Dedication: Close reading: Ludi Schulze and Calvin research by Erik A. de Boer

“… From text: How should we paint a picture of a scholar who in the course of a lifelong career has become well known to the South-African academic community? …”
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Debating Igbo conversion to Christianity: a critical indigenous view by F. Hale

“… Since the 1970s the dynamics of conversion have been a focal point of research with regard to the impact of Christianity on traditional African societies. Much of the scholarly debate about the matter has concentrated on West Africa. …”
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A self-reflexive analysis of Communicare by Keyan Tomaselli

“…The article ends with an examination of the problems that scholarly work faces when universities measure finite products at the expense of processes. …”
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Appetitus Socialis Berolinensis by Jan Thiessen

“…This article examines how jurists of different professions, that is, legislators, judges, lawyers and scholars, gradually re-shaped the traditional landscape of national statutory law and case law in times of global commerce, competition and communication. …”
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Une écologie symbolique totonaque. Le municipe de Huehuetla (Puebla, Mexique) by Nicolas Ellison

“…Totonac found their identity on their special relation with wooded or agro-forestry areas, using a hot/cold classificatory system. Scholars have often focused on this dualistic principle in therapeutic and culinary practices, but its application at the level of symbolic classification of ecological spaces has rarely been studied in the Mesoamerican area.…”
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Nursing Leadership in a Rapidly Aging Society: Implications of “The Future of Nursing” Report in Japan by Harue Masaki, Hiroko Nagae, Megumi Teshima, Shigeko Izumi

“…The recent US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report about the future of nursing highlights the areas where nurses can serve, contribute, and move forward to improve health care in the United States. Japanese nursing scholars examined the IOM report for its implications in the Japanese context and explored the future of nursing in Japan. …”
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"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce by Philippe Birgy

“…Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amply documented by Joycean scholars—it concentrates on the communal dimension that underlies Joyce's writing and on the stylistic inscription of a democracy to come that reaches beyond nationalism and citizenship (the latter being comically presented as Bloom's celestial Jerusalem). …”
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سوء السلوک البحثى فى العالم العربى : دراسة تحليلية من واقع سحب المقالات العلمية المنشورة by ضياء الدين عبدالواحد حافظ

“…Hence, the current study tried to shed light on thisphenomenon and the extent of its spread in the Arab world, through the ArabRetracted articles. We found 416 scholarly publications retracted. Although theyaccount for 0.027% of all articles published,The rate of retraction is rising. …”
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Critiques et enjeux du Dark tourism à travers la focale sud-africaine by Fabrice Folio

“…Research into visits associated with dramatic episodes, suffering and death is relatively recent among francophone scholars. But this theme has attracted more attention among English speakers where the term ‘dark tourism’ is used. …”
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Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar by Élysé Rabearivola Nomenjanahary, Hortensia Rasoanandrasana, Andrew Walsh

“…Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. …”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…This article examines how Landes’s theory of culture, methods of fieldwork, and personal writing style went against the grain of the approaches taken by leading scholars at the time who treated Afro-Brazilian culture in terms of race-based psychological characteristics and “African survivals” and harshly critiqued her work.…”
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RUSSIAN WRITING CENTERS CONSORTIUM by E. M. Bazanova, I. B. Korotkina

“…At the core of these challenges is a lack of awareness among the Russian scholarly community of academic writing as a separate branch of scientific and methodological knowledge in addition to insufficient number of specialists, inadequate training and rare publications in this field. …”
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Gee die Bybel nog vandag aan ons morele oriëntering oor kwessies soos homoseksualiteit? by E. de Villiers

“…The next section highlights the emphasis by contemporary biblical scholars on the influence of the context within which the various books of the Bible were written. …”
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Autofictions in Co-labouring by Diana Damian Martin, Daniela Perazzo, Nik Wakefield

“…Engaging autofiction as a scholarly mode with different models of co-authorship, the Key Group move through critical engagements with working conditions, temporalities of labour and its instrumentalisation within and beyond universities and cultural ecologies. …”
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BELGOROD SCHOOL OF RESEARCHERS OF SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES by Valentin P. Babintsev

“…Danakin created the chair of social technologies at Belgorod technological institute and became the leaders of the group of scholars. Later the school continued the researches at BelSU. …”
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Kontroversen um die lexikographische Theorie by Monika Bielińska

“…Some of the most frequently discussed issues concern lexicographical theory, including its very existence, which some scholars find problematic. And if it is considered to exist, questions as to what can be treated as a lexicographic theory arise: Is it a theory of dictionary making practice? …”
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Prediking uit die Ou Testament by J. Janse van Rensburg

“…Forcing Christ into Old Testament texts has Old Testament scholars up in arms, to the extent that some believe that Christ is not found in the Old Testament and that there are no Messianic texts. …”
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DE VOLGORDE VAN DE VOLKENPROFETIEËN IN HET BOEK JEREMIA by H GL Peels

“…Recently, an increasing majority of scholars have given preference to the sequence of the OAN collection in JerLXX as being the more original one. …”
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Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…This proceeding volume has been retracted from the publication because we found some solid reasons to believe that it has infringed our integrity criteria and now presents a risk for our journal and scholarly science in general. Different types of malpractice are involved, in particular citation manipulation and inappropriate references. …”
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The Role of the Learner in Task-Based Language Teaching: Theory and Research Methods by Mohamed Salah

“… This volume, edited by Craig Lambert, Scott Aubrey, and Gavin Bui, presents a collective effort by second language (L2) scholars to explore the role of the learner in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). …”
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