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Ornamenta sunt ista non vincula – a paradoxical reevaluation of the instruments of torment in the early Christian martyrological literature

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2015
Zgodnie z teologią Nowego Testamentu śmierć chrześcijanina jest przejściem do życia wiecznego. Więcej, sam proces umierania, w myśl ewangelicznej dyna­miki obumierania ziarna, jest rodzeniem się do nowego życia.
Jan M. Kozłowski
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

open access: yesOceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Shams-e Tabrizi, Absence or Martyrdom? (based on old sources specially Molana Maktoobat ) [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات عرفانی, 2015
Shams-e Tabrizi, Absence or Martyrdom? (based on old sources specially Molana Maktoobat ) Abstract This paper, entitled “Shams-e Tabrizi, Absence or Martyrdom?”, discusses the fate of Shamsedin Mohammad […] Tabrizi, and whether he died a normal death or ...
Yadullah Mohamadi, Ahmad Parsa
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The Dark God: The Sacrifice of Sacrifice

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure of a king, who was, at once, a priest and a murderer.
Joseba Zulaika
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An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

Catholic Martyrs and Canon Law: Reassessing the Meaning of Hagiographic Texts in Philip II’s Spain

open access: yesReligions
This essay is about the uses of martyrdom works in Spain and among Elizabethan English Catholics with special reference to their beatification cause by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. There are two related points in this essay.
Vittoria Feola
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High‐pressure and high‐temperature polymorphism of Na2CO3 up to 10 GPa

open access: yesActa Crystallographica Section B, EarlyView.
Two new high‐pressure phases, ϵ and ϵ‐II, observed during in situ experiments, complete the high‐pressure phase diagram of Na2CO3 and show that both the incommensurate γ phase and the ϵ phase are stable over a wider pressure–temperature range under mantle‐relevant conditions.We report two new high‐pressure polymorphs of sodium carbonate, ϵ and ϵ‐II ...
Benedetta Chrappan Soldavini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coupled intra‐ and inter‐tunnel short‐range order in hollandites: a case study of mannardite Ba[(Ti4+)6(V3+)2]O16

open access: yesActa Crystallographica Section B, EarlyView.
Single‐crystal X‐ray diffuse scattering combined with Monte Carlo simulations and 3D‐ΔPDF analysis reveals complex short‐range order in mannardite, involving coupled Ba–Ba interactions within and between tunnels and framework relaxation.Mannardite, Ba[(Ti4+)6(V3+)2]O16, a mineral of the hollandite supergroup, is characterized by a tunnel structure ...
Ella Mara Schmidt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Protesters to Martyrs: How to Become a ‘True’ Sikh

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2008
This article studies the protest which started in Punjab in May 2007 following a ceremony performed by Baba Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh (GRRS), head of Dera Sacha Sauda, which was considered as blasphemous by a section of the Sikh community. The aim of this
Lionel Baixas, Charlène Simon
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

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