The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development
Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2018 How did Christianity expand in Africa to become the continent’s dominant religion? Using annual panel census data on Christian missions from 1751 to 1932 in Ghana, and pre-1924 data on missions for 43 sub-Saharan African countries, we estimate causal ...
Remi Jedwab +2 more
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Prayers of the 6–10 Cathismata in the Old Russian Psalters [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThis article examines 29 Psalters of the 13th–16th centuries in the context of Old Russian liturgical writing: horologions, liturgical collections, etc., as well as the old-printed Psalter.
Anton V. Shchepetkin, deacon
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Christian Missions and Colonial Empires Reconsidered: A Black Evangelist in West Africa, 1766-1816 [PDF]
, 2009 The article presents an exploration into the work of the late 18th-century West African Anglican missionary Philip Quaque and the relationship between imperialism and religion during the colonial era.
Andrews, Edward E.
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The Role of Christian Churches in Geo-Economical and Geopolitical Rivalry of European Nations in Africa: 20th – 21st Centuries [PDF]
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2019 The article analyses the dynamics of Africa’s religious landscape from the perspective of European nations’ rivalry in 1910–2010 with particular attention towards the largest Christian denominations in the region – Catholic, Anglican, Dutch Reformed and ...
ZAKHAROV Ivan Andreevich
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THE REFORM OF POPE CYRIL IV AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE LIFE OF THE COPTIC COMMUNITY [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2021 [Ar] إصلاح البابا کيرلس الرابع وتأثيراتها فى حياة المجتمع القبطى خلال النصف الثانى من القرن التاسع عشر الميلادى، کان البابا کيرلس الرابع بطريرک الکرازة
SHERIN SADEK EL GENDI
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The delay of the Day of the Lord in Malachi: A missional reading
In die Skriflig, 2018 In this article, the missional significance of the delay of the Day of the Lord in the postexilic book of Malachi will be studied, employing a missional hermeneutic.
Bob Wielenga
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Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione, 2021 Although the English Montessori Movement was declining, two educators, trained in the Method in England in the 1920s, contributed significantly to the continuity of Montessori education.
Maria Patricia Williams
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Saint Innokenty (Veniaminov) and His Work on the Establishment of Secondary Theological Education in the Far East [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThe episcopal service of Innokenty (Veniaminov), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, remains a relevant topic for the researches nowadays. His ministry as the ruling bishop of the vast Kamchatka Diocese, which included great territories of the Far East ...
Hieromonk Ferapont (Pavel F. Shirokov)
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Dr. Father Waclaw Szuniewicz, a forgotten pioneer in refractive surgery and his work in China [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021 Father Wacław Szuniewicz (1891-1963) was a skilled ophthalmic surgeon, missionary, and teacher. For several years he worked in China, afterwards in the United States and in Brazil.
Piotr Kanclerz, Andrzej Grzybowski
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, 2017 This article examines a memorial service held in Xiamen in 2010 for an American missionary who died and was buried there in 1910. The missionary, accused of association with imperialism under Mao, had been largely forgotten by the locals until this event.
Jifeng Liu
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