Statul și biserica la începuturile româniei moderne: publicistica religioasă a lui Neofit Scriban by Manuela Anton

“…The essay focuses on the fundamental role played by the Romanian Orthodox Church in the process by which the modern Romanian state came into existence at the end of the War for Crimea (1853–1856). …”
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Phenomenology of Conversion: John H. Newman and Aurel Kolnai by Zoltan Balazs

“…This essay considers J. H. Newman’s and Aurel Kolnai’s conversions from a phenomenological point of view. …”
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Cel wczesnej i późnej filozofii wittgensteina: ten sam czy inny? (IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AIM OF THE EARLY AND THE LATER PHILOSOPHY OF L. WITTGENSTEIN?) by Katarzyna Gurczyńska

“…In this essay the authoress tries to answer if there is a connection between early and late philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein as far as the problem of the aim of philosophy is concerned. …”
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Mysticism and War: Reflections on Bergson and his Reception During World War I by Donna V. Jones

“…Once we grasp Bergson’s new conception of an intuitive metaphysics premised on a distance from action, it seems unlikely that a connection could be found between this metaphysics and an activist philosophy of war. In this essay I shall revisit Bergson’s metaphysics to see how they could have been understood to provide support for war. …”
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Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on education by Bejan, T

“…For Hobbes, the consensus on civil matters required for peace could be secured only through rigorous and universal civic education overseen by the sovereign in the universities, the pulpit, and the family alike. …”

Les Troubles et le conflit au Moyen-Orient : alliances coloniales et solidarité transnationale by Marie-Violaine Louvet

“…Through a study of primary sources (interviews, activist press, grey literature, general press) this essay sheds light on the origins of the republican identification with the Palestinian cause, its implications and its use by the Sinn Féin republican party for pragmatic purposes. …”
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The search for interreligious convivance, ongoing challenge and charge by J D Gort

“…This essay deals with the relationship between Christianity and other religions. …”
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Virginia Woolf and the new threat of war: from narrative silence to the voice of the sybil by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

“…«three Guineas» formulates the utopian tandem between pacifism and feminism as the ideal antidote against the institutional alliance between militarism and patriarchy that jeopardized the world’s peace. However, the pessimism within this essay suggests that the sociopolitical dystopia in those historical times hindered the successful administration of such a remedy to humankind, and foreshadowed the panic of English people with the Nazi air raids during World War II.…”
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Revisiting the Cold War in Latin America by Mark Eric Williams

“…This essay reviews the following works: Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America. …”
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Schopenhauer’s Asceticism: A path to salvation by fatemeh bakhtiari, sima safari, Abbas Haj Zein Alabedini

“…Therefore, will has to be denied, surpassed, and dumbed if relief and peace are required. Denying and ignoring the appetites and wishes makes the relief possible. …”
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Globalna ekumena popnacjonalizmu by Wojciech Józef Burszta

“…In the essay, the author aims to reconstruct ways of creating a similar global ecumene of pop nationalism, as well as to analyze various specific situations and symbolic forms in which people create their own national identities, for example those that accompanied the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (commonly referred to as Euro 2012), hosted for the first time by Poland and Ukraine. …”
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Wealth Obsession and Disillusionment: The Teachings of Islam and the Perceptions of EM Forster by Md. Munibur Rahman

“…In his essay 'My Wood', English writer EM Forster vividly illustrates the psychological impact of wealth on individuals, elucidating why and how people become fixated on accumulating boundless riches and the inevitable consequences they face upon achieving them. …”
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“Listening to the zoom of a hornet”: Virginia Woolf’s feminist reflections on the sounds of military weapons and war violence by Haifeng Zhu, Hui Ding, Weiyu Chen

“…Then, through a close study of her essay “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”, this paper contends that the soundscape of German air raids compels Woolf to contemplate the roles of feminism in opposing the wars and healing war trauma.…”
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Lesson's of Keynes economic consequences in a turbulent century by Clavin, P, Corsetti, G, Obstfeld, M, Tooze, A

“…Just over a century old, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) remains a seminal document of the twentieth century. …”

Desfragmentar, o armonizar, al ser humano desde la perspectiva compleja de la investigación para la paz by Francisco A. Muñoz, Juan Manuel Jimenéz Arenas

“…To build the integrated and united view of Human Sciences is a collective task which is of great interest for Peace Research. …”
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HLA Hart, Lon Fuller and the Ghosts of Legal Interpretation by Desmond Manderson

“…Both are tales about law, interpretation, and ghosts. Through James, this essay argues that the debate between Hart and Fuller epitomizes legal interpretation as haunted. …”
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Rabindranath Tagore: a selected short stories by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

“…The book comes with a comprehensive Introduction and an insightfully written biographical essay that sums up Tagore’s life, moral philosophy and literary achievements in a controlled but eloquent style.…”
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'Rebellion to the Gods'. Dialogue and conflict with tradition in the poetry of Amelia Rosselli from 'Primi Scritti' to 'Variazioni belliche' by Carpita, C

“…</p> <p>Rosselli's use of literary allusion is a very original one: it is based on her work as a musicologist, which she articulates in the essay La serie degli armonici. In this essay Rosselli studied natural harmonics in music. …”

The writing of Arthur Fula: modernity, language, place and religion by Hein Willemse

“…In his second novel Met erbarming, O Here (With Compassion, Oh Lord, 1957) Fula made peace with the permanency of urban black Africans and their aspirations. …”
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Introduction by Sandra Heinen, Sylvie Mikowski, Lance Pettitt, Katharina Rennhak

“…Following the agenda suggested by the short film-essay Hard Border (2018), directed by Juliet Riddell and performed by Stephen Rea, this themed issue of RISE approaches the Irish border by differentiating between internal and external – Irish and Northern Irish, British and continental – perspectives and by exploring historical dimensions as well as contemporary engagements with a border whose increasing (discursive and material) invisibility following the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been crucial to the ongoing peace process.…”
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