This article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]

German Translation of Bruce Lincoln, Theses on Method. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 17.1 (2005) 8-10, DOI: 10.1163/1570068053429910; first published Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8.3 (1996) 225-227, online: https://religion.ua.edu/links/theses-on-method/ by Anne Koch

A short story about the pitfals of a new law, the General Act for the Dismantling of Normalising Power and Structures of Privilege, and, more philosophically, about the problems of institutionalizing progressive politics through law. Published in The Cabinat of Imaginary Laws, by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis: Returning to the map of the…[Read more]

Gay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, and politics continue to be deeply influenced by HIV to this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based HIV prevention technique, that allows disentangling gay sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness and death. This…[Read more]

The pandemic crisis has strongly affected both developing and de- veloping countries, so that public policies, development plans and strategic plans such as the 2030 Agenda have been significantly im- pacted. As a methodology: examining the scope of Latin American countries, those that had been more involved, and those that were later, can be done…[Read more]

El uso del término redes sociales se ha extendido de manera mayoritaria en los países de habla
hispana, no sólo de forma académica y científica, si no también en toda la sociedad entendiendo una
acepción comúnmente aceptada para hacer referencia a determinadas herramientas online como
Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram o Twitter entre otras. Así, ca…[Read more]

Academic freedom is under attack, both in authoritarian democracies, such as Hungary and Turkey, and in liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, the UK, France and Germany. For example, Gender Studies are being targeted by right-wing governments in Eastern Europe, and in France President Emmanuel Macron has attacked post-colonial…[Read more]

Spain’s Local Government model has suffered from problems of its own that have been left out of the political debate and also from the scientific and academic ones. The Cities of Madrid and Barcelona have a special status through special laws, and due to their size and importance they have specific problems. Hence the importance of comparing the 2…[Read more]

Política, Gobierno y Administración en la Comunidad de Madrid, España

This essay was conceived as an ‘op-ed’ submission in response to the disturbing events in Washington D.C. this January. It is a practical application of the model of experience that was outlined in the paper ‘On Being Dimensional’. It offers a different perspective on the arguments that characterize a liberal and a conservative.

More than ten years have passed since the 2007 MLA Ad Hoc Committee of Foreign Languages report recommended structural and curricular change initiatives to counteract the growing crisis in postsecondary world language education. Almost a decade earlier, Heidi Byrnes had already expounded on the need to replace persistent bifurcated curricular…[Read more]

This paper addresses a curious pattern of interlocking relationships. This pattern unfolds in a fixed form of ever-changing content, or what is often described as a ‘standing wave’. I will attribute this pattern to the interactive nervous system that synchronizes the periodic effects of four, neurological functions. These functions connect a par…[Read more]

The essay is an analytical critique of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act by deconstructing it in regards to a wide range of legal (national and international), political and moral issues. I argue how the CAA finds itself at odds with some of the founding principles of our democracy, and also fails to serve as a citizenship law under accepted customs…[Read more]

A very critical overview of seemingly disparate films

This paper examines four critical frames of academic leadership by Bolman and Gallos. Specifically, the paper focuses on admissions counselors and the role they play in engaging and promoting college success with Latino students who might either be documented or undocumented. Admissions counselors are an integral part of the university team as…[Read more]