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A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 581-597, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most striking religious resurgences worldwide.
Jörg Stolz +3 more
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GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 410-430, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Navid Kermani's and Feridun Zaimoglu's engagements as Muslims with Christian art reveal the possibilities and limitations of aesthetic experiences of the divine beyond all doctrinal divides. Although Kermani's own research into the aesthetic dimension of Islam highlights the potential for art to offer spiritual insight, his rejection of some ...
Joseph Twist
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Orthodox Christianity in the United States: A challenge for the study of American religion
Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5-6, May-June 2023., 2023 Abstract Arguably one of the oldest forms of Christianity, with a global population of more than 260 million adherents, Orthodox Christianity is a major religious system, with networks of believers on almost every continent. However, within the study of American religion, as well as most of the social sciences and humanities (not including theology ...
Sarah Riccardi‐Swartz
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Enabling activist resilience: Bystander protection during protest crackdowns in Myanmar
Asian Politics &Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 205-225, April 2023., 2023 Abstract What accounts for the survival and long‐term participation of activists in contentious movements under repression? I argue for the role of an important yet oft‐neglected factor: protective support by civilian bystanders. I propose that, mainly motivated by victim‐oriented sympathy, bystanders engage in high‐risk protection that helps activists
Mai Van Tran
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 36-56, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article considers visual and textual descriptions of conversions to Lutheranism by focusing on the former Augustinian monk Gottfried Rabe, who delivered his revocation sermon in Wittenberg in 1601 and features on two woodcuts as well as on a commemorative medal.
Martin Christ
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 57-74, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 726-758, December 2022., 2022 Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples.
Anna‐Katharina Rieger
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Parading Staurothekes in Norman Sicily: Relics, Community, and the Conversion of the Other†
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 304-334, June 2021., 2021 This article explores the liturgical functions of cross‐shaped staurothekes, reliquaries of the True Cross, in twelfth‐century Sicily. These luxurious objects were once at the centre of the devotion of the growing Christian communities on an island undergoing dramatic social changes.
Jesús Rodríguez Viejo
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 497-512, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper explores the reasons why and the processes through which the Greeks from the former Soviet Union altered their self‐identification after migration to their ethnic homeland. Responding to their labelling by the native Greeks and the doubts expressed about their Greekness, most introduce themselves as
Manolis Pratsinakis
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The Martyrs of Córdoba: Debates around a curious case of medieval martyrdom
History Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2020., 2020 Abstract Historians have long been fascinated by the almost 50 Christians who were sentenced to death by the Islamic authorities in mid‐ninth century Córdoba, in most cases for wilfully and publicly blaspheming against the Prophet. Since the single manuscript account describing the lives and actions of the so‐called martyrs of Córdoba was ‘rediscovered’
Kati Ihnat
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