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The article informs about vivid and structured attempts at representing a Christian afterlife. Topics include Purgatory does add complexity to the picture, insofar as it is a post-mortem temporal state towards eternal beatitude; and form of judgement in the sense of condemnation, would be to read it at odds with a fundamental aspect of Christian teaching.

Background: The Latarjet surgical technique is one of the most effective and well-known techniques in the treatment of anterior shoulder instability¹. The modified Latarjet technique is a history book of surgical details demonstrated by renowned masters of shoulder surgery. The procedure includes soft-tissue repair and osseous reconstruction to stabilize the glenohumeral joint in recurrent anterior instability. The procedure has been shown to have reliable success in reducing recurrent instability and minimizing risk of dislocation arthropathy2-4. Description: The Latarjet technique can be performed via a cosmetic axillarybased approach. The subscapularis is split horizontally without detachment as described by Neer5. The capsule is released like in a medially based T-plasty as described by Altchek et al.6. The coracoid osteotomy is performed with a 90° oscillating saw and prepared for en-face implantation as described by Edwards and Walch7. The inferior surface of the coracoid is decorticated and prepared per Molé8. Coracoid fixation is performed with two 3.5-mm cortical screws. The soft-tissue reconstruction is selectively tensioned per Warner et al.9. The capsular shift is augmented with a pants-over-vest repair per Kim et al.10. Alternatives: Nonoperative treatment in young patients with glenohumeral instability and bone loss can lead to recurrence rates as high as 87%11. Arthroscopic management with anterior capsulolabral repair and a remplissage procedure can be beneficial for patients with instability. In the setting of bone loss, arthroscopic repair is associated with failure rates as high as 75%12. Rationale: In the setting of glenoid and/or humeral bone loss, there is a loss of native osseous anatomy, leading to a higher risk of instability. Gerber and Nyffeler reported a .30% loss of compressive force when the vertical edge of the glenoid defect is greater than one-half of the glenoid diameter13. The Latarjet procedure is a reliable procedure that reconstructs the anterior osseous anatomy as well as the capsular laxity, restoring glenohumeral stability. When compared with arthroscopic labral repair, the Latarjet procedure is superior with more consistent improvements in functional outcomes with low risk of recurrence, even in high-risk populations of young, active athletes in contact sports2,3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article opens a window on the world of chaplains supporting seafarers, which has largely been neglected by the literature. Shipping happens in ports, which are often far away from urban centres. It is thus removed from everyday experience making seafarers an invisible population and, with them, the chaplains who assist them. The article proposes to view chaplains' service to seafarers as a form of 'embodied' hospitality. It is an offer of a relationship as well as of assistance. The angle of hospitality sheds light on the dynamics of the relationships between seafarers and chaplains, the tensions and opportunities for exchange. The ethic of chaplains' hospitality that emerges from the observation and interviews is one of 'compassion' requiring openness to and acceptance of the other. Compassion, here, is the recognition of the dignity of the other based on a shared humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Limited data exist on epidemiology, clinical presentation and management of acute hyperkinetic movement disorders (AHMD) in paediatric emergency departments (pED).Methods: We retrospectively analysed a case series of 256 children (aged 2 months to 17 years) presenting with AHMD to the pEDs of six Italian tertiary care hospitals over a 2-year period (January 2012 to December 2013).Results: The most common type of AHMD was tics (44.5%), followed by tremors (21.1%), chorea (13.7%), dystonia (10.2%), myoclonus (6.3%) and stereotypies (4.3%). Neuropsychiatric disorders (including tic disorders, psychogenic movement disorders and idiopathic stereotypies) were the most represented cause (51.2%). Inflammatory conditions (infectious and immune-mediated neurological disorders) accounted for 17.6% of the cases whereas non-inflammatory disorders (including drug-induced AHMDs, genetic/metabolic diseases, paroxysmal non-epileptic movements and idiopathic AHMDs) accounted for 31.2%. Neuropsychiatric disorders prevailed among preschoolers and schoolers (51.9% and 25.2%, respectively), non-inflammatory disorders were more frequent in infants and toddlers (63.8%), whereas inflammatory conditions were more often encountered among schoolers (73.3%). In 5 out of 36 Sydenham's chorea (SC) cases, tics were the presentation symptom on admission to emergency department (ED), highlighting the difficulties in early diagnosis of SC. Inflammatory disorders were associated with a longer hospital stay and a greater need of neuroimaging test compared with other disorders.Conclusions: This study provides the first large sample of paediatric patients presenting to the ED for AHMDs, helping to elucidate the epidemiology, aetiology and clinical presentation of these disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents two case studies to demonstrate T-cell activation in patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) after receiving amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. It mentions that in the first case drug was stopped and he received supportive therapies, including a short course of corticosteroids, fluid replacement with electrolyte solution and analgesic therapy. The case study points out that SJS requires hospitalization in childhood, and role of pathogens in it remain unidentified.

Based on ethnographic data in a Christian Evangelical church in the UK, the article shows how Evangelical Christians construct their individual and group identity through appeals to authenticity. Authenticity, as it emerges from the local narratives, shares much with philosophical and sociological understandings of it, yet it is articulated within the framework of tradition. By grounding authenticity in Christian tradition, Evangelicals construct an identity which they understand as distinctive rather than morally superior to other moral traditions. Christian authenticity is a moral pursuit that requires obedience—the acceptance of God’s will. This is contrasted with the celebration of individual self-authority that is at the core of Western society. The tension between individuality and obedience to God is the motif that makes Christianity distinctive in the eyes of the informants in this study. It is also the basis for the formation of the Christian self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE THINKING SPACE: THE CAFÉ AS A CULTURAL INSTITUTION IN PARIS, ITALY AND VIENNA, LEONA RITTNER, W. SCOTT HAINE AND JEFFREY H. JACKSON (EDS) (2013) Farnham, Ashgate, xiv + 238 pp., ISBN: 9781409438793, h/bk, £65.00 THE VIENNESE CAFÉ AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE CULTURE, CHARLOTTE ASHBY, TAG GRONBERG AND SIMON SHAW-MILLER (EDS) (2013) Oxford, Berghahn, xii + 244 pp., ISBN: 9780857457646, h/bk, $95.00 ALCOHOL: SOCIAL DRINKING IN CULTURAL CONTEXT, JANET CHRZAN (2013) Abingdon: Routledge, xii + 188 pp., ISBN: 9780415892506, p/bk, £20.99 CAFÉ SOCIETY, AKSEL TJORA AND GRAHAM SCAMBLER (EDS) (2013) New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, xi + 208 pp., ISBN: 9781137275929, h/bk, £60 A HOSPITABLE WORLD? ORGANISING WORK AND WORKERS IN HOTELS AND TOURIST RESORTS, DAVID JORDHUS-LIER AND ANDERS UNDERTHUN (EDS) (2015) Abingdon Oxon: Routledge, xviii + 234 pp., ISBN: 9780415747790, h/bk, £85 THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND GASTRONOMY, PHILIP SLOAN, WILLY LEGRAND AND CLARE HINDLEY (EDS) (2015) Abingdon: Routledge, xxxi + 426 pp., ISBN: 9780415702553, h/bk, £140.00 FACTIONS, FRIENDS AND FEASTS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN, JEREMY BOISSEVAIN (2013) New York: Berghahn, x + 310 pp., ISBN: 978-0-85745-844-5, h/bk, $95.00 HOSPITALITY AND ISLAM: WELCOMING IN GOD'S NAME, MONA SIDDIQUI (2015) London: Yale University Press, xi + 274 pp., ISBN: 9780300211863, h/bk, £20.00 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article makes a contribution to the study of religion by developing the analytical concept of sacralisation as the process whereby individual religious actors and groups construct religious tradition by attributing value to single ideas and practices. The concept of sacralisation helps us understand how religious actors engage with their religious tradition and participate in constructing it by legitimising its single elements. The sacred is thus understood as constructed by religious actors as that which is of value for them and distinctive of their specific tradition. This concept has been developed from a three-year long ethnographic research in a Christian evangelical church and is illustrated through an analysis of the research data. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An essay is presented on role of goodness, beauty and truth in understanding relationship between literature and religion. Topics discussed include unity of goodness, truth and beauty in the Hebrew Bible, association of truth with methodologies of scientific research and inclusion of legal codes, narratives and prophecies in biblical literary.

The aim of this afterword is - interrogatively - to complement and compliment the preceding papers by raising some general questions concerning the relationship between poetry and forgiveness, and to do so through reflection on the work of two authors who wrote well before the period explored by the essays in the collection, yet whose influence extends significantly into it. The paper will reflect, in particular, on the way in which Dante's Purgatorio and Shakespeare's The Tempest foreground the question of forgiveness by calling for the prayers of their audience in ways that coincide with these texts' self-conscious presentation of themselves as literary artifacts. By focusing specifically on the opening of Purgatorio XI and the Epilogue of The Tempest and by suggesting an inextricable connection in these texts between meaning and the recognition of one's shortcomings, I aim to point to the value that certain perspectives on the relationship between poetry and forgiveness might have for our understanding of the meaning of poetry and of the nature of our relationship with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I reflect on the importance of creation ex nihilo for our understanding of Dante's Commedia. I do so, in particular, by reflecting on the inextricable relationship existing in Dante's poem between creation ex nihilo, contemplation and charity. More specifically, I attempt to outline an understanding of how Dante's idea of the relationship between these three can be seen to underlie the very structure and narrative form of the Commedia. Through reflection on the relationship between contemplation, charity, and creation ex nihilo, I suggest, form and content might be seen, from a theological point of view, to be perfectly at one. Underlying these reflections are also some broader questions. What is the Commedia ultimately about? What is Dante's final end in writing his poem? What bearing does this have on our understanding of the form of Dante's text as a narrative poem? And what, in turn, are the broader theological implications of all this? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spiritual capital has gained prominence in the past decade as the social capital of faith based organizations (FBOs). In a previous issue of Implicit Religion, Chris Baker and Jonathan Miles-Watson, of the William Temple Foundation (WTF), presented an exhaustive review of the relevant literature on social capital and spiritual capital, and proposed a notion of spiritual capital that includes religious culture motivating social action (Baker and Miles-Watson 2010). This interpretation has transformed the original notion of spiritual capital into a normative concept that seeks to celebrate spirituality rather than understand it. This paper presents a critical reflection on the implications of such an approach and argues for the differentiation and analysis of religious phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past decade, UK government policy and academic research have inserted faith based organisations (FBOs) within the discourse of community cohesion and regeneration. This has been articulated primarily within a social capital framework which understands FBOs as 'repositories' of resources to tap into (Home Office 2004). The present paper outlines a critique of social capital as framework for the understanding of FBOs, and of the emerging concept of spiritual capital as the 'social capital of faith organisations' (Stark and Finke 2000). The paper will also sketch an alternative theoretical framework inspired by the work of Georg Simmel on religion. Robert Putnam's version of social capital has been spectacularly successful; yet it has been shown to be utopian and fraught with inconsistencies. This paper argues that social capital has become a highly moralised notion and, as such, it cannot be applied productively. Further, I shall maintain that the economic analogy, made by the terminology of capital, is particularly ill-suited to faith organisations, and that the resulting concept of 'spiritual capital' leads to a fundamental misunderstanding of what is distinctive of faith. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociology of religion, the paper will provide an initial sketch of an alternative conceptualisation of faith for a deeper understanding of individual religiosity and the relationship between the individual and the community. Simmel's insights on the relational nature of religiosity shed light onto the distinctiveness of religiosity offering better grounding for researching faith communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study of a young girl presented with fever and abdominal pain, who demonstrated a peri-appendicular effusion. Clinical intervention resulted to the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD) with normal epi-pericardial effusion and electrocardiography. KD is an acute systemic vasculitis of undetermined etiology and can leading to acquired heart disease in childhood.

The author offers insights on the significance of the relationship between literary and theological reflection. He suggests thinking the relationship between both reflections in terms of distinctive contribution to intellectual life. He mentions that the study of theology and literature is an invitation to engage questions and perspectives generated through modes of thoughts. He focuses on such thinking to connect with love and forgiveness.

Synovial sarcoma (SS) is the most common nonrhabdomyosarcomatous soft tissue sarcoma in childhood, but the head-neck site accounts for less than 5% of cases. The authors report a 10-year-old boy with SYT-SSX1 positive left parapharyngeal SS, resistant to front-line VAIA chemotherapy, who obtained a good partial response by salvage regimen (I3VE + CEV + I3VE) and local radiotherapy, so a complete surgical resection could be performed. The complete remission was subsequently consolidated by ablative high-dose chemotherapy, followed by autologous stem cell reinfusion. The child remains in complete remission at 36 months after completion of treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results obtained with interstitial brachytherapy in thirty-six low-grade cerebral gliomas (2 pilocytic astrocytomas, 23 astrocytomas and 11 oligodendrogliomas) are reported (mean follow-up: 75 months, range 37-159). All tumours were situated in locations which did not call for surgical removal as the treatment of choice. Their volume ranged from 4 to 82 cc (m=32); the Karnofsky performance status (KPS) of the treated patients lay between 0.60 and 0.90. The sources utilized (Iridium-192 in 32 cases and Iodine-125 in 4) were implanted permanently in 22 patients and temporarily in 14, using the Talairach stereotactic apparatus. The mean peripheral dose was 89.7 Gy for the permanent implants and and 42.8 Gy with a rate of 32.05 cGy/h for the temporary implants. External beam irradiation was added for tumour volumes greater than 35 cc (19 cases) on a second target volume extending 2 cm beyond the tumoural borders treated with interstitial irradiation. The survival estimates for the entire group showed a probability of 82.9% at 60 months, of 56.8% at 96, 39.4% at 120 (m.s.t.: 112 months). The quality of life in the treated patients was satisfactory, KPS never falling below a mean score of 0.70. The extent of the target volume turned out to be the most significant factor influencing survival at the multivariate analysis. Severe neurological impairment due to radionecrosis occurred in 4 patients (11%), three of them requiring surgical decompression. Target volume and radiation dose showed a direct correlation with the risk of radionecrosis at the regression analysis, the critical values being 35 cc and 100 Gy (permanent implants) or 50 Gy (42 cGy/h, temporary implants) respectively. The analysis of the results indicates that, even though many questions still remain open, brachytherapy can represent a valid alternative to surgery for tumours not suitable for surgical removal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors' experience of more than 5 years in the diagnostic and therapeutic use of radioiodinated MIBG in neural crest tumors is reported.I/I-MIBG scintigraphhy was performed in 158 patients: 75 suspected (24 proven) pheochromocytomas (pheos), 43 neuroblastomas (NB), 20 medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTC), 6 ganglioneuromas, 5 carcinoids and 1 insulinoma. Eight cases of tumors not originating from the neural crest were also investigated. The diagnostic sensitivity of the method was above 90% both in pheos and NB (primary tumors and bone metastases). The examination was less effective in localizing MTC (sensitivity=64.4% in primary or residual/recurrent tumors). The scintigraphie outcome was negative in ganglioneuromas, carcinoids and insulinoma. Specificity was very high (> 95%), and no false positive results were found in tumors not deriving from the neural crest. I-MIBG treatment was administered to four patients with malignant pheo, nine with NB and four with MTC. Therapy resulted in a complete response in one pheo, two NB and one MTC treated after surgery or at diagnosis (one NB), it gave partial response and prolonged remission in five advanced cases (one pheo, two NB and two MTC); it resulted in temporary stabilization of the disease in one pheo and two NBs, it was ineffective in four cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism is presented of the poem "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. The poem features love, ideology, and inter-religious relations. In the poem love is both the motive force of the cosmos and of the human journeying within it, including Dante's journeying and our own, recognizing not just some but all human beings.

Background: Primary meningococcal arthritis is a rare infectious disease that occurs in less than 3% of meningococcal infections and is characterized by arthritis without meningitis, fever, rash, or hemodynamic instability Barahona [Case Rep Orthop 4696014:2017 ]. There are no validated clinical criteria that can be used for the diagnosis. We present two pediatric cases of atypical presentation of meningococcal disease revealed by molecular tests.Case Presentation: The clinical presentation of the two children (6- and 9-years-old) was characterized by signs of arthritis. By Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), we identified N. meningitidis serogroup Y in the joint fluid in both cases. After specific antimicrobial treatment, the clinical conditions of the two patients quickly improved during hospitalization.Conclusions: We believe that the incidence of meningococcal arthritis could be underestimated in those settings where the use of RT-PCR is limited. Clearer data on the incidence of meningococcal disease would help to design specific treatments and the best possible national vaccine strategies [Fiji Sci Rep 23:39784, 2016, J Infect 67:385-90, 2013]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-Christian Britain is characterised by a rejection of doctrinal and morally conservative religion. This does not reflect solely the experience of those with 'no religion' but can be found in the narratives of 'new Quakers,' those who have become members or attenders in the past three years. New Quakers contrast Quaker sense of acceptance, freedom from theological ideas and freedom to be a spiritual seeker with conservative Christian churches, which have often been experienced as judgmental and doctrinal. Quaker liberal morality also affords inclusivity to those who have felt marginalised, such as disabled and LGBT people. The way new Quakers articulate their identity shines a light on the contemporary transformation of religious forms and society. Their emphasis on individual spirituality and rejection of theological doctrine reflect the profound cultural shift towards a post-Christian Britain, which is religiously diverse, more open to individual spiritual seeking and more liberal morally and socially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]