Archival Good Works for Theologians

Rituals or Good Works: Social Signalling in Religious Organizations

We develop a model of social signalling of religiosity and cooperative behaviour in religious organizations. The model embeds a ritual-based religious organization in which signalling arises through the use of costly rituals, and a discipline-based religious organization in which such signalling occurs through the monitoring of past behaviour. We use this framework to contrast -positively and n...

Capitalism as Heresy: On Why Theologians Criticize Markets

Christian economists are often interested in statements made by theologians and church leaders on economic issues. While there critical of modern economics as a discipline. The purpose of this paper Theologians discussed include Catholics and Protestants. Several of the theologians examined are part of the Radical Orthodoxy group and almost M ost nations utilize markets to organize their econom...

Mutual Dependence and Task Uncertainty in Scholarly Communication of Theologians

This research studies the scholarly communication of theologians, taking Karl Barth as a case study. Based on Hjørland's method of domain analysis and Whitley's (1984) theory of " mutual dependence " and " task uncertainty " , this paper analyzes how the degrees of mutual dependence and task uncertainty affect the theologian's information seeking and knowledge production. I hypothesize that Fis...

Archival Repositories for Digital Libraries

Current libraries use an assortment of uncoordinated and unreliable techniques for storing and managing their digital information. Digital information can be lost for a variety of reasons: magnetic decay, format and device obsolescence, human or system error, among many others. In this thesis, we address the problem of how to build archival repositories (AR). An AR has the following combined ke...

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