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The Conquest of Piemont. The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714

RUDN Journal of World History, 2023
The purpose of this article is to identify the features of military art as an integral part of Western European culture in the period of late feudalism using the example of a separate campaign of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).
Alexander V. Kutishchev
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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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The Book of Common Prayer in Methodism: a Cherished Heritage or a Corrupting Influence?

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017
For a long time, Methodism had a complicated relation with its “Mother Church”, the Church of England, and the liturgical question provides a good illustration of this.
Jérôme Grosclaude
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 328-346, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 266-282, September 2026.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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“Penzotti’s Pathways”. Protestant Missions in South America and the Building of Secularism

Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019
This article looks into the case of Francisco Penzotti, a methodist missionary who suffered a nine-month imprisonment in Peru between 1889 and 1891 because of his preaching.
Paula Seiguer
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 20-37, March 2026.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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A Disease of the Soul? Melancholy, Methodism and Madmen.

Lychnos, 2022
In the 18th century England melancholy was a topic of an intense and sometimes uncompromising debate. The Methodist movement's positive understanding of melancholy as a feeling related to the care for the soul was intensely criticised.
Trine Outzen
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 96-109, March 2026.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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"Learning From Lilies": Time, Covenant, and Revelation in the Eco-Theology of an Argentine Methodist Sermon

International Journal of Homiletics
This article will engage a transcribed sermon on climate justice originally preached by a Methodist pastor working in the community of Rosario, Argentina.
Jerusha Matsen Neal, Vilma "Nina" Balmaceda   +1 more
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