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Orientalisms in the interpretation of Islamic philosophy [PDF]
In this paper, I argue that Edward Said’s central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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Martial Arts in Postcolonial Times: Local Theories for Local Contexts [PDF]
Background. Up to now, the social organisation and practise of the world’s ghting systems has been understood through estab- lished and popular trends in sociological theory developed primarily in Western Europe and North America. Problem and aim.
Cynarski, Wojciech, Jennings, George
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
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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Os templários na França: entre História, Patrimônio e Memória [PDF]
A comprehensive scholarly study of the Templars in France has not been published yet. Yet their order, from the outset, was closely linked to the French present space: most brethren were born there, and the langue d’oïl rapidly stood as the official ...
Joserand, Philippe
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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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Bible Leaves! Bible Leaves! Hellenism and Hebraism in Melville's Moby-Dick [PDF]
"'Bible Leaves! Bible Leaves!': Hebraism and Hellenism in Melville's Moby-Dick" argues that Herman Melville is Hellenism's severest American critic, and his greatest book, a sustained defense of the Hebraic "letter." Using a range of devices to link his ...
New, Elisa
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Does compliance with the global anticorruption regime require the use of artificial intelligence?
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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The Script of the Dove: An Armenian Hetaerogram [PDF]
Near Eastern Languages and ...
Russell, James R.
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Crossing the Threshold: Mysticism, Liminality, and Remedios Varo’s Bordando el manto terrestre (1961–2) [PDF]
In this article we propose to take up the question of the painter’s work in connection with liminality more explicitly. We will argue that the limen Varo’s heroines cross is a psychological one that takes them through a process culminating in a rebirth ...
O'Rawe, Ricki, Quance, Roberta
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Student Research and Pedagogy in New Religious Studies: Perils, Paradoxes, and Publication
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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