The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Knight, A. (2008). 'Superstition in Mexico: from colonial church to secular state', ...
David Chalmers maintains that certain kinds of conceivability are reliable guides to metaphysical possibility. In this essay, I argue that Chalmers is wrong about the relationship between conceivability and metaphysical possibility. I begin by explai...
A perennial question amongst social movement strategists is to what extent movements can use the tools of the system they are struggling against in their efforts to change that system. Whilst this debate traditionally distinguishes between two camps ...
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Dr Joyce is now based the the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford.
The aim of this thesis is to examine advertising from the point of view of Christian ethics: how it works, what is wrong with it and how it might go right as a practice. It argues that much existing criticism of advertising is justified, but that its...
Several studies have focused on the social sharing of visual practices as constitutive of evidence within a domain, while there has been relatively less attention paid to points where the social sharing of practices breaks down, or is resisted. This ...
Isaiah, along with Psalms and Zechariah, is one of the most quoted OT books in the Fourth Gospel (FG). There are thorough studies regarding the citations from Psalms and Zechariah in the FG. However, a monograph-length study on the use of Isaiah in t...
“Suppose we a number of things exposed, different from each other, as a, b, c, d, e, andc.,” proposed the mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis in 1685. “The Question is; how many ways the order of these may be varied? As, for instance, how man...
Commentary on Bergstrom and Rosvall, 'The transmission sense of information', Biology and Philosophy. In response to worries that uses of the concept of information in biology are mataphorical or insubstantial, Bergstrom and Rosvall have identified a...
Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses
