Archéologies maghrébines et relectures de l’histoire. Autour de la patrimonialisation de Paul-Albert Février by Clémentine Gutron

“…The author points to the absence of a reflexive historiography in the study of North African antiquity, and sheds light on the difficulties encountered by the human sciences, today as yesterday, in addressing issues raised by those who, in a generation marked by the independence movements of the Maghreb, assumed the choice of a story that does not deny the reality of the present by enclosing themselves in a dead scholarship.…”
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AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED”? KARL BARTH AND THE STUDY OF PROPHETIC PREACHING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY by Martin Laubscher

“…Thereafter, I explore both these focuses in more detail in their own right – the state of discourse and scholarship in our study of prophetic preaching, and the significance of revisiting and exploring the meaning in Barth’s famous words to do (in the midst of crises) theology “as if nothing had happened”. …”
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Podcasting as an Innovative Pedagogical Tool in Social Work Education by Mim Fox, Jonathan B. Singer

“…In this article, the authors, both international podcasting social work academics, present an innovative framework for podcasting pedagogy and discuss co-production of podcasts as a form of teaching and learning co-design that is grounded in social work approaches to knowledge creation, dissemination, and scholarship.…”
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Ecopoetics in Yorùbá Riddles by Olumide Adegbodu

“… In contemporary literary scholarship, assumes that certain subject matters are bourgeoning in literary texts produced recently. …”
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The Value of Gambling and its Research by Pauliina Raento

“…The political, economic and cultural implications of this change have been notable. Gambling scholarship is on the rise and  its foci are broadening especially in the social sciences and cultural studies. …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. …”
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Preparation for Rural Practice with a Multimodal Rural Emergency Medicine Curriculum by Ashley K. Weisman, Skyler A. Lentz, Julie T. Vieth, Joseph M. Kennedy, Richard B. Bounds

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Amharic Folkloric Oral Traditions: Collections for Insiders and for Outsiders by Peter Unseth, Bitania

“…They all build on previous scholarship. In addition, each one adds new examples to what has been published before. …”
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Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene by Eva Bernet Kempers

“…With its sharp and in-depth engagement with animal law literature, as well as human rights law scholarship, it provides a much-needed and nuanced view of animal rights in the 21st century. …”
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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…Critics of adaptations of Dickens’s fiction have long discounted the possibility (or viability) of measuring their quality in terms of faithfulness to the original novels. Yet despite scholarship by the likes of Grahame Smith, Joss Marsh and Brian McFarlane in this ‘anti-fidelity’ vein, there has been relatively little sustained discussion of intertextual echoes between different adaptations of the same text. …”
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Transformations of Magistracy in Russia by E. A. Opfer

“…Besides, we used the results of all-Russian survey “Russian Master’s Early Growth” devoted to Russian magistracy, the winner of the program “Scholarship program by Vladimir Potanin”.The research gives the analyses of transformations of magistracy in Russia in three vectors: changes in educational paths, staffing and design of master programs. …”
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Ethnography and Religious Anthropology of Cuba: Historical and Bibliographical Landmarks by Emma Gobin, Géraldine Morel

“…In order to establish a few reference points in a field of research that has become particularly dynamic, it also outlines some important trends in the scholarship on Cuban religions and briefly lists and comments on recent studies. …”
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Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative in the African context by M. Rathbone

“… Biblical scholarship from the African context provides possible new and creative perspectives for the interpretation of the Tower of Babel narrative because of uniquely African questions that structure the interpretative process. …”
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What is TEI Conformance, and Why Should You Care? by Lou Burnard

“…In this paper I question the utility of standardization in a scholarly context, proposing however that documentation of formal encoding practice is an essential part of scholarship. After discussing the range of information such documentation entails, I explore the notion of conformance proposed by the TEI Guidelines, suggesting that this must operate at both a technical syntactic level, and a less easily verifiable semantic level. …”
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Beyond TEI: Returning the Text to the Reader by Christian Wittern

“…The architectural model proposed in this paper tries to contribute to a fundamental protocol that could form the base for applications serving the long-term needs of research and scholarship.…”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“… Indeed, Yorùbá is one of the vastly researched ethnics in Africa, but all the sub-groups, like Àkókó, are not sufficiently known in scholarship. Thus, with specific focus on Àkókó, this paper discusses gender in pre-colonial marital practices. …”
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Chronicler's women - a holistic appraisal by F. Olojede

“… This article attempts to fill, in part, the gap in scholarship on the role of women in the book of Chronicles by providing data to show that the Chronicler succeeded in highlighting the roles and status of women in ancient Israel, as he copiously employed materials that are otherwise unknown in the biblical text and modified his Vorlage. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“… A century of scholarship has shed countless photons of light on the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas in numerous countries. …”
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Islam, Muslims, and the Coloniality of Being: Reframing the Debate on Race and Religion in Modernity by Iskander Abbasi

“…Two areas of concern are investigated: First, how Islamophobia aided in forming the coloniality of being in ways that decolo-nial scholarship – namely that of leading Latin American decolonial thinker, Nelson Maldonado-Torres – is seemingly unaware of or downplays, and second, how a rereading of a number of the key events and figures that define a decolonial discourse on race and religion, such as the Valladolid debates (1550-1551) and the figure of Christopher Columbus, help to more rigorously conceptualize the figure of the Muslim in relation to the coloniality of being. …”
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