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  2. Prosperity theology - Wikipedia

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    Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, seed-faith gospel, Faith movement, or Word-Faith movement) [1] is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive scriptural confession, and giving to ...

  3. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Motivation is often understood as an internal state or force that propels individuals to engage and persist in goal-directed behavior. [1] Motivational states explain why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particular time. [2]

  4. Herstory - Wikipedia

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    Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word " history ", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography , which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the male ...

  5. Dharmaśāstra - Wikipedia

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    Dharmaśāstra became influential in modern colonial India history, when they were formulated by early British colonial administrators to be the law of the land for all non-Muslims (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs) in the Indian subcontinent, after Sharia set by Emperor Aurangzeb, was already accepted as the law for Muslims in colonial India.

  6. Human development (economics) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of human development expands upon the notion of economic development to include social, political and even ethical dimensions.Since the mid-twentieth century, international organisations such as the United Nations and the World Bank have adopted human development as a holistic approach to evaluating a country’s progress that considers living conditions, social relations ...

  7. Excellence theory - Wikipedia

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    The Excellence theory is a general theory of public relations that “specifies how public relations makes organizations more effective, how it is organized and managed when it contributes most to organizational effectiveness, the conditions in organizations and their environments that make organizations more effective, and how the monetary value of public relations can be determined”. [1]

  8. Paulo Freire - Wikipedia

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    His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, [38] [39] [40] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar. [41]

  9. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    As suggested in Lorenz's book entitled The Essence of Chaos, published in 1993, [5] "sensitive dependence can serve as an acceptable definition of chaos". In the same book, Lorenz defined the butterfly effect as: "The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamical system will cause subsequent states to differ greatly from the ...