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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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‘The Devil Made Me Do It’ Electus per Deus and Quasi‐Occult Crime in South Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This study interrogates the phenomenon of ‘occult crime’ in South Africa, focusing on the perspectives of crime such as Electus per Deus, the murder of Kirsty Theologo, Hansie Cronjé, and the context behind the assumed connection between criminal culpability, mens daemonica, and the occult.
Tristán Kapp
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Spinoza on Teleology, Action, and Explanatory Overdetermination
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 218-230, December 2025.ABSTRACT I argue that Spinoza rejects teleological explanations wholesale. This is because of three of his distinctive theses: his naturalism, according to which all things are governed by the same laws; his account of action, according to which we are active to the extent that we have adequate ideas; and his account of adequate causation, according to
Stephen Harrop
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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The Script of the Dove: An Armenian Hetaerogram [PDF]
, 2014 Near Eastern Languages and ...
Russell, James R.
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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Does compliance with the global anticorruption regime require the use of artificial intelligence?
American Business Law Journal, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 145-164, Fall 2025.Abstract Business firms constantly hear that artificial intelligence has changed the world and that they must either utilize artificial intelligence or fall behind. By extension, this would be true of regulatory compliance as well as operations. This article challenges the mantra of artificial intelligence as a ubiquitous agent of change.
Philip M. Nichols
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Student Research and Pedagogy in New Religious Studies: Perils, Paradoxes, and Publication
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article addresses the issue of involving students in field research, and the potential risks as well as the rewards of this pedagogy, particularly for researchers in the field of New Religious Studies. Real life examples of some of the unexpected challenges of field research, the “risks” faced by researchers, students, as well as members ...
Susan Jean Palmer
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Hell, Heaven and Alchemy in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter" according to Gnosticism [PDF]
, 2013 According to Gnosticism, the original sin which prompted man to be expelled from Heaven was the sin against the Holy Spirit. This offence would be strictly connected to sexuality, consisting mainly on fornication and adultery.
Casanova, Nora Celina
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Short Abstract This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re‐scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism. More specifically, it examines the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’, and ‘Western’ in the advertising language deployed by the company Patanjali.
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
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