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‘I loved to be included’ (Proverbs 1:8–19): The Church and Tiv Christian Youth Development
This article examined the warning against evil companions in Proverbs 1:8–19 and the role of the church in addressing the involvement of Tiv youths in crime in Benue State and its implications for actions.
Favour C. Uroko, Solomon Enobong
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Religion and public management literature review [PDF]
This paper reviews literature that is concerned with the role of religion in public administration and management. Firstly we provide some conceptual clarifications and then go on to examine and compare the key features of the traditional/bureaucratic ...
Shah, Rebecca +2 more
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Ancient patronage: A possible interpretative context for Luke 18:18–23?
Against the conventional reading of Luke 18:18–23 as a micro-narrative that revolves around discipleship and the dangers of wealth with regard to inheriting the Kingdom of God, this article reads the text using patronage (and clientism) as a model.
Kingsley I. Uwaegbute, Damian O. Odo
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ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci +4 more
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Visualization as Defamiliarization. Mixed Methods Approaches to Historical Book Reviews
This paper employs a dialectical mixed methods approach to revisit a previous study in comparative literature on discourses in literary criticism, using data visualizations to analyze the original material, 700 digitized literary book reviews from the ...
Daniel Brodén +3 more
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ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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The New Perspective challenge to Luther
New Perspective scholars challenge Protestant interpretations of Paul. It used to be the case, they state, that Protestants assumed that Paul was to Judaism as Luther was to Medieval Catholicism.
Bart Eriksson, Ernest van Eck
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The upsurge of rape during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria and its effects on survivors
As one of the global measures for containing the spread of the dreaded coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Nigerian government imposed a total lockdown from 30 March 2020 to 15 May 2020. This exposed a lot of women and children to a greater level of
Kingsley I. Uwaegbute +1 more
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Religion and depression: a review of the literature [PDF]
AbstractWe reviewed data from approximately 80 published and unpublished studies that examined the association of religious affiliation or involvement with depressive symptoms or depressive disorder. In these studies, religion was measured as religious affiliation; general religious involvement; organizational religious involvement; prayer or private ...
M E, McCullough, D B, Larson
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Has political science ignored religion? [PDF]
A common complaint from political scientists involved in the study of religion is that religious issues have been largely overlooked by the discipline.
Kettell, Steven
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