Marranism as Judaism as Universalism: Reconsidering Spinoza

Reconsidering lactate as a sepsis risk biomarker

OBJECTIVES There has been renewed interest in lactate as a risk biomarker in sepsis and septic shock. However, the ability of the odds ratio (OR) and change in the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) to assess biomarker added-value has been questioned. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A sepsis cohort was identified from the ICU database of an Australian tertiary re...

Cancer as a chronic illness? Reconsidering categorization and exploring experience.

This article explores the different ways that user experience is defined and conceptualized, and the various policy and professional contexts in which emphasis is placed on exploring users' views. We go on to examine the experience of cancer as a chronic illness and argue that, although there are common features in the experience of cancer and people with chronic illness, the differences are to...

Spinoza Today: The Current State of Spinoza Scholarship

Towards Judaism

As China is the only country in the Far East world in which Jews have continually lived for over 1,000 years, "Chinese Judaism" -referring to the religious belief and practices of those Jews who had lived or are now living in China -is unique. Within this long history, a significant distinction must be made. Jews who came before modern times, before 1840, became part of Chinese society almost w...

The Approach of Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion as Exemplified in His Study of Ancient Judaism

Max Weber’s approach to the sociology of religion still poses a puzzle. Difficult logical-methodical and substantive issues are involved. As it is well known, he first dealt with religion in 1904/1905, in his essay on the relationship between ascetic Protestantism and the emerging ‘spirit’ of modern capitalism, which he regarded a study in the history of religion, confined to the post-Reformati...