Japan is a land of many contrasts. It is modern yet rooted in tradition. In general, Japanese do not have much interest in religions, yet religions are overflowing in Japan. Christianity is a minority religion in Japan, and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement started there in 1972. In this paper, the author examines the influence of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement on the Japanes...

Within U.S. legal and policy circles, the discourse of informationpolicy reform has been organized principally around the themes of access to knowledge and network neutrality. Global discourses of information-policy reform are organized around parallel themes of access and connectivity. Each of those themes has contributed powerful insights to our understanding of the principles that should inf...

Legal educators have avoided core curriculum reform despite continual calls for change. This position is untenable for most law schools given current market conditions that have resulted in a severe decline in law school enrollment. This paper argues that legal educators should use learning theory when making reform decisions. Researchers who have studied how learning occurs in traditional appr...

One of the stressings President Jokowi's government is governance to accelerate achievement bureaucratic reform goals contained in 2020-2024 roadmap, especially related clean and accountable bureaucracy, excellent public services, it necessary build an Integrity Zone (ZI) Religious Courts (PA). The purpose this study analyze Implementation Bureaucratic Reform Policy West Sumatra Court with rese...

In his article "Radical Theology and the Reorganization of the US-American Religious System," Philippe Codde uses the example of the highly popular movement of death-of-God theology in the 1960s to demonstrate the wide applicability for cultural research of Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and to illustrate the validity of Even-Zohar's assertion that peripheral elements in any system can y...

In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual, racial, class, and national difference within feminist theory, questions of religious diff...