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Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

Religions
This paper argues that a comparative study of saints is not only a useful classroom tool for historians and religionists, but an exceptionally powerful locus of pedagogical insight and cultural understanding.
Todd E. French, Mohammed Forero Bucheli
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Philip Perry's Sketch of the Ancient British History (c.1772) and the Two Patricks Controversy [PDF]

, 2014
La vida y carrera de San Patricio resultan esenciales para nuestra comprensión de los primeros siglos de la historia del Cristianismo irlandés, y desde la publicación en 1942 de la revolucionaria conferencia de Thomas Francis O’Rahilly -que defendía que ...
Calzada Mina, Ainhoa
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Deliberate Extinction: Whether to Destroy the Last Smallpox Virus [PDF]

, 2004
The target problem to be examined is smallpox. Specifically, what should we (the United States and the entire world) now do with the last known residual samples of the virus that causes this uniquely horrific disease?
Koplow, David A.
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Unseemly acts of canonized monarchs: an experience of theological analysis

Studia Humanitatis, 2015
The article discuses an "unpopular" aspect of hagiology-crimes and other nefarious acts of canonized monarchs. The analysis solves a theological dilemma: how can atrocities unite with Holiness. It is noted that if real or alleged crimes are attributed to
Nikolsky Evgeny Vladimirovich
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Hagiología, tiempo e imaginario : santoral y calendario en Aracena (Siglo XV-XVIII) [PDF]

, 2010
El artículo aborda el impacto que sobre el imaginario colectivo de una comunidad local andaluza de entre los siglos XVI al XVIII tuvo la panoplia de santos legada por la configuración eclesiástica bajomedieval.
Pérez-Embid Wamba, Francisco Javier
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Toward a Just Measure of Repose: The Statute of Limitations for Securities Fraud

, 2011
Statutes of limitations, a long-standing bulwark of civil litigation, mitigate the risk that evidence of meritorious claims will become stale and relieve defendants who might be exposed to claims from unending uncertainty about whether claims will be ...
Kaufman, Michael J., Wunderlich, John M.
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Heaney and Bog Bodies Narratives Literary Translation as Archaeology [PDF]

, 2021
During the late 20th century the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney sought to use the bog bodies as metaphorical emblems of adversity to express a profound sense of tragedy and to comprehend the underlying drivers of the sectarian violence of his own time
Stewart, Lydia
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Adolescents' experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy for depression: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of good-outcome cases. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Ma J, Ji L, Lu G.
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John Henry Newman’s Anglican Views on Judaism [PDF]

, 2010
The scant scholarship associated with Newman’s Anglican views about Judaism has focused on his negative rhetoric against Judaism and portrayed him as anti-Semitic.
Aguzzi, Steven D.
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The Fundamental Re-writing: Religious Texts and Contemporary Narrative. Gore Vidal's Live from Golgotha, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, José Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo [PDF]

, 1996
In this essay Horácio Costa focused on three novels that have parody, the literary mechanism par excellence to enhance this uneven man-God dialogue, this individual-institutional interchange.
Costa, Horácio
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