Dispelling myths: Christian prayers and their impact on democracy building in Nigeria by Chisom B. Amaole

“…Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s paradigm on prayer and protest formed the theoretical framework. Results: The study reveals that while prayer is important, it cannot replace the role of active political participation in electioneering and other civic responsibilities. …”
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God’s Forgotten Garden: The Role of Missionary Botany in Sino-European Exchanges by Jooyoung Hong

“…By examining the transnational exchange of scientific ideas, the paper highlights the role of missionaries, particularly Jesuits and Protestants, in promoting Western botany within a highly sophisticated Chinese intellectual framework. …”
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Crony Capitalism and Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa by Fatih Kırşanlı

“…Lastly, in Yemen, certain tribes, families, and acquittances of Saleh dominated the Yemeni economy. After the Arab protests, all of these countries changed their regimes except Syria, where the demonstrations ignited a civil war. …”
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Graffiti of Healing: Therapeutic Elements of Hip-Hop Dance among Indian Youth by Tanushree Mishra, Oindrila Mukherjee

“…What started in the 1970s as a mark of protest and revolution, hip-hop dance, with its various sub-categories, has grown over the years and has spread throughout the world prominently among the youth. …”
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Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law by Puanani Apoliona-Brown

“…These forms range in visibility from direct protest to the perpetuation of Indigenous practices, values, and knowledge systems. …”
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An Analysis of Disinformation and Bot Accounts Under the Hashtag #Darbeyehayir (Nocoup) by Semra Demirdiş

“…Examination of Twitter content at that time showed that the protests following the coup attempt were often reported in the form of disinformation, which includes manipulated and fabricated content. …”
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Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)... by Marc André

“…Pursued and arrested for illegal protest, disobedience, and desertion, this artist-objector was detained and incarcerated eleven times at various detention sites in France. …”
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“Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels by Nicholas Manning

“…This position may be compared to Nick Shay’s misological efforts, in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, to preserve a “wordless shock” before the world, or the renouncement of the search for meaning in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense”). Such explicit protests against self-reflection may initially appear symptomatic of an anti-intellectual impetus within a society which views philosophy as a threatening limitation of the free American self. …”
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Le conflit du Tipnis et la Bolivie d’Evo Morales face à ses contradictions : analyse d’un conflit socio-environnemental by Laetitia Perrier-Bruslé

“…Because they are against the building of the Tipnis road that would go through their territory, some indigenous people started a protest walk to La Paz. During the 66 days of the walk, the conflict grew at the national level and gathered all those opposed to the government. …”
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An Alternative for Turkish Serials: Uses and Gratifications of Watching Indian Soap Operas by Turkish Female Viewers by Yeliz Yücel, Yeşim Ceren Çapraz

“…The most unexpected and remarkable finding of this research is the use of watching Indian soaps as a protest against Turkish serials that include sexually explicit content and morally corruptive scenes. …”
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LE STYLE NATIONAL DANS LES ŒUVRES DE L’OPÉRA ROUMAIN EN TRANSYLVANIE PENDANT LA PÉRIODE ENTRE LES DEUX GUERRES by Otilia Maria CONSTANTINIU

“… The central idea of this study concerns the national identity in the operas of the Romanian composers from Transylvania during the interwar decades when Romanian intellectuality was concerned with the definition and redefinition of the culture of a recently made geopolitical entity and with the protection of this national „being” from protesters. National specificity, as a romantic heritage influenced by the herderian thinking, was an inspirational source in configuring the idea of authenticity, in this equation the main characters being the national language and the folksong. …”
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Geotourism and Cultural Heritage by Kerran Olson, Ross Dowling

“…An example of the ways in which the link between geotourism and a place's culture may be misunderstood is given through discussion of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in central Australia, where tourists have climbed Uluru (Ayers Rock) for generations, despite protest from traditional land owners, the Anangu people. …”
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Xenophobia in South Africa by Zama Mthombeni

“…This paper critically examines the reasons why Operation Dudula is continuing to expand despite protests from civil society organisations. This paper demonstrates, via media stories, how the media primarily portrays the organisation as vigilante that vex ubuntu and African unification. …”
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LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by Uzoma Amos Dike

“…Apart from mourning, several times the psalmists' lament comes inform of protest in the face of injustice, persecution, individual and communal disasters, among others. …”
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Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by I. Istomin

“…The supporters of such policy include not only small, but well organized Jewish community, but also representatives of the conservative Evangelical Protestants, which constitute the most numerous religious group in the U.S. …”
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Powstanie narodowe czy bunt rekrutów? Rozkład wojsk austriackich w 1809 roku w Galicji by Michał Baczkowski

“…However, overthrowing the Austrian government in the lands of the Polish partition (Galicia) was largely related to the independence protests of the local Polish population. Among them, the Galician recruits played an important role. …”
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The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software by K.R. Eschenfelder, R.G. Howard, A.C. Desai

“…</b> The paper points out six areas that require further attention in ethical frameworks: determining motivation for posting, deciding whether some groups have more moral standing to post, assessing knowledge of the laws related to circumvention and posting, determining if protesters have taken related political actions, the legality of various formats of circumvention devices, and the physical geography of the participants.…”
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De l’utopie socialiste au réalisme chrétien by Isabelle Richet

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THE STRUGGLE OF IDEAS AND «THE NEW TURKEY» by V. A. Nadein-Raevskiy

“…In 2013 he criticized Erdogan for the police attacks against mass demonstrations of protest in Istanbul. Besides he sharply criticized corruption of the AKP officials. …”
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A political career for the Internet generation by O. V. Kryshtanovskaya, I. A. Lavrov

“…So young people sublimate their political energy in a protest activity unable to express their positions and interests legally.This article analysed both the political values of contemporary youth based on in-depth interviews (collective and individual) with 164 members of the young generation between the ages of 18 and 30, and the vertical mobility channels known from biographies of successful politicians at federal, regional and municipal levels. …”
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