MISSION AS RECONCILIATION by A van de Beek

“…In this article, it is argued that it will be a great challenge for scholarly missiology and for the churches to accept this new paradigm, which involves a reconsideration of the basic paradigm of Christianity. …”
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Space, trinity and city: a theological exploration by R. Venter

“…The first part of the article attends to scholarly voices from various academic disciplines who made insightful contributions on the subject of space, and its relationship to trinity and the city. …”
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The Utility Incommensurability Thesis: The Analytics of Preferences à la Adam Smith by Elias L. Khalil

“…It does so through the exploration of Adam Smith’s concept of “mutual sympathy”. While Smith’s scholars have started to pay attention to this concept, they do not appreciate its importance in uncovering the nature of the friendship-and-love utility, especially how such utility is incommensurable with substantive utility.…”
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Miti e immagini cartesiane by Siegrid Agostini

“…This can be achieved both through the author’s internal analysis of his work and the comparison with other philosophers and scholars who were his contemporaries.…”
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Francis Bacon’s Concept of Science and Scientific Method by Seyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini Beheshti

“…By the new foundation of philosophy and science, the concept of method gains the main status among many scholars of the new ages. The “forerunners” of philosophy and science sought the way out of the skepticism, that emerged from the endless controversies concerning the universals and the possibility of rational and philosophical knowledge about nature during the High and Late scholasticism, in the concept of “method”. …”
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Protesto indígena na Colômbia: a Minga em questão by Elizabeth del Socorro Ruano

“…The analysis dialogues with scholars who have highlighted the political character of the social protest. …”
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TeiCoPhiLib: A Library of Components for the Domain of Collaborative Philology by Federico Boschetti, Angelo Mario Del Grosso

“…In this article we illustrate a work in progress related to the design of a library of software components devoted to editing, processing, and visualizing TEI-annotated documents in the domain of philological studies, in particular in the subdomain of collaborative philology, which concerns the social activity of scholars focused on shared philological tasks. We discuss the technologies related to XML markup languages and the processing of marked-up documents. …”
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Fonti e contesti dei miracoli eucaristici delle Cantigas de Santa María 128 e 208 by Manuel Negri

“…Their sources have not yet been well defined by scholars. This study aims to offer new hypotheses on the precedents of Cantigas 128 and 208, centered on the motif of the adoration of a consecrated host by some bees. …”
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Research Review of Robust Optimization Design of Spiral Bevel Gears by Di Linjie, Ge Zhenghao, Xue Xiangzhen, Liu Jian, Li Wenxian, Jia Jipeng

“…Thus, the ideas and methods of robust optimization design are introduced; the research done by scholars at home and abroad on the robust optimization design of spiral bevel gears is summarized; combined with the discussion of the influence on the meshing performance of spiral bevel gears and based on the robust optimization design research and analysis of spiral bevel gears, the current problems and shortcomings are summarized, which provide reference for the precise design of our country's aviation spiral bevel gears and the research on vibration and noise reduction.…”
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Inter-disciplinarité et trans-nationalisme by Anne-Hélène Miller

“…Often impacted by the research in postcolonial medievalism or medieval multiculturalism, (such as the programs that focus on the Mediterranean or francophone spaces in the Middle Ages), and liberated from nationally affiliated identities, today's scholars rethink territorial, linguistic, religious, even periodical delimitations, to decenter the more traditional discourse on the Medieval Latin West. …”
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A Stiff Man-Child Walking: Derrida’s Economy of Secrecy and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” by Michael Wainwright

“…Working from Jacques Derrida’s contentions about secrecy and authorial responsibility, and paying brief but specific attention to Charles Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie” (1869), as suggested by Derridean concerns over capitalist economics, this article studies the manner in which the inviolable and conditional secrets of William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” (1938) reveal the poststructural tendencies avant la lettre of this leading American modernist.  While Faulkner scholars have focused on the ambivalent language and metaphors deployed in this short story, they have not formerly traced the manner in which “Barn Burning” incites a sense of deconstructive criticism, and have thereby failed to acknowledge Faulkner’s attendant authorial irresponsibility.  …”
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MISSIONARY STRATEGIES AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSE: THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE BISENI CLAN by JOHN OLUWABUKUNMI OLUWAJANA, OLAITAN OYEDELA, OLAOBA

“…Drawing on historical accounts, oral traditions, and scholarly literature, the study explores how the missionaries' evangelization efforts intersected with pre-existing cultural and religious practices within the Biseni community. …”
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Propagande culturelle ou relations culturelles ? La mission ambiguë du British Council, 1934-1954 by Alice Byrne

“…Furthermore, although certain scholars have opposed cultural propaganda and cultural relations, they are in fact closely related and even complementary.…”
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Re-viewing Foucault: The Disciplinary Gaze in Harun Farocki’s I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts, Lockup 360 and Fiona Tan’s Correction by Martine Beugnet

“…Has the Panopticon, as a scholarly and artistic model, definitively lost its topicality and pertinence? …”
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Legal Consciousness in the Polish People’s Republic: The Epistemological Roots of the High Consensus Concept by Tomasz Raburski

“…Three distinct traditions – Western, Soviet, and Polish – are identified, each with varying levels of scholarly consensus and diverse sources of that consensus. …”
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Autour des critiques du concept de sexe. Entretien avec Anne Fausto-Sterling by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Priscille Touraille

“…Based on the work developed by Fausto-Sterling since the 1990s, the two scholars shift the focus to the problematic articulations between the Social Sciences and Biology that have shaped one of the most important critiques to emerge from Gender studies in the last twenty-five years.…”
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‘Her Room Was Her World’: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore by Simon Young

“…Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus offers some unique challenges. …”
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Pathology of the Text Criticism in the Humanities (Case Study: Referees of the Literature Review and Humanities Books Council) by sayyed hossein hosseini

“…The purpose of this study was the pathology of text criticism in the humanities in the country from the view of some scholars and critics in this field. To this end, a sample of referees in the field of humanities who were available and had cooperation with the literature review and humanities books Council was selected to review the books and assessment tools. …”
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Die Entwicklung der linguistischen Terminologie zwischen Standardisierung und Variation am Beispiel des digitalen historischen Wörterbuchs der grammatischen Termini by Anna Just

“…The aim of this paper is to present the online dictionary “Słownik historyczny terminów gramatycznych” that is currently being compiled by scholars from the University of Warsaw as well as to describe the research opportunities given by this dictionary. …”
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Circulations transnationales en matière d’éducation (XIXe-XXe siècles) : note de synthèse des travaux d’un champ de recherche en expansion by Sébastien-Akira Alix, Pierre Kahn

“…Without claiming to be exhaustive, this article aims at highlighting the interest and stakes of this scholarly approach that has signifi-cantly contributed to our understanding of educational realities in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, especially in tran-satlantic areas.…”
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