Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…What disturbs the reformers and travellers is that the pilgrims associate devotion with dance, prayer with the merry-go-rounds, the Divine with the obscene pantomime, and miracles with prostitution.Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state and the muslim clerks have joined their efforts to spiritualize the muslim pilgrimages. …”
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Discernment in Origen of Alexandria by P. B. Decock

“…As such it is able to accept divine guidance from the Holy Spirit and the Logos in order to assess the movements of the soul and to manage these correctly so that the soul may preserve what is good and continue to strive for better things. …”
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Pouvoir et prière dans les images byzantines de don by Tania Kambourova

“…Mais comment interpréter la présence de personnages contemporains à la production des miniatures et des fresques au sein même d’un tel espace sacré, destiné à présenter l’histoire sainte/divine? Souvent, le souverain – seul ou en famille, offre ou reçoit un don dans les images. …”
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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…At the end, the recovery of the stolen gold coins both leads to the emergence of the truth and works as a sign of divine reward for Silas’s spiritual progress. Such weaving of the multi-layered theme of gold into the narrative definitely gives birth to an effective poetics which may address several planes of consciousness.…”
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L’ emigrato dasaese: turista di ritorno by Maria Teresa Mara Francese

“…The only possible alternative, or experienced as such, is to rely on divine protection, graced by the repetition of an annual celebration, where the dollars sent home show social status changed emigrants (often absent), which not only feed the ritual, but keep alive a centuries-old tradition. …”
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JUSTICE AS BEAUTY-IN-ACTION? INSIGHTS FROM HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S AESTHETICS AND DRAMATICS by M.J. Havenga

“…It begins by giving an exposition of Balthasar’s theological aesthetics, as developed in his work The glory of the Lord, which shows how, for Von Balthasar, earthly beauty participates in, and expresses something of God’s divine glory and reaches its apex in the revelation of the beautiful form of Jesus Christ. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…It also focuses on Gandhi’s critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual’s search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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‘Prophet Ibrahim’s faith and interfaith dialogue: a philosophical inquiry into religious epistemology’. by Md. Delwar Husen

“…While traditional studies focus on his theological and historical relevance, this inquiry uniquely explores his faith as an epistemological process that integrates both divine revelation and rational engagement with the world. …”
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Katharsis and Phantasia in Plotinus’ Thought by ilker Kisa

“…In this way, reason firstly stops busying itself with the lower content which takes place in phantasia and secondly, thanks to the first step, identifies more and more with the higher content, which also belongs to phantasia as a faculty of the soul which unfolds the content of the divine intellect, Nous. Katharsis’ extended work upwards is also key for the transformation of the lower components of the human soul and reduction of the demands of bodily life to its natural minimum. …”
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Wilno mityczne we współczesnej prozie litewskiej by Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė

“…This article focuses on two modern Lithuanian prose writers, Antanas Ramonas (1947–1993) and Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002), whose works evoke the two most striking and different images of the same mythical Vilnius – divine and demonic, hopeful and hopeless. These two opposing images of mythical Vilnius reveal two different viewpoints on the world, on history and on the human being in modern Lithuanian literature. …”
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Entre ciel et terre : la montagne dans l’imaginaire littéraire arabe médiéval by Monica Balda-Tillier

“…Secondly, the exceptional phenomena that are described as taking place in the mountain are considered by Muslims to be tangible proof of the divine presence in those locations. Finally, inhabitants of the mountains are generally presented as marginal people seeking a refuge from human persecution or simply choosing to live on the margins of society to be closer to God. …”
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Once Again on ʾbk wdm in Ethiopian Sabaic by Aaron Michael Butts, Simcha Gross, Michael Hensley

“…Thus, the following formula is proposed: b-s¹qt DN(s) bn X, ‘by the protection of divine name(s) from X’. …”
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La biodiversité dans les paysages viticoles : exemple d’un projet européen mené en France et sur la péninsule ibérique by Soazig Darnay

“…Embodying this initiative, the European BioDivine programme gradually incorporated landscape issues in the scientific study of biodiversity. …”
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Augustine on angelic knowledge by Ovie Valentine Aghoghophia

“…Augustine treated the nature of the knowledge the angels can acquire with their natural angelic faculty and the nature of the knowledge they acquire through the grace of God. Divine illumination is equally enjoyed by the angels and even more than humans do. …”
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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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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…They must also bring truly its recipient closer to Divine Persons, biblical events or scenes from the lives of the saints. …”
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İTAAT KÜLTÜRÜNÜN OLUŞMASINDA HADİSLERİN ROLÜ by İlyas Canikli

“…The people who recognized Islam through the arrival of Divine Inspiration to Prophet Mohammed, implemented the doctrines of the Holy Koran and the practices (sunnas) of prophet Mohammed in their political lives. …”
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A Comparative Study of Mulla Sadra and Plantinga’s Views on the Issue of Evil by Masoumeh Ameri, Farida Rezaei

“…Plantinga, on the other hand, seeks to demonstrate the non-contradiction of the logical issue of evil in light of God’s absolute power by using possible worlds and the relationship between human free will and divine omnipotence. These two thinkers share common ground in their belief in God as knowledgeable, powerful, and benevolent, but they differ in their approach to inherent sinfulness, defense of theodicy, and overcoming logical challenges. …”
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Spirituality Phenomenon and the Ideal-Realism Method in Modern Education by A. P. Vetoshkin

“…The correlation between the ideal and material in social and individual life is demonstrated along with the dialectics and wholeness of the divine and human, religious and secular, ecclesiastical and civil.The author addresses the philosophic heritage of I. …”
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