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The Language of the Psalter and Sunday Worship [PDF]
, 1996 (Excerpt) Which words shall we use on Sunday morning? Shall we speak Aramaic or Greek, Latin or German, seventeenth-century British English or twenty first- century American English?
Ramshaw, Gail
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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FengShui – a systematic research of vernacular sustainable development In Ancient China and its lessons for future [PDF]
, 2007 Creating and keeping balance is the basic and the most important principle of Chinese traditional philosophy. It provides the fundamental philosophical basis for Chinese FengShui in pursuing coexistence between human and nature.
Ceranic, Boris, Zhong, Z.
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Spirituality as a Process within the School Curriculum. [PDF]
, 2003 Spiritual education concerns the quality of our thinking about ourselves, our relationships, our sense of worth and identity, and our sense of well-being. All curriculum subjects can contribute to this search for meaning. Religious education and the act
Bigger, Stephen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Why is son preference so persistent in East and South Asia? a cross-country study of China, India, and the Republic of Korea [PDF]
Son preference has persisted in the face of sweeping economic and social changes in China, India, and the Republic of Korea. The authors attribute this to their similar family systems, which generate strong disincentives to raise daughters while valuing ...
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Claus Offe (1940–2025): A Tribute to His Academic Work and His Role as a Political Intellectual
Constellations, EarlyView.
Tine Stein
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Key Issues and Future Directions in Rewriting the History of Mahan －The Characteristics and Cultural Identity of Early Mahan Society* [PDF]
International Journal of Korean HistoryThis study investigates the formation of early Mahan society within the broader context of Late Kojosŏn’s cultural expansion. It argues that the Korean-style bronze dagger culture, which emerged in the Hoseo region during the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE ...
Taeyang O
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