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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]

Early Mediev Eur, 2023
This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self‐confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces.
Papavarnavas C.
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Religion and Attitudes Toward Xenotransplantation: Results of a Nationwide Survey in the United States. [PDF]

Xenotransplantation
ABSTRACT Religious viewpoints have been shown to influence the ways in which many persons approach medical decision‐making and have been noted as a potential barrier to xenotransplantation acceptance. This study sought to explore how attitudes toward xenotransplantation differ among various religious beliefs.
Hurst DJ, Padilla LA, Zink A, Parent B, Kimberly LL.   +4 more
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The Russian Orthodox Church as moral norm entrepreneur. [PDF]

Relig State Soc, 2016
Stoeckl K.
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Unsound and Informally Fallacious Preterist Arguments for Mark 13:24‐27

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 796-811, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Abstract: The following article evaluates two common arguments for preterist interpretations of Mark 13:24‐27, collectively dubbed the ‘time‐text’ argument. These two arguments support symbolic and/or historicised interpretations. Our thesis is that the first argument is unsound and the second commits the informal fallacy of false dilemma ...
Elton L. Hollon
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

1952 Mısır Devrimi’nden Arap Baharı’na Kadar Geçen Süreçte Kıptîler/Copts in the Period from the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 to the Arab Spring

Oksident, 2020
The Egyptian Orthodox Coptic Church initially supported the July Revolution of 1952, based on Arab nationalism. However, the lack of representation of Coptics within the Revolutionary Council in the postrevolutionary period has slowly moved the Copts ...
Ekrem Sert, Ahmet Güç
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Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 84-101, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021–2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks came at the crossroads of Western pressure to improve human rights and the state's use of counterterrorism to silence voices.
Nevine Abraham
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of public engagement in clinical xenotransplantation [PDF]

Health Care Sci
Xenotransplantation (cross‐species transplant) of pig‐to‐human organs is moving ahead toward clinical trials in the United States. However, little is known about how the public and, specifically, certain patient populations feel about this novel therapy.
Hurst D, Cooper D.
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Orthodox Christianity in the United States: A challenge for the study of American religion

Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5-6, May-June 2023., 2023
Abstract Arguably one of the oldest forms of Christianity, with a global population of more than 260 million adherents, Orthodox Christianity is a major religious system, with networks of believers on almost every continent. However, within the study of American religion, as well as most of the social sciences and humanities (not including theology ...
Sarah Riccardi‐Swartz
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“Light from Light”

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 249-262, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the phrase “light from light” in the 4th‐century Nicene and Nicene‐Constantinopolitan creeds. The article begins by presenting the earliest use of light as a metaphor for Christ and his agency, as well as examples of similar language outside “orthodox” Christianity. It goes on to examine the meaning and use of “light from
Maria Munkholt Christensen
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