« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes » by Cordula Reichart

“…In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. …”
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Flaubert lecteur de l’« Apologie de Raimond Sebond » by Timothy Chesters

“…This article argues that the reading notes certainly reveal admiration for the ‘Apologie’: for its anti-rationalism, its denunciation of ‘bestise’, and what we might call its anti-modernity avant la lettre. But they also register a desire, widespread since the Enlightenment, to set a kind of limit on the essayist’s ‘que sçay-je?’. …”
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'n Gereformeerd-narratiewe pastorale terapie by J. P. Bezuidenhout, J. Janse van Rensburg

“… Narrative therapy is usually connected with a post-modern paradigm like Social Constructionism. However, for some researchers and therapists post-modernity is not acceptable, since the use of such a narrative therapy could construe many contrasting points of departure in contrast to a biblical based pastoral therapy. …”
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Radical orthodoxy: its ecumenical vision by G. Ward

“… The first book in the Series Radical Orthodoxy (RO) was not meant to be programmatic or set out to change the direction of modern theology. There are certain shared sensibilities among its authors and, principally, an ecumenical vision. …”
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Postmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson's theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faith by A. H. Verhoef

“… Modernity’s belief that we live in a narratable world (a world with a story) and its confidence in progress (a world with a promise), are terminated by postmodernism’s insights. …”
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Rejouer le paysage by Arsène Caens

“…Although the history of modernity has engendered an episteme of the representations of the practices in the sciences and the arts and of our ordinary ways of relating to the world, ethnographic research on landscape representation has remained limited. …”
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A bajulação das massas by Franz Josef Brüseke, Héctor Ricardo Leis

“…All modern social philosophies capitulate to the problem of horizontality and verticality. …”
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Yorùbá Coastal Christian Communities: From the Evangelist Band Mission to the Zion and Holy Apostles Communities by Adégbọlá Tolú Adéfì

“…While the different conditions of the periods in which these movements operated, and the different conditions in which these religious activities were organized, matter, both movements offered their converts a new understanding of the world in which existing practices, were re-examined through an engagement with education and ‘modernity’ in a more general sense, and through existing forms of spiritual expression such as music, dance, and dress. …”
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Not by order, nor by dialogue: the metanoetic presence of the kingdom of God in a fluid new world and church by S. Joubert

“… Fluid modernity favours new forms of individualism, complexity and non-linear change. …”
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Des vitrines sur le roman : les couvertures de Madame Bovary et Salammbô by Bruna Donatelli

“…Our analysis will focus on two works: Madame Bovary and Salammbô, two heroines belonging to separate, if not contrary, chronological and geographical spheres. One is modernity’s icon, the other the emblem of a magical and ancestral antiquity. …”
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Le jardin : une clé de lecture du végétal en milieu urbain by Philippe Bodénan

“…The paper shows how this way of thinking of the garden has been reconsidered, especially in the context of modernity, but also how it has been maintained in a few minor currents. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Not surprisingly, expectations of a new computerised modernity did not materialise, and the project was plagued by endless problems that seemed to be divine acts of resistance to which only celestial bodies could provide a solution. …”
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La mobilisation de l’agriculture dans l’action paysagère de la région métropolitaine Cologne-Bonn by Louise Leconte

“…The development redefines the relationship between town and country in respect to several dimensions, and more specifically the promotion of the structural features of a landscape a cross between tradition and modernity and the concrete form given to the limits between built-up and open environments. …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…One (among many other) crucial distinctions is that between 'stipulative' and 'essential' reflexivity - the former originating in part in G.H.Mead's notions of the 'I' and the 'Me', and extended within current theories of reflexive modernity. This concept has been wrenched by professional social scientist from its mundane moorings and has been 'elevated' into an analytic technique of self interrogation. …”
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Le tiret de fin de phrase dans Un cœur simple — un stylème flaubertien ? by Sabine Pétillon, André Petitjean

“…Here, the presence of the dash between the noun and its relative NP-modifier is the hallmark of Flaubert’s modernity. It should be seen as a syntactic hapax.…”
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O mundo nas mãos do adolescente: entre Apolo e Dioniso, entre o eros e o caos by Paula Mastroberti

“…The work also includes a brief historical overview of youth, from the relations of his body with the collective or socio-cultural body, between the young individual body and the social body, which helps placing Klein’s piece in post-modernity and confirms it as a sign of an Apollonius vision of adolescence by contemporary society. …”
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WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS: THE NIGERIAN AND ANGOLA EXPERIENCE by EDIBA SABASTINE, UMAR SULEIMAN ZAKARI, GEOFFREY NANBAL SHIPURUT

“…For the purpose of this paper, information was gathered from documentary sources and analyzed using content analysis. Cultural Modernity Theory propounded by Zygmunt Bauman (2011) was used as a framework of analysis. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“…In the first part, the unique architecture of the afin and the traditional sculptures that were its central feature present the opportunity to examine the interconnectedness of continuity and change, tradition and modernity, and the centrality of art in the Oba's quest for political pre-eminence. …”
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