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

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June 24, 2019September 29, 2020 James Bishop

Who are the Dogon? (Animistic Religion)

June 23, 2019August 24, 2020 James Bishop

The Historicity of Jewish High Priest Caiaphas

June 23, 2019October 28, 2023 James Bishop

E. B. Tylor – ‘Primitive’ Animism as the Origin of Religion

June 20, 2019August 24, 2020 James Bishop

What is Shamanism?

June 13, 2019July 2, 2019 James Bishop

Raffaele Pettazzoni – Monotheism as a Revolution from Within Polytheistic Frameworks

June 11, 2019August 12, 2021 James Bishop

Rudolf Otto – Religious Experience as Apprehension of the Holy

June 10, 2019August 28, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Phenomenology of Religion?

June 8, 2019December 28, 2020 James Bishop

What was the Hellenistic Period?

June 3, 2019 James Bishop

What are Western European Views on Gay Marriage?

June 3, 2019July 26, 2020 James Bishop

What is Plato’s Theory of Forms?

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