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The Tragic Irony of a Patriotic Mission: The Indigenous Leadership of Francis Wei and T. C. Chao, Radicalized Patriotism, and the Reversal of Protestant Missions in China

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Motivated by a patriotic zeal for the national salvation of China, in the 1910s, US-trained Chinese intellectuals like Francis Wei and T. C. Chao embraced a progressive version of Protestantism.
Li Ma, Jin Li
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Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)

open access: yesReligions, 2021
During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s ...
Retief Müller
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Christiane’s Hair [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Mathematical Monthly, 2013
We explore the geometric and measure-theoretic properties of a set built by stacking central Cantor sets with continuously varying scaling factors. By using self-similarity, we are able to describe in a fairly complete way its main features. We show that it is made of an uncountable number of analytic curves, compute the exact areas of the gaps of all ...
Lévy Véhel, Jacques   +1 more
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The Impact of Marriage Norms and Gender on Anglican Clergy Actions in Response to Domestic Violence

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Domestic violence (DV) is a gendered issue, with women more likely to be victim/survivors and men more likely to perpetrate abuse. With a strong emphasis on protecting the safety of women and children, the ways in which faith-based communities and ...
Miriam Pepper, Ruth Powell, Tracy McEwan
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Psychological type and attitude towards Celtic Christianity among committed Churchgoers in the United Kingdom: an empirical study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article takes the burgeoning interest in Celtic Christianity as a key example of the way in which churches may be responding to the changing spiritual and religious landscape in the United Kingdom today and examines the power of psychological type ...
Craig, Charlotte L.   +2 more
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Towards an African theological ethic of earth care: Encountering the Tonga lwiindi of Simaamba of Zambia in the face of the ecological crisis

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The mounting ecological catastrophe and its negative effects on humanity and future generations of life, demand proactive actions. The ongoing crises of deforestation, air and water pollution, land degradation and many other ecological predicaments are ...
Kapya Kaoma
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Faith, Fortune and the Future: Christianity and Enterprise in Human Development

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Insufficient attention has been paid to the interface between religion, business and development, allowing assumptions and stereotypes to abound.
Peter S. Heslam
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Parsons on Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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Land in the Torah as a Source of Christian Religious Education [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
The purpose of this article is to carry out a theological analysis of “land” as one of the important theological themes in the Old Testament. The approach used in this article is the deductive paradigm.
Noh Ibrahim Boiliu   +2 more
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Christian Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Political Science, 2010
Despite its centrality in European politics, Christian democracy came to be the object of systematic research only recently. We review the research that has emerged since the mid-1990s and pinpoint its contributions in specifying the origins, evolution, and broader impact of Christian democratic parties.
van Kersbergen, C.J., Kalyvas, S.N.
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