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Religious Secularity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2016
Naser Ghobadzadeh’s Religious Secularity presumes that Muslim thinkers no longer consider an Islamic state as the desired political system. This aversion to a theocratic state is perhaps felt most by those Iranian reformist thinkers who have had to ...
Banafsheh Madaninejad
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Promises of Democratic Consent and Practices of Citizenship

open access: yesJAm It!, 2022
On June 26, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Proclamation 9645, also known as the “Travel Ban” or “Muslim Ban.” This resolution suspended the insurance of immigrant and non-immigrant visas to applicants from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen ...
Mattia Arioli
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The Spanish mysticism in paintings by artists from the Fine Arts Academy in Krakow at the turn of the 21st century

open access: yesFolia Historica Cracoviensia, 2016
During the last two decades the works of teachers from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow: Grzegorz Bednarski, Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty, Janusz Matuszewski, Mirosław Sikorski, Edyta Sobieraj, Zbigniew Sprycha or Wojciech ...
Adam Organisty
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GHEORGHE UCENESCU – THE GREAT RELIGIOUS SINGER FROM SCHEII BRAŞOVULUI AND HIS CULTURAL LEGACY

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2016
This paper pays homage to one of the most important religious singers and music teachers in Braşov, but it is also dedicated to his cultural legacy (little researched and less known at a national level). We hope this will become an essential contribution
Petruţa-Maria COROIU
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Contemplative Practice, Doxographies, and the Construction of Tibetan Buddhism: Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé and The Lamp for the Eye in Meditation

open access: yesReligions, 2018
In this article, I would like to reframe our understanding of the role played by doxographies or classification of views (Skt. siddhānta, Ch. panjiao 判教, Tib. grub mtha’) in the Buddhist tradition as it pertained to Tibetan attempts at defining and
Manuel Lopez
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Breaking the Contract between God and the Visual-Literary Fusion: Illuminated Manuscripts, William Blake and the Graphic Novel

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2018
This essay follows three different stages of the fusion of images and words in the tradition of the book. More specifically, it tackles the transformation undergone by the initially religious combination of visual figures and scriptural texts ...
Paris-Popa Andreea
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Intégrer une communauté dans une autre : Barack Obama et Amazing Grace

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2018
The eulogy delivered by Barack Obama in homage to Clementa Pinckney, the black pastor who was assassinated in his church in Charleston, triggered much commentary in the media, due to the peroration, when Obama actually broke out into song, singing ...
Fiona Rossette
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Uma revisão ao perfil nomeador dos habitantes de Toledo, Paraná: tradicional ou inovador?

open access: yesOnomástica desde América Latina, 2020
Anthroponyms can be considered, for many, the maximum identity of an individual. Moreover, it is undeniable that, like other factors, people's names are an integral part of the culture of a place, since they reveal the beliefs, desires, and preferences ...
Taiana Grespan Pensin
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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