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Out of Justice or Charity? The Fulfillment of the Vow to Serve the Poor in the Company of the Daughters of Charity in the Case of Servant of God Sister Barbara Samulowska, D.C.

open access: yesVerbum Vitae
The author of the study reveals the nature and thus the richness of the vows lived out in the Company of the Daughters of Charity. Their specificity comes from the fact that these vows are non-religious, annual, and renewable.
Szczepan Szpoton
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Gendering Piety, Justice and Violence: On the Aesthetics of Self-Killing in Han-Chinese, Naxi and Lahu Cultures (from the Late-Ming to Mid-20th Century)

open access: yesAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022
Self-killing in late imperial and modern China called into play gender disparities, and secular and religious morals often at odds with each other. Scholarship has long focused on Confucian virtue ethics that led young widows to follow their husband ...
Previato, Tommaso
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‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste‐to‐Biofuel Programs

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste‐to‐biofuel (WTB) programs have gained popularity as a municipal circular economy and an emissions reduction strategy. The upgrading of biofuels to renewable natural gas (RNG) has drawn particular interest, as RNG can displace conventional fossil fuels in any existing natural gas end use and be delivered through existing pipeline ...
Taylor Davey
wiley   +1 more source

The Place for the Right to Swear for the Stabilization of the Family [PDF]

open access: yesفقه و حقوق خانواده, 2017
The nature of the vow is an Islamic strategy for stabilizing relations between spouses and preventing the dissolution of the family institution. Because this right has been legislated for the realization of special wisdoms, for example familiarity ...
Kobra PourAbdollah   +1 more
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Mediating the Scottish independence debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the six months leading up to the referendum vote on 18 September 2014 Scotland experienced a period of exceptionally heightened political discourse, a widespread form of political participation unusual in western liberal-democracies.
Law, Alex
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

MAJAPAHIT DALAM LINTAS PELAYARAN DAN PERDAGANGAN NUSANTARA

open access: yesBerkala Arkeologi, 2009
Majapahit has been known as agrarian and maritime kingdom as well, with a territory covered almost as wide as the nowadays Republic of Indonesia region, excluding part of Papua and West Java (the Sundanese Kingdom).
Bambang Budi Utomo
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Quand se soigner, c’est croire

open access: yesArchéopages, 2016
Because medicine in Antiquity does not always meet the needs and expectations of patients, they frequently resort to the prophylactic substitutes of religion.
Stéphanie Raux
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Ignis, Sing I: A Neroic Ode [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
The poem below is a palindromic summary of Nero\u27s musings during the burning of ...
Stephens, David L.
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