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Christianity and Graeco-Roman Paganism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Through the efforts of Peter, Paul, and the other apostles, the gospel of Jesus Christ was transmitted to those who worshipped the many gods of the Greeks, Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples.
Mattias Gassman
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Dead Souls

Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva
From early modernity, but particularly during the nationalist rise in the 19th century and again after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have been obsessed with the quest for their identity.
Hrvoje Cvijanović
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Official Buddhism in Russia’s Politics and Education - Religion, Indigeneity, and Patriotism in Buryatia

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2018
Focusing on organized Buddhism in the Republic of Buryatia and analyzing the statements of Khambo Lama Damba Aiusheev of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia and the textbooks used for teaching religion in public schools, the article discusses the ...
Ivan Sablin
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The imperial cult and the development of Church order - recenzja [PDF]

, 2004
Recenzja: A. Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order, Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity befor the Age of Cyprian, Brill: Leiden–Boston–Köln 1999, XXII, 396 s.
Myszor, Wincenty
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Exploring Early Buddhist–Christian (Jingjiao 景教) Dialogues in Text and Image: A Cultural Hermeneutic Approach

Religions
The dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism began during the Tang dynasty (618–907) when East Syrian Christian missionaries from Persia arrived in China in 635.
Wang Jun, Michael Cavayero
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Communities of the blessed : the origins and development of regional churches in Northern Italy, c.250 - 381 C.E.

, 2012
This thesis argues that the origins and evolution of Christian communities in Northern Italy between c. 250 and 381 are comprehensible only within the region's social environment.
Humphries, Mark
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Imperial Entanglements : Tracing the Relationship to Empire in the Missionary Religions of Christianity and Buddhism [PDF]

, 2019
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.This dissertation explores the relationship between the missionary activities of Christianity and Buddhism with empire.

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A corporate Christianity: Religion in the early modern Hudson's Bay Company

, 2023
The early modern Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) built a form of Christianity that was decidedly corporate in its design. Unlike the way Catholicism in the French fur trade was deployed to achieve imperial as well as commercial ends, Christianity in the HBC ...
Bradford, Tolly
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