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Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Lessons on State and Local Income Taxes From the Twenty‐First Century and Challenges for the Future
Abstract I survey recent research on subnational income tax policy, arguing that a defining feature is geography. Geographic boundaries limit the power of subnational governments to tax people and activities. The article discusses where income should be taxed and the effects of these tax rules on the interjurisdictional mobility of people and jobs.
David R. Agrawal
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Education and Social Attitudes Toward Internal Migrants: Causal Evidence From China
ABSTRACT This article examines the causal impact of educational attainment on natives' attitudes toward internal migrants in China, a question central to understanding the social foundations of integration in rapidly urbanizing societies. Using nationally representative data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), we find that higher education ...
Wei Huang +3 more
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The Spirit in the Christian Bible
With nearly 800 references to ruaḥ and pneuma in Christian scripture, it is a consequential task to distil the scriptural uses of these words into themes that can unite them in a coherent summary.
John R. Levison
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К вопросу интерпретации метафоры «усыновление» в текстах апостола Павла: типология Исхода
В статье представлен один из возможных подходов к объяснению смысла метафоры υἱοθεσία («усыновление»), используемой в нескольких посланиях апостола Павла. Данная метафора рассмотрена в контексте типологии Исхода.
Карева, С.В.
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Writing as Reading: Deuteronomy’s Perspective on the Day of the Assembly
This article studies the Torah’s depictions of God’s descent on Sinai, ‘the Day of the Assembly,’ within Exodus 19–20 and across Deuteronomy to argue that Israel’s failure to go on the mountain in Exodus 19:16 is sin. The Torah’s cumulative depictions of
Link Peter
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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ABSTRACT Women's work experiences during COVID‐19 illuminated or exacerbated existing organizational divides between mothers and childfree employees as presumptions related to time management, differences in access to resources, and implicit organizational expectations became more visible.
Cristin A. Compton +2 more
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