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Eastern Orthodoxy in the processes of the post-communist political transformations
Політичні дослідження, 2021 It is a sort of truism in the social sciences that since the late 1970s the world has been witnessing the great return of religion into global politics and international relations.
Viktor Yelenskyі
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Young Saints and the Knots of Satan: Moral Exemplarity, Ministry and Youth in Early Modern Dissenters’ Writing [PDF]
, 2018 This investigation considers a key motif for early modern religious writing - the saintly or morally exemplary child - as depicted in both the narratives of actual children’s lives as well as in Defoe’s The Family Instructor.
Penny Pritchard, Pritchard, Penny
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Релігійна свобода, 2020 The author examines the process of establishment of Christian understanding of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion and tolerance. In doing so, he draws on the achievements of the Greek and Greek-Roman traditions of interpreting freedom of ...
Mykhailo Babii
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How many dissenters does it take to disorder a flock? [PDF]
, 2017 We consider the effect of introducing a small number of non-aligning agents in a well-formed flock. To this end, we modify a minimal model of active Brownian particles with purely repulsive (excluded volume) forces to introduce an alignment interaction ...
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, 2012 From a religiously restrictive colony controlled by the established church to an exemplar of religious freedom for a new country, Ragosta recounts Virginia’s formative struggle between the Anglican Church and dissenters, i.e., predominately Presbyterians
Pearson, Andrew
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“The Indefensibility of the Jurisprudential Theory of Disrespecting the Opposite Opinion in the Imami Jurisprudence with Emphasis on the Dignity-based Teachings of Islamic Human Rights” [PDF]
حقوق بشرIn recent centuries, a theory has emerged among some Imami jurists that some Shari'a rulings are based on the principle of lack of immunity and lack of respect for the beliefs of religious dissenters (non-Shi'ites), which is interpreted in ...
Ali Mohamadian
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Text Matters, 2015 The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America.
Justyna Fruzińska
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Names of Old-Believer Confessions in the Popular Terminology of the Perm Region [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The study deals with locally specific features of popular terminology related to various Old Ritualist groups in the traditional Russian culture of the Perm-Kama region.
Alexander V. Chernykh
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Reverberations of Revolution: Sound, Politics and Religious Enthusiasm in the 1790s [PDF]
This essay examines the significance of sound in religion in the context of the British debate about the French Revolution. It analyses loyalist sermons and pamphlets to show that anxieties about plebeian noise exacerbated concerns about religious ...
Denney, Peter
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
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