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The Saint in the Woods: Semi-Domestic Shrines in Rural Sweden, c. 1500–1800

open access: yesReligions, 2019
In the seventeenth century, a common saying in parts of rural Sweden when discussing someone lacking in piety was that they went to neither church nor cross. This reflects the practice of placing shrines in the fields, along the roads and in the woods as
Terese Zachrisson
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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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(Re)defining the English Reformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The study of the Reformation has arguably never been in better shape, as new books and articles appear with dizzying regularity. The current rude good health of the subject can be substantiated by a few minutes spent with the catalog of the British ...
Marshall, Peter
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In Good Company

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
Women’s participation in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at, an Islamic reform movement launched in the 1920s that emphasizes personal piety, remains underexamined, impeded by the organization’s strict pardāh requirements but also by the popular perception that it ...
Darakhshan Haroon Khan
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Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper highlights Thailand’s distinctive form of Buddhist Modernism through an exploration of religious piety among female sex workers in the city of Chiangmai.
Amnuaypond Kidpromma
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Misje ludowe jako nadzwyczajna forma przepowiadania słowa Bożego w parafii. Aspekt kanoniczno-pastoralny

open access: yesAnnales Canonici, 2014
Canon 770 states that “At certain times, according to the regulations of the diocesan Bishop, parish priests are to arrange for sermons in the form of retreats and missions, as they are called, or in other forms adapted to requirements.” First, this ...
Jerzy Adamczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Women's Ijtihad and Lady Amin's Islamic ethics on womanhood and motherhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Women's position, identity, and value in Islam have been affected by androcentric interpretations of the Qur'an and hadith throughout Islamic history. Women's roles in society, as well as their position vis-a-vis Islamic sources and authority, have been ...
Rahbari, Ladan
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The child, the text and the teacher: reading primers and reading instruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From the late sixteenth century, in response to the problem of how best to teach children to read, a variety of texts such as primers, spellers and readers were produced in England for vernacular instruction. This paper describes how these materials were
Cormack, Phillip   +2 more
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Filial piety in early buddhism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism as well, but he asserted that ...
Guang, X
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Character education as curriculum‐making in the humanities: A scoping review

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This scoping review examines how character education is conceptualised and enacted within humanities curricula across international contexts. While character education is widely promoted as supporting the development of ethical, civic and relational dispositions, its place within curriculum design remains contested, particularly in subjects ...
Jonathon Sargeant, Kylie Trask‐Kerr
wiley   +1 more source

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