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Abstract Around the globe, peasants, migrants, companies, and governments, even the land itself, are doing things that agrarian studies scholars are not anticipating. The changes in the countryside seem increasingly dramatic, challenging Marxist vocabulary and analysis.
Christian Lund, Hilary Faxon
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Abstract The unequal distribution of goods seems to be a permanent phenomenon both nationally and globally. Although the historical details of the roots of inequality may vary slightly from country to country, one of the main causes is the so‐called ‘Matthew effect’, which refers to the accumulation of advantages.
Juha Räikkä
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Islamic republic of Iran and Its Opposition [PDF]
This paper takes a stylized paradoxical fact of Iranian politics under the Islamic Republic of Iran as its starting point: the stark confusion between the position and a good portion of the opposition.
Mehrdad Vahabi, Mohajer Nasser
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Zeitgeist and Ortgeist: Time and Place in Institutional Creation
Abstract How are institutions created is one of the most interesting questions in institutional theory. Some strands of literature favour heroic explanations: mythologizing individuals with vision, tenacity and drive and putting these individuals on the pedestal of the institution.
Sabina Keston‐Siebert, Kevin Orr
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The Reformed tradition as public theology
This article is a South African perspective of a Black African reflection on the publicity of Reformed faith. Whilst the notion of public theology is fairly new, the article argues, it is important to define the ‘public’ of the type of public theology ...
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Religious and Political Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Alfred Stepan’s “twin-tolerations” thesis (2000) is a model for explaining different ways that religious and political authority come to be reconciled.
Alboaouh, Kamel, Mahoney, Jon
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The article examines the contestation of absolute power in the political articles written by Diderot and his collaborators in the Encyclopédie. The analysis reveals that the critique of absolute power, although coded and subtle in the early volumes to ...
Eszter Kovács
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The plenitudo potestatis Papae according to Egidio Romano / La plenitudo potestatis Papae según Egidio Romano [PDF]
This article analyzes the relationship, according to Aegidius Romanus, between spiritual power and temporal power. From the point of view of the Augustinian author, the autonomy of the world or that of second causes, following St. Thomas Aquinas, must be
Mario Di Giacomo
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Review of A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers [PDF]
Review of A Hologram for the King by Dave ...
Sciolino, Martina
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Die rol van die Ou Testament in die ordening van die samelewing by A A van Ruler
The role of the Old Testament in the arrangement of society as applied by A A van Ruler. This study considers A A van Ruler's position with regard to theological themes like eschatology, theocracy, torah and volkskerk.
Collins Hertzog, Andries Breytenbach
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