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Renaissance 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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Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early 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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Österreichisches Religionspädagogisches Forum, 2014 ENGLISH: Childhood in Europe is increasingly characterized by children growing up in diverse contexts. One aspect of the diverse contexts is religious diversity. Kindergartens are often the first institutions where children are confronted with people who
Stockinger, Helena
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COVID-19. A Catechetical-Experiential Reading
The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II, 2020 This article seeks to give a Christian understanding to the reality of COVID-19 which the world has gone through in the past months. This is done in a catechetical way by elaborating upon what truly transforms a lived event into an experience and into a Christian religious experience through a catechetical process.
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International 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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Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Despite the global expansion of medical cannabis, limited empirical attention has been given to the sociocultural and religious factors shaping patient attitudes, particularly in multi‐faith societies. Israel provides a distinctive context for such examination, combining advanced medical cannabis regulation with substantial religious diversity.
Loay Zaknoun +3 more
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion
Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 56-76, March 2026.The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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An exegetical Study of 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 [PDF]
, 1994 Historical introduction by Paul I. Johnston. Corinthians 2: 1-7. Translated by Everette W.
Reu, Johann Michael
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Journal 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
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