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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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The pedagogical role of multicultural leadership in post-apartheid South Africa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Practical theology in the 21st century is faced with increasing diversity that requires a new pedagogy to address multicultural challenges. Multiculturalism serves as a subversive agency for monocultural and ‘silent minority’ landscapes.
Gordon E. Dames, Glenda A. Dames
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Difference within Theology of Nature: The Strategies of Intelligibility and Credibility [PDF]
, 2012 This author examines and augments a particular aspect of Ian Barbour's well-known fourfold typology for relating religion and science (conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration) in order to clarify two options available for theology as it ...
Wegter-McNelly, Kirk
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Morality and spirituality: The missing link for economic development in the 21st century
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 Whilst religion may have been of relevance in the quest for material prosperity and economic advancement in the 16th century, it seems not to have such importance today.
Greg Kame, Rothney S. Tshaka
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Thinking Poetically and Thinking Politically—Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Arendt's Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jacob Abolafia
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 Party politics is a controversial subject in mainline ecclesiastical circles in South Africa. While one can be forgiven for thinking that this perception changed after 1994, the reverse seems to be the case.
Rothney Tshaka, Boitumelo Senokoane
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Book Review: III. Systematic and Apologetic Theology: Jesus als Charakter [PDF]
, 1907 E. Y. Mullins
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