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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Observations on the Imperial Cult in Aspendos [PDF]
, 2013 The practice of the imperial cult in Aspendos started during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius. The first cult organized was for an imperator whose name is still a mystery.
Baz, Ferit
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Empress and Goddess: lulio-Claudian Women in the Imperial Cult [PDF]
, 2001 The worship of a mortal has long been an intriguing topic among scholars, The Roman imperial cult, which centered on the veneration of the emperor, exemplifies this phenomenon and its study has resulted in thousands of articles that attempt to explain ...
MacIver, Krista
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Han Imperial Cult under Emperor Wu [PDF]
, 2021 During the reign of Han Emperor Wu (141 – 87 BCE), the imperial government sponsored the worship of a large number of cults, many of which were connected to the emperor’s pursuit of immortality.
Robinson, Rebecca
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From Basileus to Sebastos: The Development of the Imperial Cult of Roman Cyprus from Ptolemaic Royal Worship [PDF]
, 2022 Historical research on the imperial cult of the Roman Empire has traditionally focused on areas marked by prominent political and economic interactions with the ruling center in Rome. The periphery of the empire is often flattened into a passive absorber
Kou, Junqi
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From Local to the State: Acknowledging the Cult of Qiansui Baozhang in the Chan Historiography
Religions, 2023 The cult of Qiansui Baozhang, a legendary Indian monk, gained prominence during the Song dynasty. He has been revered as the founding patriarch of Hangzhou’s Zhong Tianzhu monastery ever since.
Lu Zhang
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Malcolm Fraser and Jimmy Carter: Trilateralism and Personal Diplomacy
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies Malcolm Fraser's approach towards the United States between 1977 and 1980. The paper does so by examining how Fraser's Coalition government perceived and responded to the concept of trilateralism, which Jimmy Carter embraced at the early stages of his presidency.
Athanasios Antonopoulos
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The Achaean Federal Imperial Cult II: The Corinthian Church
Tyndale Bulletin, 1995 The petition from Argos discussed in the previous essay is a ‘new’ document for New Testament scholars which throws light on first-century issues in Roman Corinth.
Bruce W. Winter
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The Royal Commission Into the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia, 1935–1937
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian governments of the 1930s were less inclined to establish royal commissions than their predecessors in the 1920s, and few of the 1930s inquiries were of great moment. The exception was the royal commission appointed by the Lyons Government to inquire into the monetary and banking systems in Australia in 1935.
David Lee
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