Religions

Papers
(The median citation count of Religions is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mystical Theology and Its Relevance for Today’s Theology: Some Historical Observations53
Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership: The Case of Australian Mosques45
An Economic Alternative from the Base: The Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) in the Diocese of Boac, Philippines43
Contending with Health Outcomes of Sanctioned Rituals: The Case of Puberty Rites38
Did Socrates Meditate? On Some Traces of Contemplative Practices in Early Greco-Latin Philosophy36
New Iconography in Court-Sponsored Buddhist Prints of the Early Joseon Dynasty—Focusing on Record of the Manifestation of Avalokitesvara34
Testing and Disrupting Ontologies: Using the Database of Religious History as a Pedagogical Tool30
Intercultural Theology Competence for an Intercultural Faith Education30
Orientation on ‘Visions of the Good’: A Narrative Analysis of Life Stories of Patients with Personality Disorders26
Nationalism, Post-Secular and Sufism: The Making of Neo-Bektashism by Moikom Zeqo in Post-Socialist Albania26
A Case for a Polyphonic Anthropology: Giving Voice to Experiences of Women of Color23
Compulsory Heterosexuality in Indonesia: A Literary Exploration of the Work of Ayu Utami23
Significance of the Śrāvastī Miracles According to Buddhist Texts and Dvāravatī Artefacts21
(De)constructing a Dar-ul-Uloom Aalim’s Identity in Contemporary Britain: Overcoming Barriers of Access21
Calling the Question: The Role of Ministries of Presence and Polity Principles in the Struggle for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, Ordination, and Marriage in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Its Predecessor 20
Three Contemporary Russian Poets and Biblical Tradition: Sergey Zavyalov, Natalia Chernykh, Jaan Kaplinski20
Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey20
Using Social Media to Assess Expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for Consideration19
The Alleged Decline of Liberation Theology: Natural Death or Attempted Assassination?19
Miroslav Volf’s Theology of Memory in Relation to Zimbabwean Social Narratives19
Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy18
Religiously Grounded Character and Its Association with Subjective Well-Being in Emerging Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis18
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Aging Clocks, and the Advent of ‘Biological Age’: A Christian Critique of AI-Powered Longevity Medicine with Particular Reference to Fasting17
Forthtellers Not Foretellers: The Origins of a Liberal Orthodoxy about the Prophets17
Children and Climate Anxiety: An Ecofeminist Practical Theological Perspective17
Learning from Experience: Liturgical Formation as a Central Component of Religious Education in Schools16
Africa Independent Churches as Amabandla Omoya and Syncretism in South Africa16
Speaking of God in the Realm of Aesthetics: Religion in Hölderlin16
Prehistoric Cult Sites along the Desert Roads16
Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand15
Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana15
Phantoms of Faith—Experiences of Rupture and Residue of Amputated Religiosity among Norwegian Ex-Charismatic Christians15
Panikkar on Mysticism as a Middle Way between Contemplation and Action15
How Can Islamic Primary Schools Contribute to Social Integration?15
“But Angels Don’t Have Wings”: Art, Religion, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters15
Pierre Claverie: Decolonising Mission14
“Struggle Is Our Way”: Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Relationship with Violence Post-201314
Beyond the Sacred Text: Examining the Confusion, Conflicts and Complications at the Intersection of Religion and Law in Zimbabwe14
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands: The Case of Paros14
The Catechism through Andean Eyes: Reflections on Post-Tridentine Reform in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales13
Religious Diversity Predicts Religions’ Population Growth in Tighter (vs. Looser) Cultures: A Study of Personality & Self-Reported Religion across 111 Countries13
Problematising the Islamic Theology of Religions: Debates on Muslims’ Views of Others13
The Black Mirror of the Pupil of the Eye: Around the Eye that Sees and Is Seen: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Bill Viola13
The Common Good According to Great Men of Prayer and Economists: Comparisons, Connections, and Inspirations for Economics13
A New Exploration of the Dharma Lineage of Fazang (法藏): The Third Patriarch of the Huayan School13
Sacred and Profane in Music Therapy13
Visualizing Faith and Futility in the Nuclear Apocalypse13
Divine Discomfort: A Relational Encounter with Multi-Generational and Multi-Layered Trauma13
Mediated Morality as a Middle Position in Understanding the Relation between God and Morality13
“We Take Hold of the White Man’s Worship with One Hand, but with the Other Hand We Hold Fast Our Fathers’ Worship”: The Beginning of Indigenous Methodist Christianity and Its Expression in the Christi12
Markan Spirituality of the Way12
Three Early Russian Documents about the Daodejing: An Analysis12
Confucian Order and Religious Doctrines: Rhetorical Characterizations of Illustrations in the Fiction “Quanxiang Pinghua” in the Yuan Dynasty12
The Gnostic Politics of World Loss12
Measuring Spiritual Wellbeing—Seeking a Valid, Reliable, and Usable Measure12
Authority over Death: Two Tales Related to the Lord of Mount Tai in Konjaku Monogatarishū12
A Shared Pulpit: Creating a Hospitable Homiletic Culture for Congregational Formation in a Metamodern Age12
Protocols of Conversion: Indigenous Gods and Eminent Monks in East Asian Buddhism12
Cosmology, Cosmologia, and Reality: How the Cosmological Model Challenges the Intelligibility of Reality12
What’s in a Name?: Mutanchi Clan Narratives and Indigenous Ecospirituality12
Human (Relational) Dignity: Perspectives of Followers of Indigenous Religions of Indonesia12
An Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism: The Case of Abu’l-Faḍā’il-i-Gulpāyigānī and E.G. Browne12
Characterizing ‘New Korean Confucianism’: Focusing on Pak Chonghong and Yi Sang-ŭn’s Life and Thought12
‘Not-All-There’ in the Necropolis: Afterlife and Madness in Urban Novels12
Development of the Dutch Chaplaincy Outcome Measure12
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)12
An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)12
Pojo Chinul’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Forgetting in East Asian Sŏn Buddhism: The Ten Paths to No-Mind11
Artificial Intelligence: A New Challenge for Human Understanding, Christian Education, and the Pastoral Activity of the Churches11
Christian Beliefs About Salvation: Measurement and Associations with Mental Health and Well-Being11
The Greek Philosophical Sources in Cicero’s De Fato11
Exploring the Role of Self-Forgiveness to Explain the Relationship Between Religiosity and Wellbeing in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness11
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Christology11
The Social Network of the Holy Land11
Worship of Tian, Transgressive Rites, and Judged Ghosts: The Religious Transformation of Hamlet in Peking Opera11
Equal Before God but Not Equal Before His Law? Sharia Law and Women’s Right to Interpretation in the Light of the Human Rights Debate10
A Religious Garment for a Marksmen’s Festival? On the Theological Compatibility of Local Festival Culture10
Towards a Public Theology of Menopause10
Surprised by Hope: Possibilities of Spiritual Experience in Victorian Lyric Poetry10
How the Body Gets Healthy: An Empirical Case of Animism and Naturalism Working Together in the Treatment of Disease Among the Nuosu People of Southwest China10
Wake Up Cities! A Heritage Rebalancing Plan from the Sacred10
The Scopes Trial and Its Long Shadow10
Sevā as a Postcapitalist Model for Environmental and Collective Well-Being in the Postsecular Age10
Securitization, Humanitarianism, and the Religious Dimension of European Migration Policy10
“Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779)10
Political Grief and the South Korean Church10
Faith, Bioethics, and Sustainable Development: A Christian Perspective on Bioethics of Care and the Challenges of Sustainability Transitions10
Wang Fuzhi on the Problem of Heaven and Human in the Religious Tradition of Confucianism10
Analysis of Youth Pastoral Care in Croatia Through the Lens of the Synod on Youth10
Widening the Circles of Dialogue: Paul VI and Interreligious Dialogue After 60 Years of Ecclesiam suam10
“That Part of Us That Is Mystical”: The Paradoxical Pieties of Huey P. Newton10
We Are Not One, We Are Legion—Secular State in Mexico, Local Dynamics of a Federal Issue10
Relics as Instruments of Divine Leadership in the First Crusade10
Aligned in Human Dignity? Parallel Anthropological Aspects of EU Tech Regulation and Pope Francis’ Teaching on AI10
Editorial for Special Issue “The Global Urgency of Interreligious Studies”10
Catholic, Shia and Shakta Salvation Through Mystical Sorrow: Holy Mothers and Sacred Families9
Inculturation at Home: The Belgian Catholic Project for Chinese Students (1920–1930s)9
In Altum—“Put Out into the Deep”: A Formation Program for Missionary Discipleship for Students at the University of Notre Dame Australia9
Zen in Early Persian Painting—A Study of the 1314–1315 Jāmiʿ al-Tavārīkh Illustrations9
Religiosity and Sexual Satisfaction in Middle Age: The Moderating Role of Nonconformity9
The Narrative Foundations of Radical and Deradicalizing Online Discursive Spaces: A Comparison of the Cases of Generation Islam and Jamal al-Khatib in Germany9
The Evolution of a Social Movement: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Path Between Political Ambition and the Rejection of Armed Struggle9
‘Let Us Just Be Humans’: Reading Allard Pierson’s True Humanity through the Lens of Caputo’s Religion without Religion9
Harmony or Discordance between Sacramental and Liturgical Theology?9
Environmental Ethics and the Cambridge Platonist Henry More9
Carnival in Rome: The Tension of Pope Paul III’s Dual Role Revisited9
Ólöf the Rich and a Cloth from Svalbarð, Iceland9
Freedom, Intentionality, and Trinitarian Love in Edith Stein’s Thought—The Need for a Phenomenology–Theology Dialogue to Have a Deeper Understanding of It9
Fish, Fetishization, and Faith in the Arctic Ocean9
A Moderate Proposal: Jonathan Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin Debate Freedom, Conscience, and Consensus9
The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology9
Introduction of Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) in The Netherlands: Translation and Adaptation of a Psychotherapy Protocol for Mental Health Care9
“But Now I Consydre Thy Necesse”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Jewish Witness and the Restoration of Racial Hierarchies in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament9
Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition9
Gender Conflicts in Contemporary Korean Buddhism9
Between Christ and Alexander: Strands of Typological Exegesis in Pseudo-Methodius’s Apocalypse9
Charismatic Embeddedness: A Cultural Starting Mechanism Generating Relational Goods in an Interreligious Field. An Analysis from Algeria9
Developing Christ as Consolatory Example in the Christ Encomium8
The Role of Catholic Life Formation in Fostering Sustainable Environmental Attitudes among Selected Filipino SHS Students8
Varieties of Revelation, Varieties of Truth—A Comparative Ontological Study of Revelation through Music and Sciences8
The Widening, Deepening, and Lengthening of the Seven Mountains Mandate (7MM) Network: The Role of Network Apostolic Leadership8
A Critical Analysis of Cremation Burials Within Some of the South African Tribes: A Contextual Practical Theological View8
Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Sect?8
Diving Deep into the Word of God: A Sufi Approach to Religious and Trans-Religious Images8
Foregrounding African Ontology/Epistemology: A Reading of Deuteronomy 23:3 and Ruth 4:18–22 Considering the Nature of God8
Ecumeny at a Crossroads: Toward Unity or Community?8
Rhetorical Approach to the Periautology of Philippians 3:2–168
What Is the “Similarity” of Humankind? A Difference between Confucian and Mohist Religious Ethics8
Precarious Hues: On Chromophobia, Chromophilia, and Transitions between Chromatic and Achromatic Colours in the Hebrew Bible8
Vox populi (Dei), vox Dei: Pope Francis’ Theology of the People of God, the Priesthood of All Believers and Democracy8
Revisiting Du Guangting: Theoretical Contributions and Religious Transformations Within Daoism During the Late Tang and Five Dynasties Periods8
Epistemic Goods, Epistemic Norms, and Evangelization8
The Pope of the Rain: The Extraordinary Solitude in the Media8
A Particular Kind of Love: On Faith and Understanding8
Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music8
Synchronizing Missio Dei with Process Theology and Theodicy8
From Circle to Cycloid: The Philosophical Value of Religious Cult in Maurice Blondel’s L’Action8
Apocalypse as a Sacrifice: An Interpretation of Raimon Panikkar’s Arguments on Yajña8
Historicizing Secular Subjectivities: Conceptual Erasures and Subjective Multi-Hybridizations8
Contesting ‘Truth’: A Late Ottoman Response to Protestant Missionary Writings8
“Sharing Worldviews: Learning in Encounter for Common Values in Diversity” in School and Teacher Education—Contexts in Germany and Europe8
With Friends Like These: Does American Soft Power Advance International Religious Freedom?8
Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods8
The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir8
Influence of Ecological Factors and Internal Resources on Adolescent Suicidal Ideation: An Empirical Study in Colombia7
Flavors of Ecstasy: States of Absorption in Islamic and Jewish Contemplative Traditions7
Linking Faith and Conservation in Sacred and Community Forests of Far Western Nepal7
Examining the Influence of Meaning in Life and Religion/Spirituality on Student Engagement and Learning Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Analysis7
Crisis, Solidarity, and Ritual in Religiously Diverse Settings: A Unitarian Universalist Case Study7
Expanding Ethical Horizons: Rethinking the Ethics of De 德 and Guṇa in the Laozi 老子 and Bhagavad-Gītā7
University Student’s Perceptions on Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia: Openness, Idealism, and Reality7
The Intertwinement Between Freedom of Religion and Interreligious Dialogue: The Interreligious Field of Brescia as a Case-Study7
When Film Mediatizes Taoism, What Does It Bring to Taoism?7
Dispositional Forgiveness and Mental Health and Well-Being: Adaptation of the Toussaint Forgiveness Scale in Georgia and Cross-Cultural Comparison with Poland7
The Value of Old Age in the Teaching of Pope Francis7
Portuguese Youth Religiosity in Comparative Perspective7
Is Sanctification Real? Empirical Evidence for and against Christian Moral Transformation7
Wittgenstein, Religion and Deep Epistemic Injustice7
The Puzzle of Revenge7
Christian Nationalism and Politics in Ghana7
Iconic Reconciliations in a Secular Setting: Recent Bohemian Examples7
Qualifying Religious Truth and Ecclesial Unity: The Soteriological Significance of Difference7
The Christian Discourses of “Chao Zhengzhi” (Supra-Politics) in the Early PRC: A Religio-Political Reappraisal7
Music and Spirituality in Africa: Gospel Music, Spirituality, and Everyday Meaning-Making in Nigeria7
The Discourse of Christianity in Viktor Orbán’s Rhetoric7
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies7
Deciphering Arachosian Tribute at Persepolis: Orthopraxy and Regulated Gifts in the Achaemenid Empire7
Natural Metaphors: Expressions of Mystical Experience in John of the Cross, Etty Hillesum, and Björk7
Self-Transcendence and Its Discontents: Criticisms and Defences of the Zhuangzi in Wei-Jin Thought and Their Modern Significance7
Introduction to Syncretism and Pentecostalism in the Global South7
“QUERIDA AMAZONIA”: A New Face of the Church in the Heart of Latin America to Inspire Integral Conversion on the Planet7
Anonymity and Digital Islamic Authority7
Ethics and Theism7
Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts7
Miracles Between Modern Science and Classical Thought: A Contemporary Perspective7
Criteria for the Acceptability of Scientific Theories as Locus theologicus: A Methodological Analysis of Catholic Church’s Reactions to the Cases of Galileo and Darwin (Bellarmine—Pius XII—John Paul I7
A Star God Is Born: Chintaku Reifujin Talismans in Japanese Religions7
The Scramble for Religion and Secularism in Pre-Colonial Africa7
Sufism and Shari‘a: Contextualizing Contemporary Sufi Expressions7
Allowing Similarities: Using Aldous Huxley’s Views on Mystical Experience to Assess the Import of Profound Unitive Experiences Occasioned by Psychedelic Substances7
Logical Argument from Evil and Theism7
Correction: Butts (2025). Al-Hajj Umar Taal or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)? Case Studies on Islam and Interreligious Pan-African Unity. Religions 16: 5427
Chiara Lubich and the Intercultural Dialogue—Educational Relevance in a Time of New Conflicts7
The Spanish Aggiornamento of Ignatian Theology and Spirituality: Axes and Figures7
The Epistemic Status of Mystical Experience in Ibn ʻArabī’s Legal Reasoning7
Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination7
Giving, Showing, Saying: Jean-Luc Marion and Hans-Georg Gadamer on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Revelation7
Isaiah 53:10: A Question of Sacrifice or Also an Attempt to Legitimize Authority?7
The Role of Moscow Patriarchs in the Promotion of the Imperial Culture of Sobornost’: Thematic Analysis of Religious Leaders’ Speeches at the World Russian People’s Council 1993–20227
John Allegro and the Psychedelic Mysteries Hypothesis7
The Celestial Masters and the Origins of Daoist Monasticism7
Between Religion and Politics: The Case of the Islamic Movement in Israel7
Hesed in Ruth: A Frail Moral Tool in an Inflexible Social Structure7
Griby i Mukhi: A Historical Contextualization of the Esoteric Mushroom Religion of Moscow Conceptualism: Fungal Erotic Imagery of Entheogens and Insects7
Violence and Organized Crime Among Palestinians in Israel: Searching for a Savior7
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Water Deities Beliefs in the Pearl River Delta Applying Historical GIS7
The Path of ‘No’ Resistance to Temptation: Lessons Learned from Active Buddhist Consumers in Thailand7
Religeopolitics and Evangelical Place-Making: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of Transnational Mission Partnerships7
Despite Being Spanish by Birth: Cesare Borgia of France and Duke of the Romagna7
Faithful Innovation: Negotiating Institutional Logics for AI Value Alignment Among Christian Churches in America7
Artificial Intelligence in Religious Education: Ethical, Pedagogical, and Theological Perspectives7
Religious Views of Suffering Profile Groups during COVID-197
The Impact of Religious Beliefs on Mental Health: A Self-Assessment Study Among Medical Students7
Catholic Higher Education in the United States: Exploring the Decision to Enroll from a Student’s (or a Student Advisor’s) Point of View7
The Distinctive Mindfulness of Dzogchen: Jigme Lingpa’s Advice on Meta-Awareness and Nondual Meditation7
The Sociocultural Change Under the Sacred Canopy in Italy7
The Art of Neighboring beyond the Nation: Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in Southwest China7
Mapping the Growth of the Nones in Spain: Dynamics, Diversity, and the Porous Boundaries of Non-Religion in the Postsecular Age7
Religious Literacy in Contemporary South Korea: Challenges and Educational Approaches7
The Christian Approach to Divine Creation in the Context of Scientific Worldview7
Introduction: A Brief History of Theism and Its Alternatives6
The Self as Source and Destination for Intuitive Interpretations of Religious or Spiritual Experiences6
Young Educators’ Voices on Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Diversity in Leisure Time Education: Towards an Effective Policy Framework and Training6
Religion Counts: Faithful Realism and Historical Representation in George Eliot’s Romola6
The Healing Heuristic of the Medicine Buddha in Bhutan6
The Role of Black Christian Beliefs in the Civil Rights Movement: A Paradigm for a Better Understanding of Religious Freedom6
BLESSING: Exploring the Religious, Anthropological and Ethical Meaning6
Animism and Science6
What about Abraham? Abraham as Ingroup Exemplar and “Children of Abraham” as Superordinate Identity in Romans 46
A Sociologist on the Contribution of Mystique and Theology in Interreligious Dialogue6
“Not my God”–Challenging the Usage of ‘Te Atua’ as Māori Terminology for the God of Christianity6
‘This Is the Greatest Thing a Man Can Do’: Vocational Journeys of Recently Ordained Catholic Priests in Australia6
Prison Chaplaincy as A Microaggressive Environment for the Non-Religious6
Heidegger’s Way to “The Last God”6
Pious Women Challenge Arrangements Anchored in the Dominancy of the Religious Discourse: Druze Women in Israel as a Case Study6
Consecrating the Peripheral: On the Ritual, Iconographic, and Spatial Construction of Sui-Tang Buddhist Corridors6
Death, Reincarnation and Rebirth of BJDs6
Visits to the Palace of the Sea God in Ancient and Medieval Japan6
An Incarnational Pneumatology Based on Romans 8.18-30: The Spirit as God’s Solidarity with a Suffering Creation6
“Christ Is Speaking”: The Psalms as the Grammar of Augustine’s Sermons6
‘We’re Islam in Their Eyes’: Using an Interpellation Framework to Understand Why Being a Woman Matters When Countering Islamophobia6
Ibn ‘Arabī and the Theologization of Aristotelian Hylomorphism6
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère: Believing or Learning as a Theological Virtue6
Communicating the Turkish Military Strength and Organisation after the Crusader Defeat at Nicopolis: Comparing Philippe de Mézières’s Une Epistre lamentable, Honorat Bovet’s L’Apparicion Maistre Jehan6
Gender Discourse in the Gurucaritra: A Close-Reading of Three Women’s Narratives6
Space and Sonship: Paul’s Familial Metaphors in Rom 86
The Religious Which Is Political: Revisiting Pnina Werbner’s Imagined Diasporas and Beyond6
Time, Memoria, Creation: Receptions of Augustinism in the Philosophical Theology6
Churches in Europe and the Challenge of Cultural Witness6
GDPR and Canon Law—The Impact of European Union Law on the Canonical Systems for the Protection of the Right to Good Reputation and Privacy6
The Story of the Watchers as a Counter Narrative: Enochic Responses to the Authority of Mesopotamian Sages6
Humanizing the It: Martin Buber on Technology and the Ethics of Things6
General Baptist Women in Orissa, India: Initiatives in Female Education, 1860s–1880s6
Belief in Drama: A Study of the Religious Factors in Ancient Chinese Puppet Dramas6
Living the Kingdom of God: The Communal and Renewing Spirituality of Jesus in Mark6
A Foreign People: Towards a Holistic Identity Theory within a Christian Context6
Human Rights and Religions: An Overview on a Controversial Relationship6
The Indigenization Strategies of Catholic Painting in Early 20th Century China6
Researching Artificial Intelligence Applications in Evangelical and Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches: Purity, Bible, and Mission as Driving Forces6
An Analysis of the Relationship between Shenxian Daohua Ju and Daoism of the Yuan Dynasty6
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