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Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog DruštvaFrom 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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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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Opiate of Christ; or, John's Gospel and the Spectre of Class [PDF]
, 2016 This article applies a Libertarian Marxist lens to the Gospel of John. In doing so, it highlights the agrarian-aristocratic class struggle that is refracted in the text and also seeks to problematize hierarchi- cal and authoritarian ideologies. Its point
Robert Myles
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Christian ideology and the image of a holy land: the place of Jerusalem pilgrimage in the various Christianities [PDF]
, 2013 The great majority of the world's holy cities and sacred shrines attract pilgrims from culturally circumscribed catchment areas, and thus host pilgrims united by strong degrees of cultural homogeneity.
Bowman, Glenn W.
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On the boundaries between good and evil: Constructing multiple moralities in China [PDF]
, 2016 This essay discusses three contrasting versions of the relationship between good and evil in contemporary China: a spirit medium who maneuvers between them, a charismatic Christian group that forges an identity by defending the border between them, and ...
Weller, Robert P., Wu, Keping
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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ReligionsThe 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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Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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