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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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Theology, Christian spirituality and the Lord’s prayer according to the Gospel of Matthew

In die Skriflig
Prayer facilitates and constitutes dialogue between God and Christians. It also enables believers to experience God in prayer. A prerequisite is the recognition that God is the bona fide source of daily provision and the supreme One who brings about ...
Dirk G. van der Merwe
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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Pater Noster, Dieu tentateur ou protecteur ?

Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
From “Lead us not into temptation” to “Do not let us be tempted,” the translation of this prayer in the Lord’s Prayer remains difficult. The discussion most often focuses on the verb, but the noun that follows the verb is just as problematic.
Christophe Lemardelé
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Die gebed: Enkele gesigspunte in verband met die aard en die inhoud van die Christelike gebed met besondere verwysing na die Heidelbergse Kategismus

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1987
Prayer: Some aspects of the nature and content of Christian prayer with special reference to the Heidelberg Catechism This article briefly describes a few basic aspects of the Reformed doctrine on prayer as represented by the Heidelberg Catechism.
C. J. Wethmar
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From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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“Do not allow us to give into temptation” – from the Bible to the daily liturgy and prayer

Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2010
As the result of a biblical revival, the Polish text of the petition of the Lord’s Prayer in the Bible (Matt 6 : 13 and Luke 11 : 4) was changed from “Lead us not into temptation” to “Do not allow us to give into temptation”, which was also included in ...
Antoni Salm
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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