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Early Russian Hagiography. (Andreas Ebbinghaus) [PDF]

, 2001
Prof. Dr. Andreas Ebbinghaus. Rezension zu: Lenhoff, Gail, Early Russian Hagiography: The Lives of Prince Fedor the Black. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. XII, 496 S.

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The Child and Childhood in Old Polish Hagiography [PDF]

, 2009
The article is an overview of studies on the theme of childhood and the child as a specific literary hero of old Polish hagiography. Hagiographers tended to render the childhood of the saints within a schematic framework employing an abundant ...
Sokołowska, Katarzyna, Katarzyna Sokołowska   +1 more
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Comparative Hagiology and/as Manuscript Studies: Method and Materiality

Religions, 2019
Although the academic study of hagiography continues to flourish, the role of comparative methods within the study of sanctity and the saints remains underutilized.
Barbara Zimbalist
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Le corps du saint dans l'hagiographie du Maghreb médiéval

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2006
This article attempts to think about the role given by medieval Maghreb hagiography to the body in the experience of sanctity and in the process of sanctification of a man or a woman. It focuses also on the body’s place in the recognition or consecration
Nelly Amri
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Eulogy in the structure of Hieromonk Domentijan's hagiographies [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2016
In Old Serbian Literature three types of genres can be distinguished: prose, poetry and transitional genres. Eulogy belongs to the transitional genres; in its structure both prose and poetic elements are contained.
Kostić-Tmušić Aleksandra S.
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Saints Who Sometimes Were: Utilizing Missionary Hagiography

, 1999
A significant amount of mission history and theology is based on or derived from missionary biography. Many missionary biographies, however, are little more than hagiography. This essay examines the nature of hagiography; suggests how hagiography can be
Alan Neely
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Palček as a Reforming Hero and Reformed Saint: Towards a Bohemian Reformation Hagiography

Terminus
Although the study of Christian hagiography still primarily targets ancient and medieval texts, the early modern hagiography has recently been established as a distinctive research topic. Its focus is
Marie Škarpová
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

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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Periodisation and Realm of Byzantine Hagiography

, 2014
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Volume I: Periods and Places (2011), еd. Stephanos Efthymiadis, Ashgate.The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Volume I: Periods and Places (2011), еd.
Dojčinović, Danijel
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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