bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efficacy of Deep Dry Needling on Latent Myofascial Trigger Points in Older Adults With Nonspecific Shoulder Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial Pilot Study
Authors: Calvo-Lobo César , Pacheco-da-Costa Soraya , Hita-Herranz Edgar
Published: March 2015

Background:

Nonspecific shoulder pain has a high prevalence in older adults and causes functional alterations. Furthermore, there are difficulties in establishing a clinical diagnosis, effective treatments are lacking, and little evidence has been found regarding the use of invasive physical therapy techniques in this age group.

Purpose:

To determine the efficacy of a single physical therapy intervention with deep dry needling (DDN) on latent and active myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) in older adults with nonspecific shoulder pain.

Methods:

This pilot study is a single-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial that included 20 participants, aged 65 years and older, who were diagnosed with nonspecific shoulder pain. The study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the area. Participants were recruited at their homes or at a care center and were randomly assigned into either an experimental group (n = 10), which received a session of DDN on 1 active and 1 latent MTrP of the infraspinatus muscle, or a control group (n = 10), which received a session of DDN on only 1 active MTrP. A blind examiner assessed the pain intensity, pain pressure threshold on the anterior deltoid, and extensor carpi radialis brevis muscles and grip strength before, immediately after, and 1 week after the intervention.

Results:

Statistically significant differences (P < .05) in the pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) of the extensor carpi radialis brevis were found in the experimental group in both posttreatment assessments. Moreover, the effect size values (d Cohen) varied from small for grip strength (0.017-0.36) to moderate for the pain intensity (0.46-0.78) and PPT in the anterior deltoid (0.49-0.66) and to large for the PPT in the extensor carpi radialis brevis (1.06-1.58).

Conclusions:

A single physical therapy intervention with DDN on 1 latent MTrP, in conjunction with 1 active MTrP, in the infraspinatus muscle may increase the PPT of the extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle area immediately following and 1 week after the intervention in older adults with nonspecific shoulder pain.
From “National Style” to “Rationalized Construction”
Authors: Pugh Emily
Published: March 2015

From “National Style” to “Rationalized Construction”: Mass-Produced Housing, Style, and Architectural Discourse in the East German Journal Deutsche Architektur, 1956–1964 examines architectural critique of housing and style as it unfolded in the East German journal Deutsche Architektur (German architecture) from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. Through an analysis of articles published in the journal as well as primary source documents, Emily Pugh investigates the reception of newly built housing developments in East Germany by a group of influential socialist architects, historians, and critics who were then writing for Deutsche Architektur. Pugh highlights individual architects’ attempts to subvert or resist the control of state and party authorities and considers how these individuals’ efforts might have influenced the development of the East German building economy. She also argues that these architects’ understanding of architectural modernism differed from that of their counterparts in the Cold War West, having been influenced by political and economic circumstances specific to East Germany.
A Servitude of One’s Own
Authors: Gilbert Nora
Published: March 2015

Nora Gilbert, “A Servitude of One’s Own: Isolation, Authorship, and the Nineteenth-Century British Governess” (pp. 455–480)

Much has been written, both during the Victorian era and in recent literary and cultural-historical criticism, about the plight of the nineteenth-century British governess, a plight that is largely attributed to her uncomfortable position of “status incongruence,” as M. Jeanne Peterson has usefully labeled it. Because the governess was deemed inferior to the family she worked for but superior to the family’s domestic servants, her free time was not uncommonly spent on her own—even, more specifically, in a room of her own. And, just as Virginia Woolf would envision in her landmark feminist treatise, the activity that this isolated, educated woman habitually and productively turned to was the activity of writing. Almost all resident governesses relied on letter writing as their primary source of connection to the outside world, but many also expressed their thoughts and opinions in the form of journals, diaries, memoirs, advice manuals, essays, poems, and works of fiction. Bringing together a diverse sampling of fictional and nonfictional accounts of the governess’s relationship to authorship (and paying particular attention to the novels and letters of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, our best-known and most culturally resonant governesses-turned-authoresses), this essay outlines the ways in which the governess, both as an iconic figure and as a real, writing woman, influenced the formal, stylistic, and thematic development of nineteenth-century women’s literature.
Growth‐dependent bacterial susceptibility to ribosome‐targeting antibiotics
Authors: Greulich Philip , Scott Matthew , Evans Martin R , Allen Rosalind J
Published: March 2015

Bacterial growth environment strongly influences the efficacy of antibiotic treatment, with slow growth often being associated with decreased susceptibility. Yet in many cases, the connection between antibiotic susceptibility and pathogen physiology remains unclear. We show that for ribosome‐targeting antibiotics acting on Escherichia coli, a complex interplay exists between physiology and antibiotic action; for some antibiotics within this class, faster growth indeed increases susceptibility, but for other antibiotics, the opposite is true. Remarkably, these observations can be explained by a simple mathematical model that combines drug transport and binding with physiological constraints. Our model reveals that growth‐dependent susceptibility is controlled by a single parameter characterizing the ‘reversibility’ of ribosome‐targeting antibiotic transport and binding. This parameter provides a spectrum classification of antibiotic growth‐dependent efficacy that appears to correspond at its extremes to existing binary classification schemes. In these limits, the model predicts universal, parameter‐free limiting forms for growth inhibition curves. The model also leads to non‐trivial predictions for the drug susceptibility of a translation mutant strain of E. coli, which we verify experimentally. Drug action and bacterial metabolism are mechanistically complex; nevertheless, this study illustrates how coarse‐grained models can be used to integrate pathogen physiology into drug design and treatment strategies.
Expression of estrogen receptor alpha is associated with prolactin pituitary tumor prognosis and supports the sex-related difference in tumor growth
Authors: Delgrange Etienne , Vasiljevic Alexandre , Wierinckx Anne , François Patrick , Jouanneau Emmanuel , Raverot Gérald , Trouillas Jacqueline
Published: March 2015

Context

A sex difference in the progression of prolactin (PRL) tumors has been disputed for years.

Objective

To compare tumor characteristics and postoperative clinical course between men and women, and correlate data with estrogen receptor alpha (ERα (ESR1)) expression status.

Design, patients, and methods

Eighty-nine patients (59 women and 30 men) operated on for a prolactinoma and followed for at least 5 years were selected. Tumors were classified into five grades according to their size, invasion, and proliferation characteristics. The ERα expression was detected by immunohistochemistry and a score (0–12) calculated as the product of the percentage of positive nuclei and the staining intensity.

Results

We found a significant preponderance of high-grade tumors among men and a lower surgical cure rate in men (23%) than in women (71%). Patients resistant to medical treatment were mainly men (7/8), six of whom showed tumor progression despite postoperative medical treatment, which led to multiple therapies and eventually death in three. The median score for ERα expression was 1 in men (range, 0–8) and 8 in women (range, 0–12) (P<0.0001). The expression of ERα was inversely correlated with tumor size (r=−0.59;P<0.0001) and proliferative activity. All dopamine agonist-resistant tumors and all grade 2b (invasive and proliferative) tumors (from ten men and four women) were characterized by low ERα expression.

Conclusions

PRL tumors in men are characterized by lower ERα expression, which is related to higher tumor grades, resistance to treatment, and an overall worse prognosis.
Apoptosis and differentiation of Xenopus tail-derived myoblasts by thyroid hormone
Authors: Tamura Kei , Takayama Shutaro , Ishii Takako , Mawaribuchi Shuuji , Takamatsu Nobuhiko , Ito Michihiko
Published: March 2015

The metamorphosis of anuran amphibians is induced by thyroid hormone (TH). To study the molecular mechanisms underlying tail regression during metamorphosis, we established a cell line, XL-B4, from a Xenopus laevis tadpole tail at a premetamorphic stage. The cells expressed myoblast markers and differentiated into myotubes in differentiation medium. XL-B4 cells expressing fluorescent proteins were transplanted into tadpole tails. At 5 days post-transplantation, fluorescence was observed in myotube-like structures, indicating that the myoblastic cells could contribute to skeletal muscle. Exposure of XL-B4 cells to the TH triiodothyronine (T3) for several days significantly induced apoptotic cell death. We then examined an early response of expression of genes involved in apoptosis or myogenesis to T3. Treatment of the cells with T3 increased transcription of genes for matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and thyroid hormone receptor beta. Interestingly, the T3-treatment also increased myoD transcripts, but decreased the amounts of myogenin mRNA and myosin heavy chain. Importantly, we also observed upregulation of myoD expression and downregulation of myogenin expression in tails, but not in hind limbs, when tadpoles at a premetamorphic stage were treated with T3 for 1 day. These results indicated that T3 could not only induce apoptosis, but also attenuate myogenesis in tadpole tails during metamorphosis.
Disorders of follicle development and steroidogenesis in ovaries of androgenised foetal sheep
Authors: Comim Fabio V , Hardy Kate , Robinson Jane , Franks Stephen
Published: March 2015

The prenatally androgenised (PA) sheep is a well-recognised model for the study of developmental programming of adult polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Most of the studies to date have involved examination of the reproductive and metabolic effects in the offspring after puberty, but more recently, it has been reported that there is disruption of follicle formation and steroid gene expression in ovaries of foetal sheep after exposure of the mother to excess androgen. Our study examines evidence for precocious primordial follicle formation at day 90 of gestation in ovaries of foetal Poll Dorset sheep. Using a specific marker of germ cells (VASA homologue protein) in ovarian sections, we found that androgenised sheep had nearly double the proportion of germ cells enclosed in follicles compared with control animals. When analysed by follicle stage, there was no significant difference between groups in the proportion of primordial follicles and growing (transitional and primary) follicles. Differences between PA and control foetal sheep were found in both mRNA and in protein expression of steroidogenic enzymes and androgen receptor. Our results in Dorset ewes are complementary to previous reports, but suggest that the timing of follicle formation and steroidogenic activity may vary between different breeds as well as in response to androgen. These data show that granulosa cells constitute a specific target for programming by androgenin uteroand raise key questions about the role of exposure to androgenin uteroin developmental origins of PCOS.
Microbial endocrinology: host–bacteria communication within the gut microbiome
Authors: Sandrini Sara , Aldriwesh Marwh , Alruways Mashael , Freestone Primrose
Published: March 2015

The human body is home to trillions of micro-organisms, which are increasingly being shown to have significant effects on a variety of disease states. Evidence exists that a bidirectional communication is taking place between us and our microbiome co-habitants, and that this dialogue is capable of influencing our health in a variety of ways. This review considers how host hormonal signals shape the microbiome, and what in return the microbiome residents may be signalling to their hosts.
Nitric oxide in follicle development and oocyte competence
Authors: Basini Giuseppina , Grasselli Francesca
Published: March 2015

Apart from its well-known role in regulating endothelial function, in mammals, nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule involved in many processes, regulating different biological functions. It has been demonstrated that NO plays a role in the physiology of the reproductive system, where it acts in controlling the activity of reproductive organs in both sexes. In the female of several animal species, experimental data suggest the presence of an intraovarian NO-generating system, which could be involved in the control of follicular development. The role of NO in regulating follicular atresia by apoptosis is still controversial, as a dual action depending mostly on its concentration has been documented. NO also displays positive effects on follicle development and selection related to angiogenic events and it could also play a modulatory role in steroidogenesis in ovarian cells. Both in monovulatory and poliovulatory species, the increase in PGE2production induced by NO via a stimulatory effect on COX-2 activity appears to be a common ovulatory mechanism. Considerable evidence also exists to support an involvement of the NO/NO synthase system in the control of meiotic maturation of cumulus–oocyte complexes.
Insights into the role of connexins in mammary gland morphogenesis and function
Authors: Stewart Michael K G , Simek Jamie , Laird Dale W
Published: March 2015

Gap junctions formed of connexin subunits link adjacent cells by direct intercellular communication that is essential for normal tissue homeostasis in the mammary gland. The mammary gland undergoes immense remodeling and requires exquisite regulation to control the proliferative, differentiating, and cell death mechanisms regulating gland development and function. The generation of novel genetically modified mice with reduced or ablated connexin function within the mammary gland has advanced our understanding of the role of gap junctions during the complex and dynamic process of mammary gland development. These studies have revealed an important stage-specific role for Cx26 (GJA1) and Cx43 (GJB2), while Cx30 (GJB6) and Cx32 (Gjb1) can be eliminated without compromising the gland. Yet, there remain gaps in our understanding of the role of mammary gland gap junctions.
Combining experiments and computations to understand the intercalation potential and redox mechanism for A2Ti3O7 (A=Li, Na)
Authors: Morales-García A. , Arroyo-de Dompablo M. Elena , Rousse A. G. , Senguttuvan P. , Tarascon J.-M. , Rosa Palacín M.
Published: March 2015

Na2Ti3O7, a potential negative electrode for Na batteries, is investigated by combining experiments and first-principles calculations at the Density Functional Theory (DFT) level. A structural model is proposed for the reduced phases (A2+xTi3O7), with all alkali ions in octahedral coordination, leading to a distorted rocksalt type structure. The calculated elastic constants support the mechanical stability of the proposed Na4Ti3O7 structure. Calculated average intercalation potentials are 0.37 V for Na insertion in Na2Ti3O7 and 1.46 V for Li insertion in Li2Ti3O7, being in very good agreement with the values observed experimentally (0.3 V and 1.6 V respectively). The higher polarizing character of Li ions vs Na ions acts as a key-factor to bring the Li intercalation voltage 0.7 V above that of Na intercalation in layered-A2Ti3O7 materials.
Religious Worldviews and the Canadian Political Landscape
Authors: Hale Mary
Published: March 2015

This article is part of a larger research project on Religion and Environmental Law in Canada. The case study below was initially designed for purposes of illustration, but other implications for this component of the study became apparent during the composition of the larger work. In this note, I explore those implications by proposing the use of case studies to examine the effect of religious worldviews on the crafting of policy and legislation in providing a framework for examining the effect of the presence of religious worldviews in the public sphere more generally. The concept centres on the premise that members of the elite fear that religion in the public sphere will erode the democratic process (Bramadat 2008). The aim is to show that: (1) religious worldviews are extant in the public sphere, and (2) more often than not they are beneficial to, or at least neutral in, the legislative process, rather than detrimental.
Editorial
Authors: Bailey Edward
Published: March 2015

Edward Bailey introduces Implicit Religion 15.4 on behalf of Meerten ter Borg and Karen Pärna, fellow editors of this special issue on 'Implicit and Non-institutional Religion and Beyond'.
Religion, Beyond a Concept, edited by Hent de Vries. Fordham University Press, 2008. 1000pp., 15 B&W illustrations. Hb. $110.00, ISBN-16: 9780823227242
Authors: Selvanayagam Israel
Published: March 2015

Book review
The Engineer is Professionally a Person of Faith
Authors: Meijknecht Ton
Published: March 2015

The professional engineer exists, thanks to his own particular form of faith. Without this faith, his professional group cannot exist, as is the case with other professions: doctors, nurses, teachers and lawyers. This article restricts itself to members of this one specific professional group. It describes the genesis and the development of their living conditions, a spirituality of their own. The problem this article focuses on is the lack of linguistic skills among engineers. In expressing themselves, they prefer mathematical or physical formulations. That is their forte. But existential motives can rarely be embodied in that language, whereas those are indeed at the core of their profession. With a few exceptions, engineers depend on others to make their inner motivations more explicit. In this article, a theologian dares to probe these motives.
The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith by Lynne Hume. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 175pp., 25 B&W illus. Hb., £55; ISBN-13: 9780857853608; Pb., £19.99. ISBN-13: 9780857853615.
Authors: Arya Rina
Published: March 2015

Book review.
Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist, by Angel F. Méndez Montoya. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 184pp. Hb., £68/$109.95. ISBN-13: 9781405189675.
Authors: Desjardins Michael
Published: March 2015

Book review.
The Greatest Adventure Awaiting Humankind
Authors: Newell Catherine L.
Published: March 2015

In 1946, Hollywood director and producer George Pal read an article in Life magazine titled “Trip to the Moon by Rocket,” and decided his next film would be what he called a science fact (as opposed to fiction) “documentary of the near future.” The result was Destination Moon (1950), a science fiction classic, credited with introducing the concept of space travel to post war America. The film makes reaching space an exercise in overcoming the unheimlich and unfamiliar, and negotiates the boundary between the known and the other. Pal hired Robert A. Heinlein to adapt his novel, Rocket Ship Galileo, for the film; the original story played into contemporary fears about Communism and a resurgence of Nazi power. But rather than make a film that resonated with social and political concerns, Pal—a Hungarian-born Jew, who fled Germany in 1934—chose to make a film that was about faith in technology, faith in the future, and used science fiction to illustrate his belief that the space age was going to be “The Beginning” of a new future for humanity. Part of the success of Destination Moon is that it tapped into a larger religious feeling in America at the time of its premier: one divorced from institutional religions, and which sociologist Will Herberg called America’s “faith in faith.” The film’s themes of discovery, sacrifice, triumph over circumstance, and the necessity of technology, are representative of Americans’ belief in a collective ability to overcome evil, and of a newfound faith in their destiny to conquer the “final frontier.”
Hilary L. Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Abraham J. Edelheit, William D. Rubinstein, The Jews in The Modern World.
Authors: Hartney Christopher
Published: March 2015

Hilary L. Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Abraham J. Edelheit, William D. Rubinstein, The Jews in The Modern World. Arnold Publishers, London, 2002, pp. 480, ISBN 034069162X (Hbk), 0340691638 (Pbk)
Ross Keating, Francis Brabazon: Poet of the Silent Word—A Modern Hafiz.
Authors: Trompf Garry W.
Published: March 2015

Ross Keating, Francis Brabazon: Poet of the Silent Word—A Modern Hafiz. World Axis Press, Sydney, 2002, pp. vii + 331 + illustrations, ISBN 0646399322
Revolutionary Islam in Iran
Authors: Hudson Raphael
Published: March 2015

The Western tendency, which is prevalent in the media, to analyse Iran in terms of generic notions of ‘Islam’ or ‘fundamentalism’, needs to be contested. This essay shows that a more contextualised analysis of religion in Iran is appropriate and could well have different policy implications.
The New Spiritualities, East and West
Authors: Howell Julia Day
Published: March 2015

Scholars who recognise an increasingly common distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in Western popular usage have suggested that the new spiritualities, framed in contrast to ‘religion’, are largely confined to North Atlantic and Australasian societies. This paper, examining recent developments in the practice and framing of ‘religion’ in Indonesia, argues that comparable new spiritualities, emphasising subjective experience and individual autonomy and existing in tension with congregational religion, have emerged in this Asian country amongst people participating in the modern sector of the economy and the global spiritual marketplace. However the differing institutionalisation of Indonesia’s new spiritualities from those of Western and other Asian countries needs to be understood in the historical context of Muslim reactions to colonialism and give due attention to particular national legacies of colonial administration.
G.R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church.
Authors: Kaye Bruce
Published: March 2015

G.R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Blackwell, Oxford, 2004, pp. 296, ISBN: 0631231889 (hbk); 0631231870 (pbk).
Kathleen E. Corley and Robert L. Webb(eds.), Jesus and Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of Christ’: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History.
Authors: Culbertson Philip
Published: March 2015

Kathleen E. Corley and Robert L. Webb(eds.), Jesus and Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of Christ’: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History. Continuum, London and New York, 2004, pp. ix+198, ISBN 082647781X.
Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2002.
Authors: Sinnott Alice M.
Published: March 2015

Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2002. Sydney, Department of Studies in Religion, The University of Sydney, RLA Press Sydney 2004, pp. xiv+271, ISBN 1864876239.
Anne Elvey, An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke: A Gestational Paradigm.
Authors: Habel Norman
Published: March 2015

Anne Elvey, An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke: A Gestational Paradigm. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, 2005, pp. 388, ISBN 077345974X.
Chris Fleming, René Girard: Violence and Mimesis.
Authors: Bubbio Paolo Diego
Published: March 2015

Chris Fleming, René Girard: Violence and Mimesis. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 211, ISBN0745629474.
Playing with Paradigms
Authors: Reinhartz Adele
Published: March 2015

Numerous mainstream films feature a plot line loosely based on the Gospel narrative and a protagonist who has some Christ-like features. This paper will argue that the Christ-figure motif is not a minor element in contemporary cinema; rather, Christ-figure films constitute a genre in their own right. After providing a brief overview of the Christ-figure film, as illustrated by The Shawshank Redemption (1994), this paper will engage in an analysis of two movies—the Quebecois film C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) and the American film Stranger than Fiction (2006)—that explicitly and humorously demonstrate the interplay of convention and innovation, familiarity and novelty that is the salient characteristic of the genre film.
Inhabitants of the Screen
Authors: Van de Port Mattijs
Published: March 2015

In Bahia, Brazil, the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. This article takes the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult Candomblé as an example to show how in media-saturated societies religious and media imaginaries become inextricably entangled. In their struggle to be publicly recognized as a proper ‘religion’, Candomblé priests ?nd themselves overcoming their media-shyness. Televisual fame is a value understood by the public at large, and its acquisition adds weight to the status and prestige of Candomblé priests in ways that religious criteria for priestly authority cannot accomplish.
Cultural Framing of Risk and Religion within Science Fiction Narratives
Authors: Possamai Adam , Possamai-Inesedy Alphia
Published: March 2015

This article explores some case studies of science fiction narratives concerning human-made worldwide catastrophes (i.e. The Day the Earth Stood Still, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead) that have been made and re-made since World War II. It analyses how the notion of risk has changed over this period of time, the degree of human responsibility for these post-World War II catastrophes and how religion, which has not been their root cause, is now being offered as a subtle ‘way out’. The article discovers key differences between narratives on risk in popular culture from the modern and late modern periods.
Religious ‘Multi-Identity’
Authors: Bernhardt Reinhold
Published: March 2015

The contribution deals with forms of religious identity which draw from the sources of different religious traditions from the perspective of Christian theology-of-religions. The first section reflects on the understanding of ‘religious identity’ and asks how processes of identity-formation take shape. In the second part, forms of ‘multireligious identity’ are described in relation to the religio-cultural contexts in which they are developed. After these phenomenological excursion, in the third section critical voices come to the fore. One the one hand apologists of Christian religion are afraid of syncretism, on the other hand postmodern advocates of difference reject concepts of identity. The middle course between those positions lies in a concept of religious identity in interreligious openness. According to such an understanding religious identity not only allows for religious otherness but regards it to be an important resource for widening, deepening and intensifying Christian self-understanding. In the last part questions concerning the evaluation of multireligious identity-formations are discussed.
Inappropriate Behavior? On the Ritual Core of Religion and its Challenges to Interreligious Hospitality
Authors: Moyaert Marianne
Published: March 2015

In our age of dialogue and encounter between religions, Christians ask if they can celebrate and pray with believers belonging to other religious traditions. Both in the United States and in Europe, especially, this is a new but rapidly growing phenomenon. We cannot but note the increasing impetus for acts of interreligious prayer, multifaith celebrations, and ritual participation. As more and more Christians experience religious diversity from nearby and are touched by the vividness of other religious traditions as well as by their spiritual and moral wisdom, and as more and more people engage in dialogical encounters, they also increasingly seek to explore the possibilities of interreligious ritual participation. In the past, entering the sacred space of another religious community was simply not done, whereas today ritual participation is becoming commonplace. However, ritual participation is a complex and ambivalent phenomenon. Whilst often experienced as moving, perhaps even insightful, ritual participation may also confront believers with the question whether their participation is, religiously speaking, appropriate. This can result in a certain discomfort. What exactly is at stake and how we may understand comfort remains theoretically underdeveloped in the scholarly literature. In this article, I will shed some light on the ambiguity of ritual participation (it both attracts and causes uneasiness) by focusing on the specific nature of rituals.
Reconstructing the Jazz Tradition
Authors: Hersch Charles
Published: March 2015

The article examines the controversy over the status of “the jazz tradition” -- the identification of a set of central musicians, performances, and stylistic features. The differing views of its defenders and opponents are grounded, I argue, in divergent political assumptions. Advocates of the tradition (“neotrads”) like Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, and Wynton Marsalis believe the maintenance of the jazz tradition is necessary to stave off cultural mediocrity, social degeneration, and the destruction of the music’s African American core. Opponents (“antitrads”) contend the tradition is stifling and hegemonic and advocate its opening or rejection in the pursuit of a society more accepting of difference. I find the reasoning and social analysis of both groups fundamentally flawed and explore the possibility of a jazz tradition that is neither rigid nor borderless but rooted in the historical experiences of musicians and audiences.
Pragmatic Constructions of History among Contemporary Freemasons
Authors: Kenney James Scott
Published: March 2015

Despite considerable interest in Freemasonry developing among historians in recent years, the social sciences have played a lesser part in the burgeoning academic interest in this area. In this paper, I seek, in one small way, to bring a sociological perspective to bear on Freemasonry. Specifically, by utilizing G.H. Mead's (1932) theory of the past as a sensitizing concept, and exploring data from 58 videotapes, 118 interviews, and field observations, I explore how contemporary Freemasons pragmatically reconstruct the past in the present, in a variety of ways, for present ends. This exercise helps shed new light on a wide range of issues facing the Craft today, including membership, Masonic constructions of self, loss of Masonic built heritage, the influence of tradition, constructions of Masonic origin, and the role of Masonic mythologies today.
Researching Freemasonry
Authors: Snoek Jan
Published: March 2015

This article deals with the development of historical enquiry into freemasonry since its origins to the current academic treatment. This development is divided into two general phases when freemasons researched their history themselves and when it during the Twentieth century became an academic subject. The major developmental lines in historiography are treated. It is argued that new archival findings will modify deeply rooted perceptions of historical events, exemplified by Anderson's account of the formation of the English grand lodge in 1717 and von Hunds initiation in Paris in 1742. Conclusively the article suggests a catalogue of research that still is to be done.
WEINBREN, Daniel, The Oddfellows 1810–2010: Two Hundred Years of Making Friends and Helping People (Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing, 2010), pp. x + 371, £25 Hbk; ISBN: 978­1­85936­207
Authors: Cordery Simon
Published: March 2015

Reviewed by: Simon Cordery, Associate Professor of History, Department Chair, Monmouth College, Illinois, USA, 700 E. Broadway, Monmouth, Il 61462, USA. Email: simon@monm.edu
KAUFMANN, Eric P., The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 1st edn 2007). xv+373 pp., £46, illustrated, Hbk, ISBN 978­0­19­920848­7; Pbk, £21, ISBN 978­0­19­953203­2
Authors: Mirala Petri
Published: March 2015

Reviewed by: Petri Mirala, Research and Postgraduate Studies Officer, Faculty of Arts, P.O. Box 5, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: petri.mirala@helsinki.fi
ÖNNERFORS, Andreas, Róbert Péter (eds), Researching British Freemasonry, 1717–2017. Sheffield Lectures on the History of Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol. III (Sheffield: The University of Sheffield, 2010), 192 pp., £20, Pbk, ISBN: 978­0­9562096­ 2­7
Authors: Bayer Natalie
Published: March 2015

Reviewed by: Natalie Bayer, Assistant Professor of History, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA. Email: natalie.bayer@gmail.com
HARRISON, David, The Genesis of Freemasonry (Hersham: Lewis Masonic, 2009), 224 pp., £19.99, Hbk, ISBN 978­08531­8322­8
Authors: Péter Róbert
Published: March 2015

Reviewed by: Róbert Péter, Phd, Senior Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies, H­6722, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2, Hungary. Email: rpeter@lit.u­szeged.hu
KENNEDY GRIMSTED, Patricia, F.J. Hoogewoud and Eric Ketelaar (eds). Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (Builth Wells: Institute of Art and Law, 2007), 349 pp., €40, Hbk, ISBN 1­902987­11­3
Authors: Maes Anaïs
Published: March 2015

Reviewed by: Anaïs Maes, Phd student, Interdisciplinary Research Group Freemasonry, Department of History, Vrije universiteit Brussel (Free university of Brussels), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene,Belgium. Email: anais.maes@vub.ac.be
Freemasons and the Press in 1860s Brisbane
Authors: Le Couteur Howard
Published: March 2015

Freemasons formed their first lodge in Brisbane in 1859 and the craft grew and spread quickly through Queensland. In studying associational life in Britain, Peter Clark has drawn attention to the relationship of freemasons to the development of the popular press. This paper explores the involvement of individual freemasons with the Press; the ways freemasons used the Press to promote the craft; and to try to determine, from the material published about freemasonry, how freemasons positioned themselves in Brisbane society.
Family networks and social engagement
Authors: Burgess Richard H
Published: March 2015

This article examines Pentecostal responses to street children and youth in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. It begins by exploring the concept of the family in the West African context. It then considers the causes of the street children phenomenon and the experience of living on the ‘street’. Thirdly, it looks at the way street children are portrayed and how this influences institutional responses, including Pentecostal initiatives in Lagos. Finally, it examines the influence of theological orientation, organizational culture, and conceptions of the family on Pentecostal responses to street children in Lagos. It suggests that Pentecostal beliefs, values and experiences are a rich source of spiritual capital capable of energizing altruistic behavior towards others. Furthermore, Pentecostal churches, in their capacity as surrogate extended families, and their combination of strong leadership and a highly active laity, are especially effectiveness in mobilizing members to engage in social welfare initiatives.
Apology and Forgiveness as an Expression of Love in a Charismatic Congregation
Authors: Wilkinson Michael , Althouse Peter
Published: March 2015

Catch the Fire Montreal is a French-speaking Charismatic congregation that has recently become one of several church plants associated with the Toronto Blessing. The congregation is committed to spreading the values of Catch the Fire, especially its vision of knowing the Father’s love and sharing it with the world. During two separate site visits we heard about the congregation’s mission work in Africa, where the pastor shared the message of the Father’s love and ultimately felt led to apologize publicly to the Africans for racism and colonial practices perpetuated against them. He also apologized to the African and Haitian members in his own congregation, asking for their forgiveness. Drawing upon the sociology and theology of love, this article explores the relationship between experiences of love and forgiveness, and benevolent acts as expressions of love. We employ the “Godly love” model as a lens through which to understand Charismatic experiences of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation where love is potentially a transformative social and religious act.
Pentecostalization, Politics, and Religious Change in Guatemala
Authors: Steigenga Timothy
Published: March 2015

Reflecting on survey data on religion and politics collected in Guatemala in the 1990s, this article argues that broad claims about the links between Pentecostalism, politics, and development are over-stated. A focus on Pentecostalized religion offers more nuanced findings by highlighting the religious beliefs, practices, doctrines, and discourses that are the most salient factors impacting political, social, and economic outcomes. Pentecostalized religion in Guatemala has identifiable tendencies, but it is not the same everywhere and it can have fundamentally different and even contradictory trajectories even within the same context (i.e. patriarchy/gender equality, civil society/uncivil society, economic mobility/levelling mechanism). Furthermore, as a conversionist religion, Pentecostalism presents social scientists with a moving target, as we attempt to interpret the impact of ongoing religious changes. The impact of these religious changes is less likely to be measurable at the level of politics and society than it is in the day-to-day lives of converts. Pentecostalized religion is certainly political in the sense of mobilizing opinions and impacting discourse, but its impact is not easily characterized in sweeping terms as good (or bad) for democracy or development in the context of Latin America.
Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement and Secularization
Authors: Alva Reginald
Published: March 2015

Advances in science and technology have relegated the space of religion in the society. Modern people have rightly challenged the traditional hegemony of religious institutions. However, challenging unjust practices within religious institutions must not systematically jeopardize the spiritual and ethical values, which the religions propose. Society should not sacrifice morality and values on the altar of science and progress. The Catholic Church held the Second Vatican Council (1962–5) with the aim of overall renewal and reformations within the church. It prepared the Church to read the signs of times. The beginning of the Charismatic Renewal in 1967 within the Catholic Church is a fruit of that effort. Surveys show that the Charismatic Movement had a phenomenal growth. In the year 2000, around 11.3 percent of the total global Catholic population was associated with Charismatic Movement.2 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement (CCRM) seeks the grace of renewal to foster a deeper communion with God the Father, a total acceptance of the lordship of Jesus Christ and a perennial openness to the Holy Spirit. The CCRM is playing a vital role by infusing life and vigor to the Church, attracting youth to the Church, bringing hope to the overstressed people and help them discover the meaning of life in the midst of growing ennui and angst because of the rapture of the bubble economy and effects of secularization. The task of renewal of the whole Church is far from finished. It is a project in process. In this paper, we propose to trace the effects of this movement in the Catholic Church. We shall attempt to study, how best this movement can help in preserving the traditional religious values on the one hand and the progress of humanity on the other.
Institutional Explanations for the Decline of the Congregação Cristã no Brasil
Authors: Valente Rubia
Published: March 2015

For the first time since its inception, the Congregação Cristã no Brasil (CCB) has lost members – two hundred thousand members in the last decade – while other traditional Pentecostal churches’ membership continue to grow. Based on survey research data, this study explores the diverse views of church members and how institutional factors affect the growth of the church. Two opposing views among church members are identified: fundamentalism and progressivism. Besides providing empirical data, this work engages a wider debate on how the strict nature of the CCB leadership, based on a traditional authoritarian model, is unwilling to adapt to cultural and social changes, giving rise to discontent, tensions, and schisms.
Christ, Evil, and Suffering in Ghanaian Christian Liturgy
Authors: Quayesi-Amakye Joseph
Published: March 2015

This paper examines the contextualization of the Jesus story by Ghanaian Christians. It approaches it through the analysis and evaluation of inherent ideas in their songs, sermons and practices that reflect their interpretation of the Christian experience in relation to primal religion and culture, and the Bible. The results show that Ghanaian Christians do not play down the ubiquity of evil in the world. Nonetheless, they see in Jesus Christ the incomparable, victorious Saviour who has made it possible for believers to overcome the evils of this world. Accordingly, they insist that in Christ believers can enjoy “full” and “complete” salvation in every area of life.
Unmapped Territories
Authors: Schüler Sebastian
Published: March 2015

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Up and Out
Authors: Wanner Catharine
Published: March 2015

When religious seekers in Eurasia choose to turn away from historically national denominations and join faith-based communities perceived as non-traditional and “foreign” there are important implications. Such conversions challenge the historic norm in this region of the world of a symbiotic connection among religion, nation and state, which trades on the idea that particular cultures and religious affiliations are anchored in specific places. In contrast, Pentecostal communities embrace mobility in all its guises – desired, actual and social – and enjoin converts to communities that operate on local and transnational levels. They foster practices, values and identities embedded in “travelling cultures,” a concept I borrow from James Clifford (1997), that bypass the nation and deterritorialize identity and culture. Travelling cultures are spawned by movement, but they do not result in diasporas. Rather, they produce transnational deterritorialized forms of sociality that impart new knowledges and experiences by conveying cultural patterns that move along routes of exchange. Although Clifford focuses on such forms of movement as immigration, trade and tourism, I highlight the role of missionizing and displacement among Pentecostals here as a means to forge travelling cultures. The global communities that Pentecostal organizations are creating cater to the mobile self by offering “travelling cultures” and multiple layers of belonging – local, national, and global - and this inspires conversion and helps to explain the appeal of Pentecostalism after the collapse of socialism.
Legal matters related to structural damage in the Netherlands
Authors: Boot Wouter , Terwel Karel , Strang Hugo
Published: March 2015

When structural damage occurs and disputes arise, forensic engineers have to search for the causes of this damage to find out who can be held liable for it. Legal systems must provide an adequate, reasonable, effective and complete way to solve these disputes. Each country has its own system with advantages and disadvantages. This paper provides an overview of the Dutch legal system concerning liability, dispute resolution and insurances. These themes will be illustrated by quantitative research data, a comparison between the Netherlands and England and by discussing advantages and disadvantages of rules, such as reasonableness and influences on structural safety. In this way, the aim is to share knowledge and contribute to the discussion regarding the legal and judicial framework relating to structural damage.
A Global Trade Model for the Euro Area
Authors: Modugno Michele , Osbat Chiara , D'Agostino Antonello
Published: March 2015

We propose a model for analyzing euro area trade based on the interaction between macroeconomic and trade variables. First, we show that macroeconomic variables are necessary to generate accurate short-term trade forecasts; this result can be explained by the high correlation between trade and macroeconomic variables, with the latter being released in a more timely manner. Second, the model tracks well the dynamics of trade variables conditional on the path of macroeconomic variables during the great recession; this result makes our model a reliable tool for scenario analysis. Third, we quantify the contribution of the most important euro area trading partners (regions) to the aggregate extra euro area developments: we evaluate the impact of an increase of the external demand from a specific region on the extra euro area trade.
PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE REHABILITATION POTENTIAL OF THE INSTITUTION OF BANKRUPTCY
Authors: Kovan S. E.
Published: March 2015

The purpose of the work is to assess the available opportunities and trends in the development of rehabilitation mechanisms of bankruptcy in Russia. There was conducted a study of the stages of development of the rehabilitation direction of the bankruptcy institution based on the analysis of the statistical results of bankruptcy procedures. The study concluded that there was no significant growth in the demand prospects of rehabilitation procedures under the existing approaches. The main reason is the lack of people interested in the rehabilitation of debtors in most cases of the procedures. The authors propose variants of the development of rehabilitation potential of bankruptcy institution based on actualization of debtor's right for filing of a bankruptcy petition and change of rehabilitation goals bankruptcy: instead of restoring the solvency of the debtor - the re-habilitation of its business during the anti-crisis restructuring.
ANALYSIS AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE PROJECT "SOUTH STREAM" ON THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA.
Authors: Shamin D. V.
Published: March 2015

The article focuses on the identification, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, make recommendations for non-insurance risk mitigation techniques, the development of the insurance program оbjects of the gas pipeline “South Stream”.
A TECHNIQUE FOR INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT APPROACH IN TO THE CURRENT CRISIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE
Authors: Vorobyev A. A.
Published: March 2015

The use of project-based approach to crisis management requires the formation of a special methodology for its implementation. To solve this problem is a schematic diagram of this process, reflecting its basic methodological principles identified by the author. The features of the implementation of the project approach to crisis management are covered. The algorithm for its implementation, reflecting the peculiarities of management activities in a crisis is proposed.