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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
wiley   +1 more source

Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid indigeneity

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 313-327, August 2019., 2019
In the northern Judean hills of the West Bank, winemaker Fadi Batarseh points across the Cremisan Valley at the Israeli settlement Har Gilo, about five kilometers south of Jerusalem and two kilometers west of Bethlehem. (Daniel Monterescu and Ariel Handel, 2017). ABSTRACT Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and
DANIEL MONTERESCU, ARIEL HANDEL
wiley   +1 more source

What Weber Got Right About Brahmins—Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 2, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Satanik Pal
wiley   +1 more source

Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 320-338, June 2024.
Abstract Practising Orthodox Christians in central Serbia live their liturgical lives within the idiom of Serbian peoplehood. This article probes the ‘people’ (narod) – perceived locally as an historically and geographically rooted ethno‐moral collectivity – as a core concept of belonging which is key for understanding post‐Yugoslav Orthodox life. The ‘
Nicholas Lackenby
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining Victors' peace in Sri Lanka: Exploring an alternative approach

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 140-158, April 2024.
Abstract The three‐decade‐long Sri Lankan civil war between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers) came to an end following a major GoSL offensive in May 2009, which resulted in GoSL claiming a “victor's peace.” The war caused the death of around 80,000 to 100,000 people ...
Danendri Laleema Senanayake
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the distribution of households with regard to worshipping the same shrines or crossings, and their correspondence to the areal extent of tol—A study on the socio‐spatial structure and urban tissue in Bhaktapur, Nepal Part 1

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–December 2024.
Abstract This paper aimed to discuss the areal extent and spatial structure of neighborhood, called tol, which possibly demarcate urban tissue with respect to worship of the deity and funerary acts. Bhaktapur is known as one of the historical cities of the World Heritage Site in Kathmandu Valley.
Anri Miyauchi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hrvatski filozofi I: Herman Dalmatin (1110–1154 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The article includes a short biography of Hermann of Dalmatia and gives an account of his translations and philosophical and scientific work. In order to have a better understanding of Hermann’s philosophy, a reminder of Greek and Arabic philosophy of ...
Stipe Kutleša
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Grammar and Conversion in the Early Iberian Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Grammar is art. Not an art. It is the art among all arts. As Martin Irvine demonstrated in his beautiful book of 1994, this claim is not very new -it is perhaps as old as grammar, and as old as the greek concept of τέχνη.
Rodriguez-Velasco, Jesus D.
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