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Is prophetic witness the appropriate mode of Christian participation in public discourse in the Netherlands?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
Dutch Protestantism is characterised by a hidden tension between a theocratic tradition and the endorsement of democracy. In this article it is argued that the idea of prophetic witness has its roots in the theocratic tradition, and that it is not ...
Gerrit G. de Kruijf
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From Theocracy of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to the Hereditary Monarchy of Al-Waleed [PDF]

پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2010
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) carried out the greatest revolution in history. He annihilated all the political institutions, social, moral, cultural and religious communities and replaced new institutions in order to cause a massive upheaval among the Arabs ...
abolfazl abedini
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Are Women Accepted at Work? Gender Discrimination in Chinese Firms

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT To what extent is women's employment accepted in modern Chinese firms? Drawing on pooled 2017 and 2021 nationally representative Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this article estimates the socioeconomic predictors and prevalence of the belief that women should be stay‐at‐home wives instead of working in Chinese firms.
Anson Au
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Specters of Spinoza in Iran: The Crisis of Theocracy and the Reception of Spinoza

Journal of Spinoza Studies
Although Spinoza and, for that matter, modern European philosophers were known among some Iranians for centuries, it was not until the final decades of the twentieth century that they were eventually received into the Iranian intellectual scene ...
Ali Ferdowsi
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Paradox of Islamic Secularism: Review of the Book Islamic Secularism: A Critique on Muslim Intellectuals [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2018
Historically, after the movement of constitutionalism (Mashrouteh), secularism got engaged with Iran, but it was notattended as a problematic concern for the Iranian intellectuals.
Majid Behestani, Mohammadreza Amirzadeh
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Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 307-324, July 2026.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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THE ISLAMIC THEOCRATIC PRACTICE AND THE OTHER IN NIGERIA SINCE DEMOCRATIZATION

Ulul Albab, 2021
This paper’s hypothetical view is that theocracy as a concept is so self-explanatory that little or no special learning is required to discern it. This is based on the fact that almosteveryone has an idea of what government and religion mean and how they
Saheed Ahmad Rufai
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Lecture Seven: The Forces Without the Theocracy

, 2022
This lecture addresses three issues that began to undermine the Theocracy. First was the question of regeneration and baptism. Second was the arrival of members from other faiths, initially the Church of England: Third was the treatment of heretics ...
Davis, Earl Clement
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 190-199, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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