📜 Histories of Spiritual Belief

Textual criticism, historical jesus, patristics, gnosticism, synoptic problem, apostolic fathers, pali canon analysis, sutra philology, buddhist material culture, quranic exegesis, early islamic sects history, comparative mythology, ritual studies, religious secularization theory, religious syncretism

PM Modi meets head of Syro-Malabar Church
nordot.app·1d
☀Optimism
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Salting the Earth: The Ancient Curse of Doomed Cities That Might Be a Myth
labrujulaverde.com·2d
🏺Deep History
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The Collapse of Reality in Napoli
medium.com·1h
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Why Did People Keep Rebelling Against the Tudors?
thecollector.com·2d
🏺Deep History
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Words that don't translate
thoughtshrapnel.com·25m
📖Word Origins
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Five must-see shows this Dublin Gallery Weekend
theartnewspaper.com·16h
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland's earliest settlers
newscientist.com·22h
🏺Deep History
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Modern man has a severe case of amnesia — he’s forgotten the immense wisdom of the past.
threadreaderapp.com·2d
🏺Deep History
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Bangla metal and a resuscitated Roman sculpture: highlights from the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition
theartnewspaper.com·1d
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico depicts the cosmos and the 'order of the universe,' study claims
livescience.com·15h
🔬Curious Science
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When Modalities Conflict: How Unimodal Reasoning Uncertainty Governs Preference Dynamics in MLLMs
arxiv.org·1d
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Medieval treasure was found under the center of Berlin, but no one knows who buried it
earth.com·8h
🏺Deep History
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Pope Leo Blasts Treatment Of Migrants As Tensions Grow Between White House And Vatican
forbes.com·19h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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After empire came anarchy.When Spain’s grip weakened in the Caribbean, a new breed rose: the buccaneers of Port Royal and Tortuga. Outlaws to kings yet warriors...
threadreaderapp.com·1d
🏺Deep History
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How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
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Discuss: Hacker News
🕰Niche historical facts
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Systematizing LLM Persona Design: A Four-Quadrant Technical Taxonomy for AI Companion Applications
arxiv.org·5h
💡Conceptual Design
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Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models
arxiv.org·2d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Regularization Through Reasoning: Systematic Improvements in Language Model Classification via Explanation-Enhanced Fine-Tuning
arxiv.org·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Emotion Detection From Social Media Posts
arxiv.org·5h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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[29/M] A novel concept: we read books and email one another about them
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Discuss: r/penpals
💬Small Talk Fodder
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