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Democracy's Fatal Flaw: Anonymity and the Normalization of Offence in John Dunton's Epistolary Periodicals

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.
Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
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Towards Re-Historicization: An Engagement of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe’s Efforts to Rewrite the History of James Anta

Religions
This paper is a follow-up to the research conducted in 2021 titled James Anta: missionary, martyr, and the unsung hero of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe. The paper was a reconstruction of Anta’s life, ministry, and martyrdom.
Martin Mujinga
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Ideology, Institutions and Causes: the Committed Activist Life of a Durham Miner

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017
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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Bridging the fire: A Wesleyan lens on Pentecostal Theology and its implications for discipleship in the Methodist Church Ghana [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
This study examines the growing Pentecostal and charismatic influence within The Methodist Church Ghana, with specific attention to renewal movements such as the “Prayer Tower.” Its purpose is to explore how Pentecostal spirituality can be constructively
Fiifi Afenyi-Donkor
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From Messianic Subjectivity to Immaculate Objectivity: An Etymology

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 74-90, July 2025.
Nick Groom
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“We Desire Everything Illustrating the History of Methodism That We Can Procure”: Examining the Methodist Collections at Drew University

Theological Librarianship, 2012
The Methodist Collections at Drew University (Madison, NJ) are among the largest and most influential anywhere. The present essay provides a thoroughly-documented overview of the genesis and ongoing development of these collections, from the mid ...
Christopher J. Anderson
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Parody, Controversy, Commercial Opportunity: Samuel Foote’s The Minor (1760) and Its Reception

Sillages Critiques
This article studies Samuel Foote’s comedy The Minor, created in 1760, and the controversy it provoked. As Foote’s play satirizes George Whitefield and his preaching, its legality was debated. The use of scriptural quotations by ridiculous characters was
Pierre Labrune
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Theoretical psychology: discursive transformations and continuity in Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung. [PDF]

Psychol Res, 2022
Wendt AN, Wolfradt U.
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Post‐War Sociology of Religion 1945–2024 in Britain and America

Religious Studies Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 69-75, March 2024.
Bryan S. Turner
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For God, King, and Country: Nineteenth-Century Methodist Interpretations of the War of 1812

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2014
The War of 1812 almost ruined Episcopal Methodism in Upper Canada. During the War, the American itinerants were unable to travel in the land and, after the War, their detractors used their connection to America to undermine their influence in the loyal ...
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