Mysticism and the Reformation: a brief survey by B. McGinn

“…Today a more adequate understanding of the mystical element of Christianity as a deeper awareness of God’s presence in the life of believers suggests a new evaluation of the relation of Protestantism and  mysticism, beginning Martin Luther, and continuing with figures like Johann Arndt, and a number of the “Spiritual Reformers,” such as Andreas Karlstadt, Sebastian Franck, Valentin Weigel, as well as the theosophical Lutheran Jacob Boehme. This essay is designed to reopen the question of the relation between Protestantism and mysticism. …”
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The “Africanization” of an African Diaspora Household: Toyin Falola and the Idea of Diasporic Home-Making by Babatunde Jaiyeoba, Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay is an exercise in the interrogation of cultural globalization, and how the idea of transnationalism generates identity responses. …”
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Local communities on-line: mapping local Web-TVs in Italy by Giacomo Andreucci

“…A specific role is being played by local communities (neighborhoods, social centers, parishes, etc.) which, thanks to the on-line spreading of video content, can have their own TV channel to reach their members and promote themselves in global networks. This essay will map the distribution of these locally-originated web TVs in Italy investigating their ways of strengthening communication within the community and at the wider level of the global Internet network.…”
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“Frizioni famigliari”. Lavoratori, salute e conflitti in un’area industriale siciliana by Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…The essay focuses on local conflicts related to the presence of an oil refining plant in Milazzo, north-western Sicily. …”
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Amnesia of Death: The Unsettled Endings of the Dead Who Don’t Know They’re Dead by Richard Hardack

“…In this essay, I try to explicate the recent prominence of texts and films that feature protagonists whose memories have been erased, and particularly who don’t remember their own histories, and especially the paradoxical fact that they have died. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…This essay centers on Michael Cimino’s film on the Vietnam War to explore how the mythology of space in the American imagination is revisited at the end of the twentieth century. …”
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Discourse of Slavery: Freedom and the Negotiation of Power and Identity in Context by Lori Lee

“…The contextual creation of slave narratives and the processes of their construction and reconstruction resulted in a negotiation of power over the authentic discourse of slavery. In this essay, narratives of former U.S. slaves recorded in the 1930s and 1940s are examined to explore how context and narrative negotiate identity and power within these contexts. …”
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Bolivars et bousingots by Erwan De Fligué

“…L’article montre, à partir de sources imprimées diversifiées, comment au gré des régimes, de 1815 à 1848, des accessoires (cocarde, pipe, canne, chapeau…), des choix capillaires, des vêtements par le jeu des couleurs et des imprimés, ont fonctionné comme un langage compris de tous et permis à des hommes, opposants desdits régimes, de manifester leurs appartenances (libérales, ultras, républicaines et in fine socialistes), alors que des lois successives persistaient en vain à essayer de les interdire dans l’espace public.…”
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Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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If Music is Ongoing Experience, What Might Music Theory Be? . A Suggestion from the Drastic by Christopher F. Hasty

“…The complexity or messiness of such production may seem an impediment to understanding music – it would seem to lead to the vagaries of the merely subjective, to mere appearance, or to a hopeless relativism that would in the end leave us speechless. In this essay I will take the creativity of experiencing and all the complexity that comes with it as a positive fact that might lure us to think about time and process in music. …”
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Online Music Theory in Music Theory Online by Nicole Biamonte

“…This essay surveys existing and potential approaches to publishing music theory and analysis in an online format. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…While the film’s political, ideological, and historical dimensions have been extensively analyzed, this essay focuses on its aesthetic dimension, which is the cornerstone of its ideological discourse on resistance to slavery.…”
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L’UMANA IMMANITÀ: FONTI E FORTUNA DEL FERO ARGANTE. by Gianni Antonio Palumbo

“…Palumbo’s essay aims to investigate the sources of Argante, Circassian warrior who is the principal defender of Jerusalem in Tasso’s poem. …”
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From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave by Audrey Goodman

“…This essay foregrounds Indigenous critical perspectives on the history of photography in the U. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The closure of the Rheinischer Merkur obscures even today the decisive role it played in the elaboration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the substantial quality of the paper. This essay sketches the history of the Rheinischer Merkur and its self-understanding, as well as its decline, locating these in the context of the journalistic autonomies and media-ethical tensions to which every journalistic medium is subject. …”
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Theoretical Analysis Model of the Adoption of Reactive and Proactive Eco-Innovation Strategies: the Influence of Contextual Factors Internal and External to Organizations by Marlete Beatriz Maçaneiro, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…Therefore, this study is characterized as a theoretical essay, adopting the methodological procedure of literature review, through an analysis of national and international articles on the subject of eco-innovation strategy. …”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…This essay explores Kahakauwila’s short story This is Paradise from the angle of post- and decolonial studies and environmental humanities, and presents it as an ecofeminist and counterhegemonic Oceanian identitarian narrative. …”
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A Comparative Study of Olodumare, the Yoruba Supreme Being and the Judea-Christian God by Segun Ogungbemi

“…Rather, it is argued that they are not necessarily the same. Finally, the essay establishes that the Yoruba before the advent of Christianity had a philosophical concept of the existence of 016dumare, the Creator of everything that is in the primordial existence and the material world. …”
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Abicht and Śniadecki: about a Turbulent Philosophical Dispute at the Imperial University of Vilnius in 19th century by Tomasz Kupś

“…In this paper I argue that it was Abicht and his Vilnius-based scholarly and teaching activities that were the direct cause of Śniadecki’s publication of the essay On Metaphysics in 1814, and indirectly also the trigger for all of Śniadecki’s later philosophical writings. …”
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Post-producing the modern – Guidelines for an energy development as an architectural transition by Giuseppe Marsala, Giulia Renda

“…From this perspective, the essay retraces contemporary architectural experiments in an energetic key performed on the structure of modern architecture, starting from the re-interpretation of its theoretical principles.   …”
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