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James A. Bishop (PhD candidate, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape Town)

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August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 James Bishop

Melford Spiro – From Essentialist to Empirical Theories of Religion

August 27, 2020December 29, 2022 James Bishop

What is Neo-Confucianism?

August 25, 2020March 20, 2023 James Bishop

What was Karl Marx’s Theory of Religion?

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 James Bishop

Daoism: A Closer Look at the Development of China’s Indigenous Religion

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 James Bishop

The Theism-Atheism Debate: God and the Logical Problem of Evil

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 James Bishop

An Outline of Baha’u’llah’s Life and Ministry

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 James Bishop

Theologian Trent Horn on the Black Lives Matter Movement

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Yoruba Religion?

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 James Bishop

The Ontological Argument and the “Maximally Great Island” Objection

August 13, 2020October 13, 2021 James Bishop

David Hume: The Problem of Induction

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