Vol 8 No 2: Transformations of Identity and Space in the Middle East and North Africa
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Prayer practices among Palestinian Christians in Occupied Palestinian Territory
(01.12.2018)Arab Palestinian Christians face many challenges living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; restrictions of movement, a poor employment situation and rising emigration. According to previous research, religion and prayer ... -
Agency and the roles of Southern Jordanian Bedouin women on pilgrimage and visiting holy sites
(01.12.2018)In the Islamic world, numerous shrines shape and define its spiritual landscapes. While some of the shrines are tombs and memorials of major religious and historical figures, a majority of the sites are dedicated to ancestors ... -
The early history of religion (dis)proving its truth
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)The first Church father writing in Arabic, Theodore Abu Qurrah, and the first Muslim author to compose a systematic refutation of Christianity, ʿAbd al-Jabbar, both apply the historical argument in order to prove or refute ... -
Singing of divine identities in a liturgical space? John Damascene's treatise on the Trisagion and his anti-heretical polemics
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)John Damascene, one of the most productive Greek theologians of the Middle Byzantine era, also composed a treatise on the Trisagion hymn, or how it should be sung correctly and why; a text that has been little discussed ... -
Vicarious dissonance and the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)This article presents a novel social-scientific approach to the Gospel of Matthew, one of the most influential texts in the history of Christianity. This approach combines social-psychological and narrative-critical ... -
Transformations of identity and space in the Middle East and North Africa
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)The current issue of Approaching Religion includes articles based on conference papers presented at the Fifth Finnish Colloquium on the Middle East and North Africa Studies, which was organised by the Finnish Institute in ...
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