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A saint's day in the city: notes on ethnographic research in the outskirts of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2011
The article draws on other studies about the playful dimension of popular religion in the Amazon to reflect on the results of ethnographic fieldwork carried out on a patron saint's festival in the outskirts of contemporary Belém, in the Brazilian state ...
Antonio Maurício Dias da Costa
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Ulamas réformistes et religiosité populaire. Approche sociologique d’un différend tuniso-algérien

open access: yesإنسانيات, 2006
The Algerian reformist Moslem theologians who were at the origin of founding the famous Algerian Moslem association (Ulema) in the 1930’s were all formed at the Zaytouna University of Tunis.
Abdellatif Hermassi
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
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The State Canonization of Mazu: Bringing the Notion of Imperial Metaphor into Conversation with the Personal Model

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Drawing from Stephan Feuchtwang’s influential notion of “imperial metaphor,” this article explores the role that the state played in the development of the Mazu cult in late imperial China.
Yanchao Zhang
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The Haywain Triptych: A Painted Sermon on the Fruits of Avarice

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2022
The Haywain Triptych is a set of three painted oil on oak panels that contain a complete frontispiece on the exterior and a three-part composition on the interior. It dates to approximately 1510–1516. It was painted by Hieronymus Bosch as a visual sermon
Elizabeth Hughes Jovanović
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Academic misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self‐platformization and implications for integrity education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Academic misconduct appeal services have quietly emerged within China's education marketplace, with commercial agencies promoting themselves on social media to assist international students facing misconduct hearings. While existing research on academic integrity has emphasized prevention and detection, far less attention has been paid to what
Gengyan Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Return to the Sacred: The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and Contemporary Christianity

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Once one of the most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites in England, The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, now under the care of the Anglican Church, operates as a site of devotion, but it also operates as a site of memory. In this essay, I will argue that,
Susan Dunn-Hensley
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‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dimensiunea social-filantropică în spațiul vieții publice și private a lui Alexandru Marghiloman [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
Alexandru Marghiloman, a remarkable and popular political figure of modern Romania, stands out as a distinguished aristocrat, with a life marked by contrasts and tumultuous events.
Gheorghe NEAGU, Constantin NEAGU
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