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The Mediating Roles of Political Ideology, Dominion Belief, and Stewardship Belief in the Relationship Between Christianity and Environmentalism: Evaluating Lynn White's Thesis in the Netherlands

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
wiley   +1 more source

From three congregations to one autonomous church: The Swaziland Reformed Church

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
This article covers the time from 1985 to 1992 in the history of the Swaziland Reformed Church (SRC). In 1985, for the first time in its existence, the SRC had four missionaries working in the four districts of the country. At this stage the SRC formed a
Arnau van Wyngaard
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Political and Institutional Development in England

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
wiley   +1 more source

A case study on the windows of the Witbank Dutch Reformed church: what they convey about the changing religio-political context of this Afrikaans Protestant church [PDF]

, 2010
The Witbank Dutch Reformed Church commissioned the author to remake some church windows, requesting changes in symbolism. This descriptive, explorative, qualitative case study retrospectively examines the formal, tectonic and symbolic meaning of the ...
Janse van Rensburg, Ariane
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

The good, the bad, and the ugly: Esping-Andersen's regime typology and the religious roots of the Western welfare state [PDF]

Esping-Andersen's 'Three World of Welfare Capitalism' has been the most influential contribution of recent years to the comparative welfare state research literature. According to Esping-Andersen, the welfare state basically comes in three variants: as a
Manow, Philip
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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]

, 2008
Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry, Jim Haslam, Henry Midgley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Die Barmhartigheidsbediening van die NG Kerk van Natal - afhanklik en eksklusief?

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2000
The ministry of compassion of the Dutch Reformed Church in Natal - dependent and exclusive?This study highlights two major concerns in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church of Natal s ministry of compassion.
R. B. van Aarde
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The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source