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Before and After the Imperial Restoration of Meiji in Japan : Especially on the Introduction of Christianity into Japan [PDF]
, 1960 In 1549 the Jesuit Priest St. Francis Xavier came to Japan as the first Christian missionary. He remained for about two years working especially in Kyushu and Yamaguchi.
Sakurai, M., 4348
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English Christianity and the Australian Colonies, 1788–1860
, 1977 In the England of 1840, as Professor Chadwick observes, the idea of mission pertained to the lapsed at home as well as the heathen overseas. This article, in discussing connexions between the English Churches and the Australian colonies, deals with a ...
J. D. Bollen
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Codex Argenteus and political ideology in the Ostrogothic kingdom
Lychnos, 2012 During the Middle Ages, luxurious books were often used as manifestations of power, ideology and political aspirations. Opulent religious manuscripts ordered by noblemen and -women signified relations between Christianity and worldly power.
Marta Bigus
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ReligionsThe 19th century Protestant missionary James Legge is acknowledged for his voluminous and Christianity-inflected translations of Chinese classics of “Three Teachings”, yet his rendition of Buddhist texts remains under-examined.
Yanmeng Wang
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Conversion And Political Expedience: Imperial Themes In The Early Christian Baptistery
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2012 En este artículo se exploran los antecedentes políticos del bautisterio en el cristianismo temprano, dado que pertenece a los significados simbólicos de la topografía urbana y la práctica ceremonial. Se sostiene que la relación cambiante entre el imperium y el sacerdotium en el cristianismo temprano adquirió una dimensión política ...
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“Der verkehrte und doch widerbekehrte Thomas”: Ambiguities of Jewish Conversions and Christian Hebraism in Nuremberg around 1700 [PDF]
Jewish conversions to Lutheranism occurred in the imperial city of Nuremberg under specific cultural, religious, social and economic conditions, which were closely related to the question of the benefits for the local university in Altdorf.
Brunner, Benedikt
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