religious discourse in iran s text books

Religious and Political Discourse in Iran: Moving Toward Post-Fundamentalism

Epistemologies in the Text of Children ' s Books : Native - and non - Native - authored books Morteza Dehghani

Epistemologies in the Text of Children's Books: Nativeand non-Nativeauthored books Morteza Dehghani a , Megan Bang b , Douglas Medin c , Ananda Marin c , Erin Leddon c & Sandra Waxman c a Brain and Creativity Institute , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , USA b College of Education , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA c Department of Psychology , Northwestern Univ...

HOW IS RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE POSSIBLE? The Constitutive Role of Metaphors in Religious Discourse

The creation and use of metaphors is an indispensable element of our mental skills and our ability to use language. Modern studies of metaphor underline its almost unlimited range. Perceived this way, a metaphor is not only a rhetorical figure occurring in poetical language and in several different specific types of discourse. The ability to create and use metaphors is used in everyday and scie...

The Role of Persian Reading Text Books of the First to the Third Primary School in Presenting Religious Doctrines in Iran

Transmission of values and religious concepts to children is one of the most important issues in the third millennium and it has drawn varied and different views among experts and scholars in the world. Research specialized in religious literature for children and adolescents create new capacities in the presentation of religious concepts to the group. Plans have been considered to transfer val...

Stereotypes in Children ' s Books

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Automatic Text Localisation in Scanned Comic Books

Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, ...