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‘Daylight upon magic’: Stained Glass and the Victorian Monarchy
19, 2020 This article presents stained glass as an important source of material evidence for attitudes to monarchy in Victorian Britain. It argues that expressions of veneration for Victoria by different religious constituencies were not merely instinctual and ...
Michael Ledger-Lomas
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature.
David Bartholomew +254 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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The Reformation of the Future: Dating English Protestantism in the Late Stuart Era
Etudes Epistémè, 2017 In late Stuart England, print genres such as histories and almanacs were happy to put a precise date on the Reformation, but 1517 was not widely memorialised. This was partly because the complex history of English Protestantism meant that different dates
Tony Claydon
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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The Book of Common Prayer in Methodism: a Cherished Heritage or a Corrupting Influence?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 For a long time, Methodism had a complicated relation with its “Mother Church”, the Church of England, and the liturgical question provides a good illustration of this.
Jérôme Grosclaude
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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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Revue LISA, 2014 When he began setting T.-S. Eliot’s play to music as Assassinio nella Cattedrale in the second half of the 1950’s, Pizzetti was already of a respectable age and had nothing left to prove in musical composition and drama.
Walter Zidaric
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Florence Nightingale and the historical, social and cultural context of her time
Cultura de los Cuidados, 2012 This paper aims to review the life of the founder of professional nursing and the historical, social and cultural context in which it developed. Florence Nightingale, the first nursing theorist, applied her knowledge of history and philosophy to the ...
Alica Hanzeliková Pogranyivá +3 more
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