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The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC, and Bringing Them Home

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home, highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal ...
Anne Maree Payne
wiley   +1 more source

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming the Patronage System: Propaganda Fide and Its Portuguese Patronage Documents on China in the Early Modern Period

open access: yesReligions
From its foundation in 1622, the Congregation de Propaganda Fide held supreme jurisdiction over all missionary activities of the Catholic Church at the global level, with authority coming directly from the pope.
Rui Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Are Conscientious Refusal and Conscientious Provision Mutually Exclusive? A Critique of Kelusa and Giubilini's Argument

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Tzofit Ofengenden
wiley   +1 more source

The Challenge of Co-Religionist Commerce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article addresses the rise of co-religionist commerce in the United States—that is, the explosion of commercial dealings that take place between co-religionists who intend their transactions to achieve both commercial and religious objectives.
Fleetwood, Filippa   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

The Dangers with Dogmas in Higher Education: Revisiting Dewey's Relationship between Purpose, Academic Freedom, Science, and Faith

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Propaganda Fide and the Role of Apostolic Nuncios during the Early Modern Period: A Case Study of China

open access: yesReligions
In 1622, a counter-reformist concept of the mission led to the foundation of Propaganda Fide, a congregation to which the Supreme Pontiffs entrusted various tasks at the global level, including the reassertion of the pope’s authority over missionary ...
Rui Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Kant on Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Immanuel Kant's The Dispute between the Faculties (1798) contains a footnote referencing four utopian states — Atlantis, Utopia, Oceana, and Severambia. This passage has largely been overlooked in Kantian scholarship. This paper revisits this neglected passage to explore Kant's engagement with utopian literature and its implications for his ...
Karoline Reinhardt
wiley   +1 more source

Individualized vs. Generalized Assessments: Why RLUIPA Should Not Apply to Every Land-Use Request [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Courts and advocates alike have struggled to articulate a coherent rule regarding when the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) should apply to local governments\u27 land-use decisions. When it is applied too broadly, RLUIPA runs
Ertmer, Katie M.
core   +1 more source

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