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The Challenge of Chance A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /

Table of Contents: “….- Accidental Harm under (Roman) Civil Law (C. Jansen).- Taming Chaos: Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences (R. van Hout, Pieter Muysken) -- & nbsp;Biographies.…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesis / Jan Art -- The "sportsman" and the "muscular Christian". …”
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Ancient tyranny

Table of Contents: “…The making of tyranny -- Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome / Fay Glinister -- Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny / Trinity Jackman -- Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic / Christopher Smith -- Money and the great man in the fourth century BC : military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service / Matthew Trundle -- From Agathocles to Hieron II : the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily / Efrem Zambon -- pt. 2. …”
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The Challenge of Chance A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /

Table of Contents: “….- Accidental Harm under (Roman) Civil Law (C. Jansen).- Taming Chaos: Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences (R. van Hout, Pieter Muysken) -- & nbsp;Biographies.…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? A psycho-historical hypothesis / Jan Art -- The "sportsman" and the "muscular Christian". …”
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The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? / by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.…”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

Table of Contents: “…The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya -- In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie -- The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi -- Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond -- The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko -- From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum -- Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome -- Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko -- Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi -- The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth -- Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton -- Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci -- Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.…”
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An eschatological imagination a revisionist Christian eschatology in the light of David Tracy's theological project / by Shields, John M., Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…The contours of contemporary eschatological reflection -- Structuring the discussion of contemporary Christian eschatology -- Gerhard Sauter -- Jürgen Moltmann -- The Roman Catholic discussion : Zachary Hayes, Dermot Lane, and the debt to Karl Rahner -- Thematic convergences along the contours of eschatological reflection : the work of Stephen Williams and the contemporary discussion -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in blessed rage for order -- Plurality -- The notion of limit -- The implicit eschatological dimension -- The explicit eschatological dimension disclosing an eschatological mode of being-in-the-world -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in the analogical imagination -- The nature of the classic and its appropriateness for a public systematics -- The religious classic : manifestation of the whole by the power of the whole -- The Christian classic : eschatological wholeness manifested finally and decisively -- The eschatological shape that a life of wholeness can take -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in plurality and ambiguity -- Continuities but also radical intensifications -- The eschatological in radical interruptions -- The interruption of truth -- The interruption of language -- The interruption of history and the other as mystery -- The shape of hope finally in and in spite of radical interruptions -- An eschatological imagination : a revisionist Christian eschatology in the light of David Tracy's theological project -- The contemporary situation -- Locating Tracy -- Shaping an eschatological imagination -- Interruption, future and hope -- Truth in action and rhetoric -- Active hopes arsenal of practical strategies.…”
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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / JEANNE I. …”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

Table of Contents: “…The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya -- In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie -- The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi -- Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond -- The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko -- From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum -- Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome -- Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko -- Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi -- The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth -- Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton -- Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci -- Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.…”
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An eschatological imagination a revisionist Christian eschatology in the light of David Tracy's theological project / by Shields, John M., Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…The contours of contemporary eschatological reflection -- Structuring the discussion of contemporary Christian eschatology -- Gerhard Sauter -- Jürgen Moltmann -- The Roman Catholic discussion : Zachary Hayes, Dermot Lane, and the debt to Karl Rahner -- Thematic convergences along the contours of eschatological reflection : the work of Stephen Williams and the contemporary discussion -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in blessed rage for order -- Plurality -- The notion of limit -- The implicit eschatological dimension -- The explicit eschatological dimension disclosing an eschatological mode of being-in-the-world -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in the analogical imagination -- The nature of the classic and its appropriateness for a public systematics -- The religious classic : manifestation of the whole by the power of the whole -- The Christian classic : eschatological wholeness manifested finally and decisively -- The eschatological shape that a life of wholeness can take -- The eschatological dimensions of the theological project of David Tracy in plurality and ambiguity -- Continuities but also radical intensifications -- The eschatological in radical interruptions -- The interruption of truth -- The interruption of language -- The interruption of history and the other as mystery -- The shape of hope finally in and in spite of radical interruptions -- An eschatological imagination : a revisionist Christian eschatology in the light of David Tracy's theological project -- The contemporary situation -- Locating Tracy -- Shaping an eschatological imagination -- Interruption, future and hope -- Truth in action and rhetoric -- Active hopes arsenal of practical strategies.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / JEANNE I. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

AIDS and religious practice in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
Book review (H-Net)

The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? / by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.…”
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Rhetoric and theology figural reading of John 9 / by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Jo. 44 -- Comparing the reading strategies of Augustine and Martyn -- Implications and possibilities -- Four premodern interpretations of John 9 -- The value of premodern exegetes for New Testament studies -- John Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's homilies 56-59 on the Gospel of John in context -- Chrysostom on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Chrysostom on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Chrysostom's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril's commentary on the Gospel of John in context -- Cyril on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Cyril on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Cyril's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Bruno of Segni -- Bruno's commentary on John in context -- Bruno on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Bruno on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Bruno's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' lectures on John in context : exegesis in the medieval university -- Aquinas on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Aquinas on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Aquinas' theological interpretation of John 9 -- Conclusions -- Figural argumentation in John 9 -- Elaborated chreia and symbolic expression in Greco-Roman literary composition -- Chreia composition and elaborated argument -- Greco-Roman symbolic literary composition -- The figural argument in John 9:1-41 -- John 9:1-7 -- John 9:8-12 -- John 9:13-17 -- John 9:18-23 -- John 9:24-34 -- John 9:35-38 -- John 9:39-41 -- Conclusion -- Narrative rhetoric, theology, and figural reading -- The narrative and rhetorical dimensions of John 9 -- The narrative dynamics of John 9 -- An integration of epideictic and forensic rhetoric -- The figural dynamic and John's theology -- The inseparability of form and content in John's theology -- The figural dynamic and the incarnation -- Reading John's figural dynamic -- Conclusion.…”
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Rhetoric and theology figural reading of John 9 / by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Jo. 44 -- Comparing the reading strategies of Augustine and Martyn -- Implications and possibilities -- Four premodern interpretations of John 9 -- The value of premodern exegetes for New Testament studies -- John Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's homilies 56-59 on the Gospel of John in context -- Chrysostom on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Chrysostom on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Chrysostom's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril's commentary on the Gospel of John in context -- Cyril on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Cyril on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Cyril's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Bruno of Segni -- Bruno's commentary on John in context -- Bruno on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Bruno on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Bruno's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' lectures on John in context : exegesis in the medieval university -- Aquinas on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Aquinas on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Aquinas' theological interpretation of John 9 -- Conclusions -- Figural argumentation in John 9 -- Elaborated chreia and symbolic expression in Greco-Roman literary composition -- Chreia composition and elaborated argument -- Greco-Roman symbolic literary composition -- The figural argument in John 9:1-41 -- John 9:1-7 -- John 9:8-12 -- John 9:13-17 -- John 9:18-23 -- John 9:24-34 -- John 9:35-38 -- John 9:39-41 -- Conclusion -- Narrative rhetoric, theology, and figural reading -- The narrative and rhetorical dimensions of John 9 -- The narrative dynamics of John 9 -- An integration of epideictic and forensic rhetoric -- The figural dynamic and John's theology -- The inseparability of form and content in John's theology -- The figural dynamic and the incarnation -- Reading John's figural dynamic -- Conclusion.…”
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Cross, crescent and conversion studies on medieval Spain and christendom in memory of Richard Fletcher /

Table of Contents: “…Gil Torres, the cardinal of Zamora / Peter Linehan -- The abundance and scarcity of food in the inquisition records of Languedoc / Peter Biller -- From the Belles of St Clement's to the book of good love : the late survival of mozarabic culture in Toledo / Ian Michael -- Round and about water : Christians and Muslims in the Ebro Valley in the fourteenth century / Esther Pascua -- New light on the converso debate : the Jewish Christianity of Alfonso de Cartagena and Juan de Torquemada / John Edwards -- The fall of the Roman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ian Wood.…”
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