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Representing Modernity: The Nationalist Theatre in Colonial Northern Morocco

submitted by liexys94 1 day ago

Modernity cannot be just considered as a unidirectional process imposed from ‘the West’. Rather, it is the outcome of an interaction with ‘the West’ in which different parts...

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Early Contributions to the Theory of Islamic Governance: lhringAbd al-Rahman al-Awzalhringi

submitted by AngelPeyto 1 day ago

This paper deals with the political understanding of one of the early masters of fiqh, Abd al-Rahman al-Awzai (d. 157/773), as manifested in his biography and what can be substantiated of his legal...

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Islamic Resurgence in Bangladesh's Culture and Politics: Origins, Dynamics and Implications

submitted by horclo 1 day ago

In Bangladesh, the resurgence of Islam is not synonymous with Islamic militancy. Islamic militancy grew in frequency and intensity between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, but as a transitory pheno...

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The Rising {tav}{vav}{resh}{he}{nun} of Psalm 93: Chaotic Order

submitted by ciostan 5 days ago

The relation between Yahweh and the sea in Psalm 93 has usually been considered to be an adversarial one. Particularly stressed in this regard are the three references to the rising in v. 3. There ...

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Proleptic Fulfillment of the Prophetic Word: Ezekiel's Dirges over Tyre and Its Ruler

submitted by GilbSulli 5 days ago

Debates about Ezek. 28.1–19 have long centered on textual difficulties and cryptic mythological language. While these issues remain intractable, the overall structure and rhetorical strategy ...

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Jezebel, Elijah, and the Widow of Zarephath: A Menage a Trois that Estranges the Holy and Makes the Holy the Strange

submitted by bartan 5 days ago

This article offers a dialogical examination of 1 Kgs 17–19 that deconstructs traditionally accepted characterizations of Jezebel, Elijah, and the Widow of Zarephath. This study proposes that...

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Job's Attempt to Regain Control: Traces of a Babylonian Birth Incantation in Job 3

submitted by tryitnoow 5 days ago

Some have suggested that Job's ‘curse’ in ch. 3, beginning ‘Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth’ (3.1), is intended to prod God into allowing him to die (cf...

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The Type-Scene Connection between Genesis 38 and the Joseph Story

submitted by RodolfoMil 5 days ago

To many readers Genesis 38 seems incongruous with the Joseph story that envelops it. Yet structural and thematic elements shared between both stories reveal a type-scene connection that renders the...

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Conscience, Professionalism, and Pluralism

submitted by pallykario 5 days ago

The rights of health care professionals to refuse to participate in procedures such as abortion and sterilization that they judge to be wrong on moral or religious grounds have been protected by fe...

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The Physician's Right of Refusal: What Are the Limits?

submitted by 152288 5 days ago

A physician’s long-established right to refuse to provide a requested service based on his or her moral beliefs is being challenged. Some authors suggest that physicians should not be license...

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Discovery and Revelation: The Consciences of Christians, Public Policy, and Bioethics Debate

submitted by kallir 5 days ago

Health care begins as an act of conscience, which urges a response to the sick and holds caregivers accountable to moral standards that public authorities ultimately do not define. Conscience nonet...

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Islamic identity and its role in the lives of young Swedish Muslims

submitted by AdonJady 5 days ago

This paper concerns the level of wellbeing experienced by Swedish Muslim youths and young adults as well as the ways in which this is influenced both positively and negatively by their sense of Isl...

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God, the Future, and the Fundamentum of History in Wolfhart Pannenberg

submitted by dgdapri 11 days ago

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between Wolfhart Pannenberg's idea of God and his conception of history, with the intention of determining the precise nature of the link that...

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Machinery, Monstrosity, and Bestiality: An Analysis of Repulsion in Kierkegaard's Practice in Christianity

submitted by JanAust 11 days ago

In reaction to a particularly scathing review of his Practice in Christianity, Kierkegaard postulated what he called a ‘preacher-machine.’ As we will see, the preacher-machine is only one type ...

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Human Creation in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an – Feminist Exegesis

submitted by GeoffreyUl 12 days ago

The foundations of Judaism and Islam are their holy books – the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an – which believers regard as the eternal word of God. It is not surprising, therefore, that leading ...

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