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Los emblemas de las Biblias del Oso y del Cántaro. Hipótesis interpretativa
2013
ABSTRACT: The first Bible translated completely into Spanish, by Casiodoro de Reina, was published in Basel in 1569. It is known as The Bible of the Bear in reference to the emblem featured on its title-page. The interpretation of this emblem has been largely unsatisfactory. This study proposes a new interpretative hypothesis based on the comparison of the emblems in the first two Protestant Spanish Bibles: The Bible of the Bear and The Bible of the Pitcher . The latter work is a revision of the Reina Bible published by Valera in 1602. The emblems in both Bibles have in common iconic elements, a compositive structure, Biblical quotations and meanings. KEYWORDS: Protestant Spanish bibles, E…
The Love of Money, Satisfaction, and the Protestant Work Ethic: Money Profiles Among Univesity Professors in the U.S.A. and Spain
2004
This study tests the hypothesis that university professors (lecturers) (in the U.S. and Spain) with different money profiles (based on Factors Success, Budget, Motivator, Equity, and Evil of the Love of Money Scale) will differ in work-related attitudes and satisfaction. Results suggested that Achieving Money Worshipers (with high scores on Factors Success, Motivator, Equity, and Budget) had high income, Work Ethic, and high satisfaction with pay level, pay administration, and internal equity comparison but low satisfaction with external equity comparison. Careless Money Admirers (high Success but low Budget) had low intrinsic job satisfaction and low satisfaction with pay level and life. A…
Ceļš: Teoloģisks un kultūrvēsturisks rakstu krājums. Nr.48
1996
1996. g. pasaule atzīmēja 450 gadu atceri, kopš no šīs pasaules šķīries Dr. M. Luters. Lasītājam piedāvāti vēsturnieku un filozofu, nevis teologu, ieskati par vēsturiskām pārmaiņām, kuras ietekmēja M. Lutera Reformācija Latvijā.
Religion and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Public Support for Socio-economic Rights in Times of Migration
2020
The theme of this article is the legitimisation of social and economic rights within the context of the Scandinavian welfare state. This problem has become more prominent in the light of the recent influx of immigrants from countries in the Middle East and Africa dominated by other religious and cultural traditions than Lutheran Protestantism. Two questions are discussed in the article. First, what role has religion played vis-a-vis the development of the welfare states in Scandinavia? Second, in what ways have recent immigration trends influenced popular support for welfare provision and social rights?
From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP
2018
In 2006, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) performed the most spectacular political turnaround in Northern Irish political history. The party worked against any Irish dimension in Northern Irish politics but took up power with Sinn Fein (SF) after the St Andrews agreement. This chapter discusses how the DUP emerged as the leading unionist party. The unionist ‘zero-sum-game’ went in favour of the DUP, but what motivated this political change in the unionist community? This chapter traces how the DUP moved from being a party of clear opposition to becoming a party of power. How did the party increase its electoral support while they at the same time manoeuvred themselves into a negotiating …
How important is culture to understand political protest?
2021
Abstract The literature considers nonviolent protests among the most important predictors of transitions towards democracy and democratic reforms. This study addresses the conditionsmaking countries more likely to experience nonviolent instead of violent forms of protest. While the literature emphasizes economic and political predictors of protest at the country level, we expand the study of nonviolent-vs-violent protest by incorporating cultural predictors. To do so, we use a newly developed time-pooled cross-sectional database covering an established set of orientations from the World Values Survey, known as “emancipative values”. Estimating the prevalence of these values at the country l…
Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Partiti populisti, diritti e uguaglianza di genere
2021
The Great Recession changed the political landscape of the European democracies with the electoral success of populist protest parties in different countries. In this article, we wonder if there are features that characterized these political parties about the issues of gender equality and women’s rights. Populism and feminization of politics are recurring topics in the scholars’ debate, but the relationships between these two phenomena are still little studied. Seeing as the issue is linked to context, and not only to the political parties’ differences, we will focus on three illustrative cases, in different European nations – Spain, Finland, Poland – analysing scientific literature and do…
Hugo Grotius – Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law
2014
The Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius’ status as an important forerunner of the Enlightenment is well recognized, bolstered by his famous etiamsi daremus-dictum in the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis. Less well known is that Grotius was the first central Protestant thinker to redefine the concept of ius, so that it was understood as individual or subjective rights. His understanding of ius as a personal moral quality, which he subsequently delimits as the expletive justice or perfect right to one’s own (suum), was given a pivotal role in his system of natural law. These concepts of ius and suum, which Grotius differentiates from other rationally derived moral principles, inspired John Locke…
La tesis de Weber en torno al capitalismo en el 500 Aniversario de la Reforma Protestante
1970
La tesis de Weber respecto a una hipotética huella del protestantismo en el «espíritu» del capitalismo ha sido ampliamente difundida. Sin desmerecer su planteamiento (la indemostrabilidad no resta verosimilitud), lo cierto es que, siendo una hipótesis difícilmente falsable, de ella han derivado formulaciones poco cuidadosas que vendrían a justificar las actuales circunstancias económicas con hechos religiosos diferenciales. Siendo la religión un hecho omniabarcador sin igual, tales circunstancias dependen de muchos factores. Se ha pretendido conferirle validez científica a partir de datos socioeconómicos de lo más variado. Algo aplicable también a quienes pretenden refutarle. La intoxicació…