This paper discusses how the sixteenth-century Athonite monk Pachomios Rousanos (1508–1553) constructs his vision of “orthodoxy in faith,” “heterodoxy” and “orthopraxy” an age dominated by intense confessional polarization adaptation Greek O

In unsettled fields with multiple ideal-typical institutional logics, why do organizations tend to weaken or conform to prevalent logic order? We argue that prestige –defined as a tribute paid by field members to a select few with valued distinctive traits– plays a determinant role in explaining institutional heterodoxy (i.e., the choice to stop instantiating dominant logics or start instantiat...

Recent scholarship on the history of blasphemy in the Christian idiom has been driven mainly by two preoccupations. One, the battles between heterodoxy and magistracy for jurisdiction to prescribe the socio-legal standing of beliefs and non-beliefs; and two, the nature and significance of religiously offensive utterances. The books under review here tackle these inter-related matters via varied...

In a series of recent papers, Simon Saunders, Fred Muller and Michael Seevinck have collectively argued, against the folklore, that some non-trivial version of Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles is upheld in quantum mechanics. They argue that all particles—fermions, paraparticles, anyons, even bosons—may be weakly discerned by some physical relation. Here I show that their ar...