Almost since its inception, the concept of modernity was found to display tensions between its emancipatory potential to liberate the human subject from the manacles of tradition, and the application of reason to co-ordinate and control the natural world through scientific knowledge. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 12 midwives about their role in the Irish...

The main purpose of this article is to emphasize the role modern Orthodox Church in interreligious dialogues, focusing on texts Holy and Great Synod 2016 Crete. Moreover, at beginning, reference made various examples from history church that underline inseparable unity historical continuity tradition present, as has never ceased be dialogue with other religions. Then, analyzes positions concern...

that gained speed in the nineteenth and twentieth century in the western world, a typical modernist practice of technology politics emerged. The concepts of modernization and modernity need to be handled with care, of course, since their use may easily lead to an identification with modernizers, actors who have invented and used these labels to advance their cause. In addition, using these conc...

THE VALUABLE EMPHASIS ON MODERNITY in colonial and postcolonial African studies has profoundly divided precolonial African history from what comes after. But the depth and complexity of African aspirations for moral community and the forms of collective action they inspire, often in the face of severe material constraints, exceed the explanatory power of narratives of modernity oriented toward ...

Abstract This paper addresses a specific aspect of the social and cultural life Luso-Chinese in Mozambique, whose first contingents came from Chinese province Guangdong second half 19th century. Most settled city Beira. By 1950s, community was already well integrated into modern colonial The going through an unprecedented urban architectural boom. At that time, Luso-Chinese, who were essentiall...

Some workers have suggested that a hypothetical genetic mutation in an African population less than 100,000 years ago led to a cascade of neurological changes in the human brain that culminated in the appearance of modern language. Language then triggered the socioeconomic and cognitive changes we associate with behavioral modernity and Africans, armed with behavioral modernity, then spread out...