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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching

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One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making schooling more inclusive for all disadvantaged groups ...
Carol Benson
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Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
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Nationalism and Education in the Arctic: A Study of Greenland in the Context of the Kingdom of Denmark

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the coconstitution of nationalism and education in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) within the Kingdom of Denmark. Drawing on Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and Siniša Malešević, it argues that schooling standardises language, history and civic repertoires, thereby fabricating the modern national subject ...
Benedikte Brincker, Mitdlarak Lennert
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