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Ekklesia and Ecumenism in the Body of Christ: Unity from the Ground-Up

open access: yesReligions, 2018
This article explores the implications for Christian unity from the perspective of the lived faith community, the ekklesia. While bilateral and multilateral dialogues have borne great fruit in bringing Christian denominations closer together, as indeed ...
Anastasia Wendlinder
doaj   +1 more source

Concordia\u27 and \u27unitas\u27 in the Lutheran confessions: dialogue within the Reformation spirit [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
The article contrasts the more ecumenical spirit of the Augsburg Confession with the more defensive \u27fortress\u27 mentality of the Formula of Concord and the preface to the Book of Concord.
Cole-Arnal, Oscar
core   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Дыялог з Небам: генезіс і семантыка кампазіцыйных дамінант у сакральным дойлідстве Беларусі [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
DIALOGUE WITH THE SKY: THE GENESIS AND SEMANTICS OF THE COMPOSITIONAL DOMINANT IN THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF BELARUS T. GABRUSРазглядаецца сімвалічная трактоўка вертыкалі, якая ідзе з глыбокай старажытнасці, што знайшло адлюстраванне ў паганскіх ...
Габрусь, Т. В.
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U.S. Religious Landscape on Twitter

open access: yes, 2014
Religiosity is a powerful force shaping human societies, affecting domains as diverse as economic growth or the ability to cope with illness. As more religious leaders and organizations as well as believers start using social networking sites (e.g ...
Chen, Lu   +2 more
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The War Justified [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article explores how Methodist ministers, particularly Richmond Christian Advocate editor Rev. James A. Duncan, justified their support of the Confederacy and slavery.
Kidd, Margaret T.
core   +1 more source

Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Compatibility of Major U.S. Christian Denominations with Evolution [PDF]

open access: yesEvolution: Education and Outreach, 2010
Public school teachers sometimes encounter the sentiment that the study and acceptance of evolutionary theory is contrary to the Christian faith. This perception can pose a significant barrier to the teaching of evolution and other sciences if students assume beforehand that the topic contradicts what they are supposed to believe from a religious ...
openaire   +1 more source

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