Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Correction: Evaluating older adults' satisfaction with age-friendly hospitals services: insights from an Eastern Taiwan regional teaching hospital. [PDF]
Liu TT, Kuo LC, Liao SJ.
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Religion, personality, or none of them? Exploratory evidence on their correlations with economic preference parameters. [PDF]
Bessey D.
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The Irish Protestant Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks Published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805 [PDF]
Hoeveler, Diane
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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Mobilising Zionist and philo-Semitic sentiments through melodrama: Brazilian biblical telenovelas in the production of a neo-Pentecostal political culture. [PDF]
Carpenedo M.
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Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939
Matteo Binasco
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African Catholicism: Intra-Ecclesial Challenges to Justice [PDF]
Ogbonnaya, Joseph
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