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Religion and Attitudes Toward Xenotransplantation: Results of a Nationwide Survey in the United States. [PDF]
XenotransplantationABSTRACT Religious viewpoints have been shown to influence the ways in which many persons approach medical decision‐making and have been noted as a potential barrier to xenotransplantation acceptance. This study sought to explore how attitudes toward xenotransplantation differ among various religious beliefs.
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Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem: New approaches
Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay traces the far‐reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus's The Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
Mo Pareles
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The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1231-1258, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Malthus predicted that fertility rises with income and that people regulate fertility via regulating marriage. However, evidence on the Malthusian equilibrium has been mostly confined to Europe and East Asia. We employ Egypt's population censuses of 1848 and 1868 to provide the first evidence on the preindustrial Malthusian dynamics in the ...
Yuzuru Kumon, Mohamed Saleh
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The importance of public engagement in clinical xenotransplantation [PDF]
Health Care SciXenotransplantation (cross‐species transplant) of pig‐to‐human organs is moving ahead toward clinical trials in the United States. However, little is known about how the public and, specifically, certain patient populations feel about this novel therapy.
Hurst D, Cooper D.
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Unsound and Informally Fallacious Preterist Arguments for Mark 13:24‐27
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 796-811, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Abstract: The following article evaluates two common arguments for preterist interpretations of Mark 13:24‐27, collectively dubbed the ‘time‐text’ argument. These two arguments support symbolic and/or historicised interpretations. Our thesis is that the first argument is unsound and the second commits the informal fallacy of false dilemma ...
Elton L. Hollon
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.Abstract Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House (2000) and Pauline Kaldas's “The House in Old Cairo” (2006) allow a comparative analysis on place dynamics and the psycho‐spatial aspects of subjectivity and belonging. This article builds on the premise that place has an ontological implication for its occupants as it allocates a portion of space for them ...
Daniella Krisztán
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
History, Volume 110, Issue 391, Page 326-345, June 2025.Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2025.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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, 2012 According to tradition and to the early church historian Eusebius, Christianity was preached in Ethiopia by the apostle Matthew before it reached Europe; Mark the evangelist is said to have established the church in Alexandria in 43 C.E. What is clear is
Hawley, John C.
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