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Female Characters in the Holy Qur'an from Ara Ruth Rodded's Perspective
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2010 "Women and the Qur'an" is the title of a paper written by Dr. Ruth Rodded in the Leaden encyclopedia of the Quran in the Netherlands. She has examined the characters of women like Eve (Peace Be upon Her), the queen of Sheba, and Zolaikha in a part of her article and through using some interpretations, narrations, and cases of revelations investigates ...
majid maref, fatemeh vazei
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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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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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz +3 more
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Teen Childbearing and Community Religiosity [PDF]
This paper shows that communities with larger fractions of Catholics and Conservative Protestants have lower rates of teen childbearing ceteris paribus.
Linda Datcher Loury
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The Handmaid of the Lord Redux: Constructing the New Orthodox Womanhood between Cradle and Convert
, 2020 In an era when questions of sexuality and gender dominate much of the debate in theological circles, regardless of religious or confessional affiliation, the meaning of Orthodox Christian womanhood remains a simultaneously over-discussed and under ...
Kelaidis, Katherine
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Chastity, bachelorhood and masculinity in early modern Europe : the case of the Hospitaller Knights of St. John (c. 1520- c. 1650) [PDF]
, 2009 This chapter engages with gender through an analysis of the historiography of chastity, bachelorhood and masculinity in early modern Europe. We begin with an overview of the ideas and practices related to chastity during the Middle Ages and how these ...
Buttigieg, Emanuel
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
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Can Parental Love and Harm Coexist? The Perceptions of Child Protective Social Workers in Israel
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the undeniable significance of love in parent–child relationships, there is a gap in empirical research on this topic. Love's mythological, abstract and subjective nature complicates its academic investigation, often overshadowed by the presumption of its universal presence.
Ayelet Guy Menashe +2 more
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Jesus’ Use of Social Power in Honour–Shame Conflicts: A Model for Male–Female Interactions
, 2008 Because social power is interpersonal, it is exercised in physical space. Edward Hall distinguishes between public, social, personal, and intimate space by the distance that individuals maintain from each other in that space.
Morse, MaryKate
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