Naboth's vineyard: theological lessons for the South African land issue by K. T. Resane

“…The story of Naboth’s vineyard (1 Kgs. 21) is used as a theological framework to redress the land issue. The narrative is expounded to compare the African land perspectives with those of eighth-century Israel. …”
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Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation by A.C. Pieterse

“…In this article, the author intends to investigate if this likeness could assist astrotheology in fulfilling its prophetical purpose, by clarifying the allencompassing cosmic agency of the triune God en route to the eschaton and steering clear of a pantheistic narrative. The author argues that astrotheology is well equipped to be a prophetic wormhole that relates space-time to eschatological transformation. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein on Emotions: The Affectional, the Theory of Expressiveness, and the Emotional Script by Bugaeva Lyubov

“…Eisenstein proposes a notion of an emotional script, which is a narrative of a prospective viewer telling what has impressed him. …”
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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…Finally, it studies how this diversity affects the narrative itself, which is indeed highly polyphonic, underlining the extreme formal modernity of a text that stands at the crossroads of voices, languages and points of view.…”
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FACILITATING INTERPRETIVE RESILIENCE: by G O West

“…While the notion of the Bible as a site of struggle had its conceptualisation within historical-critical redaction criticism, literary-narrative and literary-rhetorical criticisms provide similar kinds of “critical” recognition of ideo-theological contestation within the biblical text, whether the final form or a socio-historically reconstructed redactional edition. …”
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TOWARDS AN AFRICAN BIBLICAL VIRTUE ETHICS? REFLECTIONS ON THE LETTER TO TITUS THROUGH A PROGRESSIVE-NEGOTIATED-ETHICS by D.I. Manomi

“… African conceptions of virtue, in comparison with the virtue-ethical perspectives of the letter to Titus, have foundational and narrative tensions, yet they are in tandem in some important respects. …”
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The role of international support programmes in global health security capacity building: A scoping review. by Anne Doble, Zoe Sheridan, Ahmed Razavi, Anne Wilson, Ebere Okereke

“…Many international programmes support low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to strengthen public health capabilities for compliance with the International Health Regulations (IHR). This narrative review seeks to identify key characteristics and factors necessary for effective and sustainable IHR core capacity development, establishing roles for international support and some principles of good practice. …”
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«Era di pietra la sua bellezza». Capri, mitografia di un luogo by Eugenio Zito

“…This profile, giving back some features of its historical and cultural identity and the complex relationships that have crossed its land over time, by producing diverse and unique representations and narrations, lets discuss this Mediterranean island as anthropological place in the meaning that Marc Augé gives it. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…The study is approached from historical perspective with the methodology of narration and critical analysis of data. This research uses inter-disciplinary approach like ethnography to have full grasp of the marital dynamisms. …”
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Récit en mouvement : la construction d’un territoire paysan à Rio Bonito do Iguaçu au Brésil by Mathilde Teixeira Col

“…This article presents this territory and the local ways of living through a moving narrative. Based on a field survey conducted from March 2nd to March 5th, 2020, this presentation is part of a thesis on the perspective of autonomy through the collective construction of this territory.…”
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Power Relations in 2023 Merapi Eruption Management by Khuzaimah, Fransiscus Xaverius Sri Sadewo, Farid Pribadi

“…The findings reveal that there is discourse and knowledge that portrays Merapi's eruption as a corrective response to mining damage. This narrative gained societal acceptance, highlighting the influential role of local authorities in shaping disaster perceptions. …”
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Recycler les rebuts textiles. Organisation et savoir-faire dans le tri de la fripe à Lomé (Togo) by Sylvie Ayimpam

“…The article highlights a fundamental tension between global narratives that promote circular economies as ecological solutions and the harsh realities of the “dirty work” involved in textile sorting, which exposes socio-economic exploitation and "waste colonialism" dynamics. …”
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Analyse du parcours d’un élève « multi-dys » : être inclus ou s’inclure ? by Anne Dizerbo

“…The analysis of his life course allows us to investigate the conditions, levers, and environments favorable to his inclusion, to the development of a feeling of well-being and to the construction of a capacity to interact with his environment, thus leading to a reflection on the challenges of valuing the expertise of the parents who assist their disabled child on a daily basis and on the narrative models available to the latter to elaborate his own life story.…”
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Défense des classes dominantes : la division du travail de légitimation à l’épreuve des scandales financiers internationaux by Anthony Amicelle, Jean Bérard

“…More specifically, this article is focused on the defensive narratives of the persons targeted by the wave of revelations in the media. …”
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Comments on “Reflections on the Inclusion of Direct-Care Physicians as Educators in Community Hospitals” by ALEXANDRE SLULLITEL

“…ABSTRACT We discuss the arguments exposed in the Letter to the Editor “Reflections on the Inclusion of Direct-Care Physicians as Educators in Community Hospitals”, exploring the teaching competencies necessary for community preceptors in the context of medical education, highlighting the growing responsibility of these professionals in the training of future physicians in health-deprived regions. From a narrative review, we analyze faculty development (FD) programs, emphasizing their importance in improving teaching skills, creating support networks, and providing personalized content for specific challenges. …”
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“I must speak to you plainly”: A history of English Bible translations, independent of the King James Version (1611) tradition by J.A. Naudé

“…This article provides a historical narrative of the Bible translations in English, by focusing on the most important (authoritative, influential, or innovative) translations, independent of the continuing King James Version tradition, in order to explain how and why they were produced. …”
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Le récit mythique d’une conversion : La Argentina à l’Athénée de Madrid by Hélène Frison

“…First, the study of the Spanish press published at the end of that particular evening will allow us to highlight the discrepancies, distortions and amalgams that appear in the retrospective narrative of the artist. Then we will try to present the motivations which may have presided over the construction of this story with the appearance of a conversion.…”
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Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah by J.A. Triana Palomino, I.D. Toro-Jaramillo, S.M. Giraldo Sánchez

“…These biases have uncritically been assimilated into the culture, including the work environment, and to overcome them, it is necessary to create scenarios of individual and collective confrontation, in order to recognise women’s capacity to exercise authority and power. The biblical narrative of judge and prophetess Deborah and her editorial process in the 8th century BC provide clues for confrontation and transformation by naturally portraying a woman exercising authority in a patriarchal setting, relating to men on an equal footing, and being recognised and respected through attitudes of listening, care, and empathy. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…The historical nature of ecclesiastical chronicles fluctuated between furnishing exact information and omitting specific facts while displaying certain narrative strategies that served the ultimate goal of the Dominican friars. …”
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Cartographier l’incartographiable ? Retour sur la mise en place d’une cartographie collaborative institutionnelle pour la végétalisation urbaine participative à paris by Carolina Mudan Marelli, Ornella Zaza

“…Faced with the richness of the practices, imaginaries and interactions that characterize inhabitants practices of greening, the online cartographic representation shows, on the one hand, a flattening of the reality on the ground, induced by the dominant logics of quantification and cataloguing, and on the other hand, distorts the Parisian narrative about urban nature, which is built around figures that dialogue more in an international than in a local political arena. …”
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