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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantine Legislation on the Possibility for a Slave to Become a Monk

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
Byzantium retained the institute of slavery despite being a Christian state. Christian ideology was to come into a confrontation with social reality, but in fact both coexisted peacefully in many spheres.
Anna Borisovna Vankova
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Religious Symbols in the State: Neutrality, Identity and Coercive Public Officials Under Quebec’s Bill 21

Religions
This article analyzes the governance of religious diversity in public employment through the study of Quebec’s Bill 21. It examines how the State uses neutrality to manage religious symbols, focusing on implications for pluralism and fundamental rights ...
Christian J. Backenköhler Casajús
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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, Jessica A. Schoenherr   +3 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

GENEZA I PROFIL CZECHOSŁOWACKIEGO PRAWA WYZNANIOWEGO I REPUBLIKI W LATACH 1918-1938

Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2016
GENESIS AND PROFILE OF CZECHOSLOVAK ECCLESIASTICAL LAW TURING THE PERIOD OF 1ST REPUBLIC 1918-1938 Summary The aim of this article is to describe original model Church – State relationships in interwar Czechoslovakia.
Paweł A. Leszczyński
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Public Oratories of Venetian Villas: Identity of a Sacred Architecture Rooted within the Diocese of Vicenza.

In_Bo, 2021
The article presents the results of the study about the nature and multiple meanings of a sacred architecture, widely spread throughout the Venetian countryside: public oratory belonging to villa complexes. The study started from a very general question:
Giorgia Cestaro
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