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Sources to the early history of the Vladimir Diocese
The personal baptism of Prince Volodymyr, the baptism of the Kievan people and theconstruction of the Church of the Tithes of the Blessed Virgin were described in Rus ́chronicles and stated the Rus ́ baptism at 988. The information about the Christianity
Yurij Dyba
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
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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Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Russian Baptism and Orthodoxy. By Constantine Prokhorov
Book review: Russkii baptism i pravoslavie (Seriia “Dialog”) [Russian Baptism and Orthodoxy (Series “Dialogue”]. By Constantine Prokhorov. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo BBI. 2017. Pp. 450.
Andrei DUDCHENKO
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Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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Baptism as a Test Case for the Nature and Limits of National Theology
In its source and substance evangelical national theology is bound by the canon of Scripture and the transcultural message of good news recorded therein.
Mark SAUCY
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The ritual of baptism as status-transformation
The ritual of baptism as status-transformation. Rituals are social mechanisms that have the very important function of effecting transitions in social and/or religious roles and status.
Pieter van Staden
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
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