Ontological Sovereignty: Black Justifications for Violent Resistance to Slavery, 1500-1900 by Dalitso Ruwe

“…This essay advances the claim that Africana thinkers between the 16th and 19th centuries developed critiques of slavery with the following themes: (a) slavery as a function of ignorance of biblical or secular knowledge; (b) slavery as a function of European carnal impulses; (c) slavery as a crime, for which the God-ordained punishment was death; (d) justification of self-defense to restore African liberty; and (e) economic restitution for stolen labor. …”
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THE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE NOUL-NEAMŢ MONASTERY by Stela GUŢANU

“… The new monastery, called “The New Neamţ” (Romanian: “Noul Neamţ”), established in 1864 by the monks who had left the old Neamţ community, took over not only the name of the oldest and richest monastic foundation in Moldova, but also the secular traditions of this important cultural center. …”
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Communist anniversaries as a symphony of power and science (case study of Bulgaria) by Ewelina Drzewiecka

“…The discussion offers an interpretation in the light of the Orthodox concept of the symphony of power perceived as a metaphor of the relation between the secular and the spiritual power.…”
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Making It Count: Pilgrimage and the Enumeration of Publics by Simon Coleman

“…Such “biopolitics of hosting” can play a significant role in mobilising the religious imagination of shrine administrators, especially in contexts of apparently growing secularity. Number can be deployed by professional hosts to represent undifferentiated visiting publics in terms of spiritual possibility. …”
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ASPECTS OF THE VOCAL-SYMPHONIC GENRE by Lucian GHIŞA

“…The oratorio is divided in two categories according to the text: the secular and religious oratorio. The religious oratorio has several subgenres given by the use of a pre-established text: Requiem, Mass, Passion, Te Deum, Stabat Mater, and others. …”
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Languages of Written and Oral Communication between Russian Emperors and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, 1725–1799 by M. A. Petrova

“…For example, Russian emperors addressed secular electors not as "brothers" or "sisters"—terms typically reserved for sovereign equals— but as "uncles," "aunts," or, later, "in-laws" (occasionally "cousins"). …”
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Authors of Lithuanian books in the first part of 19th century by Aušra Navickienė

“…The first authors with secular higher education appeared in the 3rd-4th decades of the 19th century. …”
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On Political Islam in Palestine by E. A. Stepkin

“…Also one should keep in mind secular beliefs of the current political elite in Palestine. …”
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Over Accumulation or Investment Gap? by Kersten Kellermann, Carsten-Henning Schlag

“…The marginal productivity of private and public capital has not been following the secular decline in the interest rate. This leaves room for an increase in debt-financed public investment. …”
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Les places traditionnelles de Porto-Novo (Bénin) comme communs : entre mise en valeur des espaces urbains et promotion des pratiques sociales et culturelles by Elizabeth Auclair, Élise Garcia

“…They illustrate a complex combination between opposite dimensions such as material/immaterial, sacred/secular, public/private, visible/invisible. This article examines the perceptions and representations of the inhabitants, the dynamics induced by the rehabilitation of the traditional places and the involvement of local artists. …”
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Liturgiese sang op die kruispad tussen tradisie en vernuwing by WML Strydom

“…In the process of renewal the theological essence and the ecumenical character of Christian liturgy should be kept in mind, as well as the present cultural shifts in the South African community, which include secularization and the post-modem outlook on life. A well-founded insight in the following aspects will secure a sound balance between tradition and renewal in a present day liturgical theology and practice: the historical background of the relationship between liturgy and singing, the liturgical function of singing, liturgical communication through singing, as well as a hymnological aesthetics and liturgical ethics. …”
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The Caste Connection. On the Sacred Foundations of Social Hierarchy by Jakob De Roover, Sarah Claerhout

“…This article argues that we do not possess any conceptual apparatus to address this question today, because it was originally raised and answered in a Christian-theological context. The secularization of a Protestant-Christian notion of false religion gave shape to the European conception of ‘the caste system’ as an immoral social hierarchy. …”
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Stato civile e cultura politica islamica. Una riflessione antropologica by Domenico Copertino

“…Starting from the debate between Clifford Geertz, Talal Asad and Ernest Gellner on religious traditions, ethos and power, the article offers a reflection on the political-intellectual dynamics that have led some Islamic and secular movements in the Middle East to formulate a project of social/institutional organization called the civil state. …”
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The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology by K. Radler

“…As a result, Bonhoeffer responds to a secular method with faith in Christ’s cross and provides for a reality that can serve as a constant grounding for a new life carried by ultimate hope. …”
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Religion and politics of belonging in digital times: youth religiosity in focus by Astrid Mattes, Miriam Haselbacher, Katharina Limacher, Christoph Novak

“…Individual negotiations of belonging always resonate with political ideas of the nation and the secular and with discourses of inclusion and exclusion. …”
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«The Muslim Brotherhood» and prospects of the political process in contemporary Egypt by M. Z. Razhbadinov

“…The future situation in the country will depend on the relationship «The Muslim Brotherhood» with the army and political secular powers. The country has just started to move in the way that Turkey did a few decades ago…”
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Contribution de la philosophie de Nicolas Grimaldi à la réflexion éducative by Yoann Daumet

“…It was part of a humanistic faith and seems to have been swept away by the criticism of this humanism by the human sciences to the point that founding a secular spirituality of the school may seem today a challenge. …”
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Intellectus possibilis y multitudo: las fuentes filosóficas del averroísmo político en Monarchia de Dante Alighieri by Nuria Sánchez Madrid

“…I argue that the distinction between the universality and unity of the possible intellect and the plurality of received forms by the imagination of each individual, a position suggested by Siger of Brabant, is the clue of the use that Dante makes of monopsychism in Monarchia, an appraisal that gives birth to a new model of human community signally immanent and secular.…”
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Des îles à la montagne : paysages publicitaires de la feta by Katerina Seraïdari

“…While the landscapes in advertisements for feta cheese sold outside Greece evoke the pleasure of a trip to the Cyclades, those landscapes used in advertisements for feta cheese sold in Greece emphasize the authenticity and secular nature of traditional pastoral production. …”
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Reconstruction of Islamic Economic Theory: From Revelation to Methodology by Bayu Taufiq Possumah, Abdul Ghafar Ismail

“…This study reveals the original axiomatic foundations of the Islamic systemwith defined characteristics and features asthe source of Qur’anomic or economic theory.Moreover, amethodology is proposed to reconstructthe Islamic economic theory in four phas- esincluding; the classification of Al Quran verses pertinent to economic affairs, exegesis-based understanding of theories, chronology, andmicro-macro socio-economic context.The novelty ofthisstudy isthe combination ofthe science of exegesis and economics.The findings of thisstudy are expected to differentiate pure Islamic economics studiesfrom those influenced by secular economic thinking.…”
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