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I. Religious Studies
The term calling or “call” refers to a person's experience of being grasped by a divine or other superhuman power and being taken into its service. The concept thus relates closely to that of election; at the same time, a calling can be seen as a kind of initiation that can precede or follow a longer pe…
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Hjelde, Sigurd,
Waschke, Ernst-Joachim,
Wilhelm Horn, Friedrich,
Sparn, Walter and
Martin Müller, Hans,
“Calling”, in:
Religion Past and Present.
Consulted online on 19 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_COM_01840>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013