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10 Citations
7,507 Views
12 Pages

This paper reports the characteristics of suicides which occurred during the existential and the non-existential wars in Israel. It provides a first approximation of whether the suicide patterns in each war are consistent with the findings of Morsell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,810 Views
14 Pages

23 January 2025

This article focuses intently on three pieces of civil war research and how they interact with each other to improve our understanding of the dynamic nature of warring actors. Patrick Regan’s book, entitled Sixteen Million One, delves into the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,663 Views
20 Pages

8 June 2022

Throughout Chinese history, the Grand Canal served as a regional infrastructure in facilitating socio-economic and political development. The core regions of each dynasty were located in China’s eastern plain, and the Grand Canal ran from south...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,542 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2018

In this study, we examined the effects of layoffs and wars for talent on firms’ performance. The simultaneous use of layoffs and “war-for-talent” practices has become part of the management strategy for adjusting workforce competenc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,992 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2025

The prediction made by former Vice President of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin, that the wars of the 21st century will be about water, remains on the international political agenda. Yet, there is enough evidence corroborating that water wars have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,169 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2023

Early in the 21st century, the term woke became ubiquitous within the context of the culture wars. However, the meaning of the term has been notoriously difficult to pin down, and its use as a descriptor of the most bewildering range of phenomena has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,763 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2023

This article will cover the different types of migration in Macedonia and its Prespa region at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries through the Jonovski family from the village of Orovo. Poverty and wars caused many men to look for work and to earn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,454 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2020

The Star Wars films have probably spawned more video game adaptations than any other franchise. From the 1982 release of The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600 to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order, around one hundred officially licensed Star Wars ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
22,360 Views
10 Pages

12 March 2019

A seemingly inescapable feature of war is the demonization of the enemy, who becomes somehow less human and more deserving of death in times of military strife, which unsurprisingly helps to justify the violence against them. This article looks at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,248 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2025

This article examines the transformation of religion into a structural part of cultural war, as well as the broader process of the culturalization of politics, as a hegemonic strategy. Within this specific context, the article describes the evolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,367 Views
27 Pages

9 January 2021

During the early years of the Civil Wars in England, from February 1642 to July 1643, Puritan parishioners in conjunction with the parliament in London set up approximately 150 divines as weekly preachers, or lecturers, in the city and the provinces....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,568 Views
18 Pages

23 July 2025

This paper investigates the complex relations between the Italian states, particularly Venice and Florence, and France at the beginning (c. 1560–1565) of the French Wars of Religion (c. 1560–1598). Focusing on the early years of the confl...

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  • Open Access
2,583 Views
10 Pages

16 June 2022

If the Christian Church prioritizes its existence and expansion, it will turn to the entity that approves of it and protects it. When the Modern Japanese emperor’s state approached the church as his grace, the Japanese Christian Church showed i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,118 Views
17 Pages

The Hegemonic Character of Techno-Functional Neo-Immanentism and Its Relationship with Culture Wars

  • Celso Sánchez Capdequí,
  • Javier Gil-Gimeno and
  • Pablo Echeverría Esparza

22 July 2023

This paper analyzes the social processes that have led to the consolidation of a technocratic secular order and the type of cultural struggle that has made this possible. To this end, it first proposes a reconstruction of the technocratic consciousne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,615 Views
26 Pages

21 September 2018

This paper examines 2.5-Dimensional musicals, or theater adaptations of anime/manga/videogames. As the genre has been gaining popularity in Japan since around 2007, criticism on the genre began to appear. What they uncritically assume is that the pio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,602 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2022

After causing mass disasters that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers from countries around the world, the two Great Wars left some of them lost and missing. In France, these corpses reside in a legal vagueness where they belong neithe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,519 Views
13 Pages

This essay demonstrates how wartime objects can have a special resonance in families as keepers of memory, and it especially explores the role of daughters of military participants in preserving the artifacts of their veteran fathers. Using several c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,634 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2025

Ecclesia semper reformanda est, as the medieval saying goes. This proved particularly true of the medieval church structure in the first half of the 16th century. The various movements of renewal slowly broke up the forms that had developed during th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
703 Views
29 Pages

27 November 2025

This article examines the eschatological dimension of the sermons of François Le Picart (1504–1556), a prominent Parisian preacher and a precursor who established the codes that enabled the gradual maturation of a theophanic tension of v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,055 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2025

The intersection of religion and education in the United States dates to colonial times, as do attempts by religious institutions and individuals to regulate educational content. After a prominent retreat by religious fundamentalists following the Sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,868 Views
7 Pages

Social Media Addiction and Fear of War in Germany

  • André Hajek,
  • Benedikt Kretzler and
  • Hans-Helmut König

Individuals with an excessive use of social media may be frequently exposed to stimuli, such as (fake) news or images of violence, which might lead to a higher fear of war. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the association between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,093 Views
11 Pages

6 January 2025

Just war theory, significantly shaped by Christian moral theology, has provided a prominent ethical framework for discussions on the justice of war. Numerous works have been published on classical Chinese counterparts, including passages from the Men...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,295 Views
19 Pages

31 August 2021

It has been argued recently that Uganda’s sexual law should be interpreted as a part of gender power struggles, rather than in the original neo-colonial interpretation or as a result of structural changes and President Museveni’s pragmatic policy. Ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,487 Views
26 Pages

The expansion of wars around the world fosters a macrosocial stress with multilevel effects that also affect the mental health of populations not directly involved, in particular of evolutionary targets in delicate transition. The present study descr...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,959 Views
30 Pages

2 April 2018

This essay intervenes in debates about the depiction of conflict since 1945, by comparing two highly significant photographic ‘hacks’: Brecht’s War Primer (Kriegsfibel) 1955; and Broomberg & Chanarin’s War Primer 2, 2011. Kriegsfibel is a collect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,808 Views
9 Pages

Aim: to clarify the association between political party affinity and fear of conventional and nuclear war in Germany. Methods: data were used from a nationally representative online survey (in terms of age bracket, sex and state; n = 3091 individuals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,971 Views
12 Pages

Association of Gulf War Illness-Related Symptoms with Military Exposures among 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans Evaluated at the War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC)

  • Sarah T. Ahmed,
  • Lea Steele,
  • Peter Richardson,
  • Shree Nadkarni,
  • Sandhya Bandi,
  • Mazhgan Rowneki,
  • Kellie J. Sims,
  • Jacqueline Vahey,
  • Elizabeth J. Gifford and
  • Drew A. Helmer
  • + 7 authors

27 February 2022

Veterans with difficult-to-diagnose conditions who receive care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system can be referred for evaluation at one of three specialty VA War-Related Illness and Injury Study Centers (WRIISC). Veterans o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,919 Views
17 Pages

The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,322 Views
8 Pages

14 September 2018

While some war poets amplify the concept of anonymity for enemy soldiers, projecting an “us vs. them” mentality, other defining voices of war counter this militaristic impulse to dehumanize the enemy. This pivot toward describing the Worl...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,230 Views
13 Pages

The Gulf War Women’s Health Cohort: Study Design and Protocol

  • Benjamin E. Ansa,
  • Kimberly Sullivan,
  • Maxine H. Krengel,
  • Vahé Heboyan,
  • Candy Wilson,
  • Stacey Iobst and
  • Steven S. Coughlin

Military service and deployment affect women differently than men, underscoring the need for studies of the health of women veterans and their receipt of health care services. Despite the large numbers of women who served during the 1990–1991 Gulf Wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,991 Views
24 Pages

31 March 2024

This article compares the safeguarding of monuments and immoveable works of art in Italy in the first years of World War II to the on-site protection undertaken in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and explores whether traditional or more innovativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,265 Views
18 Pages

During the Cold War, two basic schools of thought emerged among U.S. Christian leaders and ethicists concerning the implications of the nuclear revolution for the use of force by the United States. The just war thinkers held that nuclear war could in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,952 Views
22 Pages

29 January 2023

Digital media is increasingly being used in formal education. In China, in order to reduce the negative emotions and behaviors of college students in World War Two (WWII) history courses, digitized resources of war heritage are being applied to impro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,129 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2021

The Almohad movement (12th–13th centuries, Islamic West) had in the return to the direct study of the primary sources of Islam—the Qur’an and the Sunna—and in jihād, two of its most important pillars of legitimation and action. In this sense, it is a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,838 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2021

After the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, the British government’s call to arms caused a moral and religious dilemma for members of the Religious Society of Friends (Friends or Quakers), whose fundamental principle was (and is) the rejection of wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,553 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2023

This article employs the LIM method, complemented by publications and interviews conducted during the ongoing war in Ukraine, to explore the shifts in attitudes toward war and peace within Ukrainian evangelical communities. This shift involves a tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,118 Views
17 Pages

The article is an examination of the roots of the amalgam of complex forces that informed the ‘religious cold war’. It looks at the near and the more distant past. Naturally this includes consideration of the interwar years and those of the Second Wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,196 Views
26 Pages

5 July 2024

In post-war environments, property valuation encounters obstacles stemming from widespread destruction, population displacement, and complex legal frameworks. This study addresses post-war property valuation by integrating war-related considerations...

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