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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
wiley   +1 more source

I'm in AGNi: A new standard for AGN pluralisation [PDF]

arXiv
We present a new standard acronym for Active Galactic Nuclei, finally settling the argument of AGN vs. AGNs. Our new standard is not only etymologically superior (following the consensus set by SNe), but also boasts other linguistic opportunities, connecting strongly with relevant theology and streamlining descriptions of AGN properties.
arxiv  

Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
wiley   +1 more source

Catholic Civics Education in the Early Cold War: Zeal for Democracy, Zeal for Christ

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 424-444, December 2022., 2022
Abstract In the late 1940s and 1950s American Catholic educators faced the dilemma of how to transmit Catholic faith and culture to the next generation while also reassuring their non‐Catholic neighbors that they were fully American in lifestyle and loyalties.
Jane McCamant
wiley   +1 more source

A critical analysis on African Traditional Religion and the Trinity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
To what extent do the resources of African Traditional Religion (ATR) contribute towards Christian theological discourse and benefit the African church? ATR is accommodated in the African Initiated Churches (AICs). The members of these churches aim to be
Jele S. Manganyi, Johan Buitendag
doaj  

Trinity, regiratio and Mind: An Exploration of the Systematic‐Theological Resources of Ruusbroec’s Regirative Model [PDF]

, 2022
Rik Van Nieuwenhove
openalex   +1 more source

Assembling for Water: The Prefigurative Politics of Land Futures in Argentina

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract As in other areas of Argentina, residents from the Norte Neuquino in the northwestern reaches of Patagonia are concerned about the recent advancements of extractivism onto their territories. Their analysis is clear: the environmental crisis is directly linked to a democratic one, and they engage in a wide range of actions to envision and enact
Mattias Borg Rasmussen, Maximiliano Navarrete   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Maps of Eastern Europe: States, Mentalities, Modernisation

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 372-388, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Eastern Europe has been the object of orientalising discourses portraying it as a region defined by problematic statehood, underdevelopment, and nationalist‐religious warmongering. These discourses have produced 19th‐century mental maps of Europe contrasting a perceived ‘core’ European area ending with the Frankish Empire's eastern border and ...
Mihai Varga
wiley   +1 more source

Faith Believes, Hope Expects: The Impact of Calvin's Theology on the Mathematics of Chance [PDF]

arXiv
This paper attributes the sudden emergence of mathematical probability and statistics in the second half of the seventeenth century to Calvin's Reformed theology. Calvin accommodated Epicurean chance with Stoic determinism and synthesised \emph{phronesis/prudentia}, founded personal experience and employed to deal with \emph{tyche/fortuna}, and \emph ...
arxiv  

The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 778-799, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article explores the Scottish defamation case Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon (1810–1812) in order to demonstrate the value of legal readings across the broadest spectrum of socio‐legal history. While the case has attracted attention from social historians, particularly historians of sexuality, it was shrouded in secrecy and thus did ...
CAROLINE DERRY
wiley   +1 more source