Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu by P.G.J. Meiring

“…The TRC operated within the mandates given to it by the South African parliament, but Tutu with his theological background, strong views, and dynamic personality put his own stamp on the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa. The role of religion in establishing truth and working towards justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation was controversial, but for the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, it was inconceivable to embark on the journey of reconciliation without faith in Jesus Christ, the ultimate Reconciler. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…In contesting historical understandings, the ancestral Central Asian Turkic civilizations, the imperial history of the Ottoman Sultans, and the birth of the Turkish Republic are seen as a series of ruptures with complex definitions of authenticity and foreignness, especially in relation to religion and ethnicity. The aim of the study is to show how different historically constructed frameworks of appropriate practices and norms are associated with urban egalitarian spaces and traditional neighbourhoods and how Istanbulites cross boundaries between them. …”
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Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…Water is a relevant and a significant variable that is also germane to the understanding of Yorùbá peoples’ identity, culture and religion. Hence, this ethnographical and literary study examines the image of water in Yorùbá cosmology using folklore (oral texts) of the people as paradigms. …”
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El papel de los afectos en el pensamiento político de Spinoza by Vicente Serrano

“…Se analizan los más tradicionales aspectos vinculados a la teoría política spinozista, la teoría del contrato y la crítica de la religión, en estrecha relación con la Ética y con el tratamiento de las relaciones entre afectos e imaginación, que se considera como el núcleo de su pensamiento político. …”
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MAIK’s Impact on The Indigenous Community in Kelantan State: Analysis in Terms of Welfare and Humanity by Muhammad Solihin bin Abd Razak, Nawi@Mohamad Nawi Bin Ismail

“…This article aims to highlight the welfare and humanitarian activities undertaken by the Council of Islamic Religion and Malay Customs of Kelantan (MAIK) in support of the indigenous community in Kelantan. …”
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Eunug in die antieke Nabye Ooste by M. Nel

“…It is argued that the Hebrew word, syrs, refers to a castrated man, and that, in biblical usage, it refers to a castrated man in terms of Israel’s religion (Deut. 23:1; Is. 56:3). The term is used in a different sense when it refers to a foreign person, i.e. a person in an official capacity in a king’s court (as in Gen. 37), or a military commander (as in 1 Kings 22:9; 2 Kings 8:7; 23:12; 25;19; Jer. 52:25). …”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“…That is, the various federal programs discussed in this paper require that employers hire all workers who are otherwise qualified without regard to race, color, religion, gender, citizenship, national origin, age, or disability.  …”
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Mercy, love and salvatioin in orthodox spirituality by N. Dumitrascu

“…For the Christians, mercy is not limited to members of one’s own community, but includes others, regardless of race, social class or even religion. It is a form of love which is not wasted in temporary and sentimental effusions, but actualised in concrete deeds, with the ultimate example supplied by Christ. …”
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South Africa: the arduous task of facing our religious past by E. Oliver

“…With Christians totalling more than 80% of the population and the Church recognised as the strongest non-government organization, one apparent exception to these differences is religion. However, incapacitated by their past, Afrikaners were unable to respond positively during the critical stages of transformation and find themselves marginalized, at the edge of the ‘rainbow nation’. …”
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Re-interpretation as transformation. Perspectives and challenges for Old Testament interpretation by D.J. Human

“… This contribution explains that the re-interpretation of theological motifs or ideas leads to transforming theology and religion.  This phenomenon takes place within the corpus and boundaries of the Old Testament. …”
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Construcción de una identidad latinoamericana en el exilio a través de la práctica religiosa: la comunidad de Riches Claires, en Bruselas, Bélgica by William Elvis Plata, Andrea Rodríguez Arévalo

“…A través de la historia de la comunidad católica hispanoparlante de Riches Claires, en Bruselas, Bélgica, el artículo explora las relaciones entre religión y migración, planteando las hipótesis de que, gracias a su presencia internacional, el catolicismo se ha convertido en instrumento y medio para la protección y la integración del migrante al nuevo contexto, la conformación de redes trasnacionales y la conformación de una identidad “latinoamericana” en el exilio, reuniendo e integrando en un nuevo contexto prácticas religiosas y tradiciones culturales de distintos orígenes.…”
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EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION by Rian Venter

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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Exploring Health Concerns by Lynda Spence

“…The condition and culture of the patient and family, religion, spirituality, education, occupation, social class, friends, and personal preferences can affect end-of-life care. …”
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A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl by R. de Groot

“…Only with the help of outrageous means of humiliation, inflicted upon him by a girl of another faith, including the rejection of his own religion as he knows it, is he able to bring his path to perfection. …”
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Asenet se drievoudige transformasie. Vergelykende momente in die apokriewe verhaal "Josef en Asenet" en die Pauliniese corpus by J. A. du Rand

“… Among theologians the apocryphal story of “Joseph and Aseneth” has in the majority of cases been interpreted as a narrative of transformation of Aseneth from a pagan to the Jewish religion of the God of Joseph. This one sided interpretation has dealt with the religious and cultural transformation but not with the gender transformation as such, namely the transformation of the woman from pagan reclusion, becoming a queen in her own right. …”
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Introduction to the Festschrift for Prof. D.F. (Francois) Tolmie by L. Sutton, N.E. Müller van Velden

“…In the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of the Free State, Prof. …”
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Mission among the Jews by A. van de Beek

“…Although both Jews and Christians reject the idea and (more so) mission among the Jews, the author strongly argues for its need, for mission is not the expansion of ideas or cultures, but the telling of the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection. Religion is not based on a doctrine but on an event that must be communicated to all and, first, to the people of God. …”
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Beyond the rainbow: Attitudes of Brazilian consumers regarding homoaffective advertisements by Estela Maria Hoffmann, Maria José Barbosa de Souza, Melanie Morrison, Todd Morrison

“…When analyzing religiosity and homonegativity by gender in attitudes towards the advertisement, brand, and purchase intention, it is observed that, for men, religion does not interfere in the attitude towards the brand and in the purchase intention. …”
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Interacciones docente-estudiantes y maltrato infantil: análisis microgenético desde la perspectiva sociocultural/ Teacher-Student Interactions and Child Abuse: Microgenetic Analysi... by María Natalia Rodríguez, Julian David Torres, Mónica Roncancio

“…Los resultados indican que las significaciones del maltrato infantil, que emergen en la práctica educativa de la educadora, están permeadas por un sistema cultural más amplio, a saber, la religión católica, y que a través de lo religioso se comunica con sus estudiantes para alinear sus objetivos a los de ellos. …”
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