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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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The role and contribution of civil society and community actors in COVID-19 prevention and control: the case of the COMVID COVID-19 movement in Burkina Faso. [PDF]
Sory O +7 more
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Literary Devices in Jewish-Christian Polemics [PDF]
Markéta Kabůrková Literární prostředky v židovsko-křesťanské polemice Literary Devices in Jewish-Christian Polemics Hebrew anti-Christian polemic is a specific literary genre, which evolved in Western Europe at the end of the twelfth century.
Kabůrková, Markéta
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Polemics and paradoxes in the media: the case of the Dutch TV-show Pauw
In Apologie de la polémique, Ruth Amossy (2014) studies the place of polemical discourse in public space. This “argumentative modality” guarantees the possibility of non-violent coexistence of groups in political situations, in other words, situations of
Van Belle, Hilde
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Polemics of Antonín Lenz versus Alfons Šťastný of Padařov
Polemics between Antonín Lenz and Alfons Šťastný from Padařov Jan Mikeš This thesis describes the theological debate between Antonín Lenz and Alfons Šťastný from Padařov, which took place in the second half of the 19th century.
Mikeš, Jan
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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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Vaccination: a question of social responsibility. [PDF]
Sergi CM, Leung AKC.
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