bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives
Authors: Steiner Richard C. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
An important method of resolving contradictions in the Bible was developed by Saadia Gaon and Menasseh ben Israel based on the writings of Aristotle. It is rooted in the insight that failure to recognize linguistic ambiguity is a common source of apparent contradiction—in the Bible as elsewhere. In the case of the apparent Ishmaelite/Midianite contradiction, the crucial ambiguity—overlooked by critics of all persuasions—is syntactic. There is a second syntactic reading of וַיַּעַבְרוּ אֲנָשִׁים מִדְיָנִים סֹחֲרִים that eliminates the contradiction and solves other problems, leaving only a lack of uniformity. For the latter, there are three literary explanations, which complement each other. They involve (1) stylistic variation, (2) subjective perspective (based on the historical context), and (3) keywords and foreshadowing.
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source
Authors: Hosle Paul K. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This essay concerns the vexed question of imitatio Dei in the Holiness Code (Lev 17–26) and, to a minor degree, other Holiness (H) traditions in the Pentateuch. I argue that H possesses a robust theology of imitatio Dei, but that the specific form that this imitation takes requires further clarification. Conceptually, I distinguish between the imitandum (i.e., that which is to be imitated) and the imitatio (i.e., the act of imitating). I argue that the imitandum is holiness understood as a quality proper to the deity that is irreducible to a code of conduct, but that this does not vitiate the applicability of the concept of imitatio Dei. On the level of the imitatio, I emphasize the irreducibly social nature of the imitatio, as well as its theocentric logic of justification. Within a typology of imitational structures, H represents an interesting case where both the imitandum and imitatio are heteronomously determined by the external demand of the deity and where the impulse of private, subjective moral growth plays a negligible role.
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 20
Authors: Jarrard Eric X. 
Published: July 2022

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This article expands the well-established relationship between Ezek 20 and the Holiness Code (H), developed by, among others, Michael Lyons. I argue that Ezekiel articulates the relationship between the exodus event and the legal material using an extensive intertextual allusion to H. These connections enable us to appreciate more thoroughly Ezekiel’s historiographical project, as well as exposing possible Deuteronomic redaction of the chapter that assumes and utilizes the established time patterning of the surrounding verses. The article concludes with a reflection on the mnemonic activity in Ezek 20 regarding how the chapter uses (proto-) Lev 18–20 to advocate for the preeminence of legal material and especially H in patterning time and conceptions of the exodus for future generations.
The Intersection of the Sacred and the Profane in Urban Markets in Ibadan, Nigeria
Authors: Oyelade Olufikayo Kunle , Jegede Oluwaseun Oludele , Akintunde Abel Akintoye , Omobowale Ayokunle Olumuyiwa 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The secularization of the sacred and the sanctification of the secular are two ongoing processes in contemporary urban areas in Nigeria. Although, profanity and sacredness are two distinct ‘realities’ in every religious arena, observations reveal some convergences of the duo in urban market settings. This is a departure from Durkheim’s distinction between the sacred and the profane; hence, this calls for further contextual scholarly attention. Qualitative data were collected via observations, Key Informant Interviews (KII) and In-depth Interviews (IDI) which were conducted with traders and religious leaders whose churches/mosques provided trading shops/spaces to these traders, and who organized prayer sessions for traders. Data were subjected to content analysis and findings revealed that churches have shopping malls in the markets; also, a mosque let out its open space for trading. Letting was done without religious sentiment, thus, it is evident that economic bias is more important than religious sentimentality. Both Christian and Muslim traders meet from time to time at designated places in the markets for religious rituals. As a result, traders create the consciousness of divine worship and prayer to integrate sacredness and profanity into everyday market transactions, and also advance mutual trader-cohesion for individual and market success.
The Effects of Sociopolitical Factors on Divorce Rates after Political Upheavals in Post-Soviet Countries
Authors: Aghayeeabianeh Banafsheh , Stamatel Janet P. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The present study investigates the influence of sociopolitical factors on the divorce rate in a sample of seven Color Revolution countries. The second demographic transition perspective and the concept of political anomie were used as the primary theoretical framework. Fixed effects method analysis was conducted for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine from 1995 to 2018. Results indicated that economic growth, rise in women’s status, democratization, and political anomie were statistically and positively related to the divorce rate. The results show that sociopolitical factors, such as democratization and anomie, are promising for understanding changing family dynamics. The implications of the study are further discussed.
The Return of the Dialectics of Nature
Authors: Foster John Bellamy 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The resurrection of the classical Marxian ecological critique in the context of the current planetary emergency has led to the return of the concept of the dialectics of nature, associated with the work of Frederick Engels in particular. In the century following the deaths of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, the dialectics-of-nature conception played a formative role in the development of the modern ecological critique within science, notably in Britain, and helped inspire the contemporary environmentalist movement. Nevertheless, all of this occurred outside the dominant streams of Marxian thought and practice, where a great chasm had arisen in this area. Whereas official Marxism in the Soviet Union reduced the dialectics of nature to a fixed dogma, Western Marxism rejected it altogether. In the current Anthropocene Epoch in the geological time scale – and in what is referred to here as the Capitalinian Age of the Anthropocene – a new historical-materialist synthesis constructed on classical foundations, reintegrating the dialectics of nature, so as to address the immense ecological challenges confronting humanity, is seen as objectively (and subjectively) necessary.
Cyclopean Fortresses, Royal Cities or Mountain Shelters?
Authors: Licheli Vakhtang , Dan Roberto , Vitolo Priscilla , Chogovadze Tamar , Cesaretti Andrea , Chilingarashvili Tornike , Saccone Tommaso , Gasparro Onofrio 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The present article is devoted to a new study of two archaeological complexes, Abuli and Shaori in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, that are known in the research literature. The sites discussed in this article have been visited and studied multiple times during the first three years of activities in the region in the frame of the Georgian-Italian Samtskhe-Javakheti Project. They have been carefully examined from both architectural and environmental perspectives and new hypotheses about their function have been proposed. Due to their unique geographical position and architectural features, the protohistoric fortified shelters of Abuli and Shaori may be considered exceptional archaeological sites not only in the archaeological panorama of Georgia but in the entire South Caucasus region.
Historic Premise of the Silk Roads in the South Caucasus
Authors: Jamburia Salome 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
In this article, I examine the evidence for the trade route coming into and passing through the South Caucasus in antiquity. The synthesis is undertaken in view of ancient literary sources, historical research and new archaeological evidence. The outcome reasserts the existence of the cross-border route in the South Caucasus. Further work should be undertaken to throw more light on the extent of this route and the role it played in ancient Eurasian society.
Ghosts on the Scene of Gas
Authors: Vignato Silvia 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This article describes a vision of time (the past and the future) in post-industrial dynamics that the author and her co-researchers could gain through shooting a film in the region of Lhokseumawe, Aceh, a once fruitful site of extraction of natural gas subsequently planned to become a Special Economic Zone. It engages with the notion of “worlding” processes and pinpoints, in the ethnographic case of Aceh, the difficulty to access them through discourse because specific strategies of silencing and erasure are enforced throughout an emotional landscape. It is argued that it was the use of film-making as a relational tool aiming to create images that enabled the researchers to see through time and beyond regimes of invisibility. This is how they met ghosts on the gas scene. The steps in the making of an ethnographic film are used as a narrative lead. A scene is set up where the extractive economy of gas is linked to a global vision of development and prosperity as well as to present and past national politics, including a thirty-year-long war of resistance (1975–2005). The creation of a Special Economic Zone is shown to provide a relevant interpretive prism. Different styles of self-staging reveal cultures of suffering in North Aceh. It is argued that fear as a collective emotion takes different shapes across time and serves different political scenarios. Dispossession of land and under-remunerated work appear on the scene; the film’s feminine characters’ positive look to the future appears as an active effort of elaboration of the evolving context. The film Aceh, After is on free access at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR89korhLwQ.
Inhabiting Working Sites and Being Safe
Authors: Tabacco Giacomo 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
In this paper, I will analyse how a household of “factory returnees” and a “factory family”, who were directly exposed to the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization in Indonesia, appropriate labor, infrastructures and globalization. I will explore how this generation of factory workers have developed their way to stay afloat during the post-industrial, pandemic and possibly post-pandemic context.
Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK
Authors: Robertson David G. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This response builds on Wolfart’s observations on the theological underpinnings of the “religious literacy” paradigm in a North American context by reflecting on the situation in the United Kingdom. Here, it is even more apparent that institutional factors are a bigger driver than methodological factors, driven by the neo-liberalisation of the universities and the entrenched institutional dominance of confessional approaches to the study of religion. Yet it also provides a way for social-scientific scholars of religion to explain the instrumental value of the subject to policymakers and funding bodies. I conclude by sketching an approach to religious literacy more in keeping with post-phenomenological Religious Studies.
Marine Scientific Research and Small Island Developing States in the Twenty-First Century: Appraising the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Authors: Coelho Luciana Fernandes 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Fitness for purpose of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) in the twenty-first century has been at the core of legal and political discussions. Such an inquiry is pertinent for small island developing States (SIDS), which have experienced first-hand the consequences of anthropogenic disturbances on the ocean. This study examines whether the provisions governing marine scientific research (MSR) in the LOSC provide mechanisms to strengthen SIDS scientific and technological capacities. It is suggested that the framework governing MSR seeks to promote fair and equitable benefit sharing and has rules enabling the time element therein. Accordingly, the consent regimes for MSR, rules on international cooperation, and the framework for the transfer of marine technology could serve the end of enhancing SIDS capacities. This interpretation shifts the avenues of inquiry from a descriptive to an empirical perspective.
The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court on Ownership and Control of Oil in the Kurdistan Region: Decision in Cases No. 69/2012 and 110/2019 of 15 February 2022
Authors: Bälz Kilian 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
In February 2022, the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court (FSC) issued a decision concerning the (controversial) question of whether the Iraqi Kurdistan Region may independently export oil and enter into agreements with international oil companies for the exploration and production of oil in this region. The issue has been in dispute many years between the Iraqi Federal Government and Kurdistan Region, which has the status of a ‘federal region’ under the 2005 Iraqi Constitution. The FSC confirmed the position of the Federal Government that the production of oil in entire Iraq is under the control of the Federal Government and dismissed the Kurdistan Regional Government’s line of argument that all fields developed in the Kurdistan Region after 2005 are subject to Kurdish control. The FSC declared the Kurdistan Oil and Gas Law (2007) unconstitutional, putting the validity of oil contracts between the Kurdistan Regional Government and international oil companies into question.
Rights Consciousness in Hungary and Some Comparative Remarks. Could an Increasing Level of Rights Consciousness Challenge the Autocratic Tradition?
Authors: Fekete Balázs , Bartha Attila , Gajduschek György , Gulya Fruzsina 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This article addresses the issue of rights consciousness in the context of the Hungarian legal culture. The paper first elaborates the theoretical and conceptual framework, then it describes the research design used for the empirical investigation. The empirical section of the article presents the findings about the Hungarian empirical analysis on rights consciousness with some comparative remarks, and then it reflects on the historically shaped socio-legal embeddedness of rights consciousness patterns in Hungary. In conclusion, the paper points out that the apparent broadening of rights consciousness as a normative pattern may counterbalance the widespread legal alienation rooted in the state Socialist past. Whether this transformation may mitigate the recent autocratic power aspirations is still an open question.
Recognition of the Rights of Taxpayers: Perspectives and Prospects
Authors: Aniyie Ifeanyichukwu Azuka 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This article evaluates specific powers, policies and processes (which includes the tax refund process, the pay-before-argument rule and the power of substitution) of the Nigerian tax system against the backdrop of the right to property and the right to life enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (CFRN). It argues that these rights are infringed on by Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) powers, policies and processes, and it concludes that the recognition of these rights in the course of the administration of the tax system has implications on compliance, revenue and the development of Nigeria.
Syriac Love Charms
Authors: Cherkashina Anna , Lyavdansky Alexey 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The first part of our inquiry on Syriac love charms was devoted to the recipe-type charms. This article edits four more Syriac love charms, which we attribute to the so-called prayer-type. The special features of this type of Syriac love charms are addressed and compared with that of the recipe-type texts, edited in Part I. The commentary to each text provides philological notes and parallels, both from within and outside of Syriac magical tradition.
Assessing Agency in Colonial Africa: Pan-Africanism as African Agency
Authors: Nunoo Isaac , Adu-Boateng Edward 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This article critically examines the contributions of Pan-Africanism to the nexus of African agency debate in the broader spectrum of great power-small power relationships, particularly during the era of colonialism. The article puts special emphasis on the colonial empire as a great power and Africa as a small power in the tussle of what was known as the “gunboat diplomacy.” What were the approaches; who were the actors; what were the grand geopolitical strategies employed in exerting influence in the complex relationship between the colonies and the colonialists? Relying on archival records (online), interviews, speeches, and other publications, sifted through the functionalism and neo-functionalism theories, the article contends that the Pan-African thinkers and advocates were significant actors in the fight against European dominance in Africa and provided a gateway for the final nationalist movement and liberation of the continent.
The Social Conundrums of COVID-19 Pandemic and Stringent Lockdown Policy Response: Nigeria in Context
Authors: Shodunke Ali O. , Oladipupo Sodiq A. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The global spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a grave public health crisis, threatened human survival and called for stringent lockdown policy response implementation. Further to the implementation, studies have been provided to explain the response impacts in developed countries with little attention on low and middle-income countries with a large population. The ones which focused on Nigeria were economic-based while paying less attention to social structures that influence development. Therefore, in the form of a documentary review, this paper addressed such academic rarity with an emphasis on poverty and livelihood, employment and workforce, education, human rights, crime and security to understand the situation in Nigeria. It established widespread poverty, crime perpetration, human rights abuse, massive job loss in both formal and informal sectors, disruption in education affecting 40 million students as the social impacts of the lockdown. Therefore, this paper emphasised social security for the general population, incentives to businesses against losses, improvement of the healthcare and education system, monitoring of police officers and reforms in managing future pandemics.
Psychosocial Support and Protection for Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda: A Needs Assessment
Authors: Kugonza Gorret , Mutsvara Shepherd 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Introduction: Established in 1964 and hosting over 76,000 refugees, Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Western Uganda was the focus of this study of existing structures and systems providing for the psychosocial and protection needs of both refugees and host communities.
Methodology: The cross-sectional study with both qualitative and quantitative elements used focus group discussions (fgd s) and in-depth interviews with key informants working with organisations supporting refugees and host communities. Further, an individual household assessment of refugees (n=200) and host communities (n=100) was carried out using a free-listing questionnaire.
Results: The traumatic situations of both refugees and host communities has led to high levels of fear, mood changes, stress and anxiety. This is further compounded by stressful situations such as competition for meagre resources and weak community-based interventions for psychosocial support and protection.
Conclusion: Community resource mobilisation, counselling and mainstreaming psy cho social support through beneficiary participation is warranted. The humanitarian organisations and the Ugandan government need to establish specialised psychosocial support systems and protection strategies aimed at addressing the psychological needs of both communities.
Le Comité africain d’experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l’enfant et le principe de l’intérêt supérieur de l’enfant
Authors: Abelungu Junior Mumbala 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The best interest of the child stands as an important and fundamental principle of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The charter’s content is determined and expanded upon by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child through its dual status as a monitoring body for the implementation and as the recipient of the principle. The Committee thus contributes to the promotion and protection of children’s rights. It is therefore important, through this study, to try to answer the question: what is the content of the principle of the best interest of the child under the law developed by the Committee? Indeed, by using the doctrinal approach to legal analysis, it has been shown that the Committee understands this principle in three dimensions. First, it is a principle to be guaranteed in any decision or action taken by the state regarding children. Second, it is an obligation imposed on all persons, authorities and officials in relation to children. Finally, it is the primary consideration and the ultimate result to be achieved. In conclusion, the Committee’s approach is a continuation of the content of its General Comment No. 14 on the best interest of the child. This is to be considered a fundamental right, a general principle of interpretation and a procedural rule.
Working “With” or “On” Moroccan Migrant Mothers
Authors: Miri Amal 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
In the context of marriage migration, women are believed to be held back or constrained by their husbands, family and religion from integrating and partaking in (regular) citizenship and Dutch courses, which denies their agency as both wives and citizens. Additionally, their personal choice to become mothers is believed to exacerbate their position as passive citizens: becoming a mother supposedly leaves little time to invest in integration courses, especially since day-care services are an important threshold. As these representations and policies are often not based on rigorous research that consults these migrant women, this research aims to fill this gap by bringing together the gendered representations and policy views on marriage migration, and lived experiences and desires as articulated by migrant women themselves. Another aim is to find out how exactly Moroccan migrant women navigate these structures as affective migrant mothers, and the role of religion in this.
Sociocultural and Economic Rights, Education, and the Media in the Context of European Minorities—International Developments in 2020
Authors: Riekkinen Mariya 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This contribution accounts for the key 2020 international developments related to social inclusion, economic and cultural rights, education and issues concerning media in the context of European minorities. Among the most significant advancements are the recognition of the associative element of the right to peaceful assembly in General Comment No. 37 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and clarification the scope of positive obligations in two European Court of Human Rights cases, those of Adám and others v. Romania concerning education in minority languages and of Hudorovič and others v. Slovenia related to accessing fresh water and sanitation by minority communities. No less significant is the speeding up of the process of elaborating a concrete definition of ‘a minority’ by the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues.