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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
wiley   +1 more source

Love, Sexuality and Punishment in Macedonian Traditional Culture

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2015
The love, sexuality and the punishment in the Macedonian traditional culture is considered on the basic of the ethnological-anthropological analyze. The analyze is based on the oral stories, ritual practices and oral poetry, which I take as means of ...
Весна Петреска
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding culture, memory and trauma in asylum interviews: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Asylum seekers often struggle to recall and report their experiences during asylum interviews. This may occur for several reasons, ranging from communication challenges in high‐context cultures (relying more on indirect and context‐oriented communication) and low‐context cultures (relying more on direct and explicit communication) to ...
Md Yeasir Yunus   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criteria for Distinguishing Illicit Relationship from Acts Contrary to Chastity in Islamic Fiqh and Law [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات فقه اسلامی و مبانی حقوق
An illicit relationship refers to relations between a man and a woman who are not married to each other and who have no physical contact, such as conversation or correspondence.
Mohammad Hassni, Hassan Shahmalekpour
doaj   +1 more source

The Qur’an’s Preventive Solutions to Sexual Perversion [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2012
This study is an attempt to investigate sexual perversion and its subsequent issues. It aims to offer some preventive solutions to this problem on the basis of Islamic teachings. The data were collected using the library research method.
jamal farzand vahi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Family Foundations:A Study of Prophet’s Biography [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2012
This study uses library research methodology to investigate how to strengthen the family ties using the Prophet’s life as a model. Emphasizing the critical position of families, this paper seeks to enumerate goals of family formation aimed at meeting the
jamal farzand vahi, leyla kuhi
doaj   +1 more source

Human Destiny and the Natural Law in St Maximus the Confessor: A Contribution to Orthodox Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
wiley   +1 more source

« She were a rose indeed, if she had but— » : Aposiopèse et chasteté dans les romances de William Shakespeare

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2016
Sixteenth-century rhetorical treatises prescribe the chastity of discourse and recommend silence rather than scurrility, notably with the use of aposiopesis, or the figure of interruption.
Barbara Muller
doaj   +1 more source

Early Parenthood and Educational Outcomes. Are There Differences Between Young Teenage Mothers and Fathers?

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A broad literature has established the negative effects of teen motherhood on educational outcomes. Yet relatively little is known about the educational effects of becoming a teen father. Using siblings fixed effects on population‐level data from Chile I compare educational outcomes of young teen‐mothers and teen‐fathers and provide new ...
Maria Palma Carvajal
wiley   +1 more source

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