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Wether it be in Judaism, in Christianism or in Islam, the apocalyptic literature has scrutinized the founding writs to find clues, « omens » indicating the upcoming of « the Hour » in order to be prepared for it and to make sense of the dreaded terror. In Islam, that search has taken a particular form : today as well as yesterday, to fill in the silence of the Qur'an, a profusion of accommodating hadiths, inspired by judeo-christian apocalyptic writings, unleashes speculations geared to pious needs but also to legitimacy claims for unrestrained political acivism. This paper briefly examines how islamic apolcapyptic tradition was constructed and then shows that some trends of that construction process nowadays proliferate exponentially in the blogosphere.
Keywords: Apocalypse, eschatology, Mahdi, (Antechrist), signs, (troubles,), syncretism, Internet, Apocalypse, eschatologie, Mahdi, (Antéchrist), signes, (troubles), syncrétisme, Internet
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This article aims to show that in Kourouma's novels, humour is both a writing device and a mode of perception of reality. When applied to colonial and postcolonial situations in Africa, situations that are most often painful, even unbearable for those who live on the African continent, humour allows Kourouma to articulate the political—no matter how watered down—and the cosmic. Such an articulation brings back to the History of Africa—and particularly since the colonial conquest—its hitherto overlooked connection to events. Against the die-hard tenets of the colonial ideology , Kourouma tells us that something never ceased to happen in Africa, something that concerns the world as a whole.
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AbstractIn the context of globalization where the transnational and international migrations are considered as a geopolitical and geoeconomic mobility, the contribution of the Africans of the Diaspora can take a very particular meaning for Africa in its development. This text proposes a reflection on the nature of this meaning, in the North-South relations.
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The geographic analysis of federalism requires a reexamination of methods and approaches in political geography which have, until now, contributed little the furtherance of understanding of the geographic consequences of the evolution of Canadian constitutional law. The division of powers, territories, allegiances and technocracies (vertical, i.e., federal-provincial and horizontal, i.e., provincial-provincial) are organized around a "structural sharing" that constitutes the very essence of a geography of federalism.
Keywords: Géographie politique, géopolitique, fédéralisme, territoire, constitution canadienne, Political geography, geopolitics, federalism, territory, Canadian constitution
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In those times, when one tries to live the difference in other ways, without devaluating “the other”, this paper presents the results of a study made in Montréal (Québec, Canada) that focused on the autobiographical spiritual narratives of feminist women that are engaged in intercultural or interreligious practices. The study is made in a context where grassroots antiracist feminists distinguish different geopolitical groups between which unequal and postcolonial relations take place, including Natives, migrants, French and English people. On the theoretical level, the study belongs to the field of an intercultural and multireligious feminist theology. We heard the narratives of women coming from different religious or spiritual traditions. What strategies do they have to create a relational justice? Four dimensions are found in their actions: criticizing hierarchies to create equality, unlearning their own biases, building up a self-esteem that integrates their tales of suffering, as well as others', and the transforming force of their group of affinity.