De Martino, apocalisse e la decolonialità. Riflessioni sulla crisi mezzo secolo dopo by Dorothy L. Zinn

“…Finally, the author compares de Martino’s thinking about a “new humanism” to that of the decolonial scholar Sylvia Wynter.…”
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Behind the negotiations: Nuncio Antonio Caetani’s experience at the court of Madrid (1611–1618) by Paolo Periati

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Preface by Francois Tolmie

“… From text: On 13 and 14 March 2006 twenty-three scholars gathered at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, for a conference on the rhetorical analysis of the Letter to the Galatians. …”
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Apocalyptic groups and socially disadvantaged contexts by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Lawrence as concrete example of this theory from a nonscholarly perspective, followed by various scholarly readings of apocalyptic groups. In a following section, it analyses various formal, literary, hermeneutical and topical themes questioning the validity of this approach as well as research insights that revealed major weaknesses in this understanding. …”
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TOWARDS AN “ENGAGED” SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY?

“…The second related suggestion comes from the contemporary systematic theologian, Graham Ward, a scholar who draws on the thought of the ressourcement theologians in his development of what he calls a “culturally engaged” or simply “engaged” systematic theology. …”
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A Critical Examination of Game Theory as Applied to Conflict and Negotiation by Merle van den Berg

“… MANY scholars and politicians have sug gested negotiation as a solution for South Africa's problems. …”
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Vectors of Violence: Legitimation and Distribution of State Power in the _People’s Liberation Army Daily_ (_Jiefangjun Bao_), 1956-1989 by Aaron Gilkison, Maciej Kurzynski

“…One of the few major periodicals that continued publication during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the journal has received relatively scant attention from scholars, except for political science studies devoted to the PRC propaganda system. …”
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THE ETHICS OF PLATO’S IDEAS AND IDEALS by Jonas Balčius

“…A more careful analysis proves that the famous scholar of antiquity is primarily the author of ontoethical philosophical conception. …”
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USSR and revival of Indonesian Communist Party by L. M. Efimova

“…Some authors believe that the Indonesian communists defined the new party strategy and tactics independently from either Moscow or Beijing. Scholars have been eager to know whether Moscow participated directly in the promulgation of the new PKI line. …”
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Palace Courtyards in Iléṣà: A Melting Point of Traditional Yorùbá Architecture by Stephen Fọlárànmí, Babásẹhìndè Adémúlẹyá

“… The Yorùbá courtyard is an important architectural space in traditional Yorùbá architecture that has not received adequate scholarly attention. This paper examines the courtyards in the palace of certain chiefs and Ọwá Obòkun in Iléṣà, in southwest Nigeria. …”
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“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts by M.K. Mensah

“… African biblical scholars have long advocated a shift in existing exegetical and hermeneutical approaches. …”
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The rhetorical analysis of the Letter to the Galatians: 1995-2005 by D. F. Tolmie

“…The rigid application of “the” ancient rhetorical system is on the decline; 2. Scholars who still use insights from ancient rhetoric do so in a much more nuanced way, quite often presuppose a wider background, and are more interested in functions than in categories; 3. …”
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Ritual, Power and Historical Perspective: Baptism and Name-giving in Lithuania and Latvia by Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

“…The new rituals were expected to replace older religious rites because communist morality and socialist internationalism was expected to overpower bourgeois nationalism. As indicated by scholars investigating into Soviet rituals and by my fieldwork data collected in 1999 in Northeast Lithuania and in 1998 in Southeast Latvia, the mission of creating communist traditions has not always been successful. …”
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Qualitative research is about listening and growing by Warren Bareiss

“…I have had the support of an editorial board consisting of dedicated scholars who find the service of working on QRMH as rewarding as I do. …”
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A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 by H.J. Prinsloo

“…Unlike previous attempts by scholars to analyse the letter in terms of ancient rhetorical theory, this article illustrates how the rhetorical strategy can be reconstructed from the text itself; therefore, it is identified as a text-centred rhetorical analysis, which follows a minimum theoretical approach. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“…The present article explores how Joseph Doke, a scholarly, transplanted Englishman who served as a Baptist pastor in Johannesburg and elsewhere and wrote the first biography of Gandhi, used fiction to criticise Nietzsche early in the twentieth century. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of halal cosmetics consumer behaviour in Indonesia by Mahir Pradana, Hanifah Putri Elisa

“…This research uses the Google Scholar database, Microsoft Excel for statistical analysis, and VOSviewer, a network map generator program, for bibliometric analysis. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…Sonèts barròcs enta Iseut (1979) shows Pierre Bec as a poet elaborating his creation upon a background of references to the medieval literature - main object of Pierre Bec’s researches as a scholar. Rewriting the myth of Yseult in order to create a poetic work at the same time modern and freed from temporality is one of the main specific features of the Sonèts barròcs enta Iseut. …”
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Sustaining teaching during a crisis by Marcia D Dixson, Julie Saam

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Violence symbolique et résistances populaires by Ugo Palheta

“…This article reassesses the concept of « symbolic violence » which was introduced by Pierre Bourdieu in his works about school systems, and more generally as the French scholar tried to address the enigmatic character of the perpetuation of domination relations. …”
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