Protestantism - Science topic

The objective of this study was to analyze the understandings of Brazilian leisure studies authors about leisure practices inthe Protestant segment. This is a narrative bibliographic research. Online databases of two specialized journalson leisure in Brazil were consulted, namely Licereand Revista Brasileira de Estudos do Lazer. A total of six arti...

In Fixing the Liturgy, Claire Taylor Jones opens a window onto the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering the astounding breadth of knowledge, the deep expertise, and the critical thinking required just to coordinate each day’s worship. Focusing on the Dominican order, Jones shows how changes in medieval piety and ritual legislation disrupt...

Alegre foi palco de um conjunto de protestos, caracterizados pela heterogeneidade de reivindicações, de grupos mobilizados e de interações táticas entre policiais e manifestantes. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar, com base nesse caso, como o repertório e as estratégias de policiamento de protestos mantêm-se ou transformam-se durante um ciclo de p...

The activism efforts of Latinx students from the 1960s to 1990s at Michigan State University preceded the current resources available to Latinxs on campus today. Guided by transformational resistance, university library archival sources are used to showcase various activism efforts demonstrated by these collegians. Some include a grape purchasing b...

Der Artikel diskutiert die Serie "Demonstration Drawings" (2006–2007) im Vergleich mit einer Serie von Pinselzeichnungen ("Untitled", 2017-2019) von Michael Armitage. Diese Arbeiten werden zu theoretischen Zugängen von Roland Barthes, insbesondere den Konzepten "studium" und "punctum" in Bezug gesetzt. Darüber wird Verhältnis dieser Repräsentatione...

Hunger striking is a form of protest that escapes conventional forms of political participation. I argue that as a spectacular performance of death, the hunger strike not only draws attention to a particular cause or exert moral pressure on an opponent but can galvanize and strengthen a nascent political identity. Drawing on the example of the hung...

The present study explores how religion reporters in the United States (n=20) define religion and privilege religious identities, at times also working to combat dominant hegemonic narratives about some of these religious groups. We find that some religion reporters covered religion in ways that reflect the institutional power of religious traditio...

In the 19th century, missionaries from England brought Methodism to Southern Africa. Like all other missionaries who brought Christianity to Africa, they brought not only the Gospel, but also their culture and language. This article seeks to acknowledge the strides made by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) regarding implanting Methodis...

This article contributes to the growing literature around the idea of a politics of becoming by emphasizing its deconstructive dimension. It advances the notion of “detachment,” which articulates different angles of such deconstructive dimension. Detachment can draw from three different concepts: displacement (Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe), un...

Previous chapters have progressively prepared the way for the core contribution of the current volume: the explication of an interdependent mode of happiness and well-being. In the current chapter, we examine interdependent happiness in detail, exploring its relation to culture, looking at what it means, what causes it, and the way it shapes motiva...

Jacques Rancière's discussion of disidentification provides an important account of how existing inegalitarian structures and hierarchically ordered identities may be challenged. However, Rancière treats disidentification as a discursive phenomenon, centered on naming. As an explanation of how the invisible might become visible, it is problematic t...

Emilio Comba, a leading Waldensian historian in the nineteenth century, was a strong advocate for nation-building in post-unification Italy. This article examines the relationship between Comba's “making Italians” endeavors and his historical writings, focusing mainly on his appropriation of the preceding confessional framework. As a fervent nation...

Era digital telah mengubah organisasi perusahaan untuk dapat bertahan dan bersaing. Pada era digital, media yang diperlukan untuk dapat memperkenalkan produk barang dan jasa adalah teknologi informasi. Pemasaran digital merupakan teknologi yang berguna untuk memperkenalkan produk barang dan jasa. Search engine optimization sebagai bagian dari pemas...

It’s important that I write, meditate, and pray to my ancestors. An ancestor in not a historized entity, rather an ancestor exists as an entity present in alternative forms. I do not feel the physical presence; however, sometimes I sense a spiritual presence that requires me, to readjust and lessen fetish with the physical in order to hear/feel an...

In this article, we argue that KPD Maphalla’s poems were very influential in portraying protest to different forms of social oppression and exclusion in South Africa and Africa at large. Therefore, as a writer who was subjected to racial segregation during the apartheid regime, he positioned himself as a social poet concerned about the sociopolitic...

The research assessed "The Representation Apartheid System of Government in Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Death". The research employed Post-Colonial Theory for the study's framework analysis and utilized qualitative method of data collections through Content-Analysis that make use of the play Sizwe Bansi is Dead couple with the adoption of textual...

This article explores the labor struggles of doctors in late 1970s and early 1980s Brazil, the final years of the nation's dictatorship. Health workers’ protests for better salaries and working conditions were extensive and reflected a dramatic change in the way medical practitioners in Brazil perceived their professional and political identities....

In "Contrasting Theological Perspectives: Martin Luther and Cyrus I. Scofield on Key Biblical Texts," we embark on an analytical journey through the theological landscapes shaped by two towering figures in Christian history. Martin Luther, a catalyst of the Protestant Reformation, and Cyrus I. Scofield, a pivotal figure in the development of dispen...

This article examines the experiences of the pioneer Methodist medical missionary, Dr Samuel Gurney, who worked for the American Methodist Episcopal Church (United Methodist Church) in Colonial Zimbabwe from 1903 to 1924. Gurney worked with an African assistant named Mr Job Tsiga. Based on archival and secondary sources and informed by the colonial...

This study aims to provide a framing perspective on the study of development communication. This study explains the causes of the emergence of social movements in Indonesia in rejecting the Omnibus Law. The protests against the Omnibus Law that occurred in various cities in Indonesia as a form of resistance to government policies were examined from...

Craft guilds have been at the core of important historiographical debates on the economic, social and political history of medieval cities for twenty years. The aim of this article is to examine the seamen’s guilds in the town ports of the Northern Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages. This study analyzes fundamental aspects of the social assistance,...

Megadams are controversial ventures. Despite their contentious benefits, the negative impacts on local communities are enormous. This has prompted substantial disapproval and resistance, particularly from the communities that endure the most of its adverse effects. While many megadams have been constructed in the face of opposition, others have bee...

On the evening of 25 May 2020, White Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, killed George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 min. Floyd’s death sparked one of the most significant protests in the US. Moreover, it forced a global conversation about reckoning with race, social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in so...

This article analyses the term ‘reception’, which came into use in Russian Orthodox theology at the turn of the 19th and 19th centuries. In its original sense, this legal term begins at this time to be used in theology and means, in a new ecclesiological sense, the procedure of agreement of the church community with the definitions of the councils....

The United States gives citizens the right to own guns and has developed a specific culture of gun presence in everyday life. However, this privilege raises many controversies, and gun-related deaths are one of the most common causes of death in the U.S. Media often report on tragic shootings in the country. Nonetheless, there is still no clear reg...

The objective of the article is to briefly look into the thoughts stemming from the period in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood at the forefront of the illegal seminary run by the Confessing Church at Finkenwalde (from 1935 to 1937) and also to verify the hypothesis that his call for “new monasticism” was influenced by the ideas of Adolf von Harnack...

In his recent book Protestants (2017), historian Alec Ryrie argues that while Dietrich Bonhoeffer may have been “the bravest theologian of his generation”, the impact of his prison writings and his opaque vision of a “religionless Christianity” in a world come of age was disastrous for mainstream Protestantism in the United States in the second hal...

The novels presented with visual demonstrations by using pictures along with the narration is defined as graphic novels. Bhimyana: Experiences of accountability has emerged as one of the top five political novels on May 23, 2011 by Naula Calvi, CNN. The story of Bhimyana is a graphic biography of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The article is an attempt to...

Histories of Third Worldism have received renewed attention from historians in the past decade. Much of the resulting scholarship has focused on the international to the exclusion of the national. This article addresses this relative neglect by focusing on a particular iteration of Third World nation-state-building: co-operative socialism in Forbes...

A recent clash between pro-Palestinian Muslims and pro-Israeli Christians in the North Sulawesi coastal town of Bitung raised the spectre of Indonesia’s worst nightmare, inter-communal violence. In a country that prides itself on a culture of inter-communal harmony, the death of a protester set off alarm bells. “This is very worrying” said Yahya Ch...

In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and, with that decision, revoked access to safe abortion for many women across the country. The decision was anticipated and immediately followed by protests from pro-choice campaigners, who challenged the decision, arguing that it would pose a threat to the health of wom...

Current far-right attitudes to the climate crisis are highly ambivalent, oscillating between the glorification of nature and ideological fragments of “fossil fascism”. Invocations of “the rural” serve as semantic mediations, enabling populist radical right parties (PRRPs) to apply seemingly frictionless and multi-scalar narratives of far-right ecol...

Introduction: Maternal mortality can be reduced by strengthening the process of early detection of high-risk pregnancies. However, the lack of knowledge related to high-risk pregnancy is still an obstacle. This study aims to analyze the effect of health education on the knowledge and attitudes of cadres about early detection of high-risk pregnancy...

According to the postmodernists, the postmodernist is an aesthetic, literary, social and political philosophy which deliberately reacts to postmodern mind. So, postmodernism is a movement away from modernism. The rise of postmodernism is an end of modernism. Postmodernism is a mentality that rebels against the educational, cultural, social and poli...

In the clinical practice of health professionals, it is observed that body posture can reveal the current emotional state. Emotional states can generate habitual gestures and postures that continue even after the emotion has ceased. The objective was to identify postural changes and variables found in the mood state in women. After project submissi...

The right to freedom of speech and expression is a widely proclaimed right but far less protected, especially in the sporting arena. The compulsion to maintain political neutrality and autonomy of sports have resulted in various impediments to athlete’s freedom of speech and expression in sport. This right is restricted by the International Olympic...

Aim: To evaluate the contribution of naturalists Francis de Castelnau, Jacob Heckel, Johan Baptist von Spix, Johann Natterer, Louis Agassiz, and Rudolf Kner to the knowledge of taxonomic diversity of freshwater ichthyofauna in Brazil between the years 1829 and 1859. Methods: Two data matrices were constructed: one with information on freshwater f...

In the public debate on the English involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession, and over time, on the peace that would end the prolonged war, sermons occupy a special place among the various political mediums of the time. After briefly reviewing the main features of the political controversy, the present study specifically examines two politi...

Prior to 2017, maladministration, unfunded and underfunded students, misalignment with student needs, high non-completion rates and a violent student debt crisis characterised South Africa’s student financial aid scheme, and triggered annual unrest across the higher education (HE) sector. Following a wave of protests by the #FeesMustFall movement a...

The Decree of Toleration (1781) brought radical changes to the lives of the Calvinist, Lutheran and Orthodox denominations in the Kingdom of Hungary. The most important change was that the private religious practice was substantially extended. Another important element of the decree was that it exempted non-Catholics from the so-called decretal oat...

We, the editors and publishers, decided to retract the article entitled "Emotional Intelligence And Empathy: Predictors Of Counselors' General Health" with authors Peter Worlanyo Abomah (Department Of Psychology, Methodist University College, Ghana), Gladstone Agbakpe (Department Of Psychology, Methodist University College, Ghana), Cynthia Naa Lami...

Kashmir conflict is not a byproduct of contemporary times, but had a long history. Conflict emerged soon after the establishment of two nation states, Pakistan and India, in 1947. Albeit, Colonial British divided the subcontinent into two separate independent nations, but at the same time left Kashmir as an unfinished agenda for future. From that t...

This article presented a comparative analysis of Reinhold Niebuhr’s anthropology and the Seventh-day Adventist view of human nature and aims at enriching contemporary theological discourse. Niebuhr’s theological framework acknowledges the limitations and fallibility of human beings while emphasizing their capacity for transcendence, susceptibility...

This study investigates the construction of the journalist's authority in a heterogeneous and evolving networked media environment. We analyse the specific ways in which the Romanian online newspaper Adevărul, which is relevant for encompassing a model of media convergence, integrates Facebook content into news articles in the context of the 2017 #...

John Owen (1616-83) was one of the foremost English Puritans of the seventeenth century. His story has been largely limited to events in Britain. The letters examined in this article, translated from the French, reveal Owen's reputation and activity among Huguenots at the end of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. Responding to critics of English relig...

During the past century, protest has become a shared experience around the world, as citizens across the continents have taken to the streets to demand political, social, and economic changes. In Asia—from China to India, Thailand to Myanmar—people have organized mass demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with colonial and state governmen...

The objective of this article is to analyze the process of formation of Afectadas México Vacuna Virus del Papiloma Humano, a group of mothers organized from the health affectations of their daughters attributed to the immunization against this virus, as a space of collective care. The qualitative research, with in-depth interviews and an analysis f...

The use of science and technology as tools for political domination is a recurrent topic in dystopian films. James McTeigue and the Wachowski sisters´ film adaptation (2005) of Alan Moore and David Lloyd´s cult graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982-89) is a unique example of this kind, as the film has enhanced its impact on a wider audience and has sp...

This article has interrogated the prophetic role of musicians in Zimbabwe’s political discourse with Winky D’s latest album Eureka Eureka (which was launched on 31 December 2022) being the case study. Two tracks (Dzimba Dzemabwe and Ibotso) have been singled out for analysis. The message of John the Baptist in Luke 3:7–14 has been used as the frame...

Purpose: This study sought to understand how the ACK and KAG sexuality teachings shaped the sexual behaviour choices of students in selected universities in Nairobi, Kenya. Methodology: The study utilized a mixed research design, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative data were gathered through a questionnaire, focusi...

Chto Delat is a noteworthy case due to its enduring presence, prolific output, and international recognition. This uniqueness provides an opportunity to observe the evolution of collective protest over the past two decades.

This article explores the appeal to catechesis in the writings of Anglican theologian and educator John Westerhoff III (1933–2022). I argue that he proposed the concept of catechesis as a way of critiquing and incorporating the streams of liberalism and neo-orthodoxy from the early and mid-twentieth century into a more comprehensive and theological...

The World Health Organization has defined collective violence as the instrumental use of violence by people who identify themselves as members of a group against other individuals and have political, economic, or social objectives. In Chile, the "Social Outbreak" was used to describe an episode of collective violence, which began on October 18, 201...

INTRODUCTION: Consumption of alcohol among the youth could be attributable to socio-demographic characteristics. This paper anchors on the socio-ecological model to expound on the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of alcohol consumption among adolescents in public secondary schools. Specifically, the model was used to explore gender, reli...

The comparative analysis of three “contested truths” around COVID-19 in East Africa demonstrates that knowledge is a product of knotted, uneven, and disputed epistemological practices tied to structures of power. Lee, Meek, and Katumusiime examine: (1) the construction of a pan-African skepticism of COVID-19 that drew on anti-imperialist discourses...

Planning-related protest is a “normal” and strategic form of political participation that manifests cause-related conflict and criticises dominant norms, situations, and institutions. It goes beyond the participation offered by the (local) state while claiming action by the state and other powerful actors. Given the multitude of such protests as we...

Conspiracy stories (also known as ‘conspiracy theories’) pretend to provide truthful and unambiguous responses to crisis experiences and thrive in conjunction with the latter: the more crises, the more conspiracies! Hence, it is no surprise that the recent, extended and multi-level crises have been accompanied by a cacophony of ‘trending’ stories t...

This article is a systematic overview of Packer’s theology of justification from the perspective of descriptive, analytical, and critical methodologies. A series of books written by Packer were investigated in order to identify various references to justification, which led to a categorization consisting of six features (justification as the legacy...

Las movilizaciones del año 2019 en Chile y sus consecuencias, son clarificadoras sobre la necesidad de volver a mirar el pasado reciente. Las profesoras y profesores de Historia son los primeros en enfrentarse a este desafío. En esta investigación nos proponemos conocer cómo enseñan los temas controversiales sobre la historia reciente, en especial...

This article examines anti-mask protests in the United States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I look at the cultural (mis)appropriation of slogans by anti-mask protestors, such as “I can’t breathe” and “My body, my choice.” Noting that this is at first glance a bit of a puzzling phenomenon, I show that there is a relationship...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to determine the major criteria for a credible integrated development planning (IDP) process in Mbombela municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes a combination of sequential exploratory and explanatory mixed methods. About 120 key informants participated in...

A critical review of Bevins' fascinating book that asks why, after more protesting around the world than any time in human history, change has been so limited? He examines 10 different countries, seeking answers from activists on the ground. This review has been already published at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-of-if-we-burn-the-mass-pr...

O pressuposto deste ensaio reside na convicção de que o fundamentalismo religioso é um tema acerca do qual as ciências da religião e a teologia não podem se calar. Definições e classificações do fundamentalismo nas variadas formas de sua manifestação são um desafio urgente à produção acadêmica. Como novidade, o objetivo geral desta investigação é c...

In the second half of the 19th century, women began to organize worldwide to achieve the goal of gender equality. National women’s movements emerged and were followed somewhat later by the first transnational political mobilization of women on a larger scale. The range of topics that were on the national and international agenda included, alongside...

The theme of this paper is to understand the root causes of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and its impact on the global economy. As Europe and the United States contributed to the crisis in Ukraine, this protest ultimately evolved into a regional conflict. If the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, it may lead to tension and conflict in nei...

Hermann Mildenberger: Der Maler Johann Baptist Seele. (= Tübinger Studien zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 5). Tübingen: Wasmuth 1984. 296 S., 24 Abb.-Taf.

Johann Baptist Müller: Liberalismus und Demokratie. Studien zum Verhältnis von Politik und Wirtschaft im Liberalismus. (= Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Geschichte und Politik, 11. Hrsg. von Martin Greiffenhagen, Eberhard Jäckel [u. a.]), Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1978. 287 S.

This research aims to explore and analyze the service strategy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (GMAHK) in the Banjarmasin Congregation. Using a qualitative approach, this research explores various aspects of ministry strategies, including teaching, social service, and community involvement, to understand their impact on congregational growth an...

Against the backdrop of the post-World War II U.S.-Japan security agreement and the construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa, this article discusses the reasons for the resistance of the Okinawan people to the U.S. military station. The geographical location of Okinawa Island is extremely special, and it is an important checkpoint in the Paci...

Abstract: This essay draws inspiration from Rebecca F. Spurrier's significant work, "The Disabled Church: Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship," which forms a key addition to Fordham University Press's "Liturgy, Worship and Society" series. Authored by Reverend Rebecca F. Spurrier of the American Presbyterian Church, the book intricat...

Background: Many clinical factors can contribute to the efficacy of medical therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). We assessed their effects on the efficacy of vedolizumab therapy in a cohort of patients with IBD. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study on patients between 18 and 80 years of age with ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s dis...

The article explores the connection between the rule of law and the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion from an empirical and theoretical perspective. The author posits that the two are not merely interdependent, but that freedom of thought, conscience, and religion is foundational for embedding the rule of law because a state nee...

It is a truism that centuries of fossilised historical accounts can meaningfully be extrapolated through oral tradition. This is so, particularly in versions where those who witnessed unfolding historical developments are still alive to narrate ordeals from an eyewitness account. This paper chronicles the historical origins of the Episcopal Area of...

Faced with the inaction of liberal democracies to effectively tackle global warming, many climate activists engage in forms of protests that involve committing minor criminal offences. They seek to shape official decisions on climate policies by resorting to civil disobedience. Some of these activists, rather than accepting punishment, have success...

A presente reflexão busca aproximar os referenciais teóricos da sociologia e da psicanálise em torno do tema da ação humana. Tomando como referência alguns estudos de caso apresentados, indaga-se sobre a ética do trabalho e a adesão de certos sujeitos a esse estilo de vida. Retomamos as contribuições da sociologia como ciência da cultura na compree...

Mihály Forgách studied at the Athenaeum of Strasbourg, at the University of Wittenberg, and in Italy. He is a person of importance for the Hungarian scholars, as the famous and popular philosopher of this age, Justus Lipsius was ready to answer one of his letters. The Lutheran Library of Annaberg-Buchholz keeps one of his until now inedited epistle...

In the last year Israel has been going through its most severe constitutional crisis in its history. The newly elected right-wing government has initiated a judicial overhaul that would limit the authority of the judiciary and grant the executive almost absolute powers. In response, the country has witnessed unprecedented civil protestations and op...

This article analyzes the print culture of the Black and multiethnic community known as L8 in the northern British city of Liverpool. Through a critique of printed materials, including newsletters, magazines, and pamphlets all written, produced and read within the locale, the author assesses the construction of a community that was at once imagined...

Protests differ and so do protest outcomes. This is also the case in food delivery gig work, which is characterised by frequent labour unrest. Various cross-country analyses have pointed to the importance of the national context for the strategies and outcomes of courier protests. However, as the article shows, the protests already differ at the le...

The debate between cessationists and continuationists is one of the main differences between Protestants and Pentecostals. A central tenet of the discussion is whether the baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by signs such as glossolalia as described by the book of Acts, still occurs today. Most Pentecostals hold that Spirit baptism is distincti...

The surging demand for lithium-powered electric vehicles and energy storage systems, driven by the low-carbon energy transition, is explored in this study regarding its impact on socio-environmental lithium conflicts up to 2019. We show the limitations of applying resource curse models for this enquiry due to unique characteristics of lithium cases...

Baptists living in Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, engage with a long-standing debate in Christian theology and beyond: that of the relation between moral responsibility and human freedom. The presumption has often been that to be held morally responsible, a person must be free to choose and to act. The views of Harare’s Baptists directly challeng...

Introduction: In the second half of the 20 th century, cohabitation became highly prevalent, especially among young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Nowadays, college students and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa often have unprotected sex and contract STDs, leading to newest HIV infections. The aim of this study is to assess the magnitude an...

The aim of the article is to show the essential lines of a very structured theology of sacrifice in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. In many of his articles, books and papal teachings, the German theologian addressed the topic of the proper understanding of sacrificial worship, which, by its very nature, is a vicarious worship (point 1...

Este artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre Maria, a Virgem de Nazaré, à luz da perspectiva ecumênica na América Latina. O artigo mostra como o assunto é controverso entre católicos e protestantes, explicita elementos de divergência nos âmbitos da teologia e da pastoral, e aponta avanços no diálogo ecumênico atual. O método da pesquisa é a análise...

This article delves into Latvia's journey to independence in the late 20th century, marked by challenges from German and Soviet occupations. The narrative unfolds through the perspective of the Singing Revolution, a transformative series of events from 1987 to 1991, embodying peaceful protests and the symbolic Baltic Way. Highlighting historical...

Philip Alexander, MD, is a native Texan, retired physician, and accomplished musician and artist. After 41 years as an internal medicine physician, Dr. Phil retired from his practice in College Station in 2016. A lifelong musician and former music professor, he often performs as an oboe soloist for the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra. He began exp...

Objective: Patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) frequently experience lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction, which significantly impacts their quality of life. This study’s objective was to conduct a scientometric analysis of the literature on MS-induced neurogenic LUT dysfunction. Methods: Using bibliometric methods, we examined the lit...

The fashion industry is considered to be the second most polluting industry, largely due to the production model of fast fashion, which tends to maximize profits at the expense of the environment and workers’ rights. The development of technology and fast fashion are intertwined: The invention of the cotton gin pushed the world from the agricultura...

Using the conflict studies literature, the article classifies the latest scholarly writings on the origins of the Donbas conflict into three general groupings: on the role of the history and identity of the region's inhabitants, on the interference by "third" actors and on so-called contentious politics. The analysis suggests that the initial suppo...

The Niger Delta region in the southern part of Oil-rich Nigeria has long been a focal point for discussions around environmental justice. The region is home to some of the largest and highest-quality oil deposits on the planet. Petroleum pumped from this region has been the lifeblood of the Nigerian economy for several decades. However, the region...

Psychological evaluations and testing using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) among other instruments have been used to screen clerical and religious life applicants for decades. While much research has been conducted and published regarding these evaluations, the newer MMPI-3 has not been examined among this population. This s...

In 1923, Los Angeles teachers protested the state’s biennial budget, a controversial document from newly elected governor Friend Richardson that significantly cut funding to government agencies. The budget was the culmination of more than a decade of fiscal policy reform that reflected a significant shift in anti-tax sentiment. The expansion of sta...

Born in 1935 in Estonia, the child Arvo Pärt studied piano, then attended courses at the School of Music, where he played the oboe, as a percussionist in the orchestra, and sang in the choir. He graduated from the composition class at the Tallinn Conservatory, having Heino Eller as a professor. The basis of tintinnabuli compositional style, as Paul...

En el periodo comprendido entre los años 1590 a 1598 se llevó a cabo una campaña militar en la provincia francesa de Bretaña por parte de tropas españolas en apoyo a la Liga Católica, la cual se enfrentaba a los protestantes franceses, cuyo candidato al trono francés, Enrique de Borbón, calvinista, era un hereje ante los ojos de los católicos. La p...