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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Lay persons in catechesis. Experience and challenges in the case of Slovenia

open access: yesPolonia Sacra
Unlike in most other countries, religious education did not return to public schools in Slovenia after the fall of communism. The Catholic Church intensively introduced and developed catechesis in parishes.
Tadej Stegu
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Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Theology Classrooms: Ethical and Pedagogical Insights of the Apertus Model for Religious Education

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how openness in AI design influences theological learning in religious education (RE). Drawing on Zizioulas's theology of personhood and Floridi's information ethics and aligned with the Greek upper‐secondary RE curriculum, an open‐source multilingual model (Apertus) is compared with a proprietary system (GPT‐5).
Christos Papakostas
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Katecheza maryjna w nauczaniu religii w szkole

open access: yesColloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2018
The history of leading the catechised to Christ through catechesis on Mary, the Mother of God, has a long tradition on the Polish lands. The prophetic words of Mary that she would be blessed by all generations began to fulfil in the difficult times of ...
Marian Zając
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 833-851, September 2026.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 151-160, April 2026.
Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr's attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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Role of Liturgy in Catechesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Catechesis and liturgy enable the Church to fulfill its saving mission awarded by the Christ. Preaching the word is to lead to the celebration of liturgy.
Wrońska, Halina
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The Structure of Catechesis in the Ancient Church according to the Text of Didache [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2015
In the article, Didache is considered as a source on the early practice of catechesis in the church in the I – II centuries. According to Didache, the basic elements of catechesis were the instruction addressed to catechumens, based on “the teaching of ...
Larisa Musina
doaj  

The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

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