2621 search results for “religious literature” in the Public website
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‘Do Not Say They Are Dead’: The Political Use of Mystical and Religious Concepts in the Persian Poetry of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)
The chief aim of this study is to explore how classical Persian poetry and the Persian mysticism that is interwoven with the poetry have been used in the new politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Eric Jorink
Faculty of Humanities
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Lieke Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Roukayya Oueslati
Faculty of Humanities
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Legal community determined to get rid of religious accommodation
There is a crisis in the law concerning the accommodation of religious practice. The legal profession is demanding that the law be changed because it does not want religious institutions to have the 'right to discriminate'. The profession holds that evolving societal sexual norms can render lawful religious…
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Bachelor Religious Studies top program according to 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2019'
The bachelor program Religious Studies has, besides also Linguistics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, been awarded by the 'Keuzevakkengids Universiteiten 2019' with the predicate top program.
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Marion Bracq
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Research Trainee Project on Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures launched
Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing the just. Cognitive studies suggest that humans are predisposed to speculate about fate and divine agency, but support from so-called ‘plausibility structures’…
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Ludovicus Jongen
Faculty of Humanities
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Karine Laporte
Faculty of Humanities
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Eep Francken
Faculty of Humanities
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Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau
Faculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Religious Studies does well in QS Rankings by Subject
Leiden’s Religious Studies ranks 40th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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and the Low Countries: Medieval and Modern Connections in Literature and Religious Culture
Conference
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A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram Caers
Faculty of Humanities
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A.G.B.M. Feuth
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print
Conference
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Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635
Mining the unusually rich diaries, memoirs, and poems written by Netherlandish Catholics, Judith Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and political turmoil in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens.
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Individualization, Fragmentation of Authority, and New Organizational Forms among Muslims in Europe
What forms does religiosity take among Muslims in Europe today? How are answers to the question of what it means to be a Muslim in Europe reached in institutions of Islamic higher education, Muslim student organizations, and women’s organizations? What is the relation between the individual and religious…
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Aafke van Ewijk
Faculty of Humanities
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe
Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence
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Hans-Martien ten Napel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Inge Ligtvoet
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Enduring Christianity in a Muslim world
A project aimed at understanding the complicated process of religious transformation in one of the centres of the early Muslim world.
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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The Flag of Zhenyan Flies Again: The Taiwanese Resurrection of Esoteric Buddhism through Wuguang’s Appropriation of Imperially Imported Shingon
This study elucidates a critical facet of modern global Buddhism that has escaped the attention of the scholarly community by exploring the life, teachings and influence of Master Wuguang 悟光上師 (1918-2000).
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Exclusion and Renewal. Identity and Jewishness in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and David Vogels's 'Married Life'
In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”, 1912) and David Vogel’s Hebrew novel Married Life. 1929).
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Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is one of the few research institutes in the world in which researchers in the field of literature, art, architecture, design and media studies come together to conduct research into the cultural production of the western world, from classical…
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bram van der Velden
Faculty of Humanities
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Wybren Scheepsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Michael Newton
Faculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Nanne Timmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Jordão
Faculty of Humanities
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Anthonya Visser
Faculty of Humanities
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Ancient Worlds network
The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world.
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The style of speeches
What is the difference between a minister saying that something is possible or that it is not impossible ?
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 2017
History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the best in The Netherlands and Religious Studies ranks as second best.