Recordando o rei David: vivência coral e criatividade musical na Europa pós-carolíngia by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

“…In so doing, it puts into evidence the tension between an expansive, emotional musical aesthetics (mainly associated to Cluny and the Aquitanian and Aquitanian-derived traditions) and the patristic puritanism revived by the Cistercians in the 12th century. …”
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La notion de ‘awra selon Abû l-Ḥasan ‘Alî b. Muḥammad b. al-Qaṭṭân al-Fâsî (m. 628 /1231) by Eric Chaumont

“…His list of what is ethically and legally forbidden does not rely on the idea of the body as sacred, but rather seeks to protect the purity of lineages, believed to be a reflection of the created “nature.” The puritanism of Ibn al-Qaṭṭân which comes out in his Kitab al-Naẓar affects mainly women, and reminds us of some contemporary Islamic movements.…”
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The Specter of Oppression and National Identity in Hobomok by Alex McDonnell

“…The novel suggests that the oppressive strictures of Puritanism derive from the psychical trauma of banishment from England. …”
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Nuit javanaise. Réflexions sur le Merapi, la verticalité et le paganisme by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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Night-time in Java. Thoughts on Merapi, Verticality and Paganism by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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Law Vs Letter. The Evolution of the Cain Figure in US Literature: Transcending Moral Censorship? by Claude Le Fustec

“…The United States, with its stern history of authoritarian Puritanism, offers a perfect locus for the study of censorship. …”
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Repression and Expression of S exuality in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: the Paradox and Virtue of Censorship by Thierry Goater

“…If there was censorship in literature during the Victorian period, it was mainly more the effect of pervading Puritanism, voiced by leagues of virtue or carried out by editors and publishers, than the result of legal machinery. …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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IDEOLOGICAL CONTESTATION ON YOUTUBE BETWEEN SALAFI AND NAHDHATUL ‘ULAMA IN INDONESIA by Ulvah Nur'aeni, Arfian Hikmat Ramdan

“…This aim was motivated by the struggle for religious authority between NU and Salafis that has occurred in Indonesia since the beginning of the emergence of Salafis in the 1970s. The doctrine of Puritanism brought by Salafis is the key to the ideological battle with NU, which has the opposite doctrine. …”
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The Sacred and the Sensual by Swetha Vijayakumar

“…Deifying eroticism and promoting tourism using sensual imagery by an otherwise puritanical government in a fairly conservative Indian society is complex, paradoxical, and riddled with contradictions. …”
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L’émergence d’une sexualité juvénile hors mariage chez les jeunes de Sidi Ifni (Maroc) by Leila Boufraioua

“…Thus, in spite of moral prohibitions, dating relationships are thus trivialized and the influence of the outside world is callings into question the puritan education. More and more young people are transgressing the laws of social morality. and schools is are becoming the places where boys and girls are initiated into romantic relationships.; therefore, the gateway to sexuality outside marriage is therefore being opened. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…Embracing what José Esteban Muñoz has called a “queer utopia” the nameless narrator rejects the predetermined path of puritanically “virtuous,” materialistically productive, culturally assimilated, and politically predictable American masculinity and citizenship, and ends his narrative at the beginning of an alternative queer vision that does not depend on majoritarian approval, but unapologetically celebrates the possibilities of a “queer planet” (Michael Warner). …”
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The Specificity of Afghan Identity in the Context of Globalization by Georgy G. Machitidze

“…The features and reasons for the shift of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s leadership away from traditional Deobandism and towards a more acceptable combination of religious-Puritan beliefs adapted to the strict precepts of Islamic law are analyzed. …”
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'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices by Sarojini Nadar, Johnathan Jodamus

“… Pentecostalism, like many other church traditions, is well known for its fixation with doctrinal dualisms which enforce a separation of body and spirit, and a Puritan sexual ethic. These conservative sexual norms have led to the policing of bodies and sexual practices. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA by S. V. Rudenko, Y. A. Sobolievskyi

“…Combined with the philosophical ideas of the Puritan philosophy of the settlers of New England, this analysis allows us to explore in more detail the processes of acculturation. …”
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“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto jihadist approach to urban planning by Stephanie Zehnle

“…Although urban planning in Sokoto was not carried out by map sketches, several maps produced in the Sokoto Empire will be used to study the graphical understanding of Sokoto Jihadist urbanity expressed by rectangular walls and a special mosque-palace order with only very simple and puritan décor. But despite the private activities in mosque building among the male Jihadist elite, Sokoto lacked a state-owned and constant central mosque, because donors and their offspring personally had to care for the upkeep of the buildings. …”
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