The Orthodox Christian Chessboard, Game Theory, and Decision-Making in Orthodox Christianity [PDF]
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, it became obvious that a host of issues are being fought out within Orthodox Christianity. Nevertheless, we lack deep knowledge of the forces driving these events and how we should understand them ...
Marko Veković
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The philosophy of education of the orthodox saints: historical and theological perspectives [PDF]
This file was last viewed in Adobe Reader 7.0.This thesis, presented as a curriculum, discusses the profound and inspiring educational example, which is given to the world by the Orthodox saints, who have completely submitted themselves to God, the Holy ...
Maillis, James, James Maillis
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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“The Other” Orthodox in F. M. Dostoevsky’s Geopolitical Worldview: The Christian Caucasus and the Greeks [PDF]
In F. M. Dostoevsky’s geopolitical worldview, the division of the world into “ingroup” and “the other” (“outgroup”) often occurs not according to the principles of state-administrative division but based on national and confessional factors. The research
Mariia V. Mikhnovets
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A Closer Look at a Russian-Orthodox Triptych
Quintly van Tilburg examines a boxwood triptych created around 1800 in or around Moscow, donated to the museum by Baron Brakell tot den Brakell from Arnhem. The iconography represents Orthodox Christianity and corresponds to a triptych created a century
Quintly van Tilburg
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Armastus, Andestus, Alandlikkus: The Rediscovery of the Orthodox Christianity in Post-Soviet Estonia
The aim of the present article is to outline some of the basic characteristics of the post-Soviet ‘renaissance’ of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (under jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), for example the conversion ...
Milena Benovska-Sabkova
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Theology as an Ethnographic Object: An Anthropology of Eastern Christian Rupture
This paper draws upon over three years’ research among Eastern Orthodox (principally Antiochian and Greek) communities in London and Mount Athos, Greece.
Timothy Carroll
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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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The Role of Non-Human Creation in the Liturgical Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: Towards an Orthodox Ecological Theology [PDF]
This thesis examines the role played by non-human creation in the liturgies for the feast of Holy Pascha (Easter), of the twelve major feasts of the Orthodox Church, and of the period of Great Lent.
GSCHWANDTNER, CHRISTINA,M.
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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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