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Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 6, Page 1097-1116, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The influence of religious groups in democratic policy making has often been a source of political controversy. In the United Kingdom, the legalization of same‐sex marriage in England and Wales may in some ways be thought to exemplify the weakening social position and policy power of the churches.
Daniel Gover
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 469-485, September 2023., 2023 This article examines the evolution and transformation of female religious life in Spain under Franco's regime, which began after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with the dictator's death in 1975. During the dictatorship, the public stance towards Catholicism made consecrated religious life one of the potential social undertakings for women at ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 87-117, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the eighteenth century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional.
Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings
American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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El juego de las locuras: Ifigenia, San Pablo y el pensamiento crítico
Realidad, 2017 La crítica del capitalismo surge por una transformación del cristianismo antes del surgimiento de la ortodoxia en los siglos III y IV. No solamente el capitalismo es producido por una transformación del cristianismo, sino que toda la modernidad resulta ...
Franz Hinkelammert
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La relación paganismo - cristianismo en la «Confessio fidei» de Pedro Abelardo
Perseitas, 2015 Este artículo pretende realizar un acercamiento hermenéutico a la «Confessio Fidei» o Carta XVII de Pedro Abelardo, teniendo en cuenta la relación paganismo-cristianismo.
José de Jesús Herrera Ospina
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Revista Protesta y Carisma, 2021 Since the 2018 presidential elections, Brazil has been experiencing a scenario of strong and violent irresponsibility, misinformation and disservice, with the spectacle of necropolitics having worsened with the advent of the new coronavirus pandemic (Sars-Cov-2) that causes covid-19 .
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