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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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Slavery and Manumission in the Pre-Constantine Church [PDF]
, 2013 This paper looks at the church’s handling of the issue of slavery in the period before Constantine and the official recognition of Christianity. The time period is important because Christians had no political authority to end slavery, assuming they ...
Super, Joseph Francis
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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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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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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A Spiritual Perestroika: Religion in the Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 The article discusses various meanings which were ascribed to religion in the parliamentary debates of the perestroika period, which included Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and other religious and lay deputies. Understood in a general sense, religion was
Ivan Sablin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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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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