Tocqueville y el socialismo by Nere Basabe

“…Frente a la visión clásica de un Tocqueville liberal pensador de la democracia, este artículo se propone indagar en las relaciones que el autor francés mantuvo durante su vida y su obra con el pensamiento de los socialistas de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. …”
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Os múltiplos processos de construção da autonomia do movimento zapatista by Juan Diez

“…Both processes are addressed from the perspective of the Zapatista movement as a whole, taking into account not only the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, but also indigenous communities and many organizations, groups, and individuals who fight alongside the Zapatistas in Mexico. …”
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Discernment: the message of the Bhagvad-Gita by K. Perumpallikunnel

“…Krishna instructs him that, when a person is capable of watching everything that happens within and around him dispassionately and acting with an attitude of detachment, he attains sthithaprajna (equanimity) and samadhai (liberation). …”
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FROM THE 1964 CABINET CRISIS TO THE 2014 CABINET IN MALAWI: by Q Jere

“…The Presbyterian Church (CCAP) in Malawi is one of the religious institutions that played a critical role in the nation’s liberation and fight for independence. Seven weeks into independence a cabinet crisis occured where some ministers were dismissed, while others resigned in support of their fired colleagues. …”
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A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE NIGERIAN MILITARY UNDER DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATIONS by MOHAMMED LAWAL TAFIDA

“…This paper conceptualises the nature of civilian control of the military in these dispensations by assessing the frameworks, challenges and outcomes. Using liberal-democratic prescriptions that define civilian control as conceptual framework, it employs the historical, constitutional, structural and institutional approaches as analytical tools. …”
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Cuestión social, niñez y educación profesional. La obra salesiana y la opción por los más pobres. Córdoba (Argentina), 1905 - 1935 by Nicolás D. Moretti

“…Por medio del análisis del grupo de alumnos formados en las aulas y talleres de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios salesiana, este trabajo aborda la experiencia de ese grupo de menores con la intención de aproximarse a las distintas situaciones de vulnerabilidad padecidas por una porción significativa de la población infantil en Córdoba durante la modernidad liberal.…”
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UNHEARD VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, WITH IMPLICATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S CHURCH by L.M. Mudimeli, J.D.N. Van der Westhuizen

“…As the empowerment of women is located within the discourses of gender equality, a gender lens, which is a biblical liberation hermeneutic of vhusadzi theology, is employed to reconstruct positive discourses regarding people’s perceptions about women in societies. …”
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An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century. by K. Mashabela, M. Madise

“…The latter need to be confronted with liberation and decolonisation systems that reclaim African indigenous identities. …”
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Godsdiens: middel tot verslawing of tot heling? by W. C. Coetzer

“… There are two sides to religion, on the one hand the threat that implies emotional pain and addiction, on the other hand the healing and liberating effect of a balanced and healthy religion. …”
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Christian and secular values for sale: the religious apostasy of celebrity and Disney's "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus by Sanchez Sabate, Gelabert Santané, Badilla Briones, Del Valle Rojas

“…A paradigmatic case is that of American singer Miley Cyrus, who went from being a famous religious role model for conservative American evangelical Christians to becoming a secular and liberal celebrity, playing in highly sexualized live shows and videos. …”
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Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs by M. H. Schweitzer, W. Zheng, E. Dickinson, J. Scannella, A. Hartstone-Rose, P. Sjövall, J. Lindgren

“…Here, we use a suite of micromorphological and molecular techniques to examine vessel-like material recovered from the skeletal remains of six non-avian dinosaurs, representing different taxa, depositional environments and geological ages, and we compare the data obtained from our analyses against vessels liberated from extant ostrich bone. The results of this in-depth, multi-faceted study present strong support for endogeneity of the fossil-derived vessels, although we also detect evidence of invasive microorganisms.…”
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Cosmopolitismo, constructivismo y liberalismo institucional: diálogo teórico en torno a la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo by Luis Ochoa Bilbao, Juan Pablo Prado Lallande

“…El artículo propone una lectura que permita vincular las teorías cosmopolita, constructivista y liberal institucional a partir de un diálogo respecto a la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo. …”
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Mecanismos en la transformación política en Cali: fragmentación partidista, electorado cambiante y responsabilidad política (1988-2007) by María Teresa Pinto Ocampo

“…Los mecanismos en los que enfatiza son las innovaciones en las formas de hacer política en el campo electoral, la fragmentación no exitosa del Partido Liberal, los cambios institucionales sufridos por la introducción de la responsabilidad electoral de los ejecutivos locales y, finalmente, los cambios en el electorado caleño.…”
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The narrative of the woman caught in adultery (JN 7:53-8:1-11) re-read in the Nigerian context by C. U. Manus, J. C. Ukaga

“…The findings reveal abiding lessons adjudged relevant for a sustainable pro-life Christology and theology of the rescue and liberation of women from militant jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria. …”
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The multifaceted Montessori movement, and its pioneers by Christine Quarfood

“…I par­ticularly focus on their widely differing interpretations of Montessorism – the movement’s central creed about the child’s liberation. …”
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El uso del concepto “totalitarismo” en la ensayística antiperonista. El caso de Frente al totalitarismo peronista, de Reynaldo Pastor by Andrés Bisso

“…El presente trabajo analiza el libro de Reynaldo Pastor, Frente al tota- litarismo peronista , en tanto producto tardío de la literatura de ensayo antiperonista, en el que se intenta conjugar parte de la tradición antifas- cista de cuño liberal-conservador en el marco de la renovada prédica antitotalitaria de la Guerra Fría. …”
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El sujeto de derecho de las minorías. Nuevas categorías y una crítica a la concepción de los derechos diferenciados en función de grupo de Will Kymlicka by Dante Palma

“…Su distinción entre derechos de grupo como protecciones externas y como restricciones internas buscó dar cuenta de las reivindicaciones minoritarias sin vulnerar el principio liberal de autonomía. En este artículo se buscan dos objetivos: primero, adoptar una perspectiva crítica, al afirmar que tal distinción soslaya el eje central de la discusión, esto es, la proble- mática de la titularidad del derecho, y, segundo, proponer una nueva clasificación de los derechos aplicables a las minorías que sea capaz de servir de modelo para futuros diseños institucionales.…”
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Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms by N.L. deClaissé- Walford

“…In the late 20th nd early 21st centuries, other approaches to the Psalter emerged such as, among others, rhetorical criticism, liberation theology, feminist criticism, the psalms and spirituality, and so forth – the current trends. …”
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Verlossing as socio-politieke bevryding? by P. Robinson

“…Widely different approaches have developed of which the one extreme position sees salvation as "saving souls" in a clearly individualistic and spiritualistic way while on the other extreme one has the demand for total socio-political liberation. In order to understand this radicalizing of such a central Biblical concept as "salvation" one has to take note of some developments in theology and society during the 20th century. …”
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Sytuacja prawna dzieci w Polsce po 1945 r. Wybrane aspekty z A.S. Makarenką w tle by Sylwia Różycka-Jaroś

“…The analysis carried out in the text shows that the law established at that time was not only progressive in relation to the past, but it also kept up to date, about which, after the liberal breakthrough of 1989, we do not want to remember. …”
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