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Religions, 2019 Drawing from Stephan Feuchtwang’s influential notion of “imperial metaphor,” this article explores the role that the state played in the development of the Mazu cult in late imperial China.
Yanchao Zhang
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“kai adousin ōdēn kainēn legontes...” (Ap 5, 9) A Song of Resistance
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2017 The Apocalypse of John suggests a political theology. Particularly, Rev. 5, 9 provides a critique of the political-religious propaganda of the Roman Empire.
Juan Sebastián Hernández Valencia
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A Symbol in Mass Production: Ruyi Images in the Inner and Outer Cities Under the Qianlong Reign
Forum, 2012 Qianlong's predilection for the Chinese auspicious symbol ruyi was satisfied by court artists and echoed in the country at large by the mass production of the New Year Picture workshops.
Stacy Guoying Zhang
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Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2018 El objetivo del artículo es profundizar en el modo en el que las comunidades hispanas construyeron la divinidad de los miembros de la dinastía Julio-Claudia mediante la consagración de sacerdocios cívicos de culto imperial.
Carmen Alarcón Hernández
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Niektóre aspekty rozprzestrzeniania się kultu cesarza oraz romanizacja prowincji Azja w I w. n.e. [PDF]
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2017 (Spreading of the Imperial cult and romanization of provincia Asia in the first c. AD: select issues): Asia was the first and by far the richest and most advanced culturally Roman province in Asia Minor where the very spread of Latin language was ...
Anastasiya Baukova
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A double-voiced reading of Romans 13:1–7 in light of the imperial cult
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of double-voicedness and James Scott’s theory of public and hidden transcripts, this essay investigates the colonial context of Romans 13:1–7 with particular attention to the Roman imperial cult.
Sung U. Lim
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Per una prosopografia dei sacerdoti e delle sacerdotesse ateniesi in età imperiale: note preliminari
Axon, 2019 This paper offers an overview of an ongoing research project on priesthoods in Roman Athens, whose first purpose is to realise a prosopography of the Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period (c. 27 BC-267 AD).
Camia, Francesco
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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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