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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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«Un tribunale di soli uomini»: Dalla parte di lei by Alba de Céspedes between law, news and media

Griseldaonline, 2023
This essay aims to analyse the representation of courts in de Céspedes’ novel Dalla parte di lei (Mondadori, 1949), investigating the role of law in projecting discriminating family dynamics into a structural, institutionalized pattern.
Emma de Pasquale
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Reference dependence and lottery participation

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We assume that lottery participants are poor relative to their target income. Reference dependence with loss aversion can render the marginal utility of income non‐monotonic in line with the Friedman–Savage hypothesis. As a result, lottery participation can be rationalized without invoking probability weighting.
Robertas Zubrickas
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Modern Arap Edebiyatında Mektup Roman: İbrîsim ev Ġarâm Ḥâir Adlı Roman Örneği

Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Bu çalışma, modern Arap edebiyatında mektup roman türünün doğuşunu ve gelişimini incelemektedir. Mektup roman; olayların, karakterlerin karşılıklı mektupları aracılığıyla aktarıldığı, anlatıcı bakış açısının kişiselleştiği ve okuyucuya karakterlerin iç ...
Cuma Tanık
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Giovanni Paolo Marana’s Turkish Spy and the Police of Louis XIV: the Fear of Being Secretly Observed by Trained Agents in Early Modern Europe

Altre Modernità, 2014
Giovanni Paolo Marana’s epistolary novel, entitled l’Espion du Grand-Seigneur and published for the first time in the 1680s, was a pioneering work of a genre that was to flourish much later, namely spy story. The story features an Arab who comes to Paris
Aleksandra Porada
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Tillich's Schellingian Styles

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I contend that, whatever one might say about F.W.J. Schelling's historical and conceptual influence on Paul Tillich's doctrines, the overall style of Tillich's project can helpfully be dubbed Schellingian to the extent it mixes together discourses, genres, and vocabularies into an ever‐expanding whole. To the extent that anything
Daniel Whistler
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Wertherand the epistolary novel [PDF]

European Romantic Review, 2008
This article posits that Werther substantially revises the epistolary form made standard by the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Acts of miscommunication dominate the novel: letters are sent but never received. Such misdirections create inadequate models of exchange and fractured communities of people, which in turn produce isolation and despair
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
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Corespondența intimă ca loc al memoriei colective. Posturi & comerț de imagine în textele epistolare ale scriitorilor români din a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea [PDF]

Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară
The efflorescence of confessional genres during the latter half of the nineteenth century heralded the emergence of a novel paradigm of human existence.
Smărăndița-Elena Costin
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