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Miracle workers : a novel
\"Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as \"God\") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him. When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs - uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days, revealing lost keys in snow banks - and they refuse to accept that earth is going under. The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. He'll call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love. With doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them - and the rest of us, too.\" -- back cover
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Opus Dei e a santificação do trabalho uma versão católica da ética protestante?
Este artigo analisa o ideal da santificação do trabalho do Opus Dei, uma organização católica, de cariz mais conservador e alvo de mediatização e perceções de senso comum generalistas. Mobilizando a perspetiva weberiana da ética de trabalho protestante, é possível encontrar similitudes entre o ascetismo (intramundano) do Opus Dei e a ética de trabalho puritana, principalmente de vertente calvinista. No sentido de identificar semelhanças, foi realizada uma pesquisa empírica nas áreas Metropolitanas de Porto e Lisboa, assente em entrevistas a membros do Opus Dei. A análise dos resultados permitiu obter um conhecimento mais aprofundado não só da conceção do trabalho e estilos de vida como das dinâmicas desta instituição.
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The Cambridge companion to miracles
This book provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues.
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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a \"holy war,\" where physical violence could be not just sinless, but salvific. The book focuses on accounts of miracles reported to have happened in the course of the crusade, especially the miracle of the intervention of saints in the Battle of Antioch. Lapina shows why and how chroniclers used these miracles to provide historical precedent and to reconcile the messiness of history with the conviction that history was ordered by divine will. In doing so, she provides an important glimpse into the intellectual efforts of the chronicles and their authors, illuminating their perspectives toward the concepts of history, salvation, and the East. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade demonstrates how these narratives sought to position the crusade as an event in the time line of sacred history. Lapina offers original insights into the effects of the crusade on the Western imaginary as well as how medieval authors thought about and represented history.
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The Genetic Basis of Composite Spike Form in Barley and ‘Miracle-Wheat’
Inflorescences of the tribe Triticeae, which includes wheat (Triticum sp. L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) are characterized by sessile spikelets directly borne on the main axis, thus forming a branchless spike. ‘Compositum-Barley’ and tetraploid ‘Miracle-Wheat’ (T. turgidum convar. compositum (L.f.) Filat.) display noncanonical spike-branching in which spikelets are replaced by lateral branch-like structures resembling small-sized secondary spikes. As a result of this branch formation ‘Miracle-Wheat’ produces significantly more grains per spike, leading to higher spike yield. In this study, we first isolated the gene underlying spike-branching in ‘Compositum-Barley,’ i.e., compositum 2 (com2). Moreover, we found that COM2 is orthologous to the branched headt (bht) locus regulating spike branching in tetraploid ‘Miracle-Wheat.’ Both genes possess orthologs with similar functions in maize BRANCHED SILKLESS 1 (BD1) and rice FRIZZY PANICLE/BRANCHED FLORETLESS 1 (FZP/BFL1) encoding AP2/ERF transcription factors. Sequence analysis of the bht locus in a collection of mutant and wild-type tetraploid wheat accessions revealed that a single amino acid substitution in the DNA-binding domain gave rise to the domestication of ‘Miracle-Wheat.’ mRNA in situ hybridization, microarray experiments, and independent qRT-PCR validation analyses revealed that the branch repression pathway in barley is governed through the spike architecture gene Six-rowed spike 4 regulating COM2 expression, while HvIDS1 (barley ortholog of maize INDETERMINATE SPIKELET 1) is a putative downstream target of COM2. These findings presented here provide new insights into the genetic basis of spike architecture in Triticeae, and have disclosed new targets for genetic manipulations aiming at boosting wheat’s yield potential.
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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade
\"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a \"holy war.\" Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events\"--Provided by publisher.
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İbn ‘Âşûr’un Hz. Peygamber Tasavvuru
İslâm dünyasında on dört asırdır pek çok âlim yaşamış ve yazdıkları eserleri ile dinin anlaşılması, yorumlanması ve yaşanması hususunda yol göstermişlerdir. Bu âlimlerden biri de yakın zamanda XIX. asrın son çeyreği ile XX. asrın ilk üç çeyreğinde Mağrib bölgesinde yer alan Tunus’ta yaşamış olan Muhammed et-Tâhir b. ‘Âşûr’dur. 1879 yılında Tunus’ta doğan İbn ‘Âşûr, ilk eğitimini evinin yakınındaki medreselerde almıştır. Ardından Zeytûne Üniversitesi’nde yedi yıl eğitim görmüştür. Mezun olduktan sonra burada hocalık görevine başlamış, ilerleyen zamanlarda da üniversitenin rektörü olmuştur. Bunların dışında daha pek çok vazifede bulunan İbn ‘Âşûr, oldukça hareketli ve sıkıntılı bir hayattan sonra 1973’de vefat etmiştir. Muhammed et-Tâhir b. ‘Âşûr, çok yönlü bir âlimdir ve İslâmî ilimlerin hemen hemen her alanında değerli eserler telif etmiş birisidir. Bu çalışmada yazmış olduğu kitap ve makalelerinden hareketle İbn ‘Âşûr’un Hz. Peygamber tasavvuru konusu ortaya konulacaktır. Bu bağlamda Hz. Peygamber’in ebeveyninin ve atalarının dinî durumu ele alınarak soyunun asilliği, fetret ehli ve Hanif olmaları ile ahiretteki mertebelerinin nasıl olacağı hususları âyet ve hadîslere de yer verilerek incelenecektir. Akabinde gizli mucizeler konusuna geçilecek, mucize ve gizli mucizelerinin tanımı yapıldıktan sonra hikmetleri ile kısımlarına değinilecek, bununla bağlantılı olan Kâbe hakemliği meselesi yer alacaktır. Son olarak da Hz. Peygamber’in ümmîlik mucizesi ile çalışma bitirilecektir.
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Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands
Barbara Kaminska argues that visual imagery was central to premodern disability discourses and shows how interpretations of miracle stories served to justify expectations toward the impaired and the poor.
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