Bishop Apollos (Belyaev) and Development of Vyatka Diocese in 1866—1885
Using mainly historical-comparative and historical-genetic methods, the issue of the development of the Vyatka and Slobodsk dioceses, which coincides within the borders with the Vyatka province, under Bishop Apollos (Belyaev), is considered in the ...
M. Yu. Polovnikova
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Struggle of orthodox clergy against drunkenness in Russian West-Siberian rural areas in the early 20th century [PDF]
This article studies the role of rural Orthodox clergy of West Siberia in the struggle against alcoholism. It also pays attention to the participation of the clergy in all-Russian anti-alcohol movement.
Igor Menshchikov
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Church and State development in the Eastern Caucasus in the second half of the 19th century (based on the sermons of archpriest Nikolai Kotlyarevsky) [PDF]
The study of confessional issues in the Eastern Caucasus, using the example of the activities of Archpriest N.V. Kotlyarevsky, the study is devoted to, it examines the issues of moral development of the Orthodox population of the Eastern Caucasus, the ...
Abidat Gazieva
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“Enough with fraternal blood!”: Orthodox Church in Tsaritsyn in 1917 [PDF]
The article discusses the reaction of the clergy of a typical Russian city to the revolutionary events of 1917. It shows changes in the role of the Orthodox Church in Tsaritsyn in the situation of a national crisis.
Evgeniy Vorobyеv
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
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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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Activities of the North German vicariate of Russian Orthodox Church abroad in time of bishop Afanasy’s (Martos) office (1946–1950) [PDF]
This article studies the administration of the North German Vicariate in the time of bishop Afanasy (Martos). It examines main directions of his activity, i.e. missionary work, meetings with the clergy, organisation of a theological school in Hamburg. It
Anatoly Kinstler, Aleksandr Kornilov
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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The article is devoted to the study of material situation of the parish clergy of the Orthodox Russian Church in the second half of 19th - early 20th centuries.
S. A. Ikonnikov
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