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Constructing a Sacred Site Overseas: The Japanese Reinvention of the Rujing Stūpa in Hangzhou 在海外建造圣地：日本对杭州如净寺的再创造

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121542

Xinrui Zeng

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Sacred Pathway, Devotional Praxis: Actors, Aché, and Landscape at the Sanctuary of Regla, Cuba 神圣之路，虔诚实践：古巴雷格拉圣所的演员、阿切和景观

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121545

P. Niell

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Special Issue “Historical Network Analysis in the Study of Chinese Religion”—Introduction 特刊 "中国宗教研究中的历史网络分析"--导言

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121543

M. Bingenheimer

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Sin, Sex and Democracy: Politics and the Catholic Church 罪恶、性与民主政治与天主教会

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Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121541

Véronique Lecaros, Ana Lourdes Suárez

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The Concept of God in Shaping the Use of Maqasid by Historicist Thought in Turkey: The Case of İlhami Güler and Mustafa Öztürk 土耳其历史主义思想使用 Maqasid 时的上帝概念：伊尔哈米-居莱尔和穆斯塔法-厄兹蒂尔克的案例

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121539

Meryem Ozdemir Kardas

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The Ecological Transition from the Perspective of the Poor 从穷人的视角看生态转型

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121540

Frédéric-Marie Le Méhauté

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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Maimonides on the Afterlife—Updated 万事万物、无处不在、一气呵成：迈蒙尼德论来世--更新版

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121538

Samuel Lebens

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Self-Determination and Absolute Dependence: A Comparison of the Relationship between the “Self” and the “Other” and Its Dimension in The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch and Schleiermacher’s Christian Philosophy 自我决定与绝对依赖：六祖坛经》中的 "我 "与 "他 "的关系及其维度与施莱尔马赫的基督教哲学之比较

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121537

Jun Wen

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Hailing and Hallowing: Persian Hagiographies, Interpellation, and Learning How to Read 赞美与颂扬：波斯寓言、互称和学习如何阅读

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121534

William E. B. Sherman

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Phantoms of Faith—Experiences of Rupture and Residue of Amputated Religiosity among Norwegian Ex-Charismatic Christians 信仰的幻影--挪威前虔诚基督徒的断裂经历和残余宗教信仰

IF 0.8 3区哲学

Religions Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.3390/rel14121532

Espen Gilsvik

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