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... religion , but some modern scholars often regard beliefs as rationales for ritual , secondary expressions of religious experience or ideological sanctions for social and cultural patterns . The present article follows a cur- rent ...
... religion , but some modern scholars often regard beliefs as rationales for ritual , secondary expressions of religious experience or ideological sanctions for social and cultural patterns . The present article follows a cur- rent ...
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... religion . The most widespread sym- bolic use of food is in connection with religious behav- iour . In fact , eating and drinking are minimal elements in most religious behaviour and experience , whether in eat- ing , sacrifice , or ...
... religion . The most widespread sym- bolic use of food is in connection with religious behav- iour . In fact , eating and drinking are minimal elements in most religious behaviour and experience , whether in eat- ing , sacrifice , or ...
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... religions . Those persons who had been forced to convert to the religion of al - Ḥākim were allowed to return to their former religions . In the year 1017 al- Ḥākim was publicly proclaimed by his followers as the incarnation of God ...
... religions . Those persons who had been forced to convert to the religion of al - Ḥākim were allowed to return to their former religions . In the year 1017 al- Ḥākim was publicly proclaimed by his followers as the incarnation of God ...
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