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Playing with the “Playing God” [PDF]
, 2017 Some philosophers and theologians have argued against the idea of Human Enhancement, saying that human beings should not play God. A closer look, however, might reveal that the question of who is playing Whom is far from being so ...
Andreeva, E., Dabbagh, Hossein
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Divine Providence - De Potentia Dei 3, 7 and Super Librum de Causis Expositio [PDF]
, 2019 The main goal of this paper is tocompare how Thomas Aquinas expressedhis doctrine of providence through second-ary causes, making use of both Aristotelianand Neo-Platonic principles, in the seventharticle of the third question of his Quaes ...
Silva, Ignacio
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Radicalism and Fundamentalism in the Perspective of Contemporary Islamic Theology
FiTUARadicalism and fundamentalism in contemporary Islam have become pressing global issues that significantly affect social, political, and cultural dynamics.
Perdana Kusuma +2 more
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THE LABYRINTH OF PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM [PDF]
, 2010 This paper focuses on the methodological issues related to the obstacles and potential horizons of approaching the philosophical traditions in Islam from the standpoint of comparative studies in philosophy, while also presenting selected case-studies ...
El-Bizri, Nader
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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