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Enhancing Credibility : Persuasive Strategies in Sermon Titles and Openings
Martin Adam, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Jihoceský kraj, Czech Republic
The Spiritual Truth behind the Hindu and Nazi Swastika
Jayant Athavale, Founder, Spiritual Research, Maharshi University of Spirituality, Goa, India
Dragana Kislovski
Sean Clarke, Spiritual Science Research Foundation
The Multi-racial Experiment in Two South African Churches
Eugene Baron, Associate Professor, Christian Spirituality, University of South Africa, South Africa
Book of Esther and Symbols of Tree and Cross
Pawel Plichta, Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Malopolskie, Poland
The Voice and the Voiceless: Startling Sacred and Sacred Starting
Hermel Pama, Senior Lecturer III, Anthropology (UPD); Faculty of Philosophy, UST Graduate School (UST), University of Santo Tomas and University of the Philippines Diliman, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Movement for Unity and Reform as an Islam-oriented Movement
Driss Bouyahya, Moulay Ismail University
Quran Reading and Arab Spring: Pro-Democratic Impact of Islamist Parties
Hüseyin Emre Ceyhun, asdasd, adsasd, asdasd, Afghanisan
Australian Multiculturalism and the Problem of the Religious "Other"
Gregory Macdonald, PhD Student, Centre for Islamic Thought and Education, University of South Australia
Life Skill Development Model of Medium-sized Islamic Private School in Southern Border Provinces of Thailand: A Case Study of Pattana Islam School, Pattani Province
Direak Manmanah, Lecturer, Humanity and Social Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand, Thailand
Muhummudrapee Makeng
Awang Lanui
Violence and Torture in Religion and Human Rights in Mexico and El Salvador
Gloria Velásquez, Senior Lecturer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States
Alba Elizabeth Melgar, Professor of Spanish, World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States
The Politics of Latinx Evangelicals in the Age of Trump
Liesl Haas, Professor, Political Science, California State University Long Beach, California, United States
Sacramentality in the Visions and Art of St. Hildegard of Bingen: Divine Eros, Bodies, and Prophet to Post-Critical Theory
Sarah Livick Moses, Student, PhD Student, Boston College, Massachusetts, United States
The Spiritual Disciplines Project: Increasing Student Engagement in the World Religions Course
Alice Wood, Associate Professor of Religion, Religion, Bethune-Cookman University, United States
Nature as Object and Symbol: Qur'an as a Source for Islamic Environmental Ethics
Jakub Koláček, Researcher, Lecturer, Department of the Middle East, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
Ways to Minimize the Challenge between Islamic Law and Modernity
Meysam Kohantorabi, Assistant Professor, Bozorgmehr University of Qaenat, Iran
The H2020 RETOPEA Project: Imagining Religious Toleration and Peace
Laura Galián
Nadia Hindi, Assistant Teacher, Semitics Studies, University of Granada, Spain
Envisioning the Khalsa State Modeled after the Vatican State: Seeking the Goodwill of the Indian Government
Tennyson Samraj, Head of Philosophy Department/ Philosophy Professor, Philosophy, Burman University, Alberta, Canada
Jedi Online and Buddhist Firefly: Poaching from Fandom and Tradition in a Online World
Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette, Senior Instructor, English Language Centre, University of Macau, Macao
The Rising Emphasis on Tolerance in the Middle East
C Donald Smedley, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Center for Track Two Diplomacy and Religious Freedom, Rivendell Institute at Yale University, Connecticut, United States
Regulating Religious and Faith Based Organisations in Uganda: Fears and Dilemmas of Born Again Churches
Alexander Paul Isiko, Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies and Philosophy, Kyambogo University, Uganda
Identity Politics in India: The Case of Gujarat
Nahid Afrose Kabir, Adjunct Professor, School of Education, University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia
The Nexus of Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Analysis of Interpretation of Dreams in Pakistan
Latafat Aziz, Lecturer, Bahria University
Asim Muneeb Khan, Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Discursive Constructions of "God" in the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Baha'i Scriptures
Robert Bianchi, Associate Professor of English, Liberal Arts and Sciences, VCUarts Qatar, Qatar
Existence of Miracles
Samuel E. Moskowitz, Research Professor and Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Back to the Future: Religious Thinking between Progress and Return
Piotr Sawczynski, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland
Theological Elaboration of Missionary Catechesis from the Biblical Paul
Mary Erika Bolanos, Principal, Senior High School, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
Dostoevsky and the Icon: Faith beyond Reason
Andrea Serra, Student, PhD, University of Cagliari, Italy
An Abiding Engagement: Prayer, Power, and Politics in Pentecostal Spirituality in Africa
Akintunde Akinade, Professor, Theology, Georgetown University, Qatar
Testing the Limits of Diversity: What Does the Same-sex Marriage Debate Tell Us about Religion in Australia in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century?
Andrew Dutney, Professor of Theology, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
A Society without God? : On Secularity, Religiosity and Prosperity in Scandinavia
Kjell Olof Urban Lejon, Professor, Head of Division, Director of Studies, Deparment of Culture and Society (HKR/IKOS), Linköping University, Sweden
Voodoo Spiritualism and Ecology
Alan S. Weber, Professor, Premedical, WCM-Q, Ar Rayyan, Qatar
Concept of Spirituality among Millennials of De La Salle Philippines
Myra Patambang, Professor, Religious Education, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, Cavite, Philippines
Postmodern Theology as Spiritual Autobiography: The Joyful Suffering of Four Female Medieval Mystics
Jean-Pierre Fortin, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Ontario, Canada
Trajectories of Mutual Zombification in the Praxis of Post-colonial Faith in South Africa: A Need for African Decoloniality Theology
Bekithemba Dube, Professor, Education, Central University of Technology , Free State, South Africa
The Symbolic Language of Hindu Iconography and Its Impact on Indian Society
France Azema, PhD, Anthropology, EHESS - Toulouse -Paris, Haute-Garonne, France
Anatomy, Flesh, and Resurrection: Sculptures of the Supine Dead Christ in Counter-Reformation Spain
Ilenia Colon Mendoza, Associate Professor of Art History, School of Visual Art and Design, University of Central Florida, United States
Immigrant Religious Identity Development: Variation in Religious Identities Post-Migration in Filipino-Canadians
Drexler Ortiz, Graduate Student, Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada
Catherine Costigan
Speech Sounds as Symbols: The Explanatory Power of Phonological Universals and Phonological Patterns across Human Languages
Raul Prezas, Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Lamar University, Texas, United States
Paul R. Shockley
Religion Does Not Stand Alone: The Common Origins of Religion, Science, and Philosophy
Ken A Baskin, Writer/Speaker, Indepedent , Pennsylvania, United States
From Design in Religion to Sacred in Design
Zoltán Körösvölgyi, Lecturer, Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME)
Spirituality, Transpersonal Psychology and Eastern Traditions: Interdependencies and Mutual Influences
Milica Zegarac, Student, PhD candidate - Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, California, United States
Aftermaths of Babel: Translation and the Abrahamic Faiths
Emad Mirmotahari, Associate Professor, English, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania, United States
Religion as a Source of Both Tolerance and Intolerance in Society
Quinn Galbraith, Sociology and Family Life Research Librarian, BYU, Utah, United States
Adam Callister
The Islamic Traditions: Adaptation or Innovation?
Auranzaib Noor Ali, Adolescent and Youth Educator, Studies in Culture & Civilization, ITREB/Community Development Foundation (CDF), Sind (en), Pakistan
Future of Religion: A Survey of Religious Views in a Mid-sized Southern Town
Mahmoud Sadri, Professor, Sociology, TWU, Texas, United States
Sustainability in the Religious Sources of Western Culture
Bina Nir, A lecturer , Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel