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The compulsion to confess

Literator, 1996
This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault in order to sketch a preliminary genealogy of the practice of confession in the twentieth century. The essay argues that confession has undergone major transformations, not only from a chiefly religious to ...
S. van Zyl, J. Sey
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Anonymity, Community, and Expression: Unveiling the Dynamics of Confession Pages on Facebook

Journalism and Media
Purpose: This study investigated the attributes of confession pages on Facebook, their role within social networks, and their impact on society.
Tal Laor
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Calvijn en de biecht

In die Skriflig, 1999
Calvin and the act of confession In 1540 Calvin declared that no member of the congregation would be allowed to take part in the ceremony of Holy Communion unless this ritual had been preceded by the act of confession.
H.A. Speelman
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Law and doctrine in the Church of Scotland : with particular reference to Confessions of Faith

, 2015
The starting point of this thesis was the debate in the General Assembly of Church of Scotland of 1974 which marked the culmination of a six year assessment of the Westminster Confession of Faith in the Church.
Macdonald, Finlay
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Daniel - Confession of Faith

, 2021
Biblical basis of the confession of faith, as part of the eclesial lifes of ...
hery susanto
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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The Confessing Subject and the Construction of Modern Catholic Selves

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2017
Historians and sociologists have argued that the practices of confession played a major role in the transition to modern, introspective individuality.
Moshe Sluhovsky
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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