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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Worship: the source and summit of faith [PDF]
In worship God comes to serve his people with his gifts. Worship, as God\u27s service of us, is the source of faith. Worship is also the summit of faith as God lifts his people to himself, to the service of others, to a reconciliation with the natural ...
Pfatteicher, Philip H.
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ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Graphic Novels Explore an (Un-)Holy Land
In recent years, graphic novels have staked a claim for cultural respectability, especially through their often-bold analysis of divisive social and political issues; for instance, in travelogues exploring today’s Israel and Palestine.
Nina Fischer
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Fluoro‐functionalized polyether electrolytes, which combine fluorine‐ and ether‐containing groups, achieve enhanced oxidative stability, high ionic conductivity, and superior interfacial stability. Due to their non‐flammability, remarkable flexibility, ease of processing, and design versatility, polymer‐based electrolytes containing polyethers have ...
Nannan Geng +8 more
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Off‐Farm Employment and Rural Energy Transitions: A Systematic Review of Pathways and Gaps
ABSTRACT Transitioning to clean and affordable energy is a persistent development challenge for rural populations in low‐ and middle‐income countries, where dependence on traditional biomass‐based fuels continues to dominate. Although off‐farm employment has gained increasing attention as a driver of rural livelihood transformation, its specific ...
Salman Ibn Yasin +5 more
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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5. The Rise of National Feeling
In the centuries under review in this chapter the self-sufficient manor, the feudal aristocracy, and the cultural isolation of Europe fell before the forces of economic change.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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