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Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965

In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia. Many of these were women, who built informal and ... between men that remain underexplored. Apart from in Burma, the hub of the Asian socialist movement, Asian socialist parties were almost always in political opposition to mainstream nationalist parties. The

Training Faithful Disciples to Meet the Challenges of the Church in the World: Applying Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision to Hybrid Education

This article will first examine Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s philosophy and practice of theological education to train faithful ministers of the gospel for the service of the Church. Particular attention

Why Bother with Historical Criticism?: Lessons for Biblical Studies from the Philosophy of History

This article seeks to integrate insights from the philosophy of history to support the continued use of the historical-critical method in biblical studies. Though the historical-critical method has ... seventy years, this essay attempts to demonstrate the value of investigating ancient Israel's past as Historical Criticism; Philosophy of History; Biblical Criticism - Since the last half of the

No Longer Strangers and Aliens, but Fellow Citizens: Ephesians 2:12, 19 in conversation with Hellenistic Philosophy

writers. Whereas philosophers view all, or at least the virtuous, as citizens of the universe, Ephesians sees all as alienated from God, unless reconciled by Christ. Philosophy called the virtuous to live ... The Asbury Journal Philip N. Richardson No Longer Strangers Aliens but Fellow Citizens: Ephesians in conversation with Hellenistic Philosophy Philip N. Richardson (), a 2016 graduate, is the

Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940

. 10 Liam Kofi Bright, ‘White Psychodrama’, forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy. 11 Alexandra Walsham, ‘The Reformation and the “Disenchantment of the World” Reassessed’, Historical ... choosing, as he does, to see ‘belief’ as a colonizer of ‘neighboring epistemic categories’. Ibid., 282, 293. 7 See Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), 193; D

Corporate Governance Welfarism

proper boundary constraints. By looking to corporations to internalize externalities directly, welfarism thus offers an alternative way to deal with social problems that the political system has failed to ... prescriptions will have only a limited impact. Second, the very lack of consensus that impedes political solutions reemerges under and constrains welfarism by generating disagreements among shareholders

Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain

Mackenzie made no secret of his political ambitions. Modern interpreters treat the debate as a literary joust, a playful display of mock argument in a classic late Renaissance mode. A letter from Evelyn to ... political events; his shrewd reflections on the arts, religion and science: all these make his Diary an invaluable source. Evelyn was an influential courtier and a polymath, a notable figure in his day. But

Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District

efforts to support a declining cluster emerge from the ability of affected firms to coalesce, exercise political influence, and exploit fragmented municipal decision making to preserve the status quo ... Article addresses is why cities act in that manner. While multiple explanations might exist,3 I focus on a political economy story in which entrenched interests exploit the legal and structural elements of

Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910

tendencies. The pre-gold city of Sydney, with a pre-rush population of 54,000, positioned itself at the top of the Australian colonies’ social and political food chain. Gold rushes upset this balance of power ... ’.53 In this case, the first university council in Melbourne saw revolutionary impulses and looked to re-create an Old World social hierarchy. Word of new political creeds in ascendance across the globe

A Comparative Analysis of the Major Religions in Japan and Korea During the Colonial Period

sources. Some of these factors would include the socio -political and religious context of each of those cultures in question, in addition to the prior encounters with Christianity and the reactions to the ... celebration.9 By 1926, Hana Matsuri was embraced by the Japanese government as one of the symbols indicating Japan as the ideal leader of Asia and a prominent player in the political and religious arena of the

Flows of History

articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards, reflecting the growing importance of water to scholarly (as well as cultural, political and artistic) agendas in the previous two decades. We have ... and China and the staggeringly rapid melt of polar ice caps. At the same time, infrastructures around water reveal long legacies of political and environmental disfranchisement. To give but three recent

The Most Indispensable Habits of Effective Theological Educators: Recalibrating Educational Philosophy, Psychology, and Practice

professors in theological institutions to reconsider their innate and explicit conceptions of educational philosophy, psychology, and practice. Effective theological education; teaching and learning in ... theological education; theological education professors; educational philosophy in theological education; theology and education; theological education best practices - LAMPORT: THE MOST INDISPENSABLE HABIT

The Bible for All: Biblical Interpretation as a Grassroots Movement

biblical studies field, holding interpreters accountable and pushing the discipline into the public sphere as it “situates biblical scholarship in such a way that its public character and political ... political theory and action will help apply the emancipatory paradigm outside of the academy to more local contexts. The political theory of the women’s movement developed within CR groups. CR groups were a

Lincoln Among the Methodists

abolition of slavery and the political rise of the number of Methodists in the United States. This article charts the course of that relationship from before Lincoln’s Presidency, his election campaign ... Street Methodist (1875-1877) professor of Mental Philosophy and Political Economy; president (1881) of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist

Methodist Political Involvement in the School Bible Issue: the Council, The Christian Advocate and Journal, the Mayor, and the Superintendent of Schools

During the early 1840s in New York City, prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, both lay and clergy, used four political avenues to oppose Roman Catholic efforts to both secure public funds ... for their own parish schools and also eliminate the daily reading of the King James Bible. These avenues included participation before the Common Council, “political” editorials in the Christian

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Faith, Knowledge, and Virtue: John Wesley’s Concept of Faith as a Conscious State

, excoquenda est ista tua philosphia— My brother, my brother, that philosophy of yours must be purged away.”57 It is not clear what Wesley’s takeaway was from this, especially since he expressed his ignorance of ... follows: “Mondays and Tuesdays were to be given to classics, Wednesdays to logic and ethics, Thursdays to Hebrew and Arabic, Fridays to metaphysics and natural philosophy, Saturdays to oratory and poetry

Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

mapping of lawyers' ideologies that has overcome these hurdles. We use a new dataset that links the largest database of political ideology with the largest database of lawyers' identities to complete the ... most extensive analysis of the political ideology of American lawyers ever conducted. - I N T R O D U C T I O N Presidents have been lawyers (Slater 2008) . Turning to state executive positions