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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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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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The empire never ended: Hegel, postmodernism and comedy [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoThis paper argues that Hegel’s account of modernity is already an account of postmodernity, according to Fredric Jameson’s definition of the cultural logic of globalized capitalism.
Bordons Iñigo Baca
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Religion and the State: The Influence of the Tokugawa on Religious Life, Thought, and Institutions [PDF]
, 2017 This paper describes the influence of the Tokugawa government on religious life in Japan. It focuses on the religious traditions of Buddhism, Shintoism, and Neo-Confucianism and how the state used these religions to their advantage.
Labbe, Savannah A.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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The Clash Between Christianity and the Concept of Genius in Roman Society
Forum Theologicum SardicenseThis study offers a critical examination of the complex conflict between early Christianity and the Roman conception of Genius—a foundational spiritual and ideological construct that permeated the social, religious, and political fabric of the Roman ...
Stoycho Staykov
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Deconstructing the symbolic city:Jerome as guide to late antique Rome [PDF]
, 2012 This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do
Grig, Lucy
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Globalization, Imperialism and Christianity: The Nigerian Perspective
African Research Review, 2010 There appears to be very close link between globalization and imperialism. Both seem to have domineering character. Globalization could be likened to a new wave of imperialism as it could be adjudged the process by which the so called superior powers of the West dominate and influence developing countries like Nigeria.
Obiefuna, BAC, Ezeoba, AC
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Book Review: An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 [PDF]
, 2009 A review of An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 by Marine ...
Bauman, Chad
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