This paper attempts to cast a little historical light on current debate among scholars and publishers that appears to be over whether the academic journal is an endlessly exploitable commercial property or a public good to which all have right. It identifies key patterns in the patronage of medieval monasticism that helped to establish learning as an economically distinct form of labor, and is ...

When monastics of the Indic North and Northwest around turn Common Era made decision to introduce art into monasteries, current cultural assumptions regarding aesthetic experience such objects, which were axiomatically negated by Buddhist ideology, led certain confrontations in law praxis an attempt resolve these within monastic legal codes (vinaya) redacted during this period. Tracing historic...

Marriage holds a special position in different cultures and religions. Despite differences in the limits and conditions of marriage, religions have many similarities in regard to the issue of marriage. This research paper is a comparative study of marriage in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. The findings reveal that all three traditions recognize marriage to have a sacred nature, and they all ...

The Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular writers last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between literary tradition, American spy thrillers and conspiracy novels, postcolonial critique. is projection into future series questions about modernisation Ethi...