Interpreting Judeo-Christianity in America

Metathesis in Judeo-Spanish Consonant Clusters

Judeo-Spanish (JS) denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Some descriptions of JS emphasize its conservative, archaic nature, highlighting its similarities to Old Spanish (OS), while other research points up the novel characteristics that d...

Serving God and Man: Evangelical Christianity and Electoral Politics in Latin America

Evangelical Christians are a rapidly growing share of the population in most Latin American countries, yet their involvement and success in electoral politics varies widely, even among the countries where they are most numerous. This paper examines the cases of Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Peru, assessing a series of potential explanations for cross-national variation in evangelicals’ electora...

Interpreting satellite column observations of formaldehyde over tropical South America.

Space-borne column measurements of formaldehyde (HCHO), a high-yield oxidation product of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), represent important constraints for quantifying net regional fluxes of VOCs. Here, we interpret observed distributions of HCHO columns from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) over tropical South America during 1997-2001. We present the first comparison of year-...

Mary in Early Christianity and Islam

This article explores the life and importance of Mary in Islam and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each tradition. It will be shown that Mary in Christianity is almost merely important because she was the mother of Jesus, while the Muslim reverence for her is based on her own noble characteristics. From the Muslim perspective, even if Mary had ...

Christianity and Nature in Europe