Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…Water is a relevant and a significant variable that is also germane to the understanding of Yorùbá peoples’ identity, culture and religion. Hence, this ethnographical and literary study examines the image of water in Yorùbá cosmology using folklore (oral texts) of the people as paradigms. …”
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El papel de los afectos en el pensamiento político de Spinoza by Vicente Serrano

“…Se analizan los más tradicionales aspectos vinculados a la teoría política spinozista, la teoría del contrato y la crítica de la religión, en estrecha relación con la Ética y con el tratamiento de las relaciones entre afectos e imaginación, que se considera como el núcleo de su pensamiento político. …”
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MAIK’s Impact on The Indigenous Community in Kelantan State: Analysis in Terms of Welfare and Humanity by Muhammad Solihin bin Abd Razak, Nawi@Mohamad Nawi Bin Ismail

“…This article aims to highlight the welfare and humanitarian activities undertaken by the Council of Islamic Religion and Malay Customs of Kelantan (MAIK) in support of the indigenous community in Kelantan. …”
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L’égalité en matière d’héritage. Jeunes et savoir commun au Maroc by Merieme Yafout

“…Moreover, the knowledge that these young people express is also linked to socio-cultural assumption that they manifest as spontaneous discourse, accessible and clear on male / female relations, on family, on the division of social roles, on the place of religion in society. It is a knowleldge organically linked to everyday life which guides the actions and helps to understand the meaning that people give to their actions.…”
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Religiöse Spuren im Alltag by Matthias Werner

“…Being able to decode the occurring transformations of religion within these daily life phenomena is the prerequisite for being able to make an informed decision about the underlying concepts and religious ideas.  …”
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« Combattre les perversions morales qui les ont poussées au mal » : la prise en charge de la déviance féminine par le tribunal pour mineurs de Valence (Espagne, 1939-1958) by Amélie Nuq

“…Judicial authorities and families were above all concerned with the moral and sexual aspects of female misconduct. Religion and work were meant to reform those “fallen” young women, mostly from popular backgrounds, in order to shape them into Christian mothers and spouses, in conformity with the female archetype glorified by the Francoist dictatorship.…”
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Eunug in die antieke Nabye Ooste by M. Nel

“…It is argued that the Hebrew word, syrs, refers to a castrated man, and that, in biblical usage, it refers to a castrated man in terms of Israel’s religion (Deut. 23:1; Is. 56:3). The term is used in a different sense when it refers to a foreign person, i.e. a person in an official capacity in a king’s court (as in Gen. 37), or a military commander (as in 1 Kings 22:9; 2 Kings 8:7; 23:12; 25;19; Jer. 52:25). …”
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FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE IMAGINATION. MAN AND HIS TIME by A. E. Razumov

“…We live to a large extent in imaginary worlds, and they appear to us more actual than their real-life prototypes. Religion, art and science try to tackle this problem, and in each case an attention is being focused, respectively, on a different aspect of being. …”
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Édition et nicodémisme dans l’Italie du xvie siècle by Dominique Fratani

“…The publishing phenomenon involved not only some of the most outstanding publishers and intellectuals of the time, but also some of the great figures of organized religion. The movement continued, sometimes in Nicodemite fashion, right up to 1559, when the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was published.…”
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Intégration politique des partis islamistes et processus de « spécialisation » : perspective comparée Tunisie-Maroc by Anca Munteanu

“…The analysis shows that in the two studied cases the «specialisation» does not lead to an effective separation between partisan action and social and preaching activity and does not eliminate the porosity of the limits between politics and religion.…”
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Voies périphériques comme centre de l’utopie. Le travail de la terre comme élément nodal de l’émancipation des femmes dans le Mexique rural by Céline Chenot

“…This terminology appears problematic not only for some of the feminists who do not recognize religion as an emancipatory criterion, but also for the Catholic hierarchy, who in turn accuse them of misappropriation and misuse of religious principles (P. …”
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Deux questions à propos de l’implication mutuelle de l’esprit critique et de la laïcité dans l’appréhension républicaine de l’éducation morale et civique by Roger Monjo

“…Among those prerequisites the traditional oppositions between belief and knowledge, faith and rationality, religion and science will be put into relief.…”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“…That is, the various federal programs discussed in this paper require that employers hire all workers who are otherwise qualified without regard to race, color, religion, gender, citizenship, national origin, age, or disability.  …”
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A Critical Attitude to the Methodology and Analytical Logic of “The Islam of Sufis” by Rohullah Bahrami

“…Methodologically, the hermeneutic approach of Sufism Islam, lack of paying attention to the geographic extension of Tasawwuf and the variety of Sufism movements, lack of genealogical and critical attitude to the origins of Sufism thoughts, and taking the Tasawwuf as a kind of Islamic religion (Sufism Islam) are the most notable criticized issues.…”
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Applying Durkheim to Elvis by Mark Duffett

“…In this article I argue that although Elvis fans are not substituting him for a deity, we can use one mechanism from Emile Durkheim’s theory of totemic religion to understand the human chemistry of his phenomenon. …”
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…Through the pagan theme, his late works show that man may replace God by nature, and that religion, though needing to be deeply renewed, remains necessary for humanity to be able to found an ethical society. …”
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Mercy, love and salvatioin in orthodox spirituality by N. Dumitrascu

“…For the Christians, mercy is not limited to members of one’s own community, but includes others, regardless of race, social class or even religion. It is a form of love which is not wasted in temporary and sentimental effusions, but actualised in concrete deeds, with the ultimate example supplied by Christ. …”
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Ruskin’s heirs: art, nature and socialism by Charles-François MATHIS

“…But their commitment was at the same time traditional and peculiar—Morris conceiving socialism as a means to achieve a beauty-loving society, whereas Carpenter saw it as a sort of religion of mankind. Therefore, their political commitment was strongly shaped by their artistic ideals. …”
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South Africa: the arduous task of facing our religious past by E. Oliver

“…With Christians totalling more than 80% of the population and the Church recognised as the strongest non-government organization, one apparent exception to these differences is religion. However, incapacitated by their past, Afrikaners were unable to respond positively during the critical stages of transformation and find themselves marginalized, at the edge of the ‘rainbow nation’. …”
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Re-interpretation as transformation. Perspectives and challenges for Old Testament interpretation by D.J. Human

“… This contribution explains that the re-interpretation of theological motifs or ideas leads to transforming theology and religion.  This phenomenon takes place within the corpus and boundaries of the Old Testament. …”
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