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The Catholic Church and Its Approach towards Refugees and Migrants: An Analysis of the Presence of Migration Issues in the Synod’s Syntheses on Synodality

Religions
The issues of migration and refugees are currently major global challenges. They are also important aspects of the teachings of the Catholic Church, as evidenced by the many recent Church documents.
Rafał Cekiera, Mateusz Włosek
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Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah, Canista Arthie Hensman   +1 more
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“I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
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Social Teaching of the Church in Croatia. Some Insights

Bogoslovska smotra, 2018
The presentation is divided into four points. It begins with a brief overview of the Department of the Social Teaching of the Church and the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb. Then. Then, I will share my insights on the strong points of the Catholic social teaching (CST) in Croatia and address the weak points and threats. Finally,
openaire   +3 more sources

The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard of existing homes in the English private rented sector (PRS) presents several challenges. As the sector has expanded, issues of inadequate renovation, maintenance and upgrading have assumed greater salience. Research has also highlighted enforcement challenges which make it more difficult to raise property standards and improve ...
Alice Earley, Alex Marsh, Ken Gibb
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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A contextual model of religious moderation in the ‘Orang Basudara’ Church: Insights from the Protestant Church of Maluku (GPM)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The erroneous interpretations of religious teachings in societies are leading to extremism and liberalism, fostering animosity among religious adherents. This underscores the pressing need for religious moderation.
Ricardo F. Nanuru, Johny C. Ruhulessin, Aleta A. Ruimassa   +2 more
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Religion Against Violence: Insights of Contemporary Philosophy and Eastern Patristics

Religions
This article examines the concepts of violence and religion as social phenomena of modernity. Religion and the church are presented not as specific organizations or denominations, but as important social institutions and are reflected in philosophical ...
Olga Vasilievna Chistyakova
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source