Results 61 to 70 of about 3,763 (208)

Migratory Songbirds as Potential Ectozoochorous Protist Dispersal Vectors

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
We demonstrate that migratory songbirds carry diatoms (Bacillariophyta) in their plumage, revealing an unexpected avian–algal association. All seven bird specimens we examined contained diatoms—224 frustules representing 25 genera and 9 orders, primarily freshwater, benthic pennates—some retaining chloroplasts prior to digestion and mounting (implying ...
Silas E. Fischer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
wiley   +1 more source

Luther's View of Purgatory

open access: yes, 2022
Concerning the assumption that Luther did not deny purgatory until the publication of the Revocation of the Doctrine of Purgatory in 1530, this dissertation raises three critical questions: “Why did it take so long for Luther to reject the doctrine of ...
Kim, Min Hwan
core   +1 more source

Leibniz, Purgatory, and Universal Salvation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This book examines the concept of Purgatory. However, in contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes published in the past 50 years devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of Purgatory—especially in proportion to the ...
Strickland, L, Strickland, Lloyd
core   +1 more source

The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 606-627, December 2025.
Abstract Personal insolvency law offers a vital safety net for individuals in financial difficulty. Nonetheless, disparities arise in access to the benefits of debt relief offered by insolvency law. In a context of geographical inequality and local gaps in access to justice, our original empirical study explores the substantial variation in personal ...
JOSEPH SPOONER, SAUL SCHWARTZ
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It then develops an original theory of infrastructure as colonial archive to interrupt dominant spatial imaginaries that conventionally ...
Austin Read
wiley   +1 more source

Communion of the living and the dead: valuing purgatory in A revelation of purgatory to ane holy woman (1422)

open access: yes, 2009
Revelation of Purgatory to Ane Holy Woman (1422) is one of only five extant fifteenth-century visions of Purgatory written in England. The text addresses the anxiety prevalent in the late Middle Ages that the dead in Purgatory are often forgotten by the ...
Bayne-Jardine, Michelle Lisa
core  

Space, Place, Border. Dante and the Horizon

open access: yesBetween, 2011
Once, Dante crossed Hell to arrive on the beach of the Purgatory island, somewhere on the opposite side of the world. Obviously, at this early stage, the Austral hemisphere was not known. At the most, some geographers and theologians speculated about its
Bertrand Westphal
doaj   +1 more source

Fear and Faith: The Rhetorical Strategy of the Serpent and Buddha Paths in the Dunhuang Ten Kings Sutra (S.3961)

open access: yesReligions
A unique illustrated manuscript of the Ten Kings Sutra from Dunhuang (S.3961) depicts two anomalous paths of rebirth alongside the traditional six: a path of serpents and a path of Buddhas, neither of which is found in canonical Buddhist scriptures or ...
Changjie Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts?

open access: yesLingBaW, 2017
The western and eastern branches of Christianity, broadly speaking Roman Catholicism (RC) and Eastern Orthodoxy (EO), have been formally separate for almost a millennium.
William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy