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Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This volume offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa’s Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global ...
Martin Tamcke, Stanislau Paulau
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Suspicion and Love

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2013
Recent philosophy has witnessed a number of prominent and ambivalent encounters with Christianity. Alongside the retrievals of Paul and political theology, thinkers such as Žižek and Negri argue that in our era of imperial sovereignty and advanced ...
Matthew Chrulew
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Christianization of Kalmyks in Semirechye and Its Consequences

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. In the process of territorial expansion, Imperial Russia was seeking to implement internal policies, including that of Christianization.
Orazgul H. Muhatova   +3 more
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

The judicialization of religious governance in Qing China: the Calendar case and kangxi policy toward Christianity, 1667–1721

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This article examines Qing policy toward Christianity during the Kangxi reign (1667–1721) through the concept of judicialization. Here, judicialization does not mean the modern expansion of court power into politics, but the historical process by which a
Juan Liu, Bokai Zhang
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The Age of Questions: Truth Regimes and Subjectivity in the Era of Large Language Models

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores how digital technologies shape subjectivity's infra‐political constitution, focusing on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini within what philosophers, inspired by Michel Foucault, term the “digital truth regime.” After defining this regime, the essay identifies five key traits of LLMs: presentism in truth ...
Charles Corval
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Justice in the History of the Early Byzantine Thought (4th–7th Centuries)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The article is devoted to semantic transformation of the concept of ‘justice’ in leading intellectual traditions of early Byzantine period: late Neoplatonism, early Christianity, represented by the Cappadocians Fathers, and Christian Neoplatonism.
Evgeniy V. Karchagin   +2 more
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Christianity and Empire: The Catholic Mission in Late Imperial China

open access: yes, 2018
Reflecting on the theme of ‘Empire and Christianity’, this article compares two periods in the Catholic mission to China. The first period, between 1583 and 1800, was characterized by the accommodation of European missionaries to the laws, culture and ...
R. Po-chia Hsia
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The life and work of Ernest Sydney Keeping

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reviews the life and contributions of Ernest S. Keeping (1895–1984), a British‐born physicist who became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta in 1929. He played a pivotal role in shaping the university's Mathematics Department, serving as its head from 1954 to 1961, and continuing to teach until 1970, nine years ...
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Christianity: exploring a hermeneutical pedagogy for teaching Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Disagreements about how Christianity should be taught in state-funded school RE have a long history. In this article we take England as a case study and examine the debates that have arisen about the legitimacy of a theologically-based pedagogy following
Cooling, T., Pett, S.
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