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Digital Peripheries
Authors: Melgaço Lorena
Published: July 2024

Despite an unprecedented presence of digital technologies in the everyday, a clear urban/non-urban divide in accessing and effectively using the internet remains. This divide is identifiable not only in the Global South—perceived as peripheral—but also in the Global North—regarded as advanced and the motor of technological development. Such a phenomenon suggests the emergence and endurance of socio-technological peripheries, places where socio-spatial inequalities are reinforced by unjust access to the internet.

To understand how such peripherality is manifested and challenged in rurban settings—where the rural and the urban mingle and clash—the first part of this book draws from dependency theory and the decolonial thinking to discuss the impacts of uneven production, access, and use of digital technology. The second part draws on Actor-Network Theory as a methodological frame to understand the recursive entwinement of the everyday and the use of the internet in three villages: two in Brazil and one in the UK. By bringing to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides, Digital Peripheries proposes an open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the twenty-first century.
Framing Austerity
Authors: Marron Aileen
Published: July 2024

This monograph examines the ways in which discourses on the public sector were articulated in the print media during the 2011 financial crisis in the Irish, UK and European news media. It finds that coverage of the public sector was ideological, portraying public sector workers as overpaid, inefficient, and sheltered from the worst of the crisis. These explanations perpetuated the view that there was a need for austerity through cutbacks to public services and public sector pay. The central thesis is that these representations must be understood as being part of the complex organisational culture of the newsroom.

Additional themes explored in the book include but are not limited to:

Media ownership concentration and journalistic self-censorship.

The marketisation of news and its impact on journalistic practice.

The casualisation of the newsroom.

The fourth estate function of the media.

The discourse of austerity.

Neoliberalism as a dominant ideology.

Reflexivity in the newsroom.

The crisis of credibility in journalism.

Media portrayals of The “Looney” Left versus the “Reasonable” Right.
Neoliberalism, Postmodernity, and the Contemporary Memorial-Building Boom
Authors: Clewer Nicola
Published: July 2024

The book develops a new approach to, and a distinct reading of, the contemporary memorial-building boom which began in the 1980s.

Locating the origins of this boom in the crises associated with postmodernity and the rise of neoliberalism, it analyses the complex interplay between neoliberalism, postmodernism and nationalism in some of the most well-known memorials and memorial-museums to have emerged in the USA and Germany over the last four decades.

Rather than offering a survey of contemporary memorials, it traces a specific trajectory (and certainly not the only one ripe for analysis): from the postmodern memorials of the 1980s to the increasingly monumental and authoritative memorials and memorial-museums being constructed today.

Developing a distinct interdisciplinary approach, the book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between the memorials’ form, the “visitor experience” they’re intended to offer. and the understanding of history and our relation to it which underpins their philosophical, ethical and political stance. Questioning the notion that contemporary memorials are ambiguous, non-ideological and non-nationalistic, the book argues that they are engaged in rearticulating nationalism in line with the contradictory demands of the current conjuncture.

As well as critically analysing the political function of national memorials, the book is equally concerned with interrogating the aesthetic means they employ, with a specific focus on the way in which they mobilise the power of the sublime to generate particular affective responses. The book argues that contemporary national memorials reflect one of the most significant convergences between postmodern thought and neoliberal ideology – both project a permanent present, urging us to recreate ourselves in the light of existing conditions, for “there is no alternative”.
Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence
Authors: Collins Victoria E.
Published: July 2024

Fighting Sports, Gender and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines offers a glimpse into the cultural terrain of women's boxing as it manifests in everyday gyms for novice boxers. Taking an ethnographic approach, Victoria Collins examines broad understandings of gender, violence, self-defense, commodification, and health and fitness from the point of view of women who engage in the sport. Collins unpacks dominant assumptions about gender and the sport through the eyes of the women's understandings of gender norms, social assumptions about physicality, sexuality, as well as challenges to masculine and feminine performativity. Central to this study is the appropriation and marketing of the boxers' work out in cardio-boxing gym spaces (i.e. fitness boxing), where the sport has increasingly been packaged, commodified, and sold to predominantly middle class, white female consumers as a means to not only improve their health and fitness, but also as a means to defend themselves against a would-be attacker. The body project for women in the sport of boxing, therefore, should not only be framed as a form of resistance, but one of physical feminism.
The Spartan Drama of Plato's Laws
Authors: Friedland Eli
Published: July 2024

Friedland presents the Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, as a drama that must be interpreted with close and sustained attention to each of its three characters. He argues that Megillos, seen by most commentators as the most obtuse character in the dialogue, is in fact a man of few words but of surprising capacity for reflection. This capacity, and the crisis to which it brings him, is key to understanding the Laws' exploration of human nature, permanently drawn both to what is beyond and beneath it. The political project outlined in the dialogue, with its almost programmatic focus on the mundane, is a genuinely philosophical opportunity to consider the relationship between competing demands for human beings - between divine and animal nature, and also including the always tense but necessary antagonisms and affinities between politics and human sexuality.
Grappling with Representation in the WWE
Authors: Woodall III Lowery A.
Published: July 2024

In this book, Lowery A. Woodall III explores the ways that diverse populations are portrayed, stereotyped, and sometimes villainized in the WWE’s colorful and dramatic programming. Each chapter examines the surprisingly complex and multilayered representation of marginalized populations throughout the modern history of the WWE under the leadership of Vincent K. McMahon. Through weekly shows like Raw and SmackDown, pay-per-view spectaculars like WrestleMania, and a vast library of wrestling-related material on their streaming platform, Woodall argues that the WWE and McMahon have created calculated and carefully curated representations of diversity that are viewed by millions of fans worldwide. What effects do those representations have on the men, women, and children who consume WWE content? How are wrestlers and performers impacted by their on-screen portrayals? This book explores these questions and demonstrates that when representations are inaccurate or problematic, more than just kayfabe is in danger of being broken. Scholars of professional wrestling studies, media studies, and communication studies will find this book of particular interest.
The New Cinematic Weird
Authors: Christiansen Steen Ledet
Published: July 2024

The New Cinematic Weird argues that weird fiction is rising also in audiovisual culture. Presenting several detailed analyses of weird cinematic works, the book shows how the new cinematic weird is best understood as atmospheric worldings — affective intensities that suffuse the experience of the cinematic weird. The weird exists as an experiential field, an inflation of the world. These worldings disclose a variety of experiences. The book engagingly shows how creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres provide a way into the weird experience. This book is important to anyone interested in the audiovisual weird, cinematic atmospheres, how audiovisual media produce worlds, and how weird fiction challenges our conception of the way the world is.
Contested Community
Authors: Groke Veronika
Published: July 2024

Veronika Groke interrogates the concept of the comunidad indígena (indigenous community) in the context of the history and social life of a Guaraní community in eastern Bolivia. While this institution is today firmly embedded in Bolivian politics and society, different people and interest groups have varying understandings of its meaning and purpose. By showing the comunidad to be a multifaceted complex of diverging and sometimes competing ideas, desires, and agendas, Groke provides new insight into contemporary political tensions related to culture, identity, and development
A Playful Spirit
Authors: Teismann Mark  W.
Published: July 2024

The great narratives of religion and nationhood were battered in the twentieth century by the dual forces of globalization and postmodernism. In the uncertainty of broken traditions, many people looking for God retreated into a regressive fundamentalism, and others abandoned themselves to nihilism and cynicism. But is there another way?

In this volume, esteemed sociologist and therapist Mark W. Teismann offers a fresh approach to spiritual pursuits, one that neither relies upon absolutes nor leaves seekers in a void of disbelief. This approach is to consider the exercise of spirituality as a type of play.

Teismann takes the reader on a whirlwind ride through the different aspects of play and how they relate to spirituality. Teismann draws on classical philosophers, memories of childhood, developmental science, poets, and his long career as a psychotherapist to create a deep understanding of how the spirit of play informs our moral pursuits and spiritual yearnings.

A conclusion and epilogue summarize the book’s tenets and touch on Mark Teismann’s battle with cancer and how the practices of meditation and play accompanied him on his spiritual journey in the context of an incurable disease. The book’s appendix gives interested readers a detailed description of how to approach the practice of meditation.
Solutions Journalism
Authors: Dodd Bill
Published: July 2024

As audiences avoid negative news and public risk perceptions fracture across polarized media ecologies, journalists are being called upon to tell engaging and optimistic stories about the future. Consequently, solutions journalism has moved from the margins to the global mainstream, resulting in a plurality of new solutions-focused practices. Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise explores the professional dynamics and tensions concerning solutions journalism, clarifies these related practices and, in so doing, provides scholars and journalists with a nuanced appreciation of the opportunities and liabilities of reporting solutions. Drawing upon a year-long study of journalism in Tasmania, Bill Dodd develops a tripartite theory of solutions journalism at the intersection of three core concepts: hope, leadership, and expertise. In Australia’s lagging southernmost province, where development propositions have sparked global protest movements, ‘New Tasmania’ represented a newly optimistic spirit of bipartisanship. Yet, in this book, a close reading of solutions-focused discourse reveals deeper asymmetries regarding whose voices are routinely privileged in framing the future. On this basis, the book argues for a solutions journalism founded on a nuanced understanding of hope and a plurality of community leaders and practical expertise.
Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938
Authors: Fein Julius
Published: July 2024

Julius Fein examines the French response to the large number of German refugees between 1933 and 1938. Fein demonstrates how the Quai d’Orsay sought a compromise between the Republican canon, which said France must help the persecuted, and the factors that limited its willingness to accept refugees, including economic depression, mass unemployment, anti-Semitism, and anti-German sentiment.
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad
Authors: Bangura Abdul Karim
Published: July 2024

This book is about the “Hundred-Word Eulogy,” a 100-character praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant Islamic texts. The book has become quite revered by many Muslim individuals and organizations across the globe. Yet, no work exists that has systematically analyzed the text. The purpose of this book, then, is to fill this vacuum. Methods from the fields of history, literary analysis, and pragmatic linguistics are employed to provide multidisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of the text, undergirded by the notion of meaning.
The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad
Authors: Gatta John
Published: July 2024

American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads—unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this “Green Jeremiad” tradition not only warn of material threats to life’s flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.
African American Women in the Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar Drama
Authors: Jefferson Ollie L.
Published: July 2024

This critical study interrogates the intersection of race and gender media representations on screen and behind the scenes. The thought-provoking investigation on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Queen Sugar series shows the ways in which the television drama is a significant contribution to mainstream media that creates in-depth conversations concerning African American women’s social roles, social class, and social change. Ollie L. Jefferson provides a unique analysis of the television production by using the exemplary representations conceptual framework to contextualize and theorize research contributing to systemic change. Jefferson highlights the best practices used by African American female executive producers, Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, by examining Queen Sugar as a case study. The investigation shows how the decision-makers produced multidimensional female characters to illustrate the complex humanity of Black lives. This book broadens understanding of the media industry’s need for culturally sensitive and conscious inclusion of women and people of color behind the scenes—as media owners, creators, writers, directors, and producers—to put an end to the persistent and pervasive misrepresentations of African American women on screen. Scholars of television studies, film studies, media studies, race studies, and women’s studies will find this book particularly useful.
Boundaries of Care
Authors: Logan Ryan I.
Published: July 2024

In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan details the lived experience of community health workers (CHWs) – a present yet often invisible facet of the healthcare workforce. These workers participate in nonclinical services to enhance the health and well-being of their communities outside the walls of the clinic and social service agencies. Logan examines the boundaries of and barriers to care present in the experiences of CHWs, their relationships with clients, issues of professionalization, impacts of burnout and self-care, and the critical impacts of CHW advocacy. Told through first-hand accounts and interwoven with theory, Logan presents the key challenges facing this workforce and their potential to foster even greater well-being within their communities. The findings and recommendations from participants found within Boundaries of Care can inform and shape CHW programs both in the United States and abroad.
The Many Worlds of American Communism
Authors: Morris Joshua
Published: July 2024

This book explores the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author argues that in order to effectively understand a social movement, it is necessary to take an approach that differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the movement's participants. By exploring the political, community, and labor dimensions of American communism, the author helps convey the complex nature of social movements and the various ways they attempted to create agency in their society.
The Political Interview
Authors: Hutchby Ian
Published: July 2024

The landscape of broadcast news media is constantly changing, partly under the influence of changing technology but also due to changes in the social role of television journalism. The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone takes a sociological and linguistic approach to examining these changes, focusing on the discourse practices that are associated with them. Tracing contemporary developments in the ways that interviews with politicians are conducted in a range of televised formats, Ian Hutchby analyzes increasing tendencies toward conflictual interactions that may fundamentally impact the nature of political communication and the role of news interviews in the democratic process. Training the sharp analytical lens of conversation analysis on the actual discourse of live broadcast news, Hutchby’s book is both timely—addressing academic and populist concerns about infotainment, dumbing down, and political mistrust among the electorate—and relevant to a range of specialists in sociolinguistics, communication studies, political studies, journalism and media studies, and sociology.
Clash of Cultures
Authors: Sanguineti Vincenzo
Published: July 2024

In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad, reflecting on the Iliad’s narrative as a vehicle for social and personal grief and healing.
The Pilsen Revolt of 1953
Authors: Šlouf Jakub
Published: July 2024

This book analyzes the first of the vast popular uprisings in the countries of Eastern Bloc, the revolt of West Bohemian City of Pilsen against the currency reform of June 1, 1953. The text is the first complex critical monograph on this topic. In the methodological field the research is inspired by the theories of so-called new social movements. Therefore, the book frames the Pilsen revolt into the context of previous protest actions that had taken place in the examined region after the establishment of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia. Thus, the text deals with all the conflicts occurred within the years 1948–1953. This method enables the author to study several protest cultures which operated on a long-term base in various parts of the society and which—each of them in a different way—affected the course of the Pilsen revolt.
MotherScholars' Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance
Authors: Reister Megan
Published: July 2024

MotherScholars (mothers who work as faculty and staff members within higher education) juggle a multitude of roles—leader, researcher, wife, partner, mother, caregiver, advisor, teacher, mentor, volunteer. MotherScholars’ Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance shares how MotherScholars can achieve a work-family balance, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores if there truly is a right way to go about achieving this balance. It can be a life-long and, at times, delicate journey as MotherScholars try to choose between the (often too) many opportunities they have before them. Despite the challenges, the opportunity to mother and work in so many capacities as a MotherScholar can lead to satisfaction and fulfilling purpose in a meaningful way as MotherScholars cultivate gratitude while seeking work-family balance, even during a pandemic.
Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class
Authors: Ternikar Farha Bano
Published: July 2024

This book uses everyday consumption as a lens to analyze how South Asian Muslim American women negotiate racial, religious, gendered, classed, and often political identities. In particular, Ternikar examines the use of food and clothing as well as social media accounts among this important immigrant population, offering new insight that goes beyond examining Muslim American women through the lens of hijab. This timely and nuanced interdisciplinary study draws on both sociology of consumption theory and intersectional feminism and will be valuable for courses in gender and women’s studies, sociology of consumption, and women and religion.
The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination
Authors: Kendall David J.
Published: July 2024

The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and mathematical concepts of a cosmic musical order and how these concepts have changed in order to fit different worldviews through the imaginations of theologians, theorists, and authors of fiction, as well as the practical performance of music. Special attention is given to music theory treatises between the ninth and sixteenth centuries, English-language hymnody from the eighteenth century to the present, polemical works on music and worship from the last hundred years, the Divine Comedy of Dante, nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-language fiction, the fictional works of C. S. Lewis, and the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Political Volatility in the United States
Authors: Liu Baodong
Published: July 2024

The unexpected shift from the election of Barack Obama and the post-racial hope to the racial confrontations in the Trump era begs the question: Why did such a big volatile swing happen in such a short period of time? Uncertainty reigns in volatile political times. This book aims to provide a systemic model for understanding how political volatility throughout the U.S. history has had its root in two competing racial and religious groupings. Moreover, the groupings grounded in white supremacy and egalitarianism have collided, contested, and facilitated the configuration and reconfiguration of the atomic political structure. As demonstrated in this book, the antagonism between the two competing identity groupings led to a history of political volatility in the United States. Contrary to the endless “political deadlocks” suggested by the scholars of American political development, this book explains how and why the two orders persist, reach peaks of volatility, and why one temporarily achieves prominence over the other. Going beyond the simplistic view of racial and religious hierarchy, this book provides an account rooted in structural tensions, strategic imperatives, opportunities, and threats on collective actions.
Nijinsky's Feeling Mind
Authors: Svobodny Nicole
Published: July 2024

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to "marking" a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement with verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Drawing on archival research, along with studies in psychology and philosophy, Svobodny emphasizes the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Nijinsky began his life-writing—a book he titled Feeling—the day after the Paris Peace Conference opened, and the same day he performed his "last dance." Nijinsky's Feeling Mind begins with the dancer on stage and concludes as he invites readers into his private room. Illuminating the structure, plot, medium, and mode of Feeling, this study calls on readers to grapple with a paradox: the more the dancer insists on his writing as a live performance, the more he points to the material object that entombs it.
A Pragmatist Philosophy of History
Authors: Binder Marnie
Published: July 2024

The topic of history was not a principal theme of the classical American Pragmatists, but in this book Marnie Binder presents the case for a pragmatist philosophy of history, examining supporting material from William James, John Dewey, F.C.S. Schiller, C.S. Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jane Addams. While the thinkers explored here have significant differences among themselves, together they provide distinct contributions to a fuller picture of what guides our selective memory and our present attention, and they indicate how this is all maintained via confirmation in the future. Philosophy needs history to help clarify meanings and concepts; part of the methodology of pragmatism is derived from history, as it is attested over time. History needs philosophy to critically analyze historical data; pragmatic interests influence how we study and record history. A Pragmatist Philosophy of History, therefore, provides a rich context for a method that brings the two disciplines together.
Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency
Authors: Gorringe Timothy J.
Published: July 2024

Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency: God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine is an exposition of Christian doctrine taking into account the current global emergency. Gorringe grounds our knowledge of God first in the revelation to the prophets and specifically in their political stance but above all in Jesus of Nazareth. God, or the NAME, Gorringe argues, is the antithesis of all the gods of projection, known in the silence of the cross and of the isolation cell. In a Triune format, the nature of God and the discourse of creation and providence are first considered before turning to the claim that “God was in Christ.” The final third of the book considers the nature and task of ekklesia, especially in the light of the global emergency which, Gorringe argues, is a confessional issue and the heart of ekklesia's present concern.
Anton Boisen
Authors: LaBat Sean J.
Published: July 2024

In Anton Boisen: Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen’s life and work. Based in thorough archival research, LaBat argues that Boisen, who suffered from intermittent severe mental illness, was a creative visionary, a mystic who re-imagined pastoral care and envisioned possibilities for the institutionalized other than shame and stigma. He shows how Boisen elucidated new possibilities in patient-centered health care, community care for the mentally ill, and reconciliation and dialogue between religion and science. Boisen explored the borderland of madness and mysticism, illness and inspiration, and practiced an interdisciplinary approach to his craft that is surprisingly modern and more relevant to the practice of medicine and the practice of religion than ever before.
Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and the Body
Authors: McMurray Patrick
Published: July 2024

Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and the Body: Abraham and the Nations in Romans radically reassesses Paul’s use of sacrificial language in light of new developments in our understanding of sacrifice, particularly with regard to its construction of kinship groups. Patrick McMurray argues that Jesus’ death is not presented in sacrificial terms within Romans—rather, Paul’s key invocation of sacrifice comes in 12:1 as applied to the living sacrifice of the gentiles. Here Paul’s pairing of sacrifice with brotherhood builds on his earlier discussion of the Abrahamic lineage and brotherhood with Christ, with this familial membership being ratified and delivered by the living sacrifice of the gentiles themselves. As such, the ethnic and familial function of sacrifice is harnessed by Paul to bring God’s promise to Abraham to fruition, with the gentiles entering the Abrahamic lineage alongside their new brothers the Israelites. Notably, the promise explicitly requires plurality and therefore ethnic variegation within Abraham’s lineage. This new familial membership is profoundly transformative— the consequent influx of the spirit empowering the gentiles to live new lives of love that will fulfill the law (13:8 –10). In Romans, therefore, Christ frees the gentiles and then becomes their brother, facilitating their entry into Abraham’s lineage, thereby bringing the promise to fruition and fulfilling the law.
Christians, the State, and War
Authors: Heath Gordon L.
Published: July 2024

In Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World, Gordon Heath argues that the pre-Constantinian Christian testimony regarding the state’s just use of violence was remarkably uniform and that it was arguably a catholic, or universal, tradition. More specifically, that tradition had five interrelated and intertwined constitutive areas of consensus that can best be understood as parts of one collective tradition. Heath further argues that those five related areas of an early church tradition shaped all subsequent theological developments on views of the state, its use of violence, and the conditions of Christian participation in said violence. Whereas the sorry and sordid instances in the church’s history related to violence were times when the church drifted from those convictions of consensus, the cases when Christians had a more stellar record of responding to the horrors of the world were times when they lived up to them. Consequently, the way forward today is for Christians to forgo beginning with the just war-pacifist debate, and, instead, to begin by letting their views on war and peace be shaped by that ancient tradition.
Jesus the Sacrifice
Authors: Shauf Scott
Published: July 2024

Jesus the Sacrifice: A Historical and Theological Study investigates interpretations of Jesus’ death as a sacrifice in the New Testament. Scott Shauf argues that sacrifice as a practice has been largely misunderstood by Christians and scholars and that a better understanding of ancient sacrificial practices will change how we understand New Testament interpretations of Jesus’ death. Contrary to traditional Christian theological interpretation, the interpretation of Jesus’ death as a sacrifice should not be considered a subcategory of the idea of atonement. Sacrifices had a variety of purposes in the ancient world, and atonement was only one of these. Different NT texts interpret Jesus’ death as different kinds of sacrifice, and each text must be evaluated in the context of the particular kind(s) of sacrifice drawn upon. The interpretations have in common that they serve to relate the death of Jesus to early Christians’ understanding of themselves, to what God had done in Jesus and to what God was doing in their midst. Shauf’s conclusions also address modern theological questions, such as the problem of the violence of the cross and whether Jesus’ death was necessary in a theological sense.
Doing the Good in Paul's Ethical Vision
Authors: Post T. Luke
Published: July 2024

Despite the longstanding debate surrounding the relationship between faith and good works in the apostle Paul's writings, no one to date has undertaken a thorough examination of Paul's use of “good” terminology in ethical contexts. This study seeks to fill this gap by examining Paul’s use of ἀγαθός and καλός as these terms appear in his undisputed epistles and in 2 Thessalonians. Surveying a wide terrain of exegetical territory, T. Luke Post makes a compelling case that believers “doing good” is a primary aim of Paul’s theological, social, and ethical agenda.
The God Who Is with Us
Authors: Kim Benjamin H.
Published: July 2024

Contemporary theologies of mission rely on the central concept of the missio Dei, which states that mission properly belongs to the triune God over the church. However, present accounts fail to establish any corresponding link between God’s trinitarian economy and ontology. In other words, the problem of the missio Dei is the problem of the break between the act and being of God. Benjamin H. Kim argues that a repair is needed for missio Dei theology, and this repair is found in reexamining Barth’s doctrine of revelation. In doing so, the locus of mission moves from God’s trinitarian sending to his trinitarian revealing. The repair is further advanced by Dietrich Bonhoeffer through his concept of person, which functions as the unity of act and being. This account returns mission to its original definition, which was intended to describe the inner-trinitarian being of God in relation to humanity. The concept of person recovers this meaning of mission by locating it first in the person of Christ and second, in the collective person of the church existing as the Christ community. Thus, Bonhoeffer’s description of revelation in terms of personhood provides and account that is more faithful to the missio Dei’s core insights.
Der persönliche Anwendungsbereich des Arbeitsrechts im (digitalen) Wandel
Authors: Möller-Klapperich Julia
Published: July 2024

The design of the personal scope of application of labour law, which is closely linked to the image of the industrial worker, is under strong pressure to adapt due to a working world that is constantly changing as a result of technological progress and social change. This work examines the extent to which a change in the status-related protection concept in labour law could enable an appropriate distribution of opportunities and risks in a modern and dynamic world of work on the basis of the framework provided by fundamental and European law and against the background of the functional conditions of labour and social law in the market economy.
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight and Obese Children; Can Ultrasonography Substitute Laboratory Studies? A Case-Control Study
Authors: Avazpour Abbas , Bahramnejad Mohadeseh , Hassani Amir Hossein , Matin Sara , Moatamedi Maryam
Published: July 2024

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) comprises a large burden on the global healthcare system with a high prevalence and lethal outcomes. Moreover, this disease is showing an incremental trend over time, partly due to the rise in obesity rates among children. Objectives: In this study, we aimed to elucidate the correlation of ultrasonographic and laboratory-assisted diagnosis of NAFLD in obese and normal-weight children. Methods: This study assessed 50 pediatric obese or overweight children with BMIs higher than the 85th percentile for their age and sex, as well as 50 age-and sex-matched control counterparts using ultrasonography and a liver enzyme panel. The prevalence of NAFLD and the differences in lab studies were evaluated. Then, receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves were used to determine the optimal cut-off value for NAFLD based on liver enzymes. Results: A total of 100 participants were included in this study, 58% of whom were male. The mean age of the participants was 10.41 ± 2.224 years. The prevalence of sonographically diagnosed NAFLD in obese and overweight children was 34.0% (95% CI: 21.2% - 48.8%). The prevalence of NAFLD when assessed by lab values in this population was 58.0% (95% CI: 43.2% - 71.8%), with a low measure of agreement (K = 0.239, P = 0.058). High BMI increased the risk of NAFLD to about 8.5 times its baseline in the normal-BMI population. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients had significantly higher values for aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (P < 0.001), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (P < 0.001), and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) (P < 0.001), but not alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (P = 0.743). The ROC curves for AST, ALT, GGT, and BMI percentile had areas of 0.800, 0.899, 0.807, and 0.874, respectively, all of which could be used for screening NAFLD. A cut-off value of 43.5 IU/L for AST had a specificity and positive predictive value of 100% for the diagnosis of NAFLD in children. Conclusions: Obese and overweight children are 8.5 times more likely to develop NAFLD compared to their normal-BMI peers. For the evaluation of this disease, liver enzyme panels integrated with ultrasonographic assessment should be utilized.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Rehabilitation Methods for Stroke Survivors
Authors: Miri Farzaneh , Jahanmehr Nader , Goudarzi Reza
Published: July 2024

Background: One of the challenges in stroke management is how to provide rehabilitation services to stroke patients in Iran. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate and compare the cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for stroke patients in three settings: Hospitals, stroke units, and homes. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from the perspective of the health system. A Markov model with a 20-year time horizon and 3-month cycles was used to analyze costs and outcomes. Cost data were collected from 210 patients undergoing rehabilitation in hospitals, homes, or stroke units. The cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) was conducted by calculating the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) using Tree Age software. Results: The average rehabilitation cost for the home strategy ($2306 ± 35.018) was less than that for the hospital ($2955 ± 48.18) and stroke unit ($3485 ± 51.63) strategies. Furthermore, the QALY of the home strategy (26.03) was 8 times higher than that of the hospital (17.99) and 19 times higher than that of the stroke unit (7.03). The average cost-effectiveness ratios for the hospital, stroke unit, and home groups were $11424, $33159, and $7233 per QALY, respectively. The ICERs for stroke unit and home rehabilitation relative to hospital rehabilitation were $2517 and $2145 per QALY, respectively. Conclusions: According to the results, the home-based rehabilitation strategy is more cost-effective than hospital and stroke unit rehabilitation strategies. Given the high rates of stroke and its associated costs in Iran, it is suggested that policymakers lay the groundwork for providing these services at home.
Deep Learning-Based Classification of Skin Lesion Dermoscopic Images for Melanoma Diagnosis
Authors: ORNEK Humar KAHRAMANLI , YILMAZ Burak , YASIN Elham , KOKLU Murat
Published: July 2024

This study examined the effectiveness of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in accurately categorizing skin cancers. We used the ISIC 2019 Skin Lesion dataset, which consists of images divided into eight categories. To prepare the data, we applied preprocessing techniques and extracted features using the SqueezeNet deep learning model. The dataset was divided into training and test sets using cross validation. Four well-known machine learning algorithms, namely Artificial Neural Network (ANN), k-nearest neighbors (kNN), Random Forest (RF), and Logistic Regression (LR), were employed to perform classification tasks. Each algorithm was specifically designed to suit its processing methodology. The algorithms are assessed based on several important measures. The results indicate that the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) achieved the highest accuracy rate of 71.80%, whereas the k-nearest neighbors (kNN), Random Forest (RF), and Logistic Regression (LR) achieved accuracy rates of 69.70%, 67.00%, and 67.20%, respectively. The results emphasize the capacity of machine learning algorithms to augment clinical decision-making in the field of dermatology, with the goal of enhancing early detection and treatment effectiveness for individuals with skin cancer.
Training of employees in remote sales of financial services
Authors: Черчович Е.Н.
Published: July 2024

в современном мире, где цифровизация финансового рынка играет все более важную роль, исследование темы удаленных продаж приобретает все большую актуальность. Глобализация влияет на работу финансовых организаций, стимулируя спрос на дистанционное обслуживание и создание новых финансово-цифровых платформ, и неизбежную трансформацию каналов продаж. В статье проведен анализ текущих тенденций удаленных продаж в финансовом секторе, а также методик обучения удаленным продажам. Важным выводом является необходимость разработки комплексного подхода к обучению дистанционным продажам финансовых услуг.

in today's world, where the digitalization of the financial market is playing an increasingly important role, the study of the topic of remote sales is becoming increasingly relevant. Globalization affects the work of financial organizations, stimulating the demand for remote services and the creation of new financial and digital platforms, and the inevitable transformation of sales channels. The article analyzes the current trends of remote sales in the financial sector, as well as remote sales training methods. An important conclusion is the need to develop an integrated approach to training in remote sales of financial services.
On the issue of explanatory dictionaries for the analysis of vocabulary in synchronous sections
Authors: Ермаков С.А. , Маклакова Е.А.
Published: July 2024

толковые словари играют важную роль в изучении исторической лексикологии русского языка, представляя собой ценный источник информации о значениях слов, их происхождении и изменениях в значении со временем. Они являются неотъемлемой частью лингвистических исследований, позволяя ученым исследовать эволюцию языка на протяжении различных исторических периодов. Работа с толковыми словарями помогает выявить архаизмы и историзмы, а также понять, как изменялись значения слов под воздействием социокультурных процессов. В данной статье проводится аналитический обзор толковых словарей русского языка и критерии их отбора для исследования лексики в синхронных срезах XIX, XX и XXI веков. Результатом этой работы является список рекомендованных толковых словарей, соответствующих установленным критериям, что способствует более глубокому и точному анализу языковых изменений и культурных трансформаций. Такой подход позволяет исследователям получить более полное представление о развитии русского языка и его взаимосвязи с общественными процессами.

explanatory dictionaries play an important role in the study of the historical lexicology of the Russian language, representing a valuable source of information about the meanings of words, their origin and changes in meaning over time. They are an integral part of linguistic research, allowing scientists to explore the evolution of language over various historical periods. Working with explanatory dictionaries helps to identify archaisms and historicisms, as well as to understand how the meanings of words have changed under the influence of socio-cultural processes. This article provides an analytical review of explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language and the criteria for their selection for the study of vocabulary in synchronous sections of the XIX, XX and XXI centuries. The result of this work is a list of recommended explanatory dictionaries that meet the established criteria, which contributes to a deeper and more accurate analysis of linguistic changes and cultural transformations. This approach allows researchers to gain a more complete understanding of the development of the Russian language and its relationship with social processes.
Analysis of criminalization processes in the economic sphere in the Russian Federation and measures to combat it within the framework of national policy
Authors: Абдрашитов В.М. , Крутояров А.А.
Published: July 2024

данная статья исследует процессы криминализация в контексте экономической глобализации, что является одной из отличительных черт современности. Особую актуальность в статье имеет проведенный статистический анализ основных видов экономических преступлений, их распространенность и влияние на экономику страны. В статье рассматривается необходимость разработки мер по борьбе с экономической преступностью в рамках национальной политики. Анализ и рекомендации авторов могут быть полезны для разработки и реализации эффективной национальной политики по борьбе с экономической преступностью в Российской Федерации.

this article explores the processes of criminalization in the context of economic globalization, which is one of the hallmarks of modernity. The statistical analysis of the main types of economic crimes, their prevalence and impact on the economy of the country is of particular relevance in the article. The article considers the need to develop measures to combat economic crime in the framework of national policy. The authors' analysis and recommendations may be useful for the development and implementation of an effective national policy to combat economic crime in the Russian Federation.
Obligations of the developer to carry out landscaping of the adjacent territory within the framework of the contract of participation in shared construction
Authors: Чупин И.В.
Published: July 2024

работа посвящена исследованию вопроса о возможности квалификации действий застройщика по выполнению работ по благоустройству придомовой территории в качестве его обязательства по договору долевого участия. Автором аргументировано, что, несмотря на наличие обязанности застройщика по осуществлению благоустройства в силу норм публичного права, целесообаразно признание наличия у застройщика такой обязанности в качестве гражданско-правового обязательства по договору долевого участия. При этом в работе приводятся доводы в обоснование того, что надлежащим способом защиты дольщиков в случае нарушения застройщиком данного обязательства является понуждение застройщика к исполнению обязанности в натуре, с возможностью его принуждения к исполнению данной обязанности путем взыскания судебной неустойки в соответствии со ст. 308.3 ГК РФ.

the paper is devoted to the study of the possibility of qualifying the actions of the developer to carry out works on the improvement of the house territory as his obligation under the equity participation agreement. The author argues that, despite the existence of the developer's obligation to carry out landscaping due to the norms of public law, it is advisable to recognize the existence of such a duty for the developer as a civil obligation under an equity participation agreement. At the same time, the paper provides arguments in support of the fact that the proper way to protect shareholders in the event of a violation by the developer of this obligation is to compel the developer to perform the duty in kind, with the possibility of forcing him to perform this duty by collecting a court penalty in accordance with Art. 308.3 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.