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The Holy Spirit and Worship

, 2008
The Book of Ephesians, Acts, and Luke have the Holy Spirit in the most prominent role in the New Testament. Aside from the Psalms, there is no writing in the New Testament that has the theme of worship as prominent as Ephesians. Putting the themes of the
Avila, Mariano
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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On being required to offer acts of prayer and worship to God

The Christian Church, speaking both to its members and to all humankind, proposes, commonly, that human beings are required to offer acts of prayer and worship to God.
Taylor, Michael Joseph
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Celebrity worship and empty self. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Yue X, Cui X.
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Commentary: Rethinking pathways to well-being: the function of faith practice in distress alleviation among displaced Muslim women affected by war. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Aldbyani A.
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The “Modern Martyrdom” of Anglo-Catholics in Victorian England

, 2011
The word “martyr” was widely applied in the later nineteenth century to a number of Anglican “ritualist” clergy who had been prosecuted for performing overtly “Catholic” liturgical practices.
Janes, Dominic
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Worship and Veneration [PDF]

Various strands of religious thought distinguish veneration from worship. According to these traditions, believers ought to worship God alone. To worship anything else, they say, is idolatry.
Warmke, Craig, Warmke, Brandon
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