In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition native and familiar. The different areas of culture were influenced to varying degrees by Christian tradition. most dependent area on was calendar. many cases, it only superficially accepted content calendar elements reinterpreted in accordance with traditional mythological notions. same can be ...

prayer is an innate act and does not confine to human beings. its semantic domain is very broad and in different cultures it has more or less the same meaning. one of these similarities is close and internal connection with god and asking only from him. it has also multiple degrees and goals, from asking god’s favor for solving our problems or curing our disease and …, to ascending us to a leve...

one of the most highly applicable evidences for inference of legal precepts is the isolated tradition, whose acceptance, rejection, or limitation is highly effective in the consequences of inference. muḥaqqiq ardabīlī, as one of the geniuses of imāmī jurisprudence in tenth/ sixteenth century, with his special attitude toward this source of inference of precepts, has regarded only the validity o...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...