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"A Prophet Has No Honor in the Prophet’s Own Country"

Temenos, 2020
The article discusses how the history of forced marginality and isolation of the Russian-speaking Evangelical Christians shaped their theology and social ministry. Russian Evangelicalism is a glocal phenomenon.
Igor Mikeshin
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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“Millions of Jews Died in That War… It Was a Bad Time”: The Holocaust in Adventures in Odyssey’s Escape to the Hiding Place

Genealogy, 2019
In 2012, the Christian evangelical organization Focus on the Family published Escape to the Hiding Place, the ninth book in Adventures in Odyssey’s Imagination Station book series.
Matthew H. Brittingham
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Misión Integral and Progressive Evangelicalism: The Latin American Influence on the North American Emerging Church

, 2012
Though commonly identified with the conservative politics of the Christian Right, over the past decade evangelicals in the United States have increasingly embraced a more politically progressive range of social concerns. Often treated as something wholly
M. Clawson
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Embodying the Global Soul: Internationalism and the American Evangelical Left

Religions, 2012
In the last half of the twentieth century, neo-evangelicalism moved from an anticommunist nationalist consensus to a new internationalism characterized by concern for human rights, justice, and economic development. Case studies of World Vision, a global
David R. Swartz
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Asian American Evangelicals in Multiracial Church Ministry

Religions, 2013
Since the 1990s, evangelical efforts to create multiracial churches (MRCs) have grown exponentially. This article analyzes the experiences of Asian American evangelical ministers leading MRCs. Through interviews we explore how Asian American evangelicals
Kathleen Garces-Foley, Russell Jeung
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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‘The Last Bastion of Evangelicalism in Europe?’ Evangelicalism and Religiosity in Northern Ireland

Religions
This article explores whether or to what extent Northen Ireland—long-noted for its unusually high levels of religiosity—remains, as the late preacher-politician Rev Ian Paisley (d. 2014) described it: the last bastion of evangelicalism in Europe.
Gladys Ganiel, Emma Soye
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