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The Political U: New Evidence on the Economic Costs of Hybrid Regimes
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research establishes a positive causal effect from democracy to income, although this evidence relies mostly on binary regime classifications. We extend the identification framework of Acemoglu et al. (2019) to a classification that distinguishes democracies, autocracies, and hybrid regimes for about 170 countries over 1960–2024.
Nauro F. Campos +2 more
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Understanding Embodiment Through Lived Religion: A Look at Vernacular Physiologies in an Old Norse Milieu [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter outlines an approach to how ritual technologies prominent for a person can impact on the development of that person’s body image – i.e. a symbolic and iconic model of what our body is (and is not).
Frog, Mr.
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Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Poulsen VM, DeDeo S.
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, 2005 The Norse werewolf is a joint term under which the author has chosen to subsume the diversity of motives based on or containing elements of lupine therianthropy within the Old Norse literary corpus.
Heim, Nordian Nifl
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Melusine, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Though the foreign roots of Volksbücher such as Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine (1457) have long been recognized, these early modern German prose novels are still characterized as insular and folksy. Taking Melusine as an example, this article uses the framework of mobility to offer a new interpretation that posits the Volksbuch as an ...
Andrew C. Sternhagen Schwenk
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, 2019 This is an introduction to this edited volume about Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia. The volume focuses on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life.
Andreas Nordberg Nordberg +5 more
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Phylogeographic history of mitochondrial haplogroup J in Scandinavia. [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2023 Kristjansson D +3 more
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The Materiality of Myth: Divine Objects in Norse Mythology [PDF]
, 2019 The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myths, carries underexplored traces of belief systems and the material experience of Iron Age Scandinavia (400–1000 CE). This paper proposes an archaeological
Knutson, Sara Ann
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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