Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…This critical limitation does not enter into the analyses of many scholars who have used these documents to update understanding of this war’s origins. …”
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Digital 3D reconstructions of synagogues for an innovative approach on Jewish architectural heritage in East Central Europe by Jan Lutteroth, Piotr Kuroczyński, Igor Piotr Bajena

“…This approach showcases the potential of HBIM-modelling to contribute to the study and preservation of Jewish architectural heritage, while underscoring the ongoing need for community engagement and scholarly collaboration.…”
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Bevezetés az analitikus feminizmushoz by Áron Dombrovszki

“…Even though there is an agreement between scholars about how hate speech constitutes subordination, the exact details of this process are subject to debate. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…Whole schools of thought have arisen about the man and his oeuvre. Leading scholars have devoted the better part of their professional lives to him and have become far more reliable and candid authorities than any who wrote between the 1860s and the 1970s.It is high time for scholars concerned about his literary reputation to assess 20th and 21st century perceptions of Pater, to elucidate his continuing hold on the modern literary imagination, and to review the critical tradition of the last 35 years. …”
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The book policy in a democratic society: the case of Estonia by Mare Lott, Aile Möldre

“…In comparison with the pre-war years, the authors and publishers are granted allocations on a larger scale, and the share of scholarly societies is more modest. The issuing of research results is mainly supported through the grants of the Estonian Science Foundation. …”
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L’espace domestique des migrants marocains : les extensions transnationales de l’intimité familiale by Jordan Pinel, Thomas Lacroix

“…The aging of North African migrants has spurred a renewal of scholarly interest in their residential practices. …”
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Digital (Dis)connection, Agency, and Imagination in a French Rural Community by Fabienne Darling-Wolf

“…Common to scholarly analyses of the “digital revolution” is their inclination to deploy technology—the platforms, their affordances, the virtual spaces they create—as the main entry into evaluations of digital media’s impact on socio-cultural organization. …”
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Advancing the Understanding of Accountability Processes in Collaborative Governance: Lessons from Research on ‘Agencification’ by Yannis Papadopoulos

“…However, it fails to consider some relevant findings from research on ‘agencification’ that should be incorporated into its research agenda. Governance scholars should consider more thoughtfully that, for a variety of reasons, accountability holders may be less watchful than expected, but also that accountable behavior can be more attractive than expected, again for diverse reasons. …”
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How ideas matter in public policy: a review of concepts, mechanisms, and methods by Marij Swinkels

“…The aim of the paper is to specify how ideas matter as a variable in public policy research, providing students and scholars of public policy with a stock take of the current state-of-the-art literature on ideas in political science and public administration. …”
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Thomas Jefferson and Politics: “A game where principles are the stake” by Ari Helo

“…Thomas Jefferson’s fame as an advocate of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy has been frequently questioned. For many scholars, his racist statements, his scant concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proof of the very opposite of his reputation. …”
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The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End by Conrad Hackett, Yunping Tong

“…Christianity in China grew rapidly in the decades following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Some scholars and journalists claim that Christianity in China is still expanding in the twenty-first century. …”
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The Life of Embryon According to Thomas Aquinas by Piotr Roszak

“…It is very popular among scholars to reduce the question of medieval embryology only to so called “delayed animation”, with a little reference to important philosophical background of the topic. …”
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Gender and Jewishness: a Greimassian analysis of Susanna by D. M. Kanonge

“…A frequently asked question is: “does Susanna reinforce or undermine patriarchy?” Most scholars, mainly feminists, are pessimistic and suspicious about the subversive programme of Susanna. …”
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Transformation, theology and the public university in South Africa by R. Venter

“… This article addresses a specific issue, namely the ramifications for theology practised at a public university under (post)-apartheid conditions. In South Africa, scholarly opinion has not paid sufficient attention to what “transformation” entails for theology under these circumstances. …”
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Rileggendo “Folklore e profitto”. Patrimoni immateriali, mercati, turismo by Letizia Bindi

“…What emerges is a twist of cultural heritage toward consumerism that imposes to anthropologists and cultural heritage scholars new challenges and questions and a late-modern rethinking of critical categories as commodification, alienation and fetishization. …”
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Silent no more: sexual violence in conflict as a challenge to the worldwide church by D. Tombs

“…It concludes that if biblical scholars and theologians give more attention to sexual violence within the bible they can offer positive help towards a more constructive response to sexual violence by the churches. …”
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Advancing feminist understandings of woman abuse: the value of old wine in new bottles by Walter S. DeKeesredy

“…Drawing on nearly 50 years of research done by an international cadre of highly experienced scholars, this article demonstrates the importance of revisiting some major feminist conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions from the past. …”
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Les miroirs médiévaux : réflexions génériques et genrées by Clémentine Girault, Jeanne Mousnier-Lompré

“…Teresa de Lauretis had clearly identified the role of scholarly discourse in the (re)production of gender, and historiography dedicated to « mirrors » is no exception. …”
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Culturaliser les difficultés scolaires ? L’exemple des politiques éducatives en Picardie face aux classes populaires blanches by Ismail Ferhat

“…This subject is still, by contrast, less studied by French education science scholars. The article is based on the results and materials gathered by a collective and interdisciplinary research on education (named “Preuve”) in the French deprived region of Picardie. …”
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The challenge of the spiral-of-silence theory by Wolfgang Donsbach

“…Noelle-Neumann's ap proach has been discussed and criticised by scholars from different fields. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence up to now seems to underline that it has the potential to explain some of the variance in individual behaviour and in the dynamics of public opinion pro-V cesses. …”
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