Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Religion
  4. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

153517 results in Religion

Page 17 of 7676

Belief in Greek and Roman Religion
  • Edited by Ralph Anderson, Pramit Chaudhuri
  • Published online:
    14 May 2026
    Print publication:
    04 June 2026
  • For the Greeks and Romans, the world was full of gods, but this fundamental aspect of their experience poses major challenges to modern understanding. The concept of belief has been central to meeting those challenges but has itself been hotly debated, and has at times even been rejected as a supposedly Christianising anachronism. Others, meanwhile, have argued that a culture-neutral model of belief is both possible and essential, while the advent of the cognitive science of religion has offered new possibilities for understanding ancient religious worlds. The essays in this volume trace the historical development of the modern concept of belief, examine ancient debates about the nature of human knowledge of the divine, and draw on perspectives from anthropology, cognitive science and early modern history as well as classical studies to explore the nature and role of belief in Greek and Roman religion in ancient literature, society, experience and practice.

Zionism in Arab discourses
  • Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    14 May 2026
  • This book regards Arab Islamism and liberalism as distinct political ideologies with all-encompassing views on the structure and appropriate roles of society and the state. The thesis presented here on the different functions of Israel and Zionism within these two ideologies refers to a protracted period of time. It also establishes several generalizations about the actions of individuals and groups in a vast geographic and linguistic space. The book first offers a chronological overview of the Islamist ideological opposition to Zionism. It portrays the main characteristics of and driving forces behind this resistance and explores the different pragmatic approaches toward Israel that have developed in the various epochs of Islamist thought. The book then discusses Islamist depictions of Zionism and Israel as role models and analyses the reasons for the formation and acceptance of such interpretations. It also offers a chronological overview of the evolution of liberal thought with regard to the Zionist enterprise. It depicts the various perceptions of peace and normalization created within this thought and demonstrates the contradictory ways in which the Arab liberal struggle for freedom and democracy has been intertwined with the Israeli-Arab conflict. Finally, the book discusses liberal interpretations that represent Zionism and Israel as role models, and analyses the reasons for the formation and acceptance of such interpretations.

  • Chapter 9 - Is It Permissible to Kill Unjust Aggressors in Self-Defense?

  • from Part IV - Self-Defense, Capital Punishment, and War
  • Christopher O. Tollefsen, University of South Carolina
  • Book:
    Killing and Christian Ethics
    Published online:
    07 April 2026
    Print publication:
    14 May 2026, pp 127-138

  • Summary

    In this chapter I argue that self-defense is permissible against an unjust attack, but that any lethal harm must be, in Aquinas’s phrase, praeter intentionem, outside the intention of the defender. I argue that public authorities must also not intend death, but that because of the nature of the political task, public officials are capacitated to use force to a greater extent and in greater measure than are private individuals.

  • 2 - ‘At Basel I founded an ideal for the Muslims’: Zionism and Israel as role models in Islamist writing

  • Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter
  • Book:
    Zionism in Arab discourses
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    14 May 2026, pp 67-102

  • Summary

    Islamists have perceived the profoundly religious nature of Zionism as a role model because of the synthesis of religiosity with modernity. Islamist writers praising Israel consider themselves sober observers seeking to study their opponent's sources of strength in order to enable the re-emergence of Muslims. Islamist texts praise Israel as a country that has defeated its enemies due to its faith, sacrifice, strategic planning, scientific and technological excellence. Islamist writing is the ultimate proof of a meticulous and patient strategy and of the futility of a stand-alone effort unsupported by strategy. From the early 1980s, Islamist writings encouraged the Muslim world and Muslim minorities in the West to heed Israeli relations with the Jewish diaspora as an example of cross-border religious-nationalist unity. Articulations of Islamist fascination with Israeli democracy can be found in Islamist writings from the early 1980s.

  • Stalinism and the Radicalisation of Wu Yaozong’s American Liberal Christianity in Republican China

  • DUANRAN FENG
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 May 2026, pp. 1-18
    • Article
      • You have access
      • Open access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

  • No man has seen God (1943) was the masterpiece of the Chinese Protestant theologian Wu Yaozong (1893–1979). This article retraces Wu’s leftward intellectual turn in the preceding years, which culminated in the book’s attempt to reconcile Christianity and Communism. Originally a follower of American liberal Christianity, Wu embraced Stalinism after the mid-1930s. His case testifies to an alternative afterlife of American liberal Christianity, the Socialist character of which had become moribund in America, but found new vitality in China through Wu’s Stalinist reappropriation. Today, Wu’s development of the American liberal tradition lives on in different Chinese Christian communities worldwide.

  • IX - Forgeries

  • Edited and translated by Raymond Van Dam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    Inscriptions from the Age of Constantine
    Published online:
    20 April 2026
    Print publication:
    14 May 2026, pp 897-904

  • Summary

    Medieval historians falsely claimed to have found the tombs and epitaphs of Constantius I at Trier and of Maximian at Marseille. On an ancient clay bowl a modern art dealer forged an inscription about Constantine and his wife, Fausta.

  • 4 - The West within the East: Israel as a role model in liberal thought

  • Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter
  • Book:
    Zionism in Arab discourses
    Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    14 May 2026, pp 148-181

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the historical roots of liberal writing about Zionism and Israel as a role model. It also discusses the liberal thinkers' usage of the different achievements of Israeli society as a means to shed light on the political, social and scientific revolutions necessary for Arab societies. The shift in Arab liberal thought began in the 1980s as liberal authors started to connect the lack of democracy in Arab societies and their backwardness. The writing of the liberals from the mid-1990s depicted Israeli democracy as the absolute opposite of Arab tyranny. In contrast to the diligence and pragmatism demonstrated by the Zionists, Arabs relied on slogans, appealing to international law and morals. Liberals in the early twentieth century pointed to the Zionist enterprise as a role model because it gave credibility to revive the Arabic language and to discard a culture of passivity.

Page 17 of 7676