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Perpetuating Anti-Muslim Discrimination through the Interpretation of Religious Equality in the European Court of Human Rights
2018
AbstractFaced with widespread prejudice and discrimination, European Muslims are increasingly resorting to the European Court of Human Rights as a last-ditch strategy to transform state policies toward minority faiths. While the Court has a mandate to protect religious freedom and equality, the conservative and sometimes biased way in which it has interpreted these concepts has enabled the persistence of stark asymmetries in the legal and social statuses of different religions. Using an analysis of relevant cases, this article seeks to highlight the judicial processes that currently sustain Muslim subordination and pinpoint specific reforms that could reverse the trend.
Una lectura teológica del sermón de José María Cos
2015
<p>El presente trabajo hace una lectura teológica de un sermón insurgente de José María Cos y puede ser considerado un capítulo en la historia de la teología en América Latina, un área todavía poco desarrollada, y es necesario hacer nuevos estudios en este campo. El artículo se inserta en la nueva historiografía que se ha interesado por la religiosidad de los curas insurgentes y resalta la motivación cristiana del padre Cos, quien se había volcado hacia la praxis política de la independencia de México motivado en primera instancia por su fe cristiana. El artículo concluye aseverando que José María Cos forma entonces parte de una larga tradición de sacerdotes políticos en la historia d…
Go-betweens, revisited: a historiographical proposal through the trial of an indefinable man (sixteenth century)
2018
AbstractThis article studies the trial of Francisco Mariano, suspected of participation in a conspiracy linking Algeria, Istanbul and the Moriscos in Spain at the beginning of the Alpujarras revolt (1568–1571) and just before the battle of Lepanto. In doing so, it engages with how historians have used the notion of the “go-between,” and proposes a broader definition of the term. Extending the term to a wider range of social actors reveals the fluid mobility of the Early Modern Mediterranean spaces, in contrast to an interpretation of a world constrained by cultural and international borders.
In Other Words: The Ethics of the Translator in 17th-century al-Andalus. The Perspective of Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim al-Ḥaǧarī al-Andalusī
2015
This study focuses on a particular aspect of the Translation Studies orDirāsāt al-tarǧamah, i.e. the ethics of the translator.Starting from the analysis of concepts like “cultural otherness” or “linguistic hospitality”, theorized by Antoine Berman, Lawrence Venuti and Paul Ricoeur, and concerning the translator’s process of mediating between languages and between cultures, it will be taken into account the specific case of a muslim traveller and interpreter, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥaǧarī al-Andalusī (d. 1051/1641), author of theKitāb Nāṣir al-dīn ʿalà l-qawm al-kāfirīn, who was asked, by a Christian authority (the Archbishop of Granada), to translate some Arabic manuscripts.In such a context, t…
What Could Mean âTo Think in Spanishâ?
2008
The expression “to think in Spanish” could be understand in two different senses: as an exhortation or as a description of an state of affairs. In the first sense it has a normative character. It can means something like “we must think in Spanish!”. In the second case, it would be a more or less vague formulation about the existence of a relevant intelectual tradition in the spanish language. The first interpretation is misleading and can have excluding or trivial consequences. The second one is partially true. I propose a third interpretation: “to think in Spanish” could be understood as an invitation not to forget our Spanish-speaking environment in the double sense of the physical and in…
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Hou…
2010
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.
The Marvelous History of the Dominican Republic in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2013
Few things are as noticeable in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) as its references to a wide variety of movies, TV series, comics, and most centrally to fantasy, the genre in which worlds are created that allow for the existence of magic, monsters, and other elements of the marvelous. Interweaving the story of the fictional Cabral family in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora with the history of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961), the novel offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Caribbean history in a way that is completely intelligible only if one understands the relevance of its primary fantasy intertext, The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), both for…
Differences between American and Indian consumers' visual images
2013
PurposeA company's corporate image is very important and it can be conveyed through visual images. In order to provoke interest and grasp attention, visual application is an important communication process. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cultural aspects that affect consumers' interpretation of visual communication in terms of corporate imaging/branding through electronic images on the internet. Specifically two different countries' cultures are being compared: the United States and India.Design/methodology/approachWeb images of 30 brands, selected from a list of top 100 brands have been chosen and compared in both scenes.FindingsThe results show that some differences really do…
Memoria oral del modelo de familia troncal en Els Ports de Morella: tensiones, cambios y continuidades para una generación de ruptura
2010
Este texto tiene por objeto estudiar la reconstrucción del modelo de familia troncal a través de la memoria de personas que forman parte de la última generación que ha vivido su pleno funcionamiento de forma más o menos directa, en la comarca castellonense de Els Ports de Morella. Se realiza una síntesis de dicho modelo como tipo ideal, para posteriormente profundizar, en primer lugar, en los discursos sobre prácticas que se ajustan a aquel patrón y, en segundo lugar, en algunos elementos de tensión que surgen de su aplicación como instrumento de interpretación de la realidad. Finalmente, se presentan algunos aspectos de cómo las personas entrevistadas plasman en su discurso las continuidad…
El patrimonio y paisaje del agua de l’Horta Sud como recursos para una propuesta didáctica
2021
La Huerta de Valencia, paisaje cultural milenario, con valores ambientales, históricos, económicos, culturales y simbólicos, se presenta como un magnífico escenario sobre el que desplegar una propuesta didáctica. Una propuesta que apueste por el aprovechamiento del patrimonio cultural y paisajístico como recurso educativo. Existe toda una línea de investigación en torno al potencial educativo del patrimonio cultural y del paisaje. Tras su revisión, y tras cartografiar, inventariar y analizar los bienes patrimoniales del área de estudio, se plantea como objetivo el diseño de una propuesta didáctica articulada en torno a un itinerario por la Huerta, como estrategia de aprendizaje integral par…