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The Development of the Reformed Church in Hungary
The Reformed Church in Hungary is a Reformed Protestant church in terms of its confession of faith, in which both adjectives, Reformed and Protestant, are emphasized. From this formulation follows the critique and firm rejection of a form of organization
Sándor Fekete
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Professor James Cameron: introduction by a late-coming beneficiary [PDF]
Mark Elliot’s introduction to this selection of papers from the symposium presents a sketch of James Cameron’s contribution to scholarship as encountered through some of his notable writings. The result is a fascinating tour of Scottish church history in
Elliot, Mark W.
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The Medieval Inquisition: Scale-free Networks and the Suppression of Heresy
Qualitative evidence suggests that heresy within the medieval Catholic Church had many of the characteristics of a scale-free network. From the perspective of the Church, heresy can be seen as a virus.
Ormerod, Paul, Roach, Andrew
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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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The Prohibition of Suicide and Its Theological Rationale in Catholic Moral and Canonical Tradition: Origins and Development. [PDF]
Adamiak S, Dohnalik J.
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ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
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Are Old Men Impotent? On a Sparse Discourse of Early Modern Medicine and Its Forensic Implications in Paolo Zacchia's Quaestiones medico-legales. [PDF]
Schäfer D.
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ABSTRACT Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos +1 more
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The “Modern Martyrdom” of Anglo-Catholics in Victorian England [PDF]
The word “martyr” was widely applied in the later nineteenth century to a number of Anglican “ritualist” clergy who had been prosecuted for performing overtly “Catholic” liturgical practices.
Janes, Dominic
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