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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature.
David Bartholomew +254 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Foreign intervention and legacies in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church
Heliyon, 2023 This paper examines foreign intervention and the legacies remain in the affairs of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC). It discusses the so-called Jesuit missionaries’ intervention in the EOTC during the 16th and 17th centuries and some of their legacies. It also explores Italy’s intervention in the EOTC in the 19th and 20th centuries and the
Solomon Molla Ademe, Mohammed Seid Ali
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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The spread of Catholicism in Ethiopia during the seventeenth century. History of manners approach
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2004 The Jesuit mission sought for many years to subdue the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuits believed in the Ignatian conception of the Church as the mystical body of Christ, and thus treated the Ethiopian Church like a ...
Leonardo Cohen
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Édition du texte guèze
Afriques, 2014 This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Traduction française
Afriques, 2014 This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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