Scholars studying the sociology of religion have almost unanimously adopted this term as a neutral alternative to the word cult, which is often considered derogatory.

Scholars such as Vanderbilt University history professor Simon Collier, University of Belgrano agriculture history professor Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history professor Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University agree that Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, in 1890, and that he laid a false trail about his birthplace beginning in 1920, when he was almost 30.

Scholars believe almost 62 percent of these were sacrificial victims, based on signs of ritual execution, method of burial, and other factors.

Scholars have varying degrees of certainty about the historical reliability of the accounts in the gospels, and the only two events whose historicity is the subject of almost universal agreement among scholars are the baptism and crucifixion of Jesus.

Scholars have disputed almost everything about the play ; but it was probably written sometime in the 1612 – 24 era and later revised, perhaps in 1630 or after.

Scholars are almost unanimous in considering the works of the Appendix spurious primarily on grounds of style, metrics, and vocabulary.

Scholars almost universally agree that the book Hilkiah " found " was the Biblical Book of Deuteronomy.

* The Ludwig von Mises Institute holds a lecture named after Hayek every year at its Austrian Scholars Conference and invites notable academics to speak about subjects relating to Hayek's contributions to the Austrian School.

Upon election to Scholarship ( usually in their Senior Freshman or second year ), Scholars are awarded a wide range of entitlements, including an annual salary, free rooms in college, a meal every weekday at the traditional Commons dinner, and academic fees paid or reduced.

Scholars have examined his writing from every possible angle: philosophical, political, psychological, journalistic, its relationship to the medium of film, and why French and Italian readers have found him particularly appealing.

Although each grade consists of 80-110 girls, the school boasts excellence in every division, with numerous National Merit Scholars, perfect SAT scores, and millions offered in scholarship money per year.

Master Teachers are faculty who return every year, whereas Visiting Scholars typically come with backgrounds in various fields outside education, and develop their teaching skills over the course of a year or two.

Nightly meetings occur every night between Residential Assistants and Scholars to discuss upcoming events and general questions scholars may have.

Within the Scholars Program, students must also maintain a average of 90 in three of the four major subjects ( Math, English, Science and History ) and 80 in every other class.

Scholars have been represented in every graduating class since the school's first class in 1968, with the exception of two years ( 2000 & 2002 ).

The PossePlus Retreat is a collaborative, focused group discussion on a contemporary issue which Posse Scholars and invited college community members will conduct every year in a retreat setting.

Scholars speculate that the total Araucanian population may have numbered 1 million at most when the Spaniards arrived in the 1530s ; a century of European conquest and disease reduced that number by at least half.

Scholars suggest the story of Ustad Isa was born of the eagerness of the British in the 19th century to believe that such a beautiful building should be credited to a European architect.

Scholars have debated what being " born of nine mothers " implies and have sought to connect the notion to other European folk motifs.

The international body of Information Systems researchers, the Association for Information Systems ( AIS ), and its Senior Scholars Forum Subcommittee on Journals ( 23 April 2007 ), proposed a ' basket ' of journals that the AIS deems as ' excellent ', and nominated: Management Information Systems Quarterly ( MISQ ), Information Systems Research ( ISR ), Journal of the Association for Information Systems ( JAIS ), Journal of Management Information Systems ( JMIS ), European Journal of Information Systems ( EJIS ), and Information Systems Journal ( ISJ ).

Scholars of the 19th and early 20th century estimated about 2, 000 individuals at the time of European contact in the 15th century.

Scholars attribute roughly 50 plays to him, many of which have been translated into European languages.

In a letter to the first class of Marshall Scholars, George Marshall echoed his own words in initially presenting his ideas for European recovery by saying, " A close accord between our two countries is essential to the good of mankind in this turbulent world of today, and that is not possible without an intimate understanding of each other.

Scholars have suggested that outrage following the mass murder / suicides perpetuated by the Solar Temple as well as the more latent xenophobic and anti-American attitudes have contributed significantly to the extremity of European anti-cult positions.

Scholars such as Hisao Ōtsuka (), a Weberian sociologist, judged Japan with the measure of rational individualism and liberal democracy that were considered ideals in the U. S. and Western European nations back then.

* The Veda as Studied by European Scholars ( Gifford Lectures Online )

* Poland and Germany ( Occasional paper / East European Studies ), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991.

By the 16th century, the existence of Goths in the Crimea had become well known to European Scholars.

Scholars have debated the theme of American exceptionalism, the theory that British and European conservatism has little or no relevance to American traditions.

He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Psychological Society, the National Association of Scholars, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Southwestern Comparative Psychological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Policies, International Society for Research on Aggression, the European Sociobiological Society, and the Behavior Genetics Association.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

32 in the nation for the percentage of National Merit Scholars in its 2005-2006 freshman class.

Scholars such as Gordon Wood describe how Americans were caught up in the Revolutionary fervor and excitement of creating governments, societies, a new nation on the face of the earth by rational choice as Thomas Paine declared in Common Sense.

From 1973 to 1987, Billington was director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation ’ s official memorial in Washington, D. C. to America ’ s 28th president.

The Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric is a yearly conference showcasing Literary Scholars and Rhetoricians from around the nation, as well as a venue for graduates from UAA and other universities to share their work.

The University of Montana ranks 17th in the nation and fifth among public universities in producing Rhodes Scholars, with a total of 28 such scholars.

* La Salle is one of only 19 colleges and universities in the nation to have been invited to participate in the Kemper Scholars Program.

Among current faculty members, 38 have been designated as “ Chang JIang Scholars ” by the Ministry of Education ; 25 have been honored by National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars ; 15 have been recognized as national experts who have made outstanding contributions to the nation.

Scholars study the centuries old rocket festival tradition today as it may be significant to the history of rocketry in the East, and perhaps also significant in the postcolonial socio-political development of the Southeast Asian nation states.

This work on human rights continued, until the then President of Harvard indicated he was keen to restrain scholars from working on social problems at the sharp end, saying “ Scholars should not involve themselves in the nation ’ s slums and ghettoes .” Hampden-Turner disagreed, and moved on.

Scholars who chose to investigate the Underground State were also confronted with the issue of its uniqueness ( no country or nation has ever created a similar institution ), and hence, the problem of defining it.

Scholars have also described the Newars as being a nation.

Among the most selective art colleges in the United States, MICA has consistently enrolled more Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts than any other college or university in the nation, and in the last several years has enrolled approximately 2 / 3 of those who received Scholastic Arts ' Gold Portfolio award.

Scholars have attempted to base a universal " right to move " on several philosophical grounds, including the idea of a common ownership of the earth, a natural right of movement existing prior to the advent of nation states, an ethics of cosmopolitanism, and utilitarian notions of the benefits of immigration to both receiving countries and immigrants.

The requirements to apply to “ Five College Africans Scholars Program ” is only offered to people who must be a citizen of an African nation, employed full-time at an African university that offers a bachelor, a master or a PHD degree, and there is a limit to the age of 49.

* Presidential Scholars in the Arts: Interlochen Arts Academy is a perennial front-runner among American high schools in its production of Presidential Scholars in the Arts, having produced more recipients of the award than any other school in the nation.

Scholars cite notions of the nation possessing a female identity and woman standing for nation in not only al-Shaykh's literature, but also in the works of her contemporaries including Evelyne Accad.