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Tambov public library as an element of provincial cultural environment
The relevance of the study is due to the need to fill the historiographical gap in the study of public libraries activities of pre-revolutionary Russia as an element of the provincial cultural environment.
L. N. Patrina
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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At 84-pages, Reimagining Malcolm X: Street Thinker Versus Homo Academicus by Seyed Javad Miri is more of a booklet than a book. In fact, like most of the 40 books on sociology and religion published by this scholar, many of which are self-published or ...
John Andrew Morrow
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Cadre Building in the Wilāyī System as a Strategic Necessity for the Realization of the Islamic State [PDF]
With the passage of more than four decades since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the issue of realizing the "Islamic State" remains one of the fundamental challenges on the path to achieving the modern Islamic civilization.
Seyyed Gholamreza Mousavi
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Chemistry and bioactivity of Tetraclinis articulata EO: in vitro and in silico investigation. Insights into chemistry and bioactivities of T. articulata EO. ABSTRACT This research focuses on characterizing the chemical composition and evaluate the biological potentials of the Tetraclinis articulata essential oil (TAEO) extracted from aerial parts of ...
Bochra Medjadji +10 more
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1903-1904 Yearbook of the Maddox Female Seminary, established in Little Rock, Arkansas, in ...
Maddox Female Seminary
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