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Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
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Setken Of Melbourne
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Aida Meets Setken In Adelaide is now LIVE! You are invited to view an exhibition of 28 works in this new exhibition. The show is free to view, and the downloadable catalogue has an intro from Australian Egyptologist Dr. Jasmine Day.
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Courtesy of
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: "Paganism is the most popular spiritual destination for British Christians who convert to another faith, outstripping Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, a study has found."
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https://archive.ph/2025.12.02-170313/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/british-christians-convert-paganism-5zq0659k5
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According to
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, people leaving Christianity in the UK are now more likely to become Pagans than converting to any other faith:
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Paganism is top choice for Christians who convert to new faith
The religious landscape in the UK has changed rapidly, with 83 per cent of those abandoning Christianity now identifying as atheist or agnostic
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/british-christians-convert-paganism-5zq0659k5
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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026
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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, “Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World”. In rec…
https://feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/women-writing-knowledge-philosophy-in-the-early-modern-world-online-lecture-series-2026/
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Petter Hübner 📕🌿
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Ainda é um bom texto. Porém de lá pra cá fui ficando cada vez mais cético a respeito das possibilidades do diálogo interreligioso com cristãos e com a formação de um ecumenismo de esquerda em um sentido forte.
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Looking in the Wrong Places: Rethinking Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt
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Looking in the Wrong Places: Rethinking Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt - ARCE
https://arce.org/resource/looking-in-the-wrong-places-rethinking-female-literacy-in-ancient-egypt/
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This previously published essay by
@hubner.likes.earth
and
@timmodryoid.bsky.social
is now up on Petter's Substack. It's excellent, I urge you to check it out.
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Some Insights for a Polytheistic Liberation Theology
Oluwaseyi Bello & Petter Hübner
https://open.substack.com/pub/noopositive/p/some-insights-for-a-polytheistic?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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While the Star Wars analogy is tired and, indeed, "forced", these are some very interesting reflections on Algonquian grammar.
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Toni Blanco
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And strongly recommended by yours truly.
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There's free shipping through Sunday at Bookshop, the online platform for independent booksellers. Here's my book, with my affiliate link, providing a modest benefit to me on this book or any other that you order.
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Polytheism in Greek Philosophy
Check out Polytheism in Greek Philosophy - <p>Polytheism in Greek Philosophy</em> challenges the perception of philosophy as a march of reason distancing itself from religion and spirituality, and mos...
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Print books are 30% off at Lulu with code BOOKGIFT30. These are my two books on that platform.
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In Gaia's Workshop: Hephaestus and Ecology
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In Gaia's Workshop: Hephaestus and Ecology
Continuing my ongoing reflections on Hephaestus (which began here and continued here and here) I wish to look at another passage from the Timaeus commentary where Proclus discusses Him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/epbutler/p/in-gaias-workshop-hephaestus-and?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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ICHRRF welcomes Sanjaya Sarpong-Kumankumah as Director of Outreach for African Traditional Religions
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ICHRRF - PR_11-24-2025
The ICHRRF Executive Committee today welcomed Sanjaya Sarpong-Kumankumah as its newest member. He will be assisting the Executive team in its various outreach programs in Africa with traditional Afric...
https://www.ichrrf.org/home/publications-media/pr_11-24-2025
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CFA for the upcoming International Society for Neoplatonic Studies conference in Leuven, Belgium, June 3-6, 2026
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Call for Abstracts for the June ISNS conference in Leuven
Dear ISNS Colleagues, Attached you will find the final list of panels to be held at the ISNS conference in Leuven, Belgium, June 3-6, 2026. Please send abstracts (no more than a page in lengt…
https://isnswebsite.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/call-for-abstracts-for-the-june-isns-conference-in-leuven/
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The Minoan Tarot by
@templemom.bsky.social
is 40% off *today and tomorrow only* with coupon code HOLIDAY40
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The Minoan Tarot
Step into the Mysteries of Ancient Crete Ancient Minoan culture meets modern Tarot in this striking 86-card deck and guidebook. Drawing on the art and symbolism of a civilization that thrived two mill...
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La polis y los dioses. El lugar de la religión en la filosofía política de Aristóteles
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Argos - Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos
Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos. Con referato y de acceso libre y gratuito
https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/argos/en/article/view/14817
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I’m heartbroken to learn of the tragic death of my friend and colleague, known to the polytheist revivalist community as Theanos Thrax. Please help and share. Fundraiser by Idalia Thrax: Help Idalia and Son Rebuild After Tragic Fire
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Donate to Help Idalia and Son Rebuild After Tragic Fire, organized by Idalia Thrax
My name is Idalia Nelson Thrax. On November 11, 2025, I lost my spouse and … Idalia Thrax needs your support for Help Idalia and Son Rebuild After Tragic Fire
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The Secret Vocation: Imagination, Beauty, and the Elenchus
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The Secret Vocation: Imagination, Beauty, and the Elenchus
The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism, Episode 10
https://open.substack.com/pub/palinode/p/the-secret-vocation-imagination-beauty?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet
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Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet - The Ancient Near East Today
The ˁAin Samiya goblet is small enough to sit in the palm of a hand — barely eight centimeters tall — yet its imagery reaches for the architecture of the cosmos.
https://anetoday.org/ain-samiya-goblet/
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Born into Brujeria: A Mayan Sorcerer’s Experience in a Transgressive Tradition
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Born into Brujeria: A Mayan Sorcerer’s Experience in a Transgressive Tradition
First-Hand Knowledge of the Hidden World of Guatemalan Folk Magic and Its Evolution from Secrecy to Modern Practice
https://www.solomonpakal.com/p/born-into-brujeria-a-mayan-sorcerers?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry
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Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry - Daily Nous
How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? That's the question to be taken up by Eamon Duede, assist...
https://dailynous.com/2025/11/12/philosopher-led-project-on-ai-and-evolving-norms-of-inquiry/
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Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
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Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia, “the gospel of the witches”, containing a goddess-orientated creation and saviour narrative, purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition ...
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/
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Materia Philosophiae: Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy (open access)
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https://brill.com/display/title/69956
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Plato and the Ideas: A Very Complicated Story
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https://brill.com/display/title/71742
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Hymn to Isis in Middle Egyptian
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Hymn to Isis in Middle Egyptian
YouTube video by Siamun
https://youtu.be/5pCO0_zmAMU
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“There are only a few hundred initial roots across the Algonquian languages … In this post, we explore the diverse expressions and underlying concept of the common root sound tk-.”
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Knowing Our Roots, tk-
There are only a few hundred initial roots across the Algonquian languages. Because of this limited number, each root carries a broad range of thematic meanings. In this post, we explore the diverse e...
https://abenakionline.com/f/knowing-our-roots-tk-
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My latest, in collaboration with Palinode Productions: Elenchus Against Ontology
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Elenchus Against Ontology
Jam Sessions on Negation, Part 2
https://open.substack.com/pub/palinode/p/elenchus-against-ontology?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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"What moves me most is not their grief but their calm response: ‘Let’s change the ritual order and try again.’ Not scientific logic nor denial but acceptance, a willingness to continue creation within uncertainty." Izanami — Creation and Loss
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Izanami — Creation and Loss
Women of the Divine — A Priestess’s View of the Goddesses in Shinto
https://open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p/izanami-creation-and-loss
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“I think of Matsuri as driving a stake into the flow of time. The space—ma (間)—that lies between those stakes is everyday life…” When the Kami Moves: Voices from Matsuri
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When the Kami Moves
Voices from Matsuri
https://open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p/when-the-kami-moves
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Euripides' The Bakkhai at Goldstein Theater, Flushing NY (Oct 30-Nov 9)
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The Bakkhai - Kupferberg Center for the Arts
The Bakkhai is Euripides most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single rui...
https://kupferbergcenter.org/event/bakkhai/
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Thought as Music (1): Sappho
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Thought as Music (1): Sappho – polymorph
https://polymorph.blog/early-greek-thought-as-music-1-sappho/
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Some Remarks from the African Traditional Religions Working Group
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Some Remarks from the African Traditional Religions Working Group
(Image courtesy of https://www.myuganda.co.ug/buganda-kingdom-in-uganda/)
https://open.substack.com/pub/epbutler/p/some-remarks-from-the-african-traditional?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Join P. Sufenas Virius Lupus virtually to celebrate Antinoan Foundation Day on October 30th.
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The Last Blast: Foundation Day (October 30th), 2025
The End...Hopefully Not, But We Can't Be Too Careful...
https://open.substack.com/pub/psvl/p/the-last-blast-foundation-day-october
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A note on parallels between Hera's conception of Hephaestus and Isis' conception of Horus
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about 2 months ago
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The Wild Hunt News
about 2 months ago
A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.
wildhunt.org/2025/10/hist...
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Historic First: Legal Hellenic Polytheist Marriage Ceremony Held in Cyprus — A Milestone for Mediterranean Paganism - Europe, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful ste...
https://wildhunt.org/2025/10/historic-first-legal-hellenic-polytheist-marriage-ceremony-held-in-cyprus-a-milestone-for-mediterranean-paganism.html
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"Was Plato really hostile to poets? Or did he, rather, insist on the crucial importance of poetry to almost every subject he placed before us?"
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Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/
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Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership
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Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership – Chinascope
On September 29, the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held its 22nd collective study session on advancing the Sinicization of religion in China, chaired by Xi Jinping. Xi emphasiz...
https://chinascope.org/archives/39226
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Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years? by
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
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Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years?
Members of the Dievturi religion at the Latvian Saeima, 9 October 2025 © Dievturi Sadraudze On Thursday the Latvian Saeima (parliament) passed a rather unusual law that, predictably, has escaped no…
https://drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/pagan-dawn-europes-first-pagan-state-religion-in-638-years/
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"To wait for the kami is to live in rhythm with the unseen world and to let holiness reveal itself when it is ready. Through this act of waiting, matsuri becomes not a ritual of motion but a stillness that holds all things." What is Matsuri?
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What is Matsuri?
From prayer to politics to stillness
https://open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p/what-is-matsuri
about 2 months ago
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New Substack post: More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter
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More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter
Contemporary reflections on technophany always seem to involve Prometheus, rarely Hephaestus, though technology is the latter’s explicit timē, and is embedded, moreover, in His mythic ‘birth’, inasmuc...
https://open.substack.com/pub/epbutler/p/more-on-hephaestus-and-the-theology?r=352vr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities (Free to read online, though not to download)
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Bodies that Mattered @ Sidestone Press
Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by foc...
https://www.sidestone.com/books/bodies-that-mattered
about 2 months ago
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Lilith Dorsey
about 2 months ago
Register now for this amazing class series
#Voodoo
#Vodou
#AfricanTraditionalReligion
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The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions with
@lilithdorsey.bsky.social
begins October 21
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
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The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions, with Author and Priestess Lilith Dorsey MFA, Begins October 21 — Morbid Anatomy
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Tuesdays, October 21 - November 25, 2025 7 - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) $150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be rec...
https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/the-real-world-of-voodoo-vodou-and-african-traditional-religions-with-author-filmmaker-priestess-lilith-dorsey-mfa-begins-october-21?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68e4aa9d19170f7a2c30dc6e&ss_email_id=68e66f0f59c8cb632540c9d8&ss_campaign_name=The+Legacy+of+Fate+Magazine%2C+Phenomenology%2C+Voodoo%2C+Neurogothic+%26+More%21&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-10-08T14%3A04%3A05Z
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CFP: Annual ICHS USF Conference: Souls and Psychological Phenomena in Greek Antiquity (Tampa, Florida, April 23 – 25, 2026)
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Souls and Psychological Phenomena in Greek Antiquity | Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies | College of Arts and Sciences | University of South Florida
https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/centers/ichs/events/annual-conference/index.aspx
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A Datura Ritual Complex in the Mississippian Southeast
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A Datura Ritual Complex in the Mississippian Southeast
In the American Southwest and northern Mexico, it has long been argued that ceramic vessels with exterior surfaces that are covered with small nodes are Datura seed pod effigies. Datura is a genus of ...
https://www.academia.edu/144345670/A_Datura_Ritual_Complex_in_the_Mississippian_Southeast
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Sharing again this article (and fundraising page in the following post) about a local Indo-Caribbean Kali mandir in need.
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A fight to save a Hindu temple for the 'unheard and unseen'
NEW YORK (RNS) — Since 2008, Shri Shakti Mariammaa has been a safe haven for women and members of the LGBTQ community. But the temple risks closure if it cannot make costly improvements.
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/16/a-temple-for-the-unheard-and-unseen-kali-worshippers-in-queens-at-risk-of-losing-their-spiritual-safe-haven/
about 2 months ago
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October 7-8, Bookshop has free shipping. It's a platform where you can shop online from independent booksellers. Some of my own books are available there, and I earn a commission on other books ordered from my storefront.
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Edward P. Butler Bookshop
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about 2 months ago
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Program for the fifth annual conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society; this year's theme, "Aristotle and the De Anima"
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Fifth conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society - Aristotle and the De Anima | Faculty of Arts
We are pleased to present the program for the fifth annual conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society, which will be held at the University of Ottawa on October 24 and 25, 2025. This year's conferen...
https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-arts/news-all/fourth-conference-canadian-aristotle-society-aristotle-metaphysics-first-philosophy
about 2 months ago
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CFP for several virtual round tables: Deus e o Divino nas Tradições Ayahuasca, Kardecistas e Indígenas Brasileiras; Concepções de Realidade Última nas Tradições Vedānta; and Conceptions of Divinity in African and Afro-Brazilian Religions
www.god-and-consciousness.com/round-tables
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