One additional explanation is that the pluralism banned by the MUI is pluralism understood as religious syncretism and relativism.67 Al-Qiyadah al-Islamiyah is a religious group established by Ahmad Mushaddeq. This group states that its leader, Mushaddeq, has received disclosure since 2006. This...
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According to various pagan beliefs existing in the area of the Middle Volga basin where Udmurtia is located, self-immolation is a ritual calledtipshar. Historically, its practice was fairly widespread among the pagan tribes of this region (Chuvash, Mordva, Udmurt, and Cheremis), as an assertio...
JesusisGod in a fundamental sense; but for a Jew (or Muslim), to say that a man is God is an idolatry that drastically compromises God’s fundamental oneness and uniqueness. While the content of the Tanakh – the Hebrew Bible as understood by Jews...
best, pacifists are seen as hopeless idealists or as otherworldly dreamers” (Pacifism 2018). That article goes on to problematize this thesis. But more work needs to be done to distinguish between religious and secular versions of pacifism and to rebuff the claim that pacifism is for ...
Ando (2008) points to the unreflective use of this fragment by scholars in their studies on Roman provincial practice, where the material culture for syncretism between 'Roman and Native' gods is more abundant. He rightly argues that this passage, in its Roman context, shows that Religions ...
This negotiation is a process that endured through the abolition of slavery and is still ongoing. The standard narrative, especially among practitioners, is that the ensuing Afro-Catholic syncretism present in most forms of Candomblé up to this day resulted from the prohibition against worshipping ...
The public face of religion in Latin America is undergoing constant transformation, and its relocation in the public sphere is part of a broader process of cultural and social change. This contemporary religious scene is characterized by a plurality of voices generated not only by traditional ecclesi...
information on traditional communities, such as the early medieval Slavs, it is possible to assume that in social life the sacred sphere and the technical-utility sphere is combined, creating something that in the literature on the subject as “magical syncretism” [51,52,53], [19] (pp. 24...