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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

Public Witness through the Church as the Disciple Community in the Context of Christian Nationalism

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя
In Central and Eastern Europe, some branches of the Church have formed alliances with nationalist politics characterized by fundamentalism and fanaticism.
Myra Watkins
doaj   +1 more source

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
wiley   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

‘Abuse of Power Comes as no Surprise’? Sensemaking Around Power‐Abusive Behaviour in Creative Higher Education—A Qualitative Analysis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Power asymmetries shape structures, culture and experiences within higher education, yet remain underexamined in creative disciplines. This study explores how abuse of power is perceived by stakeholders in creative higher education in Germany and Austria—students, equality officers, lecturers and senior professionals—through 16 in‐depth ...
Marina Fischer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
wiley   +1 more source

discipleA Lamp, The Cross, and a Waiting World: A Personal Theological Journey into Whole Person Learning

open access: yes, 2006
Whole person learning is a popular, often discussed, and well explored challenge of contemporary western pedagogy. The theme of the 2006 Coalition of Christian Teacher Educators International Conference called its members to a faith-based reflection on ...
Gyertson, David J.
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Wilderness Beauty: A Means to Resolve Volitional Doubt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Doubt is often part of Christian spiritual life. Matured doubt will influence the will (the volition) so as to keep the Christian doubter from acting like a Christian or even desiring the Christian life.
Scalise, Brian T
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AI as guru or conjurer?

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 136-141, May 2026.
Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

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