeminist Reconstruction of the God/Goddess–World Relationship 在（后）基督教生态女性主义对上帝/女神-世界关系的重构中，泛神论是否有一席之地？

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010032

Nadja Furlan Štante

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Viy in Nikolai Gogol’s Novella and Related Mythological Creatures in Ukrainian Folklore 尼古拉-果戈里小说中的维伊和乌克兰民间传说中的相关神话生物

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010033

Kostyantyn Rakhno

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Movement, Geography, and Rabbinic Culture in High Medieval Northern Europe 中世纪中叶北欧的运动、地理和拉比文化

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010034

Tzafrir Barzilay

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The Mahimā of Ājali Āi and the Persecuted Māyāmārā Śatra: Guru-Mā as Holy Patroness and Divine Mother ĀjaliĀi的Mahimā和受迫害的Māyāmārā Śatra: 作为神圣守护神和圣母的Guru-Mā

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010036

Arunjana Das

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The Eternal Relations of Origin, Causality, and Implications for Models of God 起源、因果的永恒关系及其对上帝模型的影响

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010035

Andrew Hollingsworth

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A Moral Fine-Tuning Argument 道德微调论证

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-24 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010031

Martin Jakobsen

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From Religious Bubble to Interreligious Dialogue: A Personal Story of Transformation 从宗教泡沫到宗教间对话：个人的转变故事

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-24 DOI: 10.3390/rel15010028

Cornelis Hulsman

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