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Gregory of Nyssa’s Treatment of Ancient Beliefs in his Homilies
ReligionsIn his many homilies, Gregory of Nyssa contrasts Christian belief to earlier forms of belief that were still very present in the Roman empire during the fourth century, namely the classical polytheistic faith and Judaism, with the explicit intention of ...
Jonathan Farrugia
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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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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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, 2006 Which is the primal sin, pride or idolatry? The Augustinian tradition highlights pride, an emphasis reinforced by theological critiques of modernity. However, the Old Testament and Romans 1 point to idolatry as the fundamental form of sin.
R. R. Reno
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Idolatry, fetishism, and the drama of John Lyly [PDF]
, 2021 Idolatry is a consistent preoccupation across John Lyly’s theatrical work. Beginning with an acknowledgement that idolatry had a broad meaning in the early modern period, this thesis highlights those themes in Lyly’s drama relevant to idolatry and their ...
Higgins, Martin
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001 The Church constantly put to doubt the validity of its evangelisation of Peru, accusing the Indians of being just as idolatrous as they had been in the past and of practicing a hypocritical superficial form of Catholicism.
Juan Carlos Estenssoro
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Karl Barth on religious and irreligious idolatry [PDF]
, 2007 This is the author's version of the book chapter.This book chapter was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and Religious ...
Clough, David
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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