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This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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Iconoclasia, performance y la opacidad de la presencia
Iconoclasm, Performanceand The opacITyof presence.In Literature, it has been stated that the notion of per-formance is articulated together with creation of pres-ence.
RODRIGO DÍAZ CRUZ
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The conversion of certain warlords in Kyushu, Japan, (1560–1580 CE) represents one of the most important breakthroughs for Christianity in the early modern world, and it was accompanied by striking acts of destruction of the local sacred sites and ...
A. Strathern
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Abstract The recent exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris marked the first exhibition on the subject of the French Revolution since the museum reopened in 2021 after a five‐year period of renovation.
Laura O'Brien
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European questions have intruded into the French election campaign, signalling that the next European Parliamentary elections may be the first truly European ones [PDF]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign. Meanwhile Sarkozy wants to exclude Greece from the Schengen Agreement and has called for protectionist measures within the European Union.
Priestley, Julian
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Rocking the Boat to Change the Debate: Identifying and Testing Conventional Wisdom
ABSTRACT This paper presents a method for and experiences with pioneering new research directions that challenge “conventional wisdom” and change policy and research debates. The method consists of four steps: (1) identify the conventional wisdom (CW); (2) ignore the CW and go to the field without pre‐conceived notions, and look long and hard at ...
Thomas Reardon
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Si hier comme aujourd’hui, l’art islamique classique comme « l’art contemporain islamique » connaissent une fluctuation nominative importante, si hier comme aujourd’hui, « islamique » est employé dans le sens de “civilisation islamique” ; hier comme ...
Monia Abdallah
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Mozart: traces of transcendence [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Küng, Hans. Mozart: traces of transcendence.
Muller, Richard A.
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Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise [PDF]
The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and ...
Stoyanov, Yuri
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
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
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