Between moral responsibility and postmodern disbelief : 'postmodern ethics' in the dramatic works of harold pinter by Fernandez, Stephen Frederick

“…For this reason, the existence of ‘postmodern ethics’ in Pinter’s drama is not directly determined by such fixed ethical codes as the Judeo-Christian moral law. Instead, the exercise of moral responsibility or irresponsibility between Pinter’s characters is conditioned by the ways in which they react to the words and actions of one another within specific contexts. …”
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Some reflections on mysticism by Evans-Pritchard, EE

“…Evans-Pritchard’s ‘inner life’ and his profound and wide-ranging interest in mysticism, the lecture presents common threads across Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mystics, poets and writers, in addition to many of the classics of mystical literature in Britain at the time. …”

'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…The students, graduates, missionaries, and Japanese educators of these three institutions were physically and intellectually part of a transnational network of Christian women and organizations in 1920s and 1930s Japan. …”

What difference does God make to morality? by Swinburne, R

“…I assume a standard Western account of the nature of God, as essentially eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, creator and sustainer of the universe and all that it contains (from moment to moment), the kind of God a ffirmed by Christianity, Judaism and Islam as well as some other religions.…”

Beginning with the spiritual life by Wynn, MR

“…They then seek to understand certain recurrent features of the spiritual life: for instance, the fact that spiritual understanding and practice typically seem to have a traditioned character. At the core of any Christian understanding of the nature of the good or worthwhile human life will stand a conception of neighbour love, and so a consideration of Aquinas's views on the nature of spiritual goods might very naturally start here, with his account of neighbour love. …”

“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”

Antiquity as authority: Jesus and the patriarchs in the Gospel of John by Van Dyk, SL

“…A further evaluation of the authority of Jacob and Abraham in late Second Temple and post-Temple Jewish literature as well as early Christian literature determines the study’s contextual parameters.…”

Internationalisation and cross-cultural training in Singapore and Switzerland : between requirements and reality. by Christian Valentin Kirschner.

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The Robust Malware Detection Challenge and Greedy Random Accelerated Multi-Bit Search by Verwer, Sicco, Nadeem, Azqa, Hammerschmidt, Christian, Bliek, Laurens, Al-Dujaili, Abdullah, O'Reilly, Una-May

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Self-concordance theory and the goal-striving reasons framework and their distinct relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being by Ehrlich, Christian, Cripps, Karen, Ehrlich, Susanne

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Erotica in Australian libraries : are we negligent collection managers? by Crook, Edgar

“…In ancient Greece and Rome the writing of erotic poems and stories were an accepted and popular literary form. Later in the Christian west, writers of erotica were to became subject to the Church, censorship and the law, and whilst there was never a period when there was not production of erotic books, their writings were often driven underground. …”
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The role of speaker beliefs in determining accent placement by German, James Sneed, Clark, Brady, Sagi, Eyal, Kaufmann, Stefan

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Lamòling Bèaka: immanence, rituals, and sacred objects in an unwritten legend in Alor by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco

“…The myth evolved from ancestral times to the arrival of Christianity in Alor, with the resultant association of the ‘bad’ god as a demon and, finally, as the devil. …”
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The role of institutional environments in cross-border mergers : a perspective from bidders’ earnings management behavior by Baik, Bok, Cho, Kwanghee, Choi, Wooseok, Kang, Jun-Koo

“…Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the earnings management behavior of US bidders becomes more evident when they acquire targets from countries with greater institutional differences, such as non-Christian countries, countries with a low level of political stability, countries with a low level of democracy and freedom of the press and media, countries with high corruption and countries with a low level of government effectiveness. …”
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Coenesthesia or the immediate feeling of existence: Maine de Biran and the problem of the unconscious between physiology and philosophy by Aloisi, A

“…The term “coenesthesia” was introduced at the end of the eighteenth century by the German physiologist Johann Christian Reil to designate the general perception of the living body through the nerves. …”

Quality of service profiling by Misailovic, Sasa, Sidiroglou, Stylianos, Hoffmann, Henry Christian, Rinard, Martin C.

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Patch repair technology with sacrificial zinc anodes in RC slabs with corroded steel bars by Christian, Alvin

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Lasing in Bose-Fermi mixtures by Kochereshko, Vladimir P., Durnev, Mikhail V., Besombes, Lucien, Mariette, Henri, Sapega, Victor F., Askitopoulos, Alexis, Savenko, Ivan G., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Shelykh, Ivan A., Platonov, Alexey V., Tsintzos, Simeon I., Hatzopoulos, Z., Savvidis, Pavlos G., Kalevich, Vladimir K., Afanasiev, Mikhail M., Lukoshkin, Vladimir A., Schneider, Christian, Amthor, Matthias, Metzger, Christian, Kamp, Martin, Hoefling, Sven, Lagoudakis, Pavlos, Kavokin, Alexey

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The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood by Lau, Qian Yu

“…Conversely, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the “Republic of Gilead” (33), which is a Christian theocracy, where citizens are oppressed and endure much brutality. …”
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Manifold Sampling for Differentiable Uncertainty in Radiance Fields by Lyu, Linjie, Tewari, Ayush, Habermann, Marc, Saito, Shunsuke, Zollh?fer, Michael, Leimk?hler, Thomas, Theobalt, Christian

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