Does religious commitment have a common political impact across national frontiers? To date, that question has been explored empirically only for Roman Catholics, who might be expected to behave similarly because of centralizing resources in their tradition. This article explores the extent of transnational political attitudes among Jews in the United States and Israel, two groups with less cen...

This paper addresses a re-reading of the Farroupilha War (1835-1845) at IHGB from the 1920’s to the celebration of the conflict centenary in 1935, which ended up integrating it into the national historical memory. In this process, discursive and institutional strategies were triggered, regarding the political use of the past, the historiographical tradition of IHGB and the constructed intellect...

Colombia’s physical and socio-political landscape—a territory fragmented by mountain ranges and tropical forests, deficient infrastructure, lack of national integration, and the tradition of armed revolts against the central authorities—has provided fertile ground for guerrillas. Guerrilla warfare shading into politicized banditry has been, in fact, the most prevalent form of armed activity in ...

Shahnaz Tofangchiha ; Faezeh Dehghan ; Hamid reza Saberi 3 1Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, AJA University Of Medical Sciences ,Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of occupational medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Occupational Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Faezeh D...

With the current rapid diffusion of Internet and World Wide Web, many organisations establish Web services and hence become providers of digital documents. Based on eight smaller case studies and theoretical work with dialectics, this paper discusses the organisational implementation of the World Wide Web among information providers. A Web service typically takes its starting point in the curre...

In addition to their purely scientific significance, recent advances in our understanding of emotion and its role in political behavior open up real opportunities for gaining leverage on crucial issues relating to political theory. However, much of this work argues that it represents as a fairly radical break with the Western tradition’s prevailing conceptualization of reason, emotion, and thei...

meeting of the fourth shi‘a imam with muslim b. ‘uqba in harra uprising is narrated in various forms. investigation of narrations of that meeting can remove ambiguity of a controversial event in the political life of the fourth shi‘a imam and expound part of political policies of shi‘a school in the dissimulation era. investigations made earlier as to those narrations, however, do not seem suff...