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Globalization, Imperialism and Christianity: The Nigerian Perspective

open access: yesAfrican 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Roman imperial cosmopolitanism as factor of claim of ecumenical Christianity

open access: yes, 2009
У статті аналізується постсоборний, «константинівський» період християнства, зокрема ті трансформаційні процеси на рівні християнського віровчення, які перетворили еллінохристиянство на офіційну релігію Риму, зробили з нього інститут імперської влади ...
Павленко, П.
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Dead Souls

open access: yesAnali 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
doaj   +1 more source

Attitude toward Christianity and paranormal belief among 13- to 16-year-old students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A positive correlation (r = .19) was found among a sample of 279 13- to 16-year-old students in Wales between the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity and a new Index of Paranormal Belief.
Robbins, Mandy   +2 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Official Buddhism in Russia’s Politics and Education - Religion, Indigeneity, and Patriotism in Buryatia

open access: yesEntangled 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
doaj   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

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