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If all you have is a bit of the Bible: Learning POS taggers for truly low-resource languages

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015
We present a simple method for learning part-of-speech taggers for languages like Akawaio, Aukan, or Cakchiquel – languages for which nothing but a translation of parts of the Bible exists.
Zeljko Agic, Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The influence of religious institutional logic in frontline work

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research analyses the influence of religion—as an institutional logic—on the work of frontline workers (FLWs) in hybrid public policy implementation contexts. We conducted semi‐structured interviews and used vignettes with 37 therapeutic communities (TCs) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which provide care for individuals with ...
Giordano Magri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Are the “Long Nostrils” of YHWH?

open access: yesReligions, 2017
The mention of YHWH’s “nostrils” (ʾapayīm) in the Bible is classically interpreted as a metonymy of the face and/or a metaphor for anger. The reference to their length and even to their elongation, however, rules out any entirely satisfying explanation ...
Nissim Amzallag
doaj   +1 more source

Millennium of perception of the Holy Scripture in Russia

open access: yesРоссийский журнал истории Церкви, 2020
The article offers a variant of designing the Russian part of the new exposition of the Museum of the Bible of the Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery, which considers the principles of creating an exhibition that allows showing the distribution of the text of ...
I. V. Pozdeeva
doaj   +1 more source

Is it time to ditch the notion of ‘core subjects’?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Wales is in the middle of a fundamental reform of its curriculum and consequent assessment design. There is a welcome broadening of the range of subjects offered at levels 1 and 2, yet the notion that some subjects are more important than others persists.
Marjorie Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Memorizing Bible Verses with the Association Method of Quantum Learning in Sunday School [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the world of teaching, it takes a variety of creativity, so that students benefit from the learning process. The same thing happened in the Sunday School class held by the church. The core material is certainly from the Bible. This includes memorizing
Eveline, S. (Sjanette)   +4 more
core  

Immanent Critique in Political Education: Indoctrination or Emancipation?

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses whether critical political education, which immanently criticizes society, is able to avoid the challenge of indoctrination. For this purpose, the article reconstructs premises of critical political education, contemporary theories of immanent critique, and criteria of indoctrination.
Antti Moilanen
wiley   +1 more source

Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

open access: yes, 2016
There is a long history of collaboration between “popular” or “contextual” forms of biblical interpretation between Brazil and South Africa, going back into the early 1980’s. Though there are significant differences between these forms of Bible “reading”,
G. West
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Evangelical Gitanos are a good catch’: masculinity, churches, and roneos★

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores Christian principles, imagery, and ideas shaping the (re)making of masculine ideals, behaviour, and identities among Pentecostal Gitanos in Spain. Scholarship on Pentecostal masculinities emphasizes that in cultural settings dominated by ‘macho’ and other chauvinistic principles, men find it challenging to comply with Pentecostal ...
Antonio Montañés Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source

Quakers and Scripture

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter explores how the Quakers’ use of the Bible has developed, recognizing changes both in the Friends movement and in its historical and cultural settings.
Macy, Howard R.
core  

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