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Coming to Grips with Rationality
This chapter, similar to Chap. 6 , explores a pathway of incorporating Shiism adopted by converts. The...
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The First Category: Non-Monotheistic Jewish and Christian Binitarianism-Trinitarianism
This chapter examines Jewish and Christian Binitarianism in their non-monotheistic forms, particularly focusing on works from Peter Hayman, Margaret...
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The Seven Parables of the Lotus Sūtra
In this chapter, we will introduce readers to the seven parables that form the philosophical basis of the Lotus Sūtra. These parables, which seem to...
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Leaving the City of Light: Two Deconversion Paths
This chapter deals with an aspect of religious behaviour that has remained in the shadows, both in the scientific literature and in public discourse:...
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Origin, Nature, and Structure of Beliefs System
Religion is found in practically all known human societies in the world. It is also one of the most important institutional structures that make up...
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Medieval Mongolian Shamanism
The Secret History of the Mongols is the principal source for the study of shamanism of the Great Mongolian Empire. Evidence relating to shamanism...
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Crises and Conversions
In the aftermath of WWII, Italian Traditionalist circles underwent two distinct crises. Among conservative groups, Vatican II and the 1968 protests...
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Secret Societies: Fraternities, Witches, Wizards, and Sorcerers
Secret societies-fraternities, witches, wizards, and sorcerers are realities in African societies. By classification, they fall under the canopy of...
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“To Survive and Still Dream”: Ritual and Reclamation in Little Bird
Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (2020), Little Bird: The Fight for Elder’s Hope presents readers with a postapocalyptic vision...
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Conclusion: The Future of Metaphysical Spirituality
Attending a Medicine Wheel Gathering, or dancing at Burning Man, or reading through John Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism, or purchasing Native American...
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Following Leo Tolstoy’s Conscientious Objection: Conscription of the Spirit and a New Dharma of Peace Building
This chapter deepens the understanding of the precious heritage of anti-conscription movements since the time during and after the First World War.
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African Traditional Religion and Sustainability: The New Indigenous Religious Movements
The practice of African Traditional Religion (ATR) has faced myriad of challenges on the continent, Africa. These problems include lack of scripture...
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Introduction to Handbook of African Traditional Religion
This chapter constitutes the general introduction to the Handbook focusing on aims, objective, and focus of the book. It also presents a synthesis of...
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Spirits and Their Helpers
Here we discuss the relationship between spirits and shamanism, which has been the most common structure of spirit-human interaction through time and...
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Simon Magus in Arrigo Boito’s Opera Nerone (Ephraim Nissan)
Nerone (Nero), one of the operas by Arrigo Boito (Padua, 1842—Milan, 1918), the Italian librettist (he collaborated with Giuseppe Verdi), was...
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Evola and the Dilemma of Islam
In this chapter, we explore one of the three fundamental disagreements between Evola and Guénon, focusing on their contrasting approaches to the East...
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African Traditional Religion and Sustainable Cultural, Social and Economic Dynamics
This chapter sets out to show that despite the globalization paradigm and the fact that Christianity, Islam, Science and Western education have had...
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The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti
This chapter discusses the enduring legacy of John Mbiti, one of Africa’s leading theologians in the decades between 1960 and 2020. First, it offers...
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Toward Reclaiming the Wisdom of our Forebears: Nature and Environment from a Filipino Perspective
One of the most fundamental objectives of postcolonial studies is to critique and challenge the assumptions and presuppositions of former colonizers....
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History, Memory, and Forgetting: Epistemological Challenges for Latin American Biblical-Theological Studies
Starting from a critique of the epistemic racism present in university campuses, the author proposes a brief historical review of the process of...