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Sustainable development through religious environmental engagement? Evidence from Switzerland

Sustainable Development, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 6934-6949, December 2024.
Abstract This article examines the engagement of religious organizations in addressing environment‐related sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Switzerland and its barriers. To this end, it draws upon semi‐structured interviews with church representatives who are actively engaged in environmental sustainability.
Adam Hearn, Ann‐Lea Buzzi, Julius Malin, Jens Koehrsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

B\u27nai Israel synagogue

, 2022
Address: 249 South 4th East, Salt Lake City. The Jewish community organized their first congregation, B\u27nai Israel, in 1881, and dedicated the synagogue in 1891. It replaced their first synagogue, which was located west of Main Street.
Rockwell, Kenneth W.
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The Works of Budapest Architects Lipót Baumhorn and Károly Kovács in Novi Sad at the Turn of the Century. New Findings on the Building History

RIHA Journal, 2017
Designer of the new synagogue building complex in Novi Sad at the beginning of the 20th century, Lipót Baumhorn (1860–1932) exercised a significant influence on the architecture of the city (then part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and today second ...
Oszkó, Ágnes Ivett
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The Faint Traces of the Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Kabbalah in 15–18Th-Century Architecture

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment
This article investigates the influence of the Kabbalah on Jewish architecture and synagogal art. Due to the destruction of the Eastern European kabbalist-related architecture and the preservation of only two indisputably “kabbalist” synagogues, the ...
MALEC Tomasz Eugeniusz
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CROSSING THE LINE: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 970-991, November 2024.
Abstract In this article we point to the intersection between political settlement movements, religion and economic gentrification by identifying a new type of gentrifier who has settled in Israel's mixed cities: the nationalist gentrifier. Against the background of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, experienced as a deep crisis in the Zionist ...
Yael Shmaryahu‐Yeshurun, Daniel Monterescu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

At the boundary of place : rethinking the provenance of early Christian architecture

, 2010
Archaeologists and historians have sought to understand the architecture of the early church using methods common to their respective fields of inquiry. This has included an approach to architecture which classifies buildings according to type and style.
Beesley, Mark B.
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XRF Analysis of Village and Urban Basalt Architecture in the Hippos Territorium during the Roman Period

Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 719-738, August 2024.
Abstract This case study examines the use of X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) as an effective method for defining distinct chemical compositions of local basalt stone from different sources in the Roman period, even when their quarries have not been identified.
Mechael Osband, Michael Eisenberg, Jeffery R. Ferguson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From temple to house-church in Luke-Acts: a Lukan challenge to Korean Christianity

, 2012
This dissertation examines the portrayals of the Temple, synagogue, and house-churches in Luke-Acts to pose a Lukan challenge to the Korean church by using a model of architectural space which is derived from social-scientific ideas originating in ...
Jung, Young-San
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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city

City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.
Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic innovation for countering violent radicalization: Systems engineering in a policy context

Systems Engineering, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 663-684, July 2024.
Abstract This paper brings a systems engineering approach to policymaking in the context of violent radicalization. We test strategies to combat terrorism under the premise that violent radicalization is a complex system of social contagion resulting in terrorism.
Timothy Clancy, Bland Addison, Oleg Pavlov, Erika Palmer, Khalid Saeed   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source