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Traces of legal Orientalism: racialized othering and (neo)colonial legacies in R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the controversial decision of the High Court R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School (Michaela), where a school's ban on ritual prayers was upheld. Subjecting the case to postcolonial and critical race critique, I contend that Michaela should be understood as a worrying and harmful manifestation of ...
FATIMA MOHAMED AHDASH
wiley   +1 more source

Circumscription of three new taxa of Merismopedia‐like Cyanobacteria shows how far convergent evolution can go

open access: yesJournal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract The genus Merismopedia (Merismopediaceae, Chroococcales), characterized by rectangular colonies with cells arranged in regular perpendicular rows and columns, represents a challenging study system due to its limited cultivability. The genus recently underwent taxonomic revision using cultivation‐independent techniques and a polyphasic approach.
Jan Pokorný   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Existence is a Spectrum: Rethinking Resurrection in the Treatise on the Resurrection

open access: yesLiteratūra
This article reexamines the concept of resurrection in the Valentinian “Treatise on the Resurrection” (or “Letter to Rheginos”, NHC I,4) by employing the framework of ‘modes of being’, a hermeneutical tool adapted from Platonic and Gnostic thought. Rather than viewing reality in terms of strict binaries, the article argues that Valentinian cosmology is
openaire   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Management of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura without plasma exchange: the Jehovah's Witness experience

open access: yesBlood Advances, 2017
James N. George   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

The Diremption of Meaning

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Resurrection science [PDF]

open access: yesThe EMBO Reports, 2018
Brooke, Morriswood, Oliver, Hoeller
openaire   +2 more sources

Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
wiley   +1 more source

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