Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937) by Qijun Zheng

“…Through a detailed analysis of primary sources, including editions of the <i>Maoshan Gazetteer</i>, liturgical manuals such as the scripture (<i>jing</i> 經), litany (<i>chan</i> 懺), and performative texts such as the precious scroll (<i>baojuan</i> 寶卷) of the Three Mao Lords, this study identifies six key rhetoric strategies employed by Maoshan Daoists, using the acronym IMPACT: (1) Incorporation: Appending miracle tales (<i>lingyan ji</i> 靈驗記) and divine medicine (<i>xianfang</i> 仙方) to address immediate and practical needs of contemporary society; (2) Memory: Preserving doctrinal continuity while invoking cultural nostalgia to reinforce connections to traditional values and heritage; (3) Performance: Collaborating with professional storytellers to disseminate vernacularized texts through oral performances, thereby reaching broader audiences including the illiterate. (4) Abridgment: Condensing lengthy texts into concise and accessible formats; (5) Canonization: Elevating the divine status of deities through spirit-writing, thereby enhancing their religious authority; (6) Translation: Rendering classical texts into vernacular language for broader accessibility. …”
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La notion de ‘awra selon Abû l-Ḥasan ‘Alî b. Muḥammad b. al-Qaṭṭân al-Fâsî (m. 628 /1231) by Eric Chaumont

“…He is the author of probably the most exhaustive treatise ever written in Islam on the body as it could be “shown” or “looked at” according to the divine Law. This treatise analyses a topic which is constituent to the Alomohad ideology : the reassessment of the legal prescritions related to the body as it arouses passions among human beings, especially men, but also women. …”
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Status prawny hermafrodytów w Rzymie by Jarosław Rominkiewicz

“…Romans applied this term to describe peculiar phenomena caused—as they believed—by divine activity, which were aimed at indicating the imminent rupture of pax deorum, i.e. an accord between humans and the gods. …”
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Charles Humbert « enlumine » l’Enfer de Dante vers 1920 by Philippe Kaenel

“…A l’occasion du sixième centenaire de la naissance de Dante, Charles Humbert (1891-1958), peintre neuchâtelois, calligraphie et enlumine le texte de La Divine comédie dans un volume monumental conservé dans le fonds qu’il a déposé à la bibliothèque de La Chaux-de-Fonds (55 sur 35 centimètres et comptant 445 pages). …”
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Disclosing the Spirit in Evangelical Leadership Discourse by Hadley Bennet

“…These quantitative results offer evidence to suggest that a full account of the Divine Move that is Spirit, and the leading activity of the Spirit, fails to be disclosed in these texts. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…In his attempt to cleanse Christianity of its Jewish elements, Marcion set the bases for a critique of the cult to a violent God and the divine inspirations of violence. Marcion believed that the Old Testament God (Yahweh) was, in fact, the same as the creator or the material world, from which we must escape. …”
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Le littoral du Latium méridional et de la Campanie septentrionale entre le ix e et le iii e s. av. J.‑C. by Laura Déchery

“…This complex system of exchange seems to attribute a particular role to sanctuaries: they are used to mark the territory but serve also as meeting places and asylums where merchants can profit from divine protection for their activities and their journey.…”
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Psychisme et opérativité chez Maître Eckhart by Yves Meessen

“…The sermons are constructed as an invitation to experience divine operativity, which is irreducible to any representation. …”
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Furtive majesty in John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck by John Gillies

“…One root of this opposition, I suggest, is a tension between the Stuart tendency to vest divine right in the monarch’s person, and the protestant parliamentary vision of a polity-centred kingship (oddly reminiscent of Henry’s actual monarchical practice). …”
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Developing and validation of religious education curriculum in preschool by Zeinab Ashrafi Soltan-Ahmadi, Sadegh Maleki Avarsin, Javad Keyhan, jahangir yari

“…Religious education or divine education is the most important part of Islamic education and the philosophy of the mission of the prophets, and the most basic duty of the divine parents and guardians and educators of the Islamic human society. …”
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Bonhoeffer’s understanding of state-church relationship in context by Stephen Phiri

“…A man imbued with unfathomable passion and belief in Christ confronts a merciless regime, which he believed has acted beyond the bounds of divine mandates. His confrontation of this regime was relentless until the regime condemned him to the sword. …”
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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism by Alexandru LAZĂR

“…In Gnosticism, apocatastasis takes on an eschatological and soteriological dimension, referring to the liberation of the soul from the material world and the return to the divine origin. Zoroastrianism offers a dualistic interpretation, where the final restoration of the world is associated with the triumph of good over evil and the restoration of cosmic order. …”
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Principles and Rules of the Analysis of the Single Words of the Quran in the View of The Qamus of the Quran by Mohammad ali Mahdavirad, Seyyed Mohammad Musavi Moqaddam, Motahhare sadat Tayyeb hosseini

“…Understanding the single words of the Holy Quran depends on principles and rules, knowing and explanation of which paves the way for better understanding of the meaning of the words and ultimately facilitates reaching the divine purpose of the verses. One of the good works in the area of exegesis of the single words of the Quran is The Qamus of the Quran by Seyyed 'Ali Akbar Qorashi. …”
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The narrative of the woman caught in adultery (JN 7:53-8:1-11) re-read in the Nigerian context by C. U. Manus, J. C. Ukaga

“…For Jesus, women are divinely blessed with equal rights with men. …”
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Les péripéties cynégétiques des Noirs d’Équateur. De l’art de rester humain et chrétien tout en chassant by Armelle Lorcy

“…What it means to be a human person cannot be understood apart from ideas about the divine. Hunting and the precautions hunters take reveal the importance of the forest (el monte) as a symbolic space. …”
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Border of Ethics and Law: A Critique of the Theory of “Denying the Entry of Law into the Scope of the Veil” (Comparative Study of Islam, Iran, and Europe) by Reza Zahravi

“…The realm of law is not limited to the social sphere, and the individual and divine dimensions are not outside the sphere of law, and the entry of law into this realm is rationally defensible and is based on the correct drawing of the boundary between ethics and law; Accordingly, in this article, on the one hand,   by presenting logical arguments for the entry of law into all necessary human relations, under the correct draw of moral and legal boundaries, criticizes arguments against entering the law in other cases to individual scope. …”
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Hezychia w ujęciu Jana Klimaka i jej odzwierciedlenie w wizerunkach postaci na ikonach Andrzeja Rublowa by Olga Cyrek

“…These are people who were divinized as a result of God’s power. However, the conception of Our Lady of Vladimir see that the Mother of God has opened to the grace of God. …”
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A critical evaluation of religious syncretism among the Igbo Christians of Nigeria by E.C. Anizoba

“…Besides the belief in ritualistic charms, many Igbo/Igbo-speaking Christians consult diviners for various reasons, including security and prosperity, causes of illness and death, ways of preserving life, as well as to discern the mind of God about one’s future and destiny. …”
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Hiérophanie et sotériologie dans les traditions ismaéliennes du sous-continent indo-pakistanais by Michel Boivin

“…Around 1845, Hasan 'Alî Shâh, who was the divine guide (imam) of the Ismailis, took refuge in the Indian subcontinent. …”
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Considerations on the Patriarcha by Shervin Moghimi Zanjani

“…We think that Patriarcha was one of the last systematic and coherent attempts to defend the "natural character of politics" and "divine right of kings to rule given by God alone. …”
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