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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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A lineage in land: the transmission of Palestinian Christianity
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 670-691, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines a Christian tradition defined by descent, but a descent that extends beyond family lineages to include relatedness with saints and sacred land. This tradition emerges from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, one of the oldest churches in the world, composed of a Palestinian laity and a Greek monastic hierarchy ...
Clayton Goodgame
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 385-408, August 2023., 2023 Résumé Au Canada, les immigrants sont plus susceptibles de migrer à l'intérieur du pays—lors de migrations interprovinciales par exemple—que les individus nés au Canada. C'est notamment le cas des immigrants musulmans. Dans cet article, nous cherchons à identifier les caractéristiques déterminantes pour les secondes migrations entreprises par ces ...
Jacob Legault‐Leclair
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 318-337, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 780-797, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explains the recent emergence of Orthodox Christianity in a majoritarian Evangelical Protestant community in southern Ethiopia. Examining conversion motives and forms of religious engagement, I show that Orthodoxy is attractive to erstwhile followers of traditional practice because it affords them the solution to a value conflict.
Julian Sommerschuh
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 540-558, December 2021., 2021 This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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A Man Just Like Other Men? Masculinity and Clergy in Spain during Late Francoism (1960–1975)
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 603-622, December 2021., 2021 While the notion of masculinity has been incorporated by European and North American research into the field of study of religious history, in Spain its introduction is still in its infancy. This article reflects on the contribution of religious discourses and the experiences of male clergy to the construction of different identity models of ...
Mónica Moreno‐Seco
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 701-717, August 2021., 2021 This article focuses on the role of new Hmong religious leaders – predominantly young men – who have played an important role in spreading Protestant Christianity across Vietnam’s highlands over the past 30 years. These pastors and evangelists have directly challenged the authority of previously established Hmong local elites, whose legitimacy rested ...
Seb Rumsby
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Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 733-747, August 2021., 2021 After recognising Hmong Protestantism, the Vietnamese state continued an ‘anti‐conversion’ politics. It did so by encouraging the revival of what they saw as traditional Hmong religion as a bulwark against Protestantism and by enriching the range of cultural commodities for the growing ethno‐tourism market.
Tâm T. T. Ngô
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