Metrópolis y Puritanismo en Afrocolombia by Jaime Arocha Rodríguez

“…After the 1991 Constitutional reform, anthropologists and sociologists affiliated with constructivism strongly emerged in Afro Colombia. Applying puritanical double moral standards, they punish colleagues, for allegedly essentializating the history and culture of "black populations". …”
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Fuller, la falacia de la tecnología by Antón Capitel

“…These ideas were much publicized by British critics, especially by Reyner Banham, and were related to a strange utopia of the disappearance of form as a value and mythification of a set of supposedly "objective criteria" for architectural design, relating this type of thinking with the puritan tradition and its rejection of beauty and pleasure. …”
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Creative Agency in The Scarlet Letter by Tia Byer

“…In reading Hester Prynne’s artistic ability and theological dissent as tools of creative resistance, the article claims that Hawthorne uses self-expression to critique Puritan values. When Hester redesigns the symbol of the scarlet letter A that she is forced to wear as a punishment for the sin of committing adultery, the act of sewing becomes a transgressive form of resistance. …”
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The book indices in the manuscripts of Cassius Dio by Mallan, CT

“…Bekker and Dindorf, with somewhat puritanical zeal, removed them from the main text of their editions of the <i>Roman History</i> in the belief that they were not by Dio's hand. …”

Níveis de potássio em fertirrigação interferindo no crescimento/desenvolvimento e qualidade do crisântemo Levels of potassium in fertirrigation interfering in the growth/developmen... by Tatiana Michlovská Rodrigues, Carlos Ribeiro Rodrigues, Renato Paiva, Valdemar Faquin, Patrícia Duarte de Oliveira Paiva, Luciano Vilela Paiva

“…Avaliou-se o efeito de dois substratos e cinco concentrações de potássio na solução nutritiva no crescimento/desenvolvimento do crisântemo (Dendranthema grandiflorum cv. Puritan). Após 90 dias do enraizamento, foram feitas determinações de número de inflorescências, folhas e hastes vaso, o diâmetro médios de inflorescência (cm) e a altura de planta (cm), e determinação da massa seca de inflorescências, folhas, hastes e relações folha/haste e folha/inflorescência. …”
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A REAL THREAT FROM WITHIN: Muhammadiyah’s Identity Metamorphosis and the Dilemma of Democracy by Suaidi Asyari

“…</em>It will argue that the trajectory passed by and the victory of the radical-puritan element in the National Congress 2005 can potentially become an obstacle for Muhammadiyah's involvement in the process of implementing democratic values in Indonesia in the future. …”
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NEGOSIASI MUKA MASYARAKAT DESA BEDA KEYAKINAN Studi Interaksi Masyarakat Berbasis Keyakinan (Nahdlatul Ulama, Muhammadiyah, dan Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an) di Dusun Pakelrejo, Desa P... by Siti Fauziyah

“…In spreading the teachings of Islamic renewal and then bring up cultural clashes that cause tension then even conflict between supporters of puritan groups with syncretic Islam. This happened in Dusun Pakelrejo Desa Piyaman, when the Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an (MTA) tried to maintain its existence to be accepted by the wider community especially by Muhammadiyah and NU adherents. …”
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Purgation of soul and body : a study on Chinese religious purification in Singapore by Cho, Charis

“…This paper addresses three main questions: what were the impacts of Chinese intellectual traditions on gendered socio-religious relations, how did Chinese puritanism shape Chinese religious practices, and where were Chinese laywomen situated in the realm of Chinese religiosity. …”
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Hugh Broughton and the King James Bible, revisited by Macfarlane, K

“…Hugh Broughton (1549–1612) is best known today as the eccentric puritan who, having been excluded from the translation committees of the King James Bible, published a vicious attack on the final product. …”

Night-time in Java. Thoughts on Merapi, Verticality and Paganism by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision: A Christological Deficit by Hans Boersma

“…For a more christologically robust way forward, I draw on John Owen and several other Puritan theologians, who treat the beatific vision as the climactic theophany.…”
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The Baloch nationalism in Pakistan: Articulation of the ethnic separatism after the end of the Cold War by Hoshang Noraiee

“…The radical nationalism predominantly has become more aggressive, more exclusionary, more puritan, and more ethnically oriented. It has become more relaxed in using unethical and deceitful means such as indiscriminate killing, kidnapping, ransom; arm trafficking, and sometimes some of the nationalists, if not directly, gaining benefit from the drug trafficking, and banditry to achieve their objectives. …”
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Law Vs Letter. The Evolution of the Cain Figure in US Literature: Transcending Moral Censorship? by Claude Le Fustec

“…The United States, with its stern history of authoritarian Puritanism, offers a perfect locus for the study of censorship. …”
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La notion de ‘awra selon Abû l-Ḥasan ‘Alî b. Muḥammad b. al-Qaṭṭân al-Fâsî (m. 628 /1231) by Eric Chaumont

“…His list of what is ethically and legally forbidden does not rely on the idea of the body as sacred, but rather seeks to protect the purity of lineages, believed to be a reflection of the created “nature.” The puritanism of Ibn al-Qaṭṭân which comes out in his Kitab al-Naẓar affects mainly women, and reminds us of some contemporary Islamic movements.…”
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The Religion of Consumer Capitalism and the Construction of Corporate Sacred Spaces by Allison P. Coudert

“…The purpose of this essay is to document the way new forms of spirituality have become part of a much longer history of the entanglement of business and religion, a history that began in monasteries, formed the bedrock of the Puritan work ethic, and is now an established aspect of the neoliberal ideal of the privatization and corporatization of all aspects of human life.…”
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Nuit javanaise. Réflexions sur le Merapi, la verticalité et le paganisme by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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The Specter of Oppression and National Identity in Hobomok by Alex McDonnell

“…The novel suggests that the oppressive strictures of Puritanism derive from the psychical trauma of banishment from England. …”
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‘THE CURE OF THE KINGDOME’: DEFENDING FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN ELIZABETH POOLE’S A VISION (1648) by Carme Font Paz

“…A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) is Elizabeth Poole’s account of the prophecies she delivered before Cromwell and the Puritan Army’s General Council as they debated the regicide of Charles I at the end of the first English Civil War in 1648-49. …”
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Nashe and satire by Stern, T

“…Nashe adapted the egocentric prose of Pietro Aretino and the vigorous colloquial language of Puritan writers to his idiosyncratic style, with which he parodied almost every contemporary genre of prose, poetry, and drama. …”

Kidung Wahyu Kalaseba: Javanese Spiritualism and Psycho-cultural Resilience by Muhammad Mukhsin Jamil

“…Kidung Wahyu Kalaseba (KWK) is a new literary work echoing psycho-cultural resilience due to the negative impact of modernization and religious puritanism. KWK contains Javanese spiritualism that could encounter religious challenges and revive cultural values. …”
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