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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Reconciling Christianity and Paganism
, 2014 In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte works to bring opposing ideas of Christianity and Paganism together to strengthen her protagonist, Jane. Bronte uses symbols of supernaturalism, nature, and the moon to highlight Jane\u27s complex spiritual ...
Mills, Susanna L.
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Invisible Faiths: Paganism and Religious Diversity at the University of Illinois [PDF]
, 2008 In this research, I seek to understand religious diversity here at the University of Illinois. Using ethnographic methods, I propose a project to interpret the ways in which cultural expectations frame the experiences of Pagan students on campus, while ...
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 852-863, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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The Duality of Unca\u27s Identity: The Use of the Idol in Colonial and Religious Subjugation
, 2012 The Female American follows the life of Unca Winkfield, the product of a bi-racial marriage in eighteenth-century America. Unca’s hybridity creates tension within the novel as she seems to alternate between a predominantly Christian worldview and a pagan
Tevlin, Cheryl E.
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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 795-804, October 2025.ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman +3 more
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Paul Within Judaism Within Paganism
ReligionsJudaism was not Paul’s background, but his context, and much of his gospel’s content. Modern Pauline Studies, however, often see Paul’s mission as an expression of what he found wrong with Judaism, a Judaism that supposedly discouraged relations with ...
Paula Fredriksen
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RETRACTED: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A PRINCE IN ANCIENT RUSSIA: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 RETRACTED ARTICLEThe article examines the responsibility of the ruler for the dysfunctional state of affairs in the country. A careful study of the biblical evidence shows that it is the legacy of the pagan past.
Igor Lisyuchenko
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2015-2044, September 2025.Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
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Christian pagans? Pagan idolaters?
AntítesesBook Review of DRAGNEA, Mihai. Christian Identity Formation Across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
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