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How to Imagine Educational AI: The Filling of a Pail or the Lighting of a Fire?

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, generative AI) have led to increased interest in its application in educational settings. AI companies hope to revolutionize teaching and learning by tailoring material to the individual needs of students, automating parts of teachers' jobs, or analyzing educational data to ...
Michał Wieczorek, Alberto Romele
wiley   +1 more source

The political life of things: Explorations on material culture and consumption in Evangelical groups in Buenos Aires, Argentina [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of the article is to explore the material culture of Neo-Pentecostals´ mega-churches in Buenos Aires City, Argentina. In order to do this, we will reconstruct three consumers’ profile and the way that political senses are put into play.
Algranti, Joaquin Maria
core  

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Witchcraft, territories and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro

Mana, 2010
Through their everyday references to witchcraft, allegedly emanating from Afro-Brazilian cults, Evangelical pastors denounce heinous crimes and acts of barbarity that provoke horror and terror in their listeners in church and on radio and television.
Patricia Birman
doaj  

The Institute for Christian Ethics: The Social Engagement of Lutherans in Society [PDF]

, 1996
Waterloo Lutheran ...
Pfrimmer, David G. A.
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‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract While scholars have studied coordination across occupational lines, they have yet to theorize how the memories held by those involved in such coordination might influence it. In this paper, we frame occupational groups as mnemonic communities – collectives for whom a shared understanding of the past constitutes their character – to explore the
Sung‐Chul Noh, Matthew C. B. Lyle, Boram Do   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Your Miracle is on the Way”: Oral Roberts and Mediated Pentecostalism in Africa

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology, 2018
Oral Roberts is perhaps the first North American Pentecostal preacher to have a truly global ministry. This article discusses his influence on Pentecostalism in Africa through the holding of evangelical healing crusades around the world and also hosting ...
J. K. Asamoah‐Gyadu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other

Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
wiley   +1 more source

The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
wiley   +1 more source