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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
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Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization
Color Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
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“Where Now for Visible Unity?”
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 542-553, December 2024.Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
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The Personal Before and After the Political
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 528-541, December 2024.Abstract The authors of this article co‐facilitated a dialogue workshop for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communal leaders and academics in Cairo as part of the GINGKO Interfaith Fellowship Retreat in September 2024. The Interfaith Dialogue in Times of Crisis workshop guided the participants through a series of exercises, culminating in reflections on ...
Elena Dini +2 more
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Ethnodoxy and Immigration Attitudes in the Middle East/North Africa
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 958-976, December 2024.Abstract Migration is a prevalent social concern in the Middle East/North Africa. In addition to emigration, the countries struggle to incorporate immigrant and transiting populations. This article examines the influence of ethnodoxy—the linking of Arab and Muslim identity—on public opinion on immigrants and migration in the MENA region. Using original
Hannah M. Ridge
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Thoughts on the structure of the history of Africana philosophy
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 17-37, September 2024.Abstract This article seeks to comment insightfully on the way things hang together as we try to chart the history of Africana philosophy. It does so through reflections on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast, part of Peter Adamson's larger series, the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.
Chike Jeffers
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Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 135-152, June 2024.Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self‐evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non‐white ...
Brendan Röder
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XX.—On the Coptic Churches of Old Cairo [PDF]
Archaeologia, 1885 The site of El-Fustât, or Old Cairo, lies about a mile and a half from the modern city, on the plain between the Nile and the Mokattam hills.With the exception of the Coptic churches and monasteries little of it now remains, and its site is covered by great heaps of rubbish full of fragments of pottery of various dates.The Coptic churches are grouped ...
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