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Against the Stream, How Karl Barth Reframed Church-State Relations (Chapter 3 of Keine Gewalt! No Violence!)

open access: yes, 2017
Excerpt: Defenders of the Barmen Declaration\u27s apolitical tone remind us that it was never intended to establish a program of political protest, that Karl Barth and the others were pastors not politicians; that the goal was to reassert the integrity ...
Newell, Roger J.
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“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source

The Letters of Stewart Winfield Herman Jr. An American Pastor in Berlin, 1936-1941 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper provides an analysis of the experiences of Stewart Herman Winfield Jr based on a collection of his letters on loan to Gettysburg College from the Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. This paper discusses Herman’s experiences as a student in Strasburg
Marks, Lucy A.
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Hyperreality, Polarization and Prejudice: Social Media Descriptions of Swedish Child Welfare Services

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Obedience in a Time of Authoritarianism: Ethics of Care in and beyond the Military

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In my book, On Obedience, Contrasting Philosophies for Military, Community and Citizenry, I anticipated emerging and different problems of authority and the nature/character of obedience in military and civic cultures. My anticipations proved to be correct, and more urgent questions have emerged.
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
wiley   +1 more source

La réédition de Mein Kampf : un (non-)événement éditorial ?

open access: yesBalisages
In 2021, a team of historians and scholars of German language, supervised by Florent Brayard and Andreas Wrisching, published a critical annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, entitled Historicizing Evil (Fayard) in collaboration with the ...
Nicolas Beaupré, Florent Brayard
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The myth of the Great Patriotic War as a tool of the Kremlin’s great power policy. OSW Commentary NUMBER 316 31.12.2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The sacralised Soviet victory over Nazism is a central element of the politics of memory, as utilised by the Russian state today. It constitutes an important theme in the Kremlin’s ideological offensive that is intended to legitimise Russia’s great-power
Domańska, Maria
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
wiley   +1 more source

Tyrants at the Heart of Darkness: Conradian Dictators in Golding, Steiner, Naipaul, and Foden

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal
Since its publication in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been received as a fable addressing the nature of evil. However, Conrad’s representation of Kurtz as a tyrannical figure and his indirect allusion to King Leopold II, the supreme ruler ...
Okuhata Yutaka
doaj   +1 more source

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