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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Partners in history: The Dutch Reformed Church and theological training at the University of Pretoria: 1938–2000

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria celebrates its centenary in 2017. Theological training at the university started in 1917 when the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika decided to train its own ministers.
Johan van der Merwe
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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The Heidelberg Catechism: A 16th century quest for unity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
In this contribution the view is presented that the Heidelberg Catechism should be regarded as an attempt to promote unity between 16th century reformers and churches in the Palatinate.
Wim A. Dreyer
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From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
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Religion as memory: How has the continuity of tradition produced collective meanings? – Part one

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
Danièle Hervieu-Léger gives an account of religion as a chain of memory, that is, a form of collective memory and imagination based on the sanctity of tradition. According to her theory, in the postmodern world the continuity of religious memory has been
Jakub Urbaniak
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
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Die Hervormde Kerk en apartheid

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
The Reformed Church and apartheid. This contribution examines the changing attitude of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) towards apartheid, specifically since the Second World War. The NHKA’s views started with a theological justification
Wim A. Dreyer
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The church as a transformation and change agent

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
This article traces the historical impact of the church in transforming, developing and changing society. It looks at how the church in selected periods in history, mainly in the reformation era, worked towards the transformation of society and ...
Jerry Pillay
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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