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Newly-Discovered Manuscripts of a Northern-Chinese Horse King Temple Association
Authors: Shahar Meir 
Published: July 2019

AbstractWritten documents from rural north China are rare. This essay examines the newly-discovered records of a Shanxi village association, which was dedicated to the cult of the Horse King. The manuscripts detail the activities, revenues, and expenditures of the Horse King temple association over a hundred-year period (from 1852 until 1956). The essay examines them from social, cultural, and religious perspectives. The manuscripts reveal the internal workings and communal values of a late imperial village association. They unravel the social and economic structure of the village and the centrality of theater in rural culture. Furthermore, the manuscripts bring to the fore a forgotten cult and its ecological background: the Horse King was among the most widely worshiped deities of late imperial China, his flourishing cult reflecting the significance of his protégés – horses, donkeys, and mules – in the agrarian economy.
Development of Pasteuria penetrans on different field populations of Meloidogyne spp. from Pakistan
Authors: Kamran Muhammad , Javed Nazir , Abbas Huma , Khan Sajid Aleem , Ullah Ihsan , Ehetisham Ul Haq Muhammad , Hussain Manzoor , Iqbal Muhammad 
Published: July 2019

Summary
Pasteuria penetrans is a hyperparasite with potential as a biological control agent of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp. In this study two exotic Pasteuria isolates (PP-3 and PP-J) were developed on different Meloidogyne spp. collected from different districts of Punjab, Pakistan. The development of PP-3 and PP-J on different field populations of Meloidogyne spp. showed differential infectivity in terms of nematode reproduction variables. The development of PP-3 and PP-J was maximum on tomato as compared to cucumber. It was probably due to more invasion sites for nematodes present in the tomato roots. However, a bigger root system has not always been a guarantee for development of Pasteuria on Meloidogyne spp. For successful development of Pasteuria, the key parameters are the percentage of infected females, number of endospores (female)−1 or endospores (mg root powder)−1. The results of these parameters are greater in tomato as compared to cucumber.
Morphological and molecular characterisation of Ektaphelenchoides tonekabonensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Ektaphelenchinae) from northern Iran
Authors: Aliramaji Farzad , Pourjam Ebrahim , Miraeiz Esmaeil , Pedram Majid 
Published: July 2019

Summary
Ektaphelenchoides tonekabonensis n. sp. is described and illustrated based upon morphological, morphometric and molecular characters. The new species is characterised by 476-659 μm long females, lip region broad and continuous with body contour, two weak lateral bands barely visible in lateral view and cross section, needle-like stylet with its conus forming ca 50% of the total length and with a very narrow lumen in the shaft, excretory pore located just opposite the metacorpus base or slightly posterior, a dense (sclerotised) mass just anterior to the vagina, a short post-uterine sac 5-7 μm long, elongate conoid distal body region ending in a long filiform part, males common with a dorsally convex conical tail ending to a filiform tip, 7-8 μm long spicules with a small projection at the capitulum close to the condylus, its tip posteriorly bent, and five precloacal + caudal papillae. Based upon morphological similarities and phylogenetic affinities, it is similar to six known species of the genus, namely: E. attenuata, E. caspiensis, E. fuchsi, E. kelardashtensis, E. musae, and E. ruehmi. Ektaphelenchoides caspiensis is typologically most similar to the new species and can be separated based on vulval position, excretory pore position and male tail characters. The next most similar species, E. kelardashtensis, has a longer stylet and posteriorly located excretory pore. Comparisons with the other aforementioned species and typologically similar species under Seinura are also discussed. Molecular phylogenetic analyses were performed using Bayesian inference (BI) based upon two partial small and large subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU and LSU rDNA D2-D3) sequences and the phylogenetic affinities of the new species in both phylogenies were discussed.
The Virtue of Joy
Authors: Collins Ashok 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
In this article, I examine the presence of Spinoza within Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity project. Although the debt Nancy owes to other philosophers such as Derrida and Heidegger has been recognized, less well known is his reliance on a Spinozist frame of reference throughout his writings on Christianity. Analyzing Nancy’s reading of key moments within the deconstruction of Christianity—the doctrines of creation ex nihilo and the incarnation—I explore how the coupling of transcendence and immanence in a Heideggerian ontological mode can be enlightened by Spinoza’s philosophy. What takes shape is a profoundly embodied and affective relationality that I argue is the central resource Nancy wishes to expose at the heart of both Christianity and the secular West.
The Verge of Silence
Authors: Tate Daniel L. 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Gadamer’s question “Are Poets Falling Silent?” is motivated by the “linguistic need” (Sprachnot) of modern lyric indicative of the “forgetfulness of language” (Sprachvergessenheit) that prevails today. In Paul Celan’s late work, Gadamer finds poetry that, bordering on the cryptic, stands on the verge of silence. Nevertheless, he insists that these poems do speak and that the title of Celan’s poem series, Breath-crystal, figures the truth of the poetic word. From this standpoint the paper discusses Gadamer’s hermeneutic understanding of the poetic word treating the constitutive elements of the poetic word as an event of language, the way this conception of the poetic word both embraces and yet departs from the usual understanding of the radical turn to language in modern lyric, and the meaning of Gadamer’s claim regarding the truth of the poetic word that fulfills the original saying power of language.
Exordio: Towards a Hermeneutics of Liberation
Authors: Vallega Alejandro A. 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Liberatory thought in Latin American philosophy leads to the question of the reinterpretation of historical time consciousness. In the following pages I first introduce the challenge as articulated out of Latin American thought, particularly with reference to Enrique Dussel and Aníbal Quijano, and then I develop a reinterpretation of historical time consciousness in its happening as understood through Hans-Georg Gadamer’s discussion of effected historical consciousness (Wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewußtsein) in Truth and Method. As already marked by this trajectory, this essay is not comparative, but, through a dialogue with these thinkers, seeks to rethink the temporalizing-historical movement that is historical consciousness as a possible path to engaging in and understanding liberatory philosophy.
A Necessary but Impossible Political Practice: Althusser between Machiavelli and Marx
Authors: Bruschi Fabio 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Althusser’s Machiavelli and Us has often been considered as the French Marxist’s first step on the path beyond Marxism. This article opposes this interpretation by showing that, while Machiavelli helps Althusser to renounce any attempt to deduce a communist political practice from the necessity portrayed by a theory of history, Althusser was mindful not to identify the relationship between the communist party and the masses with the relationship between the Prince and the people. From a Marxist perspective, a communist political practice must further the autonomous political initiatives of the masses that delineate a tendency towards the withering-away of the state and cannot merge with a practice of governing the people. This is why Marxism must not forsake its theory of history but employ it in the process of the subtraction of the party to its becoming-state by detecting the conditions of impossibility of the duration of a communist political practice.
Appreciative and Faithful?
Authors: Xu Ximian 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
This article is intended to assess Karl Barth’s appreciative use of Herman Bavinck’s view of God’s incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II/1. The main argument is that despite Barth’s appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck’s view. Whereas Bavinck makes God’s knowability the presupposition of the divine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God’s incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God’s hiddenness. In any event, Barth’s appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their divergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God’s incomprehensibility.
Droit islamique et droits de l’homme: Les controverses doctrinales en islam sunnite et shi’ite depuis la Déclaration universelle de 1948
Authors: Arminjon Constance 
Published: July 2019

AbstractIn a comparative perspective, this article analyses the doctrinal debates that arose in Sunni and Shi’ite Islam after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. During a couple of decades this text hardly brought about any response in Islam. From the 1980s onwards, an increasing number of prominent thinkers started confronting their legal tradition to that from which human rights derive. While comparing both legal systems, they contribute to major and contrasting developments in contemporary Islamic legal thought.
Reinterpreting Eve and Mary
Authors: Krueger Liz 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
One model of theological anthropology investigates the imago Dei through a lens of relationality to discover what it means to be human. Historically, this model has been dominated by male voices and arrives at conclusions that perpetuate patriarchy. Therefore, the present article responds by appealing to Eve and Mary to formulate a gynocentric theological anthropology wherein women are know-ers, be-ers and name-rs. These terms signify that women remain autonomous persons who can know God without male mediation, who have being in their particularities and historical situatedness aside from associations with male figures, and who can name the world around them, acting as prophetic voices who see the world rightly and define the world for themselves. Furthermore, each category correlates to an element of the relational imago Dei, namely, relationship to God, relationship to oneself, and relationship to others/world. The aim of redeeming Eve and Mary for theological anthropology arises from a conviction that rejecting dehistoricized and polarized interpretations of each woman reminds readers that they, too, are human. They are humans within the same metanarrative of cosmic redemption of which women today are a part. Thus, to reinterpret Eve and Mary empowers a shared history and progresses eschatological realization as each woman acts in her own particularities as one who knows, possesses unqualified being, and names.
All Manner of Evil Spoken Falsely
Authors: Johnson Andrea S. 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
This article uses archival sources and secondary sources to argue that narratives from various pentecostal church presses reflected shifts in the broader understanding of homosexuality when discussing the 1907 arrest of pentecostal founder Charles Fox Parham for “unnatural offenses.” In the early 1900s, gay men were free to pursue other men in separate spaces of towns and were generally left alone as long as they did not attract attention. Although there was growing recognition that homosexuality might be a matter of biology, the more popular literature on the topic through the 1920s proclaimed that homosexuality was a choice, influenced by environmental factors. Pentecostalism was then in its infancy, and two schools of thought became prevalent regarding Parham’s arrest: there were those like his wife, who denied the truth of the matter, and those like his protégé Howard Goss, who believed that the behavior was a temporary failing, not a permanent tendency. During World War II and the Cold War, beliefs about the causes of homosexuality shifted again, and as the gay rights movements flourished and the field of pentecostal history became professionalized, authors tended to examine the details of the incident rather than draw conclusions about the accusations. This examination of pentecostal narratives demonstrates the power that narrators have either to emphasize or to minimize certain details, allowing them to shape the reputations of leaders of the movement.
Sexual dimorphism and sex pheromone detection in Aphidoletes aphidimyza
Authors: Nicolas Aurore , Pourtois Julie , Karier Pol , Markó István , Hance Thierry 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Sexual dimorphism, particularly at the level of sensory and locomotor organs, is usually attributed to sexual selection. Antennae are notably developed in males of species that need to detect a sex pheromone at low concentration or at long distance. In addition to their role in intrasexual selection, antennae can be seen as important ornaments in intersexual selection. Antennae of Aphidoletes aphidimyza are clearly sexually dimorphic (males have longer antennae than females, with highly developed sensilla) while females emit a sex pheromone for mating. Males with longer and more symmetrical antennae than others could be more successful in reaching the source of sex pheromone, especially if they can fly properly. A morphometric study was first conducted, to apprehend the variability of antennae, wings and tibias in lab conditions. The length of the antennae of male A. aphidimyza is impressive and the right antenna is longer than the left antenna. Secondly, choice experiments were conducted in a Y-shaped olfactometer with males of A. aphidimyza facing the sex pheromone. The relationship between choice patterns and morphology of males was then studied, but no link was found between the morphology of males and their behaviour while exposed to the sex pheromone, although males were indeed attracted by the olfactometer arm containing the sex pheromone.
The potential respiratory surfaces of a fish living in a historically polluted river
Authors: da Cruz André Luis , Prado Thiago Matos , Ramos Laísa Peixoto , Klein Wilfried 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The acquisition of oxygen is fundamental for maintaining metabolic activity in fish, and most species obtain oxygen through aquatic gill respiration. Throughout evolution, different fish lineages have evolved secondary routes to obtain oxygen from atmospheric air, and the spinycheek sleeper, Eleotris pisonis, may be one example of such bimodal respiration. Gill structure and the top epithelium of the head of E. pisonis from the Subaé River (Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil) were evaluated morphometrically. The gills showed histopathologies, especially proliferation, which was prevalent on 35.6% of the filaments and on 13.7% of the lamellae, probably increasing the water-blood diffusion barrier of the lamellae to 5.48 ± 1.32 μm, similar to the air-blood diffusion distance of the skin (5.77 ± 1.72 μm). Quantitative morphometric analysis of histopathologies and diffusion distances could be considered as biomarkers, and also suggest the presence of cutaneous respiration as a possible strategy for aerial oxygen acquisition.
Permission without Direction: Gross Negligence Manslaughter and Erasure following Bawa-Garba
Authors: Hodson Nathan 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
This article explores when a doctor convicted of gross negligence manslaughter would be erased from the medical register. The General Medical Council (GMC) sanctions guidance avoids directing the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) about erasure following gross negligence manslaughter and rulings at the High Court and Court of Appeal argue against any presumption of erasure after a doctor is convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. The Court of Appeal in Bawa-Garba ruled that the sanctions guidance should not be taken to guide the MPT towards erasure after “serious harm to others either deliberately or through incompetence”, but merely permits erasure in those circumstances. This approach is consistent with the rest of the sanctions guidance which allows the MPT wide discretion and defends that MPT’s case-by- case approach. This promotes decision-making behind closed doors, diminishes the Sanctions Guidance, and makes it difficult to predict when a doctor will be erased after gross negligence manslaughter.
Compulsory Treatment in the Community in Hong Kong
Authors: Chiu Urania 
Published: July 2019

This article examines the current legal framework and practice of the conditional discharge of mental health patients in Hong Kong under Section 42B of the Mental Health Ordinance from a human rights perspective. Using existing literature and findings from semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with medical professionals, the author argues that the current regime lacks adequate safeguards for mental health patients, both in law and in actual practice, and suffers from the absence of a clear guiding purpose. As such, the law and practice of conditional discharge would most likely infringe patients’ fundamental rights to private and family life and to liberty and personal security. The article concludes with the suggestion that an evidence-based approach is required to determine the purpose of the regime and how it may be best designed for that end.
The Communitarian Case for Decriminalising Male Homosexuality for Singapore’s Common Good
Authors: Chang Ya Lan 
Published: July 2019

Should Singapore’s conservative, communitarian society continue to criminalise male homosexuality in the name of its common good? This is the fundamental question raised by Singapore’s continued retention of Section 377A of the Penal Code, a colonial-era law that criminalises only male homosexual conduct. With reference to Parliament’s reasons for retaining 377A and scholarly arguments against homosexuality, this article reconstructs, and debunks, the best philosophical case in favour of 377A; namely, that it should be conserved to sustain communitarian Singapore’s common good. Instead, the article argues that, because homosexuality is morally permissible, 377A does not satisfy the ‘goodness’ component of the common good and hence does not, and cannot, sustain communitarian Singapore’s common good. Rather, a communitarian approach to 377A, one based on an inclusive conception of communitarianism and an aggregative conception of the common good, would lead to its repeal and vindicate gay men’s right to equality.
Trans-Sectual Identity
Authors: Silk Jonathan A. , Szántó Péter-Dániel 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The Praśnottararatnamālikā is a small tract containing 62 questions, paired with their answers. It is extraordinary that this text has been transmitted within Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist traditions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tibetan, variously attributed to different authors. The present study examines what is known of the text, which from early on drew the attention of modern scholars, and presents editions of its Sanskrit and Tibetan versions, along with a translation and annotations.
Penal Protection of Public Health from the Effects of Pollution in the UAE Federal Law
Authors: Al Qatawneh Ibrahim Suleiman 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The UAE federal legislator is keen to protect the environment and its development by amending the Federal Environmental Protection and Development Law No. 24 of 1999, which provides for the penal protection of public health by criminalising any act that damages the quality of water, air and land, or generates excessive noise or mismanages the disposal of hazardous substances and medical wastes. The UAE Federal Law imposes penalties for all such violations, however without achieving the purpose of deterrence or punishment.
A New Source of the Slavic Menaia
Authors: Pentkovskaya Tatiana 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The article is devoted to the newest edition of the so-called Dragota Menaion prepared by Iskra Hristova-Shomova. This Bulgarian hymnographic collection survived as the bottom layer of a palimpsest going back to the early twelfth century. It combines the services of the Menaion and the Triodion cycles. The translation contains rare Slavonic lexemes and some archaic Greek borrowings. These features makes this text precious for the studies of liturgy and hymnography among the Slavs.
Does Human Soul Have an Owner?
Authors: Lourié Basil 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
In the mainstream anthropology of Byzantine patristics, the human “I” is twice inconsistent, being identical to but different from a “part of God” and, in the created world, being not a something while without being a nothing. The latter kind of inconsistency was described as well by Ludwig Wittgenstein in his peculiar doctrine of subjectivity.
Progress and Meliorism: Making Progress in Thinking about Progress
Authors: Fiala Andrew 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
There is no grand narrative or master plan for historical progress. Contemporary discussions of progress and enlightenment reflect an improved version of an old debate, which has progressed beyond older debates about metaphysical optimism and pessimism. Responding to recent work by John Gray, Steven Pinker, and others, this paper describes meliorism as a middle path between optimism and pessimism. Meliorism is pragmatic, humanistic, secular, and historically grounded. The epistemic modesty of meliorism develops out of understanding the long history of debates about progress and enlightenment, including the history of meliorism itself. The paper provides a historical account of the development of meliorism, while arguing that understanding this history helps us make progress in thinking about progress.
Ghosting Through Our Ruins
Authors: Green Michael Cawood 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
In this creative/critical paper, a recent migrant to the UK attempts to negotiate ideas of Africanness and Englishness through the rewriting of places linked by a statue in a small Northumberland village commemorating the death of a local officer killed in the ‘Anglo-Boer War.’ Drawing on two recent and influential theoretical developments, the ‘mobility turn’ within the social sciences and the ‘spectral turn’ in cultural criticism, this paper is a ficto-critical experiment in finding an appropriate creative form to test the generic implications of the major, and yet largely still unreflected, issue of migration and immigration/emigration in post-apartheid writing. It explores the unsettling ways in which places are not so much geographically fixed as implicated within complex circuits at once contingent and the product of material relations of power.
From the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific
Authors: Rosa Fernando 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
In this paper I attempt to tackle the issues of creolisation, magic, and mimesis, as well as colonialism. I will approach this last via the the first three. I begin by discussing two travel and ethnographic accounts, and then a piece by Diderot. I also discuss Taussig’s work. My overall argument, following closely on the heels of Diderot’s and Taussig’s work, but also somewhat expanding them, is that writing ethnography or any account of ‘others’ involves closely linked and complex processes of creolisation, mimesis, and magic. There is also, of course, a personal dimension to them. Such processes in fact affect not only ethnographic writing, but perhaps any writing. I also include myself in this narrative, albeit only marginally, as someone born and raised in Brazil, perhaps the most famous hub of creolisation ever, and who ventures not only across the South Atlantic, but eventually also into the Indo-Pacific world.