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New Journals in the Library
Please check out our latest journal titles on ethics, education, and/or
religious studies, available for free!
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Public Lecture: Theological Education in the Context of Global Christianity
Current (and future) trends and challengesTheological education is facing a
number of advances and setbacks around the world. Among the advances are
the globalization of Christianity, the evolution of communication tools,
the efforts being made to strive for formal theological education by groups
that had shunned it in the past and a general awareness of the context of
theological...
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GlobeTheoLib Consortium meeting 13-14 April 2018
GlobeTheoLib consortium, the international governing body of the Global
Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism, a joint project of
Globethics.net and the World Council of Churches (WCC), will gather in
Geneva from 13-14 April 2018. During the meeting representatives of world
Christian communions, theological education institutions, networks and
libraries will discuss and exchange...
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Book of the month: Open. The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
Edited by Jhangiani, Rajiv & Biswas-Diener, Robert. "Affordable education.
Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly
becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open
access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a
philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories,
...
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1.7 million Index Theologicus records now available in Globethics.net Library
Over 1.7 million records from the "Index Theologicus" (the International
Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies, IxTheo for short), a free
and open access service of the University of Tübingen, have been integrated
into the Globethics.net Library thanks to a new cooperation between
Globethics.net and the University Library of Tübingen. IxTheo, a major
source for...
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Book of the month: Higher Education in 2040. A Global Approach
By Bert van der Zwaan Since the Middle Ages, universities have displayed
impressive resourcefulness in their ability to adapt to the changing
dynamics and demands of their times. But in the last fifty years, the
landscape of higher education - with the emergence of online and mass
education, skyrocketing tuition, and a controversial system for ranking
institutions - has begun evolving...
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Ecotheology, Climate Justice and Food Security Enlarged
Enlarged to 4,000 itemsThis Globethics.net collection gathers
contributions, resources and perspectives on eco-theology, climate justice,
and food security from Christian, Churches, and/or other religious
traditions. It also contains the Global Survey on Ecotheology, Climate
Justice and Food Security in Theological Education and Christian Leadership
Development, the presentations and...
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Climate Ethics Enlarged
Enlarged to 9'000 items Globethics.net Climate ethics collection is
focusing on the gathering of latest scientific and journalistic
documentation available on the ethical and theoretical framework around
climate change regulation and ethics, including the problematic tendency
toward "climate deregulation", i. e. mesures taken to scale back climate
mitigation standards. ...
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New Journals in the Library
Please check out our latest journal titles on ethics, education, and/or
religious studies, available for free!
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New institutional collection: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies
Collection of selected titles published or co-published by the Institute
of Sino- Christian Studies (ISCS), Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, S.A.R. The
research institute goes back to the "Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre",
founded by the Norwegian missionary and Sinologist Dr. Karl Ludvig Reichelt
(1877-1952) in 1930 to promote the contextualization of Christian theology
in Chinese...
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