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Colonialism, christians and sport : the catholic church and football in Goa, 1883-1951 [PDF]

, 2002
The chapter uses the development of football in Goa, the Portuguese colony in India until 1961, as a case study with which to critique existing histories of sport and colonialism.
Mills, James
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF SEED PLANTING IN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN KENYA

Journal of Philosophy and Religion (JPR)
The study seeks to document the historical development of the doctrine of seed planting and examine the pivotal role of pastors in promoting and institutionalising the practice within Christian churches in Kenya. Influenced by global prosperity gospel preachers, the doctrine has been shaped and disseminated by local church leaders who have positioned ...
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Evangelical Friend, October 1967 (Vol. 1, No. 2)

, 1967
What of the night? History is being written and .. . prophecies are being unfolded . .. Page 5 A churchmouse views children\u27s church Frustrated Charlie would have given his last chunk of cheese to tell what he saw at Hopedale. Page 6 Union Biblical
Evangelical Friends Alliance,
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Theologizing in a Time of Reckoning

Journal of Moral Theology
The church in the US faces just such a moment of reckoning. From the centuries of collusion by in the idolatries undergirding the sacrifice and exploitation of vast peoples to the twisted account of ‘Christian nationalism’ that is the current apotheosis ...
M. Therese Lysaught
doaj   +1 more source

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 2 [PDF]

, 2016
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Bishop Josiah Kibira of Tanzania, Ecumenical Statesman. 2.
Lloyd, Stephen J., Malambugi, Angolowsye, Robert, Dana   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church [PDF]

The Irish Church Quarterly, 1908
W. C., Henry C. Lea
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Ad Fontes: Desiderius Erasmus’ Call for a Return to the Sources of a Unified and Simple Christian Faith [PDF]

, 2017
Desiderius Erasmus’ humanism greatly shaped his view of Christianity. He developed a “philosophy of Christ” that led him to seek peaceful reforms from within the Church while attempting to maintain unity.
Kieffer, Amanda
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