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Some centuries after the onset of European missionaries to the East and their competition over winning converts, Protestants started their missionary work at the turn of the nineteenth century in an East which was then under the Ottoman Rule. From Aleppo to Palestine, they eventually promulgated across the entire Near and Middle East, with the purpose ...
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin In Arab American Literature [PDF]
In an urban neighborhood with a large Jewish population near my home, there is an Arabic restaurant. Name, menu and ownership mark its ethnic identification, yet its politics are otherwise obscured.
Wardi, Anissa J., Wardi-Zonna, Katherine
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The third instalment in the “Unpublished Texts from the Arab Orthodox Tradition” series makes accessible a neglected document from the Orthodox Christian tradition in Arabic: the Paterikon of the Palestinian lavra of Mar Chariton. It includes an edition and an English translation of this text, which contains precious information about seven little ...
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ABSTRACT Aims To explore (a) the associations between individual social responsibility and the public intention to use violence against nurses; and (b) the relationship between individual social responsibility, personal variables and the public's intention to employ violence against nurses.
Efrat David +3 more
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility? [PDF]
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999–2005 that contains fertility ...
Alma Cohen +2 more
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Poverty, education and employment in the Arab-Bedouin society: A comparative view [PDF]
The socio-economic situation of the Arab-Bedouin population in the Negev is examined in light of the general Israeli Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52% with nearly two
Daniel Gottlieb, Suleiman Abu-Bader
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The Effect of Benefits Level on Take-up Rates: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [PDF]
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment to study the effect of social benefits level on take-up rates. We find that households who are eligible for double benefits (twins) have much higher take-up rate - up to double - as compared to a control ...
Momi Dahan, Udi Nisan
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Menorah Review (No. 28, Spring, 1993) [PDF]
Counterpart Communities -- Peace and Existenz -- The Meaning is in the Meeting -- Judenthum As the Quintessential Other -- Focusing -- Book ...
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