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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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Christian Monotheism and Its Challengers
Verbum Christi, 2022 The Christian Trinity is a diversified form of monotheistic faith, since the apostolic faith is rooted in the Old Testament confession, to which Jesus adhered: “the Lord our God, the Lord is one”.
Paul Wells
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Do Asian Companies Bid Higher in Cross‐Border M&A? A Moderating Effect Analysis
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether Asian companies pay higher premiums in cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and identifies the institutional factors driving this behavior. Grounded in the concept of Asian institutional logic—characterized by state coordination, relational governance, and long‐term strategic orientation—we argue that these ...
Conrado Diego García‐Gómez +3 more
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Gregory of Nyssa’s Treatment of Ancient Beliefs in his Homilies
ReligionsIn his many homilies, Gregory of Nyssa contrasts Christian belief to earlier forms of belief that were still very present in the Roman empire during the fourth century, namely the classical polytheistic faith and Judaism, with the explicit intention of ...
Jonathan Farrugia
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Idolatry and the History of Religions [PDF]
, 2016 Idolatry is a key concept in the history of Western thinking about religion, as an all-encompassing category in which all religions more or less alien to the Christian tradition could be subsumed.
Barbu, Daniel Olivier
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Idolatry, Technology, and Place [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this thesis is to consider the implications of idolatry within our hypermodern technological paradigm as they affect our relationship to place.
Miller, Robert
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El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001 The Church constantly put to doubt the validity of its evangelisation of Peru, accusing the Indians of being just as idolatrous as they had been in the past and of practicing a hypocritical superficial form of Catholicism.
Juan Carlos Estenssoro
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