Exorcism and the law: is the ghost of the Reformation haunting contemporary debates about safeguarding versus autonomy? [PDF]
, 2018 This article explores how secular and Canon Law on exorcism have evolved in tandem in England, each subject to the influence of the other, as well as wider cultural changes.
Garcia Olivia, J, Hall, H
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Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
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Traditional, religious, and cultural perspectives on mental illness: a qualitative study on causal beliefs and treatment use. [PDF]
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being, 2022 Subu MA +8 more
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Review of \u3cem\u3eAmbiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal. Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms\u3c/em\u3e by Francois Soyer [PDF]
, 2013 Cases of priests, who claimed to be women in order to conceal their homosexuality, and women, who dressed as men in order to escape their abusive husbands, allow the reader a rare glimpse into the inner lives of post-Tridentine ...
Lehner, Ulrich
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The Price of Prosperity? A Historical Account of Regulating Industrial Pollution in the Netherlands
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regulatory governance and state‐corporate crime studies link persistent industrial pollution to long‐term regulatory–industry interactions, yet little is known about how these interactions evolve and become entrenched. This article examines two enduring cases of industrial pollution in the Netherlands—Hoogovens/Tata Steel and DuPont de Nemours/
Karin van Wingerde +3 more
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An Exploration of Female Sexuality, Class Status, and Art in Hardy’s Short Stories [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I examine Hardy’s treatment of female sexuality as mediated by art in two short stories: “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman.” Given Hardy’s role as an artist, his noted compassion for women, and his interest in Victorian ...
Lanza, Erin M.
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Mystical and mythological believes not only limited to psychiatric diseases? A dynamic overview of medicine. [PDF]
Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2023 Sumbal A, Sumbal R.
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 183-194, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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, 1972 Mind Your Calling, a speach given for the Friends United Meeting in 1972.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/arthur_roberts/1004/thumbnail ...
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