İSLAM GELENEĞİNDE TARİHİN ÖZNESİ SORUNU by Ahmet Keleş

“…Allah says that the universe is completely his property and He does everything as he wants. Muslim scholars think that these verses meanings are Allah the unique subject of the history. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…Thus, this representation provides today a real ‘scholarly rumour’ about the discovery of the childhood during the occidental modernity and constitutes the hard core of a paradigm. …”
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Rethinking Social Context in Technological Responsibility - Steven Umbrello, Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies by Ayat Mirzaie

“…This review underscores the book’s practical value for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers grappling with technological innovations’ ethical and societal implications.…”
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The Samurai and the Artist: Henry Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Since the text has been greatly overlooked by both Miller and Mishima scholars, uncovering Miller’s composition process and the Japanese publication history through the use of archival materials will encourage a reevaluation Miller’s search for understanding concerning Mishima’s actions. …”
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Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945 by F. Hale

“…The subordination of the church to the de facto Nazi state eventually led its bishops and most of its pastors to sever their ties to the government while remaining in their ministries. Churchmen and scholars have explored dimensions of this challenging episode in Norwegian church history, but little has been published about the plight of most of the para-church organizations. …”
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste by Marianne Keppens

“… Over the last century or two, the dominant accounts of the caste system have looked for its roots in the ancient history of India. More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the Aryans, who are said to have imposed their language, religion and social structure on an indigenous population called the Dravidians. …”
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Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955 by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…There are good reasons to believe that there were other significant tax-related considerations, other than taxation, that were responsible for the revolts that were thrown up in late colonial southwestern Nigeria. Some scholars have also noted a comparative process that is currently unfolding; that it was the need to raise money that forced the hands of the colonial authority into democratization and that the despondency of the indigenous population was a major reason for the crises that enveloped Yorubaland from 1925 up to 1955. …”
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From Exchange to Inter-knowledge: Ethnography and the Invisible Facts of Political Work by Julieta Quirós

“…Drawing on ethnographic observation from different contexts- both rural and urban areas-, the case is made for the need to rescue analytically the concept of agency and the importance of personal relations that both common sense and the scholarly literature often consider politically “weak”. …”
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Exploring Digital Literature Literacy and Reading Through a Gender Lens by Raffaella Leproni

“…Attempting to provide a definition for DL, drawing from sources like the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and scholars’ insights, various forms of e-literature are examined, emphasizing technological skills, critical thinking, and interpretive abilities. …”
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What is TEI Conformance, and Why Should You Care? by Lou Burnard

“…In this paper I question the utility of standardization in a scholarly context, proposing however that documentation of formal encoding practice is an essential part of scholarship. …”
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Preface by Francois Tolmie

“… From text: On 13 and 14 March 2006 twenty-three scholars gathered at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, for a conference on the rhetorical analysis of the Letter to the Galatians. …”
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Apocalyptic groups and socially disadvantaged contexts by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Lawrence as concrete example of this theory from a nonscholarly perspective, followed by various scholarly readings of apocalyptic groups. In a following section, it analyses various formal, literary, hermeneutical and topical themes questioning the validity of this approach as well as research insights that revealed major weaknesses in this understanding. …”
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A Critical Examination of Game Theory as Applied to Conflict and Negotiation by Merle van den Berg

“… MANY scholars and politicians have sug gested negotiation as a solution for South Africa's problems. …”
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Vectors of Violence: Legitimation and Distribution of State Power in the _People’s Liberation Army Daily_ (_Jiefangjun Bao_), 1956-1989 by Aaron Gilkison, Maciej Kurzynski

“…One of the few major periodicals that continued publication during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the journal has received relatively scant attention from scholars, except for political science studies devoted to the PRC propaganda system. …”
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USSR and revival of Indonesian Communist Party by L. M. Efimova

“…Some authors believe that the Indonesian communists defined the new party strategy and tactics independently from either Moscow or Beijing. Scholars have been eager to know whether Moscow participated directly in the promulgation of the new PKI line. …”
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Palace Courtyards in Iléṣà: A Melting Point of Traditional Yorùbá Architecture by Stephen Fọlárànmí, Babásẹhìndè Adémúlẹyá

“… The Yorùbá courtyard is an important architectural space in traditional Yorùbá architecture that has not received adequate scholarly attention. This paper examines the courtyards in the palace of certain chiefs and Ọwá Obòkun in Iléṣà, in southwest Nigeria. …”
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“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts by M.K. Mensah

“… African biblical scholars have long advocated a shift in existing exegetical and hermeneutical approaches. …”
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The rhetorical analysis of the Letter to the Galatians: 1995-2005 by D. F. Tolmie

“…The rigid application of “the” ancient rhetorical system is on the decline; 2. Scholars who still use insights from ancient rhetoric do so in a much more nuanced way, quite often presuppose a wider background, and are more interested in functions than in categories; 3. …”
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Ritual, Power and Historical Perspective: Baptism and Name-giving in Lithuania and Latvia by Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

“…The new rituals were expected to replace older religious rites because communist morality and socialist internationalism was expected to overpower bourgeois nationalism. As indicated by scholars investigating into Soviet rituals and by my fieldwork data collected in 1999 in Northeast Lithuania and in 1998 in Southeast Latvia, the mission of creating communist traditions has not always been successful. …”
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Qualitative research is about listening and growing by Warren Bareiss

“…I have had the support of an editorial board consisting of dedicated scholars who find the service of working on QRMH as rewarding as I do. …”
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