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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1281-1301, November 2025.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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Graeco-Roman gems with harvesting scenes [PDF]

Starinar
In this paper we discuss harvesting scenes on Graeco-Roman gems, notably the Mediterranean staple harvest crops: cereals, the vintage, and olive oil. Our study material includes gems depicting the ard, with the heads of cereal and glumes.
Lafli Ergün, Henig Martin
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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
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Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras

Open Archaeology
The article examines the relationship between the Roman cult of Mithras and members of the publicum portorium Illyrici, the Roman customs office active in the Danubian provinces, who have been discussed in previous research as potentially important ...
Chalupa Aleš, Glomb Tomáš, Sarkisjan Juraj   +2 more
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The socio-rhetorical force of ‘truth talk’ and lies: The case of 1 John

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
This article canvassed Greek and Roman sources for discussions concerning truth talk and lies. It has investigated what social historians and/or anthropologists are saying about truth talking and lying and has developed a model that will examine the ...
Dietmar Neufeld
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Aristotle's Theoria in Contemplative Education

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 439-459, June 2025.
Abstract This essay analyzes Pierre Hadot's reading of Aristotelian theoria in order to evaluate theoria's relevancy for the contemporary field of Contemplative Education. It emphasizes the limited engagement with theoria against a backdrop of heightened attention to mindfulness‐based practices. The essay critiques the conflation of Plato and Aristotle'
Tomas de Rezende Rocha
wiley   +1 more source

Die konsep 'Seun van God' in Grieks-Romeinse en Hellenisties-Semitiese literatuur

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1997
The notion 'Son of God' in Graeco-Roman and Hellenistic-Semitic literature. Christians among the Greek-speaking Israelites referred to Jesus as, inter alia, 'Son of God'.
Andries van Aarde
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

The social setting of Jesus’ exaltation in Luke-Acts (Lk 22:69 and Ac 7:56)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2005
This article presents a model for “intercultural exegesis” and applies this model to Luke 22:69 and Acts 7:56. In this process, the term “Son of Man” is approached from two perspectives: that of a biblical culture in the first century Graeco-Roman world,
Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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