Gender and Jewishness: a Greimassian analysis of Susanna by D. M. Kanonge

“…A frequently asked question is: “does Susanna reinforce or undermine patriarchy?” Most scholars, mainly feminists, are pessimistic and suspicious about the subversive programme of Susanna. …”
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Inflation dynamics in India: A structural view by Ramgopal Kundurthi, Siva Reddy Kalluru

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Transformation, theology and the public university in South Africa by R. Venter

“… This article addresses a specific issue, namely the ramifications for theology practised at a public university under (post)-apartheid conditions. In South Africa, scholarly opinion has not paid sufficient attention to what “transformation” entails for theology under these circumstances. …”
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Rileggendo “Folklore e profitto”. Patrimoni immateriali, mercati, turismo by Letizia Bindi

“…What emerges is a twist of cultural heritage toward consumerism that imposes to anthropologists and cultural heritage scholars new challenges and questions and a late-modern rethinking of critical categories as commodification, alienation and fetishization. …”
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Silent no more: sexual violence in conflict as a challenge to the worldwide church by D. Tombs

“…It concludes that if biblical scholars and theologians give more attention to sexual violence within the bible they can offer positive help towards a more constructive response to sexual violence by the churches. …”
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Advancing feminist understandings of woman abuse: the value of old wine in new bottles by Walter S. DeKeesredy

“…Drawing on nearly 50 years of research done by an international cadre of highly experienced scholars, this article demonstrates the importance of revisiting some major feminist conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions from the past. …”
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The challenge of the spiral-of-silence theory by Wolfgang Donsbach

“…Noelle-Neumann's ap proach has been discussed and criticised by scholars from different fields. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence up to now seems to underline that it has the potential to explain some of the variance in individual behaviour and in the dynamics of public opinion pro-V cesses. …”
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İSLAM GELENEĞİNDE TARİHİN ÖZNESİ SORUNU by Ahmet Keleş

“…Allah says that the universe is completely his property and He does everything as he wants. Muslim scholars think that these verses meanings are Allah the unique subject of the history. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…Thus, this representation provides today a real ‘scholarly rumour’ about the discovery of the childhood during the occidental modernity and constitutes the hard core of a paradigm. …”
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Air Bag Momentum Force Including Aspiration by Guy Nusholtz, Deguan Wang, E. Benjamin Wylie

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Rethinking Social Context in Technological Responsibility - Steven Umbrello, Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies by Ayat Mirzaie

“…This review underscores the book’s practical value for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers grappling with technological innovations’ ethical and societal implications.…”
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Are You Ready to Tie the Knot? A Quick Checklist by Lisa M. Leslie, Victor W. Harris

“…The inventor, statesman, and scholar Benjamin Franklin provided some wise advice to all those thinking about tying the knot. …”
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The Samurai and the Artist: Henry Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Since the text has been greatly overlooked by both Miller and Mishima scholars, uncovering Miller’s composition process and the Japanese publication history through the use of archival materials will encourage a reevaluation Miller’s search for understanding concerning Mishima’s actions. …”
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Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945 by F. Hale

“…The subordination of the church to the de facto Nazi state eventually led its bishops and most of its pastors to sever their ties to the government while remaining in their ministries. Churchmen and scholars have explored dimensions of this challenging episode in Norwegian church history, but little has been published about the plight of most of the para-church organizations. …”
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Participação, desigualdades e novas institucionalidades: uma análise a partir de instituições participativas em Santa Catarina by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann, Julian Borba

“…A brief discussion on the political participation is carried on in the beginning, rescuing the main theoretical sources of this debate, followed by a presentation of some empirical data regarding the social economical profile (focusing the data of income and scholar) of the political representatives in the experiences analyzed herein. …”
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste by Marianne Keppens

“… Over the last century or two, the dominant accounts of the caste system have looked for its roots in the ancient history of India. More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the Aryans, who are said to have imposed their language, religion and social structure on an indigenous population called the Dravidians. …”
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Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955 by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…There are good reasons to believe that there were other significant tax-related considerations, other than taxation, that were responsible for the revolts that were thrown up in late colonial southwestern Nigeria. Some scholars have also noted a comparative process that is currently unfolding; that it was the need to raise money that forced the hands of the colonial authority into democratization and that the despondency of the indigenous population was a major reason for the crises that enveloped Yorubaland from 1925 up to 1955. …”
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From Exchange to Inter-knowledge: Ethnography and the Invisible Facts of Political Work by Julieta Quirós

“…Drawing on ethnographic observation from different contexts- both rural and urban areas-, the case is made for the need to rescue analytically the concept of agency and the importance of personal relations that both common sense and the scholarly literature often consider politically “weak”. …”
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Exploring Digital Literature Literacy and Reading Through a Gender Lens by Raffaella Leproni

“…Attempting to provide a definition for DL, drawing from sources like the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and scholars’ insights, various forms of e-literature are examined, emphasizing technological skills, critical thinking, and interpretive abilities. …”
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What is TEI Conformance, and Why Should You Care? by Lou Burnard

“…In this paper I question the utility of standardization in a scholarly context, proposing however that documentation of formal encoding practice is an essential part of scholarship. …”
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