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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Knowledge of Nature in the Thought of the Enlightenment

Astra Salvensis, 2020
. In nature’s design, the philosophy of the Enlightenment evolves from the selffounding thinking of the Middle Ages, centred around the existence of God, by accepting and overcoming the mathematical model of nature’s conception, to the biological model ...
Purec, Sorin
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Bed and rise times during the Age of Enlightenment: A case report. [PDF]

J Sleep Res, 2019
van Egmond L, Ekman M, Benedict C.
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Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment: Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733)

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Review of Giulia Iannuzzi, Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment: Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733), Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, reviewed by Jason ...
Jason Pearl
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Comment on 'Age of enlightenment: long-term effects of outdoor aesthetic lights on bats in churches'. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2017
Onkelinx T.
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