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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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The poor in the Epistle of James and the Gospel of Thomas
This study explores similarities in the thought world of the Epistle of James and the Gospel of Thomas. Particular attention is devoted to the role that the 'poor' and 'poverty' play in both documents.
Patrick J. Hartin
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ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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This article examines the phrase ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου in Matthew and Luke’s versions of the Lord’s Prayer in the light of Ewe-Ghanaian eschatological vision.
Ernest van Eck, Daniel Sakitey
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
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
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The current piece of research has evidenced that the concept of the Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heaven is not new in the biblical theology of the human writers of the Scripture.
Gallusz László
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Artist between the Paradise on Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven [PDF]
The article raises the question of why the subjects related to the pristine paradis and to the coming Kingdom of Heaven are usually not convincingly addressed in the world art, especially in the visual one.
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
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Are the least included in the kingdom of heaven? The meaning of Matthew 5:19
According to the normative interpretation of Matthew 5:19, this logion specifies that a stict hierarchy will exist in the consummated kingdom of God based upon observance of the Jewish law.
David C. Sim
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The Agony of the Infinite: The Presence of God as Phenomenological Hell [PDF]
Much recent academic literature on the afterlife has been focused on the justice of eternity and whether a good God could allow a person to experience eternal suffering in Hell.
Holdier, A. G.
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Constellations, EarlyView.
Arturo Chang
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