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Book Review: Honor, Shame, And Gospel: Reframing Our Message And Ministry Edited By Flanders, C., And Mischke, W., Cameron D. Armstrong

Great Commission Research Journal

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Frontmatter (Volume 41, Issue 3), Paul B. Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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The Question Of The Autocephalous Status Of The Polish Orthodox Church In The Documents Of The Council For The Affairs Of The Russian Orthodox Church (1944-1948), Ella Bystrytska, Nadiia Volik

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The process and stages of the acquisition of autocephaly by the Polish Orthodox Church are explored. The formation of a socialist model of public administration in Poland after the Second World War required the resolution of some problems, in particular the restoration of canonical communication between the Polish and Russian Orthodox Churches. The cause of the conflict between these Churches was the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. The Soviet and Polish governments were interested in abolishing this Tomos. The state and church relations in the USSR provided for the …

In Lieu Of A Review: Reminiscences On Reading One Word Of Truth; The Cold War Memoir Of Michael Bourdeaux And Keston College, Mark R. Elliott

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

I first met Michael Bourdeaux in October 1983, at the beginning of one month of research at his Keston College Library and Archive, located in a southwest suburb of London, England. The back story to what gave occasion for our first meeting dates back a decade, to 1974, the year I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and the year my wife, Darlene, and I made our first trip to the Soviet Union.

Remembering Canon Michael Bourdeaux, Founder Of Keston Institute, Walter Sawatsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Through a regular email prayer letter from Mission Eurasia,1 its Director Sergey Rakuba and his close colleague Dr. Michael Cherenkov, I learned of the death on March 29, 2021, of Michael Bourdeaux, and his funeral on April 12, 2021, in Oxford. Bourdeaux’s persistence over many decades to make known the appeals for prayer, for assistance in making known the plight of prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union has continued, in spite of many changes and transformations over the decades. Even today the harassment of believers not conforming to Russia’s current state-church close integration and its banning of the Jehovah’s …

The Effects Of The Dominant Public Discourse And The Influence Of (Non)Knowledge As A Sign Of Resistance/Support To Women's Faith-Based Peace Activism In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Halida Đonlagić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This article strives to offer general insight into the subject matter of the dominant public discourse and socio-cultural construction on which it is founded and created, as well as the experience of women activists in local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina who act guided by their religious beliefs. The influence of the context on women’s peace activism is observed, with special reference to women’s faith-based peace activism. The relationship between secular and theological feminism is scrutinized as well, along with its challenges and the effects of the subordination and complementarity theories which legitimize the hierarchical patriarchal structure that obstructs the …

Digital Solutions For The Shariah Concerns Surrounding Banking Tawarruq Operations, Dr. Mohamed Hassan Abdel-Wahhab

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

Islamic banks avoid interest-based loan in more than one way, including Tawarruq Banking, which you see as an image of legitimate traditional tawarruq, but that most contemporary jurists say that it is illegal for various reasons. With the advent of digital financing techniques, most Islamic banks have tended to use them with the aim of facilitating and expediting the procedures for granting financing to the customer without any prejudice to the nature of the transaction or attempting to correct it from a legal point of view. The research represents a vision aimed at laying down legal foundations for a common …

Religious, Secular, And Spiritual Diversity On Campus: Book Review Of Goodman, Giess & Patel (2019) Educating About Religious Diversity And Interfaith Engagement, Karin Dejonge-Kannan

Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence

Book review of

Goodman, K.M., Giess, M.E., & Patel, E (2019). Educating about religious diversity and interfaith engagement: A handbook for student affairs. Stylus Publishing.

Rioting For Resurrection: Masculinity, White Supremacy, And Religion At The U.S. Capitol Insurrection (Panel Transcript), Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Stephen C. Finley, Bradley Onishi

Rioting for Resurrection: Masculinity, White Supremacy, and Religion at the U.S. Capitol Insurrection

This file contains the video recording of the virtual panel and discussion. The official flyer for the event is also available here and contains the panel presenter's biographies.

Temporary Marriage In Iran: Gender And Body Politics In Modern Iranian Film And Literature, Alicia Izharuddin

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Claudia Yaghoobi, Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Revising Mary Queen Of Scots: From Protestant Persecution To Patriarchal Struggle, Jennifer M. Desilva, Emily K. Mcguire

Journal of Religion & Film

Since Mary Queen of Scots’ execution in 1587, she has become a symbol of Scottish identity, failed female leadership, and Catholic martyrdom. Throughout the twentieth century, Mary was regularly depicted on screen (Ford, 1936; Froelich, 1940; Jarrott, 1971) as a thrice-wed Catholic queen, unable to rule her country due to her feminine nature and Catholic roots. However, with the rise of third wave feminism and postfeminism in media, coupled with the increased influence of female directors and writers, Mary’s characterization has shifted from portraying female/emotional weakness and religious sacrifice to female/collaborative strength in hardship and a struggle against patriarchal prejudice. …

Catholics & Cultures As An Act Of Improvisation: A Response, Thomas M. Landy

Journal of Global Catholicism

This essay responds to seven articles published in the same issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism on the use of Catholics & Cultures, a multimedia website, as a pedagogical resource for college classrooms. The site is deliberately presented in a fashion that undermines notions of center and periphery and presents Catholicism from a lay, lived-religion perspective as the multicultural faith that it is, minimizing reference to religious typologies. Particular attention is given to how to navigate tensions around theorizing, categorizing and sorting information for cross-cultural comparison. Given scholars’ current state of knowledge, writing about and teaching about global Catholicism …

Catholics & Cultures: A Panoramic View In Search Of Greater Understanding, Stephanie M. Wong

Journal of Global Catholicism

While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics & Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential …

The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell

Journal of Global Catholicism

Reflecting on my experience teaching Introduction to Global Christianity, this essay ponders questions at the heart of undergraduate teaching: How can we encourage students to utilize online sources? How can we empower them to seek out answers to their questions? It offers practical examples of how I have used the Catholics & Cultures website in my classroom at a large public university. In particular, I reflect on my experience working with students who are mostly of Catholic heritage, but from many cultural and social contexts.

Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau

Journal of Global Catholicism

I present a close reading of the Catholics & Cultures (C&C) website’s treatment of sexuality-related issues and discuss this material in relation to debates about how to teach sexuality in religious studies and theology classrooms. The C&C website occasionally and intermittently uses a typical “contemporary issues” approach that considers sexuality in relation to legal and legislative decisions and government policies. In contrast, country profiles consistently situate sexuality in relation processes like nation building, urbanization, and lay Catholics’ growing authority. My interpretation highlights the site’s decision to emphasize the longue durée, long-term and deep structural processes driving cultural and religious changes. …

Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck

Journal of Global Catholicism

More than six decades after its publication, Horace Miner’s 1956 article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” remains a reliable pedagogical tool, remarkably successful in helping students see their own ethnocentric biases. Catholics & Cultures has potential to do similar work. The site lacks some of what makes Miner’s text so effective, in particular its capacity to bring about a sudden shift in perception. The site also shares some of the article’s limitations, particularly in focusing on ritual to the relative exclusion of other aspects of religion. That said, the site can help students gain the religious literacy and develop the …

Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder

Journal of Global Catholicism

The dynamics of religious resurgence reveal the important ways that religious ritual and performance are meaning making spaces which are not self-contained or cut off from the rest of culture, but rather are a key locus of cultural change. A renewed emphasis on the busy intersections of meaning making – as rituals are connected, disconnected, and reconnected to other domains of social life – would improve the utility of the Catholics & Cultures website for understanding global cultural change. And a renewed emphasis on cultural change would also provide a better means for exploring reflexively by seeking to understand both …

A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht

Journal of Global Catholicism

Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly …

Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

In introducing the Catholics & Cultures site and the articles in this special issue, this essay initially locates the overall Catholic & Cultures project within the traditions of ethnography and encyclopedia. Drawing extensively on the work of J. Z. Smith, this essay reflects upon the theoretical implications of emphasizing the diversity of Catholicism in and through a web-based platform that facilitates comparative study and pedagogy. This essay then more specifically considers the web-based aspects of Catholics & Cultures by identifying a nascent cyborgian aesthetic in the site and considering how the site might eventually engage post-modern themes and concerns.

What Can You Do With Unwanted Holy Cards And Grandma's Religious Statues? Well, That Depends, Kayla Harris, Sarah Burke Cahalan

Marian Library Faculty Publications

As librarians at the University of Dayton’s Marian Library, we help curate a collection of religious artifacts that, depending on how you count it, numbers in the hundreds of thousands. It includes postage stamps, wine labels, books, statues and rosaries. Many of the items are Catholic and have been gifted to the library by charitable individuals looking to do the right thing with a family heirloom or the collection of a recently deceased loved one. Donations could include anything from medieval manuscripts to a car air freshener featuring Our Lady of Guadalupe. In many cases, donations are welcome. But …

Hegel And Schelling: The Emptiness Of Emptiness And The Love Of The Divine, Sean B. Gleason

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I argue that, all appearances to the contrary, Hegel does not attempt to achieve a complete systematization of reason in a self-reflexive sense in his system of philosophy. Quite the opposite, I maintain that the absolute Idea is the actuality of the self-transcendence of the divine. Along these lines, I argue (in agreement with Slavoj Žižek) that the absolute “Idea” is non-total and incomplete; in this sense, Hegel is neither a modern thinker nor a post-modern thinker, but rather he presents a version of thinking that is both modern and post-modern, while neither merely one nor the …

Atheism As An Extreme Rejection Of Rational Evidence For The Existence Of God, Carlo Alvaro

Publications and Research

Explicit atheism is a philosophical position according to which belief in God is irrational and thus it should be rejected. In this paper, I revisit, extend, and defend against the most telling counter arguments the Kalām Cosmological Argument in order to show that explicit atheism must be deemed as a positively irrational position.

Recovering A Grammar For The Soul: A Review Of The Logic Of The Body, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"We need to not only change the way we think, we need to change what we do, and we need to conceive of what we are doing in a way that fits us into our soli deo gloria identities."

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الجوانب الاقتصادية في كتاب مغازي رسول الله صلى الله علية وسلم لعروة بن الزبير, أ .م.د. خليف عبود الطائي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

Biography written Prophet Muhammad starting son Isaac and concise Ibn Hisham, and Otozaat between history books public, and hardly vacate history book of biography Prophet Muhammad, and is alone among these sources wrote Maghazi, ibex widest Maghazi Waaqidi, as well as came books Hadith and interpretation of the Koran Lta ofimportant sources for the biography of the Prophet.

As a reader of these books add them find not absolutely devoid of novels Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, which is truly the leader of the most important novels sources Biography trustworthy.

In an effort rigorous scientific and documented came book Maghazi Messenger of …

نماذج من استشراف المستقبل في السيرة النبوية, د. حاتم فزع شنيتر

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The look to the future importance in the reform of society in the emphasis on Islamic values to reach purpose and avoid potential problems, it requires knowledge, skill and determination and will and is meant to bring good or ward off harm.

It was stipulated that the Sunnah on many future events and changes that will take place and warned that doing things and you want to do other things, one of the unseen, who revealed God to him and was authorized in revealing to us to guide us as it will be before it falls, and to look to …

الولاية على السفيه في النكاح في الفقه الإسلامي, أ . م. د. محسن عبد فرحان الجميلي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

Through our research on the subject of state Fools in marriage in Islamic jurisprudence proved to us several results reached with some recommendations.

First results are:

1. State in terminology is legitimate (authority over the person of the minor upbringing and Ttabiba, and other behaviors related to his person).

2. State two types: the state of the soul, and the state money, and intended state of self-it makes to its owner the ability to act in matters relating to a person Mawla him to save and discipline, education and marry and other behaviors related person or is the ability to …

العبادة وأثرها في سلوك المسلم, م.م. ظاهر فيصل بديوي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

After writing for this search (preexisting and commissioning wisdom) have reached some results, including:

- very presence is worship, worship in Islam not Kalebadh in other religions, all the work he does is recognized Eptga face God and this was a valid work is worship.

- self-worship inhabit and reassure the heart and the effects of worship.

- worship achieve a dignified life through social solidarity, passed by Islam through Zakat.

- worship unite the nation and make them row for one of the weft by reason of worship at one time and one place.

- worship is not only …

الجثوم والجثو في القرآن الكريم دراسة موضوعية, د. محمود عبد اللطيف حمد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

Thank for allah , the God of all and pece upon our master mohammed and on his follower ,what else.

The Holy quraan that allah had sent to mohammed (peace up on him) is aguidance ,mercy ,light and a protection hence no way to amend the nation dignity and nature other than following the quraan .all should under sland what it means and directs

After getting a wide glance at quraan ,the term "kneeling and barrow "has been chosen ,that the researcher has dedicted it and found that it has been mentioned in eight quranic verse .so the present research …

آيات المعية في القرآن الكريم دراسة موضوعية, أ.م.د. محمد شاكر الكبيسي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

After this brilliant roaming degenerated Rahalna on the last leg of this research in order to put some of what we have achieved things and results through substantive study of the Assembly, were as follows;

1. brilliantly out of its root word (with) and come to many different meanings as they are received in the context of the speech, including the accompanying, and the meeting at the time and place, and the victory, and Andah.
2. here are words almost in the connotations of the word (brilliantly) demonstrated the flexibility of the Arabic language and on Aajazha if received in the Quranic …

آيات الأجداث في القرآن الكريم دراسة تحليلية, أ .م.د. زياد علي دايح

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

I ask Praise to you, and satisfaction for you, and sleep to you, and your confidence, and resolution with you, the in Praise you increase, and greater satisfaction for you bladders, In sleep you Tocla, and trust your sincerity, and in the decision you healthy, and to look at Qrank worship and prayer.

What Sarhat consider the Quran, and verses evidence, I came across a the word of his words naira namely (graves) Vtammelt in place of verses and found three Vochtertha to be title research marked (states graves in the Holy Quran analytical study) has necessitated the research plan …