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Migration in Asia and Its Missiological Implications: Insights from the Migration Theology of the Federation of Asians Bishops’ Conferences (FABC)
Authors: Tan Jonathan Y. 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
This paper seeks to explore an emerging theology of migration and its missiological implications in the official documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC). The FABC asserts that migration cannot be separated from the complex interplay of social, economic, class, religious, and political factors that interact to displace people from their homelands. Its emerging theology of migration is rooted in its threefold theological vision of (i) commitment and service to life, (ii) triple dialogue with Asian cultures, religions and the poor, and (iii) with the aim of advancing the Reign of God in Asia. In practical terms, the FABC’s theology of migration begins with social analysis that questions the poverty, economic marginalization, racial, political and religious tensions, environmental degradation, as well as many Asian nations’ heavy dependence on the remittances of their nationals as economic migrants, which lie at the heart of the ever growing numbers of migrants. However, the FABC goes beyond mere social analysis of the dehumanizing conditions that are endured by migrants when it seeks to undergird its migration theology within its broader theological threefold dialogue with the quintessentially Asian realities of diverse cultures, religions, and the immense poverty. Finally, the FABC is convinced that its theology of migration needs to take seriously the intercultural and interreligious implications of migration and integrate the intercultural and interreligious dimensions in its pastoral care of migrants.
Transnational Identities and the Church: Examining Contemporary Ethnicity and Place
Authors: Meneses Eloise Hiebert 
Published: November 2012

AbstractEthnic identities have been problematic for the construction of local churches since New Testament times. Transnationalism adds a layer of complexity to this circumstance, as migrants hold multiple identities and retain strong ties to places of origin. An examination of the history of anthropology’s study of ethnicity reveals ethnicity’s constructed nature, along with its tendency to demand loyalty as to a family. Given people’s very real need for a place of ultimate belonging, churches have sometimes too easily resolved the tension between Christian identity and ethnic identities by segregating themselves. New Testament churches were assemblies associated with place, not ethnicity, bringing together diverse peoples and requiring them to submit to Christ, as to the head of a household. There is evidence that contemporary attempts to form multi-cultural churches out of a liberal political agenda ironically become enmeshed in power struggles. But those that recognize the centrality of the gospel succeed due to the adoption of a central authority, Christ himself, who relativizes all ethnic and national identities in favor of a common purpose, the spread of the gospel to others who have not heard it.
Are Southern Baptists Evangelicals? A Second Decadal Reassessment
Authors: YARNELL MALCOLM B. 
Published: November 2012

Abstract<title> ABSTRACT </title>In 1983, Southern Baptist theologians began to evaluate the relationship between Southern Baptists and American evangelicals. In 1993, the relationship between the two and the concomitant problems of identity formation were again given serious consideration. This article reviews the earlier conversations and reassesses the relationship in the second decade after the question was first raised and in light of the fact that many Southern Baptists have begun to define themselves as evangelicals. Serious reservations about a close identification are raised in light of a number of doctrinal controversies. Of especial concern are the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the Baptist doctrine of the Church. It is suggested that Southern Baptists continue their dialogue with but maintain a healthy distance from evangelicalism. Concurrently, an expansion in dialogue with other Christian communities, including fundamentalists, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestants, Anabaptists, as well as other Baptists, is advocated.
UN GIOCO OTTICO DI LUDOVICO BUTI AL MUSEO DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA DI FIRENZE
Authors: ZANIERI STEFANIA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Records in the Medici archives report a payment for an optical game made by the painter Ludovico Buti in February 1593. The detailed description of the scientific tool corresponds exactly to the optical game from the Medicean collection that is currently conserved in the Museum of History of Science in Florence. This game was initially attributed to Jean Franois Niceron. This attribution is disproved by the fact that Buti's death took place two years before Niceron's birth. The tool allows one to see the Portraits of the Duke of Lorraine and his daughter Christine at the same time, thanks to a mirror and 37 prismatic bars where the two faces are painted. Ludovico Buti made the tool for Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici, probably following the instructions provided by the cartographer and monk Egnazio Danti in his commentary on Vignola's work.
1783 - LAVOISIER AND LAPLACE: ANOTHER CRUCIAL YEAR. ANTIPHLOGISTIC CHEMISTRY AND THE INVESTIGATION ON LIVING BEINGS BETWEEN THE EIGHTEENTH AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Authors: BANDINELLI ANGELA 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Il presente saggio suggerisce una nuova interpretazione della biologia lamarckiana basata su un'analisi delle diverse immagini sul vivente fra Sette e Ottocento. In particolare, la nouvelle chimie introdusse un nuovo concetto di combustione che rovesci il modo d'intendere il calore corporeo. Oltre a ci documentabile che la nouvelle chimie inaugur una nuova epoca cambiando l'organizzazione della cosiddetta 'macchina animata': il corpo vivente divent un naturale composto costantemente soggetto a trasformazioni materiali. Grazie alla nouvelle chimie il vivente divent un sistema naturale, ovvero un'unit regolata da due distinte leggi fisico-chimiche: il principio di conservazione del calore (1783) e il principio di conservazione della massa (1789). La convinzione che la macchina vivente fosse soggetta alla dinamica newtoniana cominci a sgretolarsi: l'immagine di una complicata macchina mor per dar vita al nuovo concetto di sistema. Il vivente non era pi un fatto riguardante la meccanica, ma diventava un discorso relativo alla fisico-chimica.
GIUSEPPE MONTI AND PALAEONTOLOGY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOLOGNA
Authors: SARTI CARLO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Nel XVIII secolo numerosi progressi in campo geologico-paleontologico provengono dall'Italia. Soprattutto i naturalisti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, all'inizio del Settecento, cominciano a perlustrare sistematicamente l'Appenino o le Alpi alla ricerca di fossili. Il fondatore della moderna paleontologia a Bologna si pu ritenere Giuseppe Monti (1682-1760), ideatore e organizzatore del Museum Diluvianum in Scientiarum Instituto, primo vero museo paleontologico italiano.
LES TRAITS D'HYGINE PUBLIQUE (1784-1797) DE FILIPPO BALDINI, MDECIN LA COUR DE NAPLES: CULTURE MDICALE ET SERVICE DU ROI
Authors: MARIN BRIGITTE 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title La poco nota figura di Filippo Baldini, medico alla corte napoletana, testimonia l'affermazione, nel corso del XVII secolo, della medicina preventiva e dell'igiene pubblica. Inoltre consente di valutare la nascita di una medicina stimolata dal governo e dalla progettazione politica.
IL COLLGE DE FRANCE DURANTE LA RIVOLUZIONE FRANCESE DUE MEMORIE APOLOGETICHE*
Authors: PEPE LUIGI 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The College de France (College Royal) founded by Franois I in 1530 was unable to be completely independent from the University. However Louis XV in 1772 added this to the Colleges of the University and erected his building in Place Cambrai. Only during the French Revolution the College de France became completely independent through the suppression, in 1793, of the other educational Institutions. The same College was seriously threatened by suppression as documented in the memoirs of Garnier and Lalande. These memoirs are now fully published also for their epistemological interest.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN MID-VICTORIAN BRITAIN: THE REVIEWS, AND WILLIAM CROOKES' QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
Authors: KNIGHT DAVID 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title L'Origine delleSpecie, che Charles Darwin pubblic nel 1859, sovente considerata come l'opera che segn un punto di svolta nel conflitto tra sapere scientifico e religione. Recenti studi, specialmente sul ruolo giocato nella vicenda da T. H. Huxley, il bulldog di Darwin, sottolineano invece (o meglio, al pari) l'intenzione di Huxley di escludere soprattutto appassionati e dilettanti da un ambito di ricerca che si stava trasformando in un settore per esperti. Per quanto le riviste del periodo contenessero soltanto un 10% di articoli scientifici, la domanda nei confronti di informazioni non specialistiche era in diminuzione; scienza e discipline umanistiche si stavano difatti trasformando in ci che C. P. Snow avrebbe poi definito le due culture.
FORME DI LETTURA, FORME DI CULTURA
Authors: BARONCINI GABRIELE 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title This essay tries an examination of the verbal and non-verbal lections of incunabula, conducted in function of the reader's culture. Are put under analysis all those subjective interventions that allow to gather in the text the cultural forms interacting and modelling a text reading as well as the determination of its meaning. However the printed text itself already contains objective and concrete elements predeterming the form of lection. Various authors are involved in the essay, such as among others Leibniz, Descartes and Nicholas de Lyra. From a general standpoint this is an attempt having the aim of singling out both facts and concepts useful to reconstruct, at least partially, the complex and elusive act of reading.
STRUMENTARIA
Authors: ZUCCOLI MARINA , BNOLI FABRIZIO 
Published: November 2012

Abstracttitle RIASSUNTO /title Scopo del presente articolo di sottolineare l'importanza dell'astronomo italiano Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617), tramite la descrizione di due quadranti da lui realizzati. Questo tipo di strumenti aveva molteplici usi, in astronomia, topografia, cartografia e matematica. Magini si occup di tutte queste discipline in qualit di docente di Astronomia all'Universit di Bologna e scrisse al riguardo numerose opere, quali l'Italia (una rappresentazione cartografica dell'Italia) e le Ephemerides. Attraverso la storia dei possessori di questi quadranti, che giunge fino a tempi recenti, si riconosce come fossero apprezzati non solo per il loro aspetto artistico, ma anche come testimonianze della qualit della produzione strumentale di Magini.
Diverse Soft-Law Cooperation Forms in the Arctic – Do They Complement or Contradict Each Other?
Authors: Hasanat Waliul 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Ongoing changes in the Arctic, primarily related to the region’s physical and human environment, as a result of climate change, have both opened up new opportunities and posed threats to the governments and inhabitants of the region. A number of soft-law instruments, with the aim of ensuring the wellbeing of the region and combating the negative challenges of climate change, have been developed since the 1990s. This article will examine the synergy between three existing forms of Arctic soft-law governance in a select number of cases and will, in turn, provide suggestions as to how they may be improved. It will also analyse the motivation behind using soft law mechanisms, as opposed to formal international organisations.
‘Entangled in Tokyo’: Exploring Diverse Pathways of Labor Market Incorporation of African Immigrants in Japan
Authors: Schans Djamila 
Published: November 2012

AbstractIn this article I explore employment practices and pathways of labor market incorporation of sub-Saharan African immigrants in Japan. Based on secondary information as well as 5 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo and its suburbs, I will first describe the history of migration from Africa to Japan and the current demographic characteristics of African immigrants in Japan. I will then continue to describe the employment practices of African immigrants to explore questions surrounding integration, incorporation, and the use of human and social capital in the Japanese context. My findings give a first indication of the mechanisms behind the diverse trajectories, especially highlighting the importance of entrepreneurship, transnational ties with the country of origin, and ties with Japanese nationals in facilitating labor market incorporation. Finally, attention is also given to the role of the Japanese state in facilitating or hindering opportunities for employment.
Civil Society in the Political Thinking of European Muslim Brothers
Authors: Larise Dunja 
Published: November 2012

It is generally assumed that the European Muslim brothers derive their concepts of state and society primarily from the traditional Islamic political theory that originated in the historical context of the Muslim Middle East. In contrast, this article asserts the hitherto scantily analyzed influence of liberal political theory, especially its idea of civil society, in the evolution of the political and social theory of the European Muslim Brotherhood within the context of the Muslim minority position in Europe.
The article identifies the tendency of the European Muslim brotherhood towards the multiculturalist communitarian model of political and social accommodation, and does this by tracing the history of the conceptual interconnectedness between modern Islamic and liberal concepts of civil society as a privileged space of political action in the absence of realistic prospects for the seizure of state power.
Hors du cloître et dans le monde : Des Sœurs catholiques comme actrices transnationales
Authors: Langewiesche Katrin 
Published: November 2012

Résumé
Cet article étudie les réseaux missionnaires catholiques entre l’Europe et l’Afrique, en particulier deux congrégations africaines basées au Burkina Faso travaillant en Afrique et en Europe. L’analyse de cette forme spécifique de la transnationalisation du religieux permet de saisir certaines tendances du processus de globalisation. Les religieuses africaines sont de plus en plus impliquées dans la pastorale en Europe tout en continuant leurs activités apostoliques dans leur continent d’origine. Les religieuses européennes sont pour leur part de moins en moins présentes en Afrique où elles opèrent au travers de réseaux transfrontaliers. Ce renversement des rôles missionnaires traditionnels contredit l’image stéréotypée d’une Afrique cantonnée dans le rôle du bénéficiaire de l’aide fournie par l’Europe.
THE EU APPROACH TO REGIONAL COOPERATION: POLICY SUCCESS OR POLICY FAILURE?
Authors: BARTLETT WILL 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Summary: This article analyzes the successes and failures of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans through the prism of two policy areas: trade policy and employment policy. It investigates the role of the Stability Pact as a policy broker in mediating the policy conflicts between various national and transnational advocacy coalitions in these two areas. It concludes that regional cooperation in the field of trade policy has been less contested than in the field of employment policy. However, there have been failures in each policy area. Regional cooperation in trade policy while ostensibly successful has threatened to widen economic gaps between countries in the region. Regional cooperation in employment policy has been contested and although levels of employment protection have been reduced, expenditure of active employment policies remains low and unemployment rates remain high especially in the less developed countries in the region.
"LEADERS" AND "LAGGARDS" OR THE POST-COMMUNIST ROADS TO DEMOCRACY
Authors: KACARSKA SIMONIDA 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Summary: The purpose of this article is to examine the different progress of the post-communist world in consolidating democracy, in order to determine the suitability of a collective or group-based examination. The article argues that the post-communist countries should not be analyzed as a single unit, but separately into groups according to the progress in consolidating democracy. Conceptually, the article utilizes Linz and Stepan's five arenas of consolidated democracy. The article employs comparative methodology using empirical data from the Freedom House Nations in Transit reports and specific country reports comparing the particular problems each of the separate groups face. The article highlights the differences in the progress in consolidating democracy between three groups of post-communist countries: the current member of the European Union (EU), the countries of Southeastern Europe, and the non-Baltic former Soviet countries.
THE ISSUE OF INDEPENDENCE AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN MONTENEGRO
Authors: KEIICHI KUBO 
Published: November 2012

Abstract
Summary: In Montenegro, there has been a deep divide between those who seek the independence of Montenegro and those who oppose it. It is well known that there is a correlation between the ethnic identity and the attitude towards this issue. While one tends to assume that the former determines the latter, this article would argue that this assumption does not hold for Serbs. To do so, this article analyzes the re-definition of ethnic identity in Montenegro. In particular, a significant number of those who now regard themselves as "Serb" did not indeed do so only twelve years ago. This suggests that the assumption discussed above is wrong and the causal relations run in the opposite direction: they re-defined themselves as "Serb" because they support the maintenance of the union with Serbia.
Musical training generalises across modalities and reveals efficient and adaptive mechanisms for judging temporal intervals
Authors: Aagten-Murphy David , Cappagli Giulia , Burr David 
Published: November 2012

Expert musicians are able to accurately and consistently time their actions during a musical performance. We investigated how musical expertise influences the ability to reproduce auditory intervals and how this generalises to vision in a ‘ready-set-go’ paradigm. Subjects reproduced time intervals drawn from distributions varying in total length (176, 352 or 704 ms) or in the number of discrete intervals within the total length (3, 5, 11 or 21 discrete intervals). Overall musicians performed more veridically than non-musicians, and all subjects reproduced auditory-defined intervals more accurately than visually-defined intervals. However non-musicians, particularly with visual intervals, consistently exhibited a substantial and systematic regression towards the mean of the interval. When subjects judged intervals from distributions of longer total length they tended to exhibit more regression towards the mean, while the ability to discriminate between discrete intervals within the distribution had little influence on subject error. These results are consistent with a Bayesian model which minimizes reproduction errors by incorporating a central tendency prior weighted by the subject’s own temporal precision relative to the current intervals distribution (Cicchini et al., 2012; Jazayeri and Shadlen, 2010). Finally a strong correlation was observed between all durations of formal musical training and total reproduction errors in both modalities (accounting for 30% of the variance). Taken together these results demonstrate that formal musical training improves temporal reproduction, and that this improvement transfers from audition to vision. They further demonstrate the flexibility of sensorimotor mechanisms in adapting to different task conditions to minimise temporal estimation errors.
Face aftereffect in haptic perception
Authors: Matsumiya Kazumichi 
Published: November 2012

Adaptation to a face belonging to a facial category, such as expression, causes a subsequently neutral face to be perceived as belonging to an opposite facial category. This is referred to as the face aftereffect (FAE) (Leopold et al., 2001; Rhodes et al., 2004; Webster et al., 2004). The FAE is generally thought of as being a visual phenomenon. However, recent studies have shown that humans can haptically recognize a face (Kilgour and Lederman, 2002; Lederman et al., 2007). Here, I investigated whether FAEs could occur in haptic perception of faces. Three types of facial expressions (happy, sad and neutral) were generated using a computer-graphics software, and three-dimensional masks of these faces were made from epoxy-cured resin for use in the experiments. An adaptation facemask was positioned on the left side of a table in front of the participant, and a test facemask was placed on the right. During adaptation, participants haptically explored the adaptation facemask with their eyes closed for 20 s, after which they haptically explored the test facemask for 5 s. Participants were then requested to classify the test facemask as either happy or sad. The experiment was performed under two adaptation conditions: (1) with adaptation to a happy facemask and (2) with adaptation to a sad facemask. In both cases, the expression of the test facemask was neutral. The results indicate that adaptation to a haptic face that belongs to a specific facial expression causes a subsequently touched neutral face to be perceived as having the opposite facial expression, suggesting that FAEs can be observed in haptic perception of faces.
Garner’s paradigm and audiovisual correspondence in dynamic stimuli: Pitch and vertical direction
Authors: Eitan Zohar , Marks Lawrence E. 
Published: November 2012

Garner’s speeded discrimination paradigm is a central tool in studying crossmodal interaction, revealing automatic perceptual correspondences between dimensions in different modalities. To date, however, the paradigm has been used solely with static, unchanging stimuli, limiting its ecological validity. Here, we use Garner’s paradigm to examine interactions between dynamic (time-varying) audiovisual dimensions — pitch direction and vertical visual motion. In Experiment 1, 32 participants rapidly discriminated ascending vs. descending pitch glides, ignoring concurrent visual motion (auditory task), and ascending vs. descending visual motion, ignoring pitch change (visual task). Results in both tasks revealed strong congruence effects, but no Garner interference, an unusual pattern inconsistent with some interpretations of Garner interference. To examine whether this pattern of results is specific to dynamic stimuli, Experiment 2 (testing another 64 participants) used a modified Garner design with two baseline conditions: The irrelevant stimuli were dynamic in one baseline and static in the other, the test stimuli always being dynamic. The results showed significant Garner interference relative to the static baseline (for both the auditory and visual tasks), but not relative to the dynamic baseline. Congruence effects were evident throughout. We suggest that dynamic stimuli reduce attention to and memory of between-trial variation, thereby reducing Garner interference. Because congruence effects depend primarily on within-trial relations, however, congruence effects are unaffected. Results indicate how a classic tool such as Garner’s paradigm, used productively to examine dimensional interactions between static stimuli, may be readily adapted to probe the radically different behavior of dynamic, time-varying multisensory stimuli.