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Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
wiley   +1 more source

Gods as Topological Invariants [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
We show that the number of gods in a universe must equal the Euler characteristics of its underlying manifold. By incorporating the classical cosmological argument for creation, this result builds a bridge between theology and physics and makes theism a testable hypothesis.
arxiv  

Theological and Philosophical Dependencies in St. Bonaventure’s Argument Against an Eternal World and a Brief Thomistic Reply [PDF]

, 1998
Matthew D. Walz
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Catholic Civics Education in the Early Cold War: Zeal for Democracy, Zeal for Christ

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 424-444, December 2022., 2022
Abstract In the late 1940s and 1950s American Catholic educators faced the dilemma of how to transmit Catholic faith and culture to the next generation while also reassuring their non‐Catholic neighbors that they were fully American in lifestyle and loyalties.
Jane McCamant
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical virtues and theological construction [PDF]

, 1997
Theist and critic alike typically assume rather traditional, Medieval, understandings of God, thereby masking certain complexities in their disputes.
Shalkowski, S.
core  

Two Sorts of Natural Theology [PDF]

, 2018
Usually, natural theology is understood as the project of providing arguments for the existence of God. This project is endorsed by Moreland and Craig. McGrath, on the other hand, says that this project fails.
Jakobsen, Martin
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The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 778-799, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article explores the Scottish defamation case Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon (1810–1812) in order to demonstrate the value of legal readings across the broadest spectrum of socio‐legal history. While the case has attracted attention from social historians, particularly historians of sexuality, it was shrouded in secrecy and thus did ...
CAROLINE DERRY
wiley   +1 more source

From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2015
This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain ...
Vincenzo Lomuscio
doaj  

Challenges to Some Philosophical Claims about Mathematics [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
In this note some philosophical thoughts and observations about mathematics are expressed, arranged as challenges to some common claims.
arxiv  

Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology [PDF]

, 2002
W. Stoker
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