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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)

open access: yes, 2022
The decision of Ibrahim Pascha to allow foreign powers to open consulates in Jerusalem in the 1830s transformed the Holy Land into yet another scenario where the rivalries among the Great Powers for influence over the decaying Ottoman Empire could unfold. The pretext: the Great Powers’ ‘historical’ and ‘moral’ role as protectors of Christian minorities
openaire   +2 more sources

Exporting the Holy Land: artisans and merchant migrants in Ottoman-era Bethlehem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Norris, Jacob
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UEG Week 2025 Poster Presentations [PDF]

open access: yesUnited European Gastroenterol J
United European Gastroenterology Journal, Volume 13, Issue S8, Page S803-S1476, October 2025.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Representation c. 800: Arab Byzantine Carolingian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around the year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian and Palestinian Christian attitudes toward representation ...
Brubaker, Leslie
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ETHNOCRACY: Exploring and Extending the Concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ethnocracy means ‘government or rule by a particular ethnic group’ or ethnos, specified by language, religion, ‘race’ and/or other components . It has been developed from a general imprecise label into an analytical concept sometimes contrasted with ...
Anderson, James
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Catholicism decentralized : local religion in the early modern periphery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Expanding upon recent work on the heterogeneity of Catholicism and the challenges facing Tridentine reformers, this article examines local religion in two “extreme” settings: the village republic of Gersau in Central Switzerland and the missionary ...
Kümin, Beat A., Tramontana, Felicita
core   +1 more source

Beautifiers of Russian Palestine: Vasily Paskhin

open access: yesVestnik slavianskikh kul'tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures], 2022
Russian religious art of the 19th century in the Soviet years did not correspond to the official ideological direction, in connection with which many of these works were destroyed, and the names of their authors were forgotten. In this sense, those works
S. Mikhaylova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Memories of Siberian Pilgrims on Palestine of Late 19th - Early 20th Century as Historical Source

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
Memories of Siberian pilgrims of the late 19th - early 20th century are considered as a historical source. The intensification of pilgrimages to the main Christian shrines of the inhabitants of the Russian Empire during this period is naturally ...
A. A. Valitov, T. A. Kibardina
doaj   +1 more source

Russia in the Holy Land. Figures and Institutions of Russian Palestine (in the 19th and 20th Centuries)

open access: yesRussian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences, 2021
Russian Palestine is not only a unique religious phenomenon that encompasses a complex infrastructure of Russian churches, monasteries, lands and farmsteads, but also the political, spiritual, scientific and humanitarian presence of Russia in the Holy ...
I. Smirnova, Ritta B. Butova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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