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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR AND PEACE IN TWO SHORT STORIES BY MAI GHOUSSOUB

Le Simplegadi, 2015
The present essay intends to explore some short stories by Mai Ghoussoub, from the collection Leaving Beirut (2007) which focus on the city of Beirut at the time of the civil war in the ‘70s and up to the ‘90s.
Carmen Concilio
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Multispecies (Co)migrations Across the Mediterranean and Cyprus: Elif Shafak and Christy Lefteri

Il Tolomeo
Drawing on the Overlap (2020) project, this paper examines how overlapping human and non-human migrations shape Mediterranean routes. Analyzing Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees (2021) and Christy Lefteri’s Songbirds (2021), the study uses a ...
Concilio, Carmen
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Multiple Origins or Widespread Gene Flow in Agricultural Fields? Regional Population Genomics of Herbicide Resistance in Bromus tectorum

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 11, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The repeated evolution of herbicide resistance in agriculture provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand how organisms rapidly respond to strong anthropogenic‐driven selection pressure. We recently identified agricultural populations of the grass species Bromus tectorum L. with resistance to multiple herbicides.
Victor H. V. Ribeiro, Joseph Gallagher, Carol Mallory‐Smith, Judit Barroso, Caio A. C. G. Brunharo   +4 more
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Una relectura de la constitución Lumen gentium a cincuenta años de la apertura del Concilio Vaticano II

Carthaginensia, 2013
A lo largo de estos cincuenta años que nos separan de la apertura del Concilio Vaticano II, ha sido muy frecuente escuchar y leer que el último concilio ecuménico fue la ocasión en la que la Iglesia respondió de manera precisa a la pregunta: “Iglesia ...
Gabriel Richi Alberti
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Mandela’s Favourite African Folktales

Altre Modernità, 2014
In this essay I would like to examine the selection of African tales that Nelson Mandela took care to leave as heritage to the future generations, not only to children, and not only to African children.
Carmen Concilio
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Essentialising Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Thresholds of Masculinity and Femininity in the Early Modern Catholic Church c.1700

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 109-124, March 2025.
Abstract This article focuses on four individuals from France and Italy who were viewed as hermaphrodites and their attempts to become members of the Catholic clergy between c.1650 and 1720. Drawing on largely unexplored material from the archive of the Roman Congregation of the Council, this article argues that whether, and how, bodies were ...
Brendan Röder
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La Constitución "De Ecclesia" y su valoración en el Vaticano II

Estudios Eclesiásticos, 1966
La constitución dogmática "De Ecclesia" fue proyectada por la Comisión Teológica preparatoria del Concilio en 1962. Se promulgó oficialmente en 1964 con el nombre de "Lumen Gentium".
Joaquín Salaverri
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A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) over time

Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Causes, consequences, and potentials for recovery from invasions by the invasive annual grass, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), in western North America have been extensively documented. The vast majority of these studies have come from regions where yearly precipitation is dominated by “winter‐wet” patterns, but this species has also ...
Janet S. Prevéy, Timothy R. Seastedt
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Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1498-1513, October 2024.
Abstract Three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers have been identified in the literature: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates?
Massimo Pulejo
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