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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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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]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2019 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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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.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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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.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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THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND SOCIAL MISSION OF THE CLERGY IN ROMANIA [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2014 This study reflects some features of the financial support of the clergy and non-clergy personnel integrated in units of worship in Romania. In particular, we refer to the legal framework in which the Romanian state contributes to the remuneration of the
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Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 667-685, July 2026.Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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Canon law issues of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the administration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019 The paper examines certain canon law issues encountered the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period until 1905, when the Church authorities enacted a Statute which definitely resolved the legal status of the Serbian Orthodox ...
Tomić Marko
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 147-162, June 2026.Christian missions have been integral to the making of the modern world. Unsurprisingly, the rise of global history over the past two decades has been accompanied by a growing historiography of Christian missions. Yet several key milestones and dynamics in mission history remain insufficiently explored. The first aim of this article is to shed light on
Sante Lesti
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Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 Background. The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by the need of resistance the stable negative phenomena of Russian everyday life such as drunkenness and alcoholism.
Sergey V. Domnin
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