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ReligionsThis article offers a comparative historical analysis of the transmission of Christianity in China and Korea from the nineteenth century to the formation of modern nation-states.
Fang Du, Zhen Sun
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Astérion, 2012 Spreading the universal monarchy myth in the early 16th century was closely linked to the magnitude of the territories controlled by Charles V. For the imperial chancellor Mercurino Gattinara, universal and messianic ideas, which were integrated into the
Juan Carlos d’Amico
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Ethiopian Dynastic Marriage and the Bétä Esra'él
Aethiopica, 2013 Significant contacts between the Ethiopian State and the Bétä Esraʾél began in the late sixteenth century with the move of the imperial capital to the Lake Ṭana area, which was relatively near to Fälaša settlements in or around the Sämén mountains.
Richard Pankhurst
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Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020 The institution of formal empire is not limited to studies of the past, but shows itself as a present possibility. This article employs the new discipline of comparative missiology in order to examine the relationship between missionary religions and ...
Bieber, Ken, Beyers, Jaco
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Российский журнал истории ЦерквиThis article examines the phenomenon of "Golgotha Christianity", focusing on its formulation, "invention", and limited historical existence in the early twentieth century.
A. Yu. Mikhailov, V. A. Stupin
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The Radical New Perspective on Paul, Messianic Judaism and their connection to Christian Zionism
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 The Radical New Perspective on Paul distinguishes between two subgroups of believers in Christ in Paul’s time: gentile believers and Jewish or Judaean believers.
Philip La Grange Du Toit
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Roman Imperial Cosmopolitanism as a Factor for the Affirmation of the Universe of Christianity
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2009 Many religious and secular studies have already been devoted to questions concerning the Christian religion. However, even today, the problem of the origins of Christianity, the birth and formation of its doctrine, studies of the early stage of its ...
Pavlo Yuriyovych Pavlenko
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