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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Developing an effective integral mission in South Sudan: A competency-based theological model

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Churches in South Sudan operate amid protracted conflict, poverty and institutional fragility, yet most ministerial formation remains classroom centred and weakly connected to contextual practice.
David A. Okeny, Jerry Pillay
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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The Perceptions of Science by Calvinists, Lutherans, Unitarians and Religious Dissents in East-Central Europe from Seventeenth Century Till Today

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
The outcome of this special issue which was made possible by a generous support by John Templeton Grant administered through Oxford University enabled the Principal Investigator, Prof. Dr.
Ábrahám KOVÁCS
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On missional leadership: A critical engagement with Nelus Niemandt

Verbum et Ecclesia
In my engagement with Nelus Niemandt, I will primarily focus on his most recent and major book Missional Leadership in which he seeks to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. The core of his academically influential viewpoint on
Danie P. Veldsman
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Introduction to the Old Testament: a liberation perspective [PDF]

, 2006
Title: Introduction to the Old Testament: a liberation perspective. Author: Ceresko, Anthony R Introduction to the Old Testament xxi, 384 p. Publisher: Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Bks, 2001.
Uitti, Roger W.
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Analytic philosophy and scriptural interpretations

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The task of interpreting the Holy Scriptures has been a daunting enterprise throughout the history of the Church. This article explores how analytic philosophy could be promising in biblical interpretation.
Aku S. Antombikums
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