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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

The German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Researching the History of Rites [PDF]

, 2016
This chapter discusses the potential of liturgical rites as sources, some practical ways in which one can work with this material, some problems that are likely to be encountered, and some possible directions for future research.
Helen Gittos, Gittos, Helen
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Books of hours as codified compi-lations of compilations

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023
Books of hours were the medieval best-seller. Imitating the model of liturgical books and intended for the faithful, these devotional manuscripts contain a common core of offices and texts, and they seem to have a standardized content.
Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier
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From Christian Confession to “Speaking Your Truth”: A Genealogy of Lived Experience as Truth‐Telling

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a sociological genealogy of “lived experience” as a mode of truth‐telling. It asks how narrated life came to function as knowledge and why such speech now circulates as evidence in activism, academia, and social policy. Using a Foucauldian genealogy, the analysis traces the shifting conditions under which speech became ...
Jody Moore
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Paths of Faith and Focus? ADHD, Adult Religiosity, and Moderation by Race in the Add Health Study

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about how ADHD shapes religious belief and practice across the life course. Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examines whether childhood ADHD diagnosis is associated ...
Laura Upenieks, Samuel H. Fishman
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Sources for the liturgy of Canterbury Cathedral in the central Middle Ages [PDF]

, 2013
Recent research suggests there is a large quantity of surviving evidence for the liturgical texts written at Canterbury Cathedral in the central Middle Ages.
Gittos, Helen
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Trattati metabizantini di magia sulla vita Coniugale (BIEE 223 ff. 84r-85v; 210 ff. 37r-v, 63r-v, 82v) [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2017
The article presents magical prayers employed in post-Byzantine manuscripts from Athenian Library of Historical and Ethnological Association of 18th-19th centuries, in order to ensure protection against impotence and a happy coupledom.
Costanza Salvatore
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Liturgical theology: children and the city [PDF]

, 2003
Liturgical Theology: Children and the City engages academic liturgical theology, contextual sensitivity and key challenges faced by the church in contemporary Britain.
Burns, Stephen
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