The first ecclesiastical writer to take the Tridentine decrees relating to the use and abuse of religious imagery1 as a starting point for an analysis of the question of nudity in art was Johannes M ~ l a n u s , ~ in his De Picturis et Imaginibus Sacris It is true that Gilio (Louvain 1 5 7 0 ) ~ ~ da Fabriano had already published his Dialogo degli Errori de' Pittori in 1564,~ the year after t...

Voting is perceived as free and rational. Citizens make whatever choices they wish, shielded from external influences by the privacy of the voting booth. The current paper, however, suggests that a subtle source of influence—polling places themselves—can impact voting behavior. In two elections, people voting in churches were more likely to support a conservative candidate and a ban on same-sex...

despite their individual obscurity, Birken claims that as a group they can tell us something of the closeness of seventeenthcentury Puritan medical and clerical families, and also reveal "the mighty compatibility of Puritanism and medical professionalism", which is "not fully appreciated" (p. 101). And here we glimpse an axe that the author has brought with him to the historical mill: Puritans ...

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 Contemporary man encounters digitality on a daily basis, which affects his life at specific stages of development. This applies above all to the period childhood and youth, when one is naturally subjected educational processes. Directory Catechesis points out that this influence so significant it allows us speak new culture, chan...