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In die Skriflig, 2009 Boundaries for church and state regarding the regulation of the ministry of the Word: seen from two church polity traditions This article focuses on the boundaries for church and state with regard to the regulation of the ministry of the Word – seen ...
J. Smit
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Kerkorde en ekumene. Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in die jare 1962–2015
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019 Church order and ecumenism: The Dutch Reformed Church in 1962–2015. The church order accepted by the first General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), the church order or DRC-CO of 1962, showed a preference for ecumenism with reformed churches ...
Piet J. Strauss
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]
, 2003 This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
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’n Kritiese analise van die begrip ratifikasie volgens die Gereformeerde Kerkreg
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008 A critical analysis of the concept ratification according to Reformed church polity This article reflects critically on the view that local churches should in a separate act, after major assemblies have taken their resolutions, ratify the decisions ...
Andries du Plooy
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The European Social Contract—A Discursive Tool to Imagine Europe and Manage Existential Anxieties
European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 122-143, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the European social contract as a political discourse. The concept has emerged as a catchy but politically‐laden concept within EU politics during Europe's polycrisis period. It has been employed by practitioners, civil society actors and politicians, with each referring to different kinds of contracts and often ...
Acar Kutay
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012 The struggle of the Dutch Reformed Mission Churches (1881–1994) with reference to the character and extend of discipline. In this article the struggle concerning the nature and extent of the disciplinary power in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) (
Mary-Anne Plaatjies Van Huffel
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 344-353, April 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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