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Old Believers and the World of Evil: Images of Evil Forces in Old Believer Art

open access: yesIkonotheka, 2018
The article considers the Old Believers’ beliefs about, and the manner of depicting, the Antichrist, the end of the world, Satan and the devils. It discusses how both Old Believer literature and philosophy relate to their art, which was created between the second half of the 17th century and 1917.
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Notes on the Limitations of Strategic Philanthropy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While there are benefits to strategic grantmaking, organizations should beware of taking the trend too far. As Scanlon concludes about the Public Welfare Foundation's adoption of a strictly strategic approach to philanthropy, "We threw the PWF baby ...
Thomas Scanlon
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Lyrics in Congregational Song: A Biblical and Historical Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Is there a standard as to what constitutes biblical, God-honoring congregational song lyrics? In this paper, I will seek to address this question through a review of relevant biblical principles and positions of prominent leaders throughout church ...
May, Michael
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Old Believers about Themselves (a sociolinguistic aspect)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2012
The aim of the research is to review and compare different points of view about old believers: official-fixed in Russian dictionaries; notions of representatives of different religious dominations; views of old believers about themselves.
N V Ivanova
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Analiza semantyczna przewisk staroobrzędowców z okolic Augustowa i Suwałk

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2015
The semantic analysis of nicknames of Old Believers’ from Augustów and Suwalki regions The Old Believers settled down in North-Eastern Poland in the second half of the 18th century. They were living in hermetic, homogenous communities.
Magdalena Ziółkowska
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The Orthodox Church and Religious Minorities in Shida Kartli Region in Georgia in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century

open access: yes, 2017
We think that it is of utmost importance to disclose the facts about the uncommon treatment that took place during Soviet rule in the 1920s towards the Georgian Orthodox Church and all the other religious ...
Sosiashvili, PhD, Giorgi
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Fake news and rumors: a trigger for proliferation or fading away

open access: yes, 2019
The dynamics of fake news and rumor spreading is investigated using a model with three kinds of agents who are respectively the Seeds, the Agnostics and the Others.
Galam, Serge, Zehmakan, Ahad N.
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An Old Believer’s confessional questionnaire from Latgale: linguocultural analysis of the text

open access: yesSlovene, 2018
During the expedition to the Old Believers in Latgale (Latvia) a group of Slavists investigating the Russian language of Old Believers abroad got a scanned copy of the confessional questionnaire as a present from Basil Trishkin, a mentor of Gayok Old ...
Anna A. Plotnikova, Olga V. Trefilova
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Moral Teachings in the Holy Books, the Bible and the Quran, About the Relationship of the Human to Nature: A Macedonian Research Project

open access: yes, 2019
The subject matter of this manuscript is the separation and actualization of the thematic areas of the holy books, the Bible and the Quran, in which the human-nature relationship is elaborated, indicated or specified.
Cacanoska, Ruzhica   +6 more
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Narrativization of Religious Conversion Experience in the Environment of Evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the context of this article and in the perspective of interpretational approach we have considered possibilities of sociological analysis of a religious conversion.
Myronovych, Dmytro
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