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Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080909

Ursula Plöckinger, Ulrike Ernst-Auga

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A Reception of Pauline Ideas Shaped by a Jewish Milieu: The Case of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies 犹太环境塑造的保罗思想的接受：伪克莱门汀颂歌的案例

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080903

Karin Hedner Zetterholm

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Buddhism’s Knotted Thread (結縷法): Indian Origins and Chinese Adaptations 佛教的结缕法：印度起源与中国嬗变

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080906

Gang Yang

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“I Did Not Come to China for That!”: Intersections of Mission Work, Marriage, and Motherhood for Southern Baptist Women in China at the Turn of the 20th Century "我来中国不是为了这个！"：20世纪之交在华南浸信会女传教士的传教工作、婚姻和母性的交集

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080901

T. L. Scales

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Apostolate through Books: The Translation Practice by Catholicism during Late Ming and Early Qing 通过书籍传教：明末清初天主教的翻译实践

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080905

Yafeng Li, Jingmin Fu, Jiyun Huang

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How Useful Is the Christian Theology of Religions? Critical Questions from a Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology Perspective 基督教宗教神学有多大用处？从宗教研究和跨文化神学角度提出的关键问题

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080907

Henning Wrogemann

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Soul-Life: Richard Jefferies’ Mystical Vision of Nature 灵魂-生命理查德-杰弗里的神秘自然观

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080910

Jason Kelly

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The Pilgrim’s Progress or Regress? The Case of Transhumanism and Deification 朝圣者的进步还是倒退？超人类主义和神化案例

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080904

Kimbell Kornu

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’Srī Gurugītā: A Sanskrit Devotional Text and Musical Yogic Practice Srī Gurugītā：梵文虔诚文本和音乐瑜伽实践

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080894

B. Heimarck

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A Caged Bird in a Communist Pavilion: Chao Tzu-chen and the Remolding of Yenching University’s School of Religion, 1949–1951 共产主义亭子里的笼中鸟：赵紫宸与燕京大学宗教学院的重塑，1949-1951 年

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.3390/rel15080898

P. Law

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