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Religious Diversity in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Iowa in 1915
ABSTRACT Introduction The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) sought to unite late 19th‐ and early 20th‐century women behind an agenda of prohibition, moral reform, and women's rights. But scholars have rarely studied the denominational diversity of this “Christian” organization.
Adam Chamberlain, Alixandra B. Yanus
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This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Chapter 2. Humility, Time, and the Ethnoarchaeological Other
ABSTRACT Analogical reasoning has long been identified as an unavoidable component of archaeological interpretation. Ethnoarchaeology is understood to be a specialized subfield within archaeology that conducts research on the “source side” of the analogical equation to discover and build interpretive security for the various inferences archaeologists ...
Jerimy J. Cunningham
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Christian Thomasius: logic as the doctrine of reason
In this article the Thomasius’s logic is estimated not from the point of view of formation of modern formal logic, but as one of the first attempts to create a non formal logic or a theory of the argument.
Sergiy Secundant
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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History
Abstract A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians’ Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook.
MARK GOLDIE
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They seek a city: Methodism in Grahamstown
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P.H.R. Snyman
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The reconciliatory role of Holy Communion in the Methodist tradition
Violence is an instrument of segregation, whether it manifests physically, emotionally, verbally or by any other means. Can the church be an instrument of reconciliation where people have been divided through violence?
Wessel Bentley
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The 1882 religious schism in the mission village of Metlakatla, British Columbia, and the subsequent battle over land rights between the Tsimshian First Nations and settler governments, are some of the most extensively analysed events in the history of missions in nineteenth‐century Canada.
Darren Reid
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Ideology, Institutions and Causes: the Committed Activist Life of a Durham Miner
Drawing inspiration from Kevin Morgan’s recent study of trade unionist A.A. Purcell, this article analyses the activist commitment of Durham miner Henry Bolton; his changing ideology, and how this informed his political interventions in numerous contexts
Lewis Mates
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