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The Lutheran Church and Society in Slovakia during the Cold Wars

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores how and to what extent the Lutheran Church in Slovakia living and seeking to fulfill its mission in a socialist political context governed by the Communist party was encouraged or sustained by its involvement in the global Christian ...
Filo, Július
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Open letter: The need for a site‐based biodiversity standard measuring and certifying impacts from nature‐based projects

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature.
David Bartholomew   +254 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Church: Towards a Common Vision

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2014
THE CHURCH: Towards a Common Vision. Faith and Order Paper No. 214, Geneva, World Council of Churches (WCC), 2013. - URL: http:// www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc+commissions/faith+and+order+commission/ i+unity+the+church+and+its+mission/the+
Александр ГЕЙЧЕНКО
doaj  

Inter-religious Dialogue for Holistic Development in Ghana: The Role of the Christian Council of Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
The need for appreciable inter-religious relations in the increasingly religiously pluralistic world cannot be over-emphasized. This need is even more felt in the various countries where constitutional frameworks have entrenched clauses on individual ...
Joseph Kwadwo Asuming, Cosmas Ebo Sarbah
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Biases in Ice Jam Observations by Integrating Multi‐Source Data in a Forested Fluvial Landscape, Southern Quebec

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exhaustive long‐term and large‐scale ice jam records are scarce in most cold river environments. Many discrete events occur in small, sparsely populated river systems and are poorly represented in open‐source databases. These observation biases are transferred to predictive models of ice jams and the collective understanding of their formation
Lisane Arsenault‐Boucher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interreligious prayer: Prospects and parameters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The coming together of people of diverse religions to plan or reflect upon a common action or venture, and to consider, let alone engage in, an act of shared spiritual experience – such as interreligious prayer – is something comparatively novel and ...
Pratt, Douglas
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 2, no. 4 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. The Martyrdom of Bernard Mizeki. 2. Bernard Mizeki. 3.
Amanze, James Nathaniel   +4 more
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Emancipatory Potential of Naming: A Study on Church Employees' Personal Stories of Negative Experiences

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
To address interactionally troublesome exchanges (e.g., bullying, discrimination, or harassment) in the workplace, giving a name to negative personal experiences is crucial. Drawing on discussions of hermeneutical injustice, we explore the emancipatory potential of naming in post‐hoc tellings of these experiences, with particular attention to ...
Minna Leinonen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
wiley   +1 more source

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