Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…For Hölderlin, nature is never limited to being an empirical object of scientific investigation. It is a divine reality that does not undergo change. It is a space inhabited by the sacred. …”
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Tanto malvagio da essere d’esempio. I clerici anglo-normanni e la descrizione di Guglielmo II Rufo, disgraziatamente re d’Inghilterra by Fabrizio De Falco

“…They present the portrait of the evil sovereign as a comparison tool for the contemporaneity – he became an exemplum and his death emerged as “divine justice”.…”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…This essay explores the vestigial influence of natural theology, and its discourse of divine design, on H. G. Wells’s fictions of technology. …”
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Critical Secularism: Perfectionism and Anti-perfectionism by Mohammad Shojaeian

“…Accordingly, in liberal discourse, insults to divine prophets are defended as an example of freedom of expression. …”
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Proposed Model on Amrit Varsha Dhyan by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence by Lalima Batham, Swarnkala Singh

“…Amrit Varsha Dhyan involves visualizing the absorption of "Amrit" (divine nectar) to cleanse emotions, reduce stress, and cultivate positive thought patterns and behaviors. …”
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Mendel: corroboration of the idea of binary trait coding by methods of statistical physics by О. V. Trapezov

“…On the other hand, the regularities discovered by Mendel confirmed the intuitive notion of the divine principle based on rational foundations. Pythagoras was the first to point to the spiritual grounds of being. …”
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Exploring the Concept of the Perfect Human Being in the Quran: An Analysis of Model Education by Farideh Rezaei, Naireh Sadat Saadatmand, Zohreh Taghavi

“…Results: The outcomes of the research encompass seven distinct attributes, namely: divine description, caliphate, Imam, knowledge, power, servitude, and sincerity, culminating in the identification of ten exemplary attributes that contribute to the formation of a model, which include: Alim, Rahim, Rauf, Sabour, Halim, Sattar, Ghafar, Shakur, Aziz, and Hamid. …”
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“Presume not that I am the thing I was”: 
The Transformation of the Idea of the King and 
the Concept of Kingship in Shakespeare’s Henriad by Meriç Tutku Özmen

“…In his history plays, Shakespeare is concerned with the problems of rebellion, the divine right of kings, and the nature of kingship. …”
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Exploring the Power of Pranic Healing: An Evidence-based Perspective on Daivavyapashraya Chikitsa by Vinushree M K S, Venkatakrishna K V

“… Utilization of divine or subtle energies to treat disease constitutes Daivavyapashraya Chikitsa DC. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Transcending simplifying providential and romance plots, the novel’s focus on the urgent personal and philosophical question of ‘what nature is’ draws on the insights of Romanticism to probe the relationship between the observable universe of nature’s laws and belief in a divinely-activated universe of meaningful pattern and revelation.…”
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Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-19 by E. Shoko

“…Prayer was also viewed as a tool for Christians to protect themselves from contracting COVID-19 through the invocation of divine powers. The paper concludes that the pervasive influence of church leaders and their emphasis on spiritual remedies such as prayer and miracles may have given Pentecostal followers a false sense of security, which might have affected their awareness of COVID-19. …”
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LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by Uzoma Amos Dike

“…By lament, the focus is on the category of psalms located within the worship setting that bemoan distressing situations of life and plead for divine intervention. Apart from mourning, several times the psalmists' lament comes inform of protest in the face of injustice, persecution, individual and communal disasters, among others. …”
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Avicenna's optimistic theodicy by T.K. Ibrahim

“…Inspired by the Quran's teaching on the all-comprising character of divine mercy, he proposed an apocatastasis concept, which was a very bold one in the medieval theologized society. …”
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Christology and the Catholic Encounter with World Religions by Francis V. Tiso

“…In hearing the authentic ring of this voice of mercy and love, the community discerns that a previously “unknown” Christ is present before us, inviting a deepened understanding of Christ, both human and divine. Out of this understanding arises an affirmation of the Christologies of the historical Catholic consensus, now impelling the Church toward new forms of mission, service, and contemplation. …”
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The Contradictory Legacy of Zionism: Radical Religious Groups by Leyla Kuşaslan

“…Religious groups began interpreting the acquisition of sacred lands, such as Jerusalem and the West Bank, as a divine sign, advocating for Israel’s expansion as a religious mission. …”
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Vouloir construire une mosquée en pays Jola - Ajamat (Guinée Bissau, 1990 – 2000) by André Julliard

“…The social and religious uses of the mosque (and the church, for that matter), cannot be understood however, without reference to the open spaces of the “religion of the soil”, which provide open cultural spaces in a search for divine law, unlike the enclosed sites of the “revealed word". …”
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El Tractado de caso y fortuna de Lope de Barrientos. El arte de gobernar bajo el signo de la suerte inescrutable by Mianda Cioba

“…During the tormented fifteenth century, the symbolic legitimation of royal power through discourse contains a rapid succession of ideological models impelled by the political and moral crisis of authority: from royalty conceived as a providential instrument of the divine project, to the political functionalism, organized around the newly discovered concept of reason of State. …”
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Reading of Jasser Auda's System Theory in the Law Verse on Women and Mosques by S Shofaussamawati, Alfi Nikmah, Muhammad Azka Azkiya

“…The cognitive element in understanding legal verses related to women and mosques, in Auda's view there are dozens of verses in the Qur'an related to mosques whose content motivates Muslims, both men and women, to often go to mosques to get religious guidance, nur/divine light and knowledge. The element of wholeness (Al-Kulliyyah) Audah in determining the legal provisions about women and mosques is comprehensive, by exploring all verses related to mosques and followed by explanations from the Hadiths of the Prophet. …”
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Rethinking the roles of pastoralists’ indigenous religious practices in Nuer nation Zone, Gambella Region, South-West Ethiopia by Chayot Gatdet

“…The result found that appeasing spirits (82%), sacrifice (89%), divination (76%), and communal ceremonies (94%) were practiced in the study areas. …”
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Praising God or singing of love? From theological to erotic allegorisation in the interpretation of Canticles by H. Ausloos

“…After all, being love poetry, the book sings about love as a transcendent, even ‘divine’ reality. Against this background, this contribution will argue that the so-called ‘literal’ — anthropological — reading, according to which Canticles praises the love between two persons, is, in the case of many authors, at least as allegorical as the so-called theological-allegorical reading, according to which Canticles is supposed to speak about the relationship between God and Israel, or Christ and the Church. …”
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