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American Conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
This paper explores conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States. It discusses the analytic value of different categories used to describe American Orthodox Christians; examines theoretic models that best explain American ...
Ksenia Medvedeva
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Summary

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 1999
In the first section “Christianity in the Context of the History of Ukraine” of the Bulettin there are published the papers by T. Poleljuk “ Christianity in the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Space: the Demarcation of the Constructive and Destructive ...
Editorial board of the Journal
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God the Logos. Exegetical Sketches on the Johannine Prologue (1:1–18)

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
N. N. Glubokovsky, God the Logos. Exegetical sketches on the Johannine prologue (1:1–18). The study explores the Orthodox Christian perspective on the Prologue of the Gospel of John.
N. N. Glubokovsky
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Palamas and Florensky: The Metaphysics of the Heart in Patristic and Russian Philosophical Tradition

Studia Ceranea, 2013
Тhis paper focuses on the philosophical issue known as the metaphysics of the heart within Orthodox Christianity – both Russian and Byzantie versions. Russian religious thought is based on patristic tradition.
Justyna Kroczak
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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World-Affirming Theologies in Modern Orthodox Christianity

Religions
The notion that God is present in creation has long featured in Eastern Christian thought, appearing as early as Origen (3rd century) and Evagrius of Pontus (4th century).
Paul Ladouceur
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
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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Stem Cell Science and Orthodox Christianity

Zygon
This article examines selected developments in stem cell-based interventions and stem cell-based research from an Orthodox Christian perspective. It addresses important points of connection between these advances and research involving human embryos ...
Ana S. Iltis
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Orthodox Christianity and gender through a religion-as-lived perspective

Approaching Religion, 2020
Book review of Kupari, Helena, and Elina Vuola (eds.), 2020. Orthodox Christianity and Gender. Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice.Routledge Studies in Religion (London & New York: Routledge).
Ruth Illman
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