In 1391 Spanish Jews were forcibly converted to Catholic Christianity, and Portuguese suffered the same fate in 1497. Jewish law rendered involuntary converts as anusim voluntary meshumadim. Christians without ancestry called them by various names, New Christians, alboraique, xuetas, marranos, name a few. fifteenth century, clerical authorities debated whether indeed albeit coerced. Canonic sac...

It may sound like heresy, but making the ‘fuzzy’ discipline of management even fuzzier is paying dividends for business leaders. Indeed, an increasing number of CEOs and senior managers are now questioning the conventional wisdom that decision-making should be strictly analytical – they have found that sometimes it should be intuitive. This article discusses the latest findings in executive dec...

The once heretical concept that a misfolded protein is the infectious agent responsible for prion diseases is now widely accepted. Recent exciting research has led not only to the end of the skepticism that proteins can transmit disease, but also to expanding the concept that transmissible proteins might be at the root of some of the most prevalent human illnesses. At the same time, the idea th...

This paper contends that African-centered models of psychopathology represent a heretical challenge to orthodox North American Mental Health. Heresy is the defiant rejection of ideology from a smaller community within the orthodoxy. African-centered models of psychopathology use much of the same language and ideas about the diagnostic process as Western psychiatry and clinical psychology but ex...

Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition), the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world. Like that earlier Inquisition of 163...

The issue of the Bosnian church – or more precisely dualist heresy in Bosnia has caused serious controversies among scholars since 19th century. main aim this paper is to shed new light on controversial issue, through analysis doctrine Slavonic dualism (ordo Sclavoniae) based Western sources. subject will be sources concerning contacts Cathars from France and Italy with heretics Sclavonia espec...