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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Book review: “Church of the Nativity on Peski: history pages” by A.S. Melkov and M.V. Shkarovsky

Studia Humanitatis, 2021
Church historians A.S. Melkov and M.V. Shkarovsky have recreated an amazing and dramatic history of the Church of the Nativity on Peski, which was destroyed in the 30s of the 20th century in St. Petersburg and has only just been revived.
Belonogova Julia Igorevna
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Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
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Church transformations of the 1860s–1880s on the territory of Penza diocese

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2023
Background. Reforms in the Russian Empire in the 1860s and 1880s affected almost all spheres of society, including the spiritual. The study is of interest in the context of considering the process of formation of religious and civic identity on the ...
Olga V. Kolpakova
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The Pastoral Mystique: A Feminist Ecclesiological Approach to Clergy Burnout

Journal of Moral Theology, 2020
Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book, The Feminine Mystique (1963), in which she examines the ennui afflicting many housewives, provides a helpful and provocative framework for understanding the phenomenon of clergy burnout.
David Von Schlichten
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The office work for ordination in the 18th – early 20th centuries (by the materials of the Olonets diocese)

Studia Humanitatis, 2023
The article discusses problems of the office work for ordination studying in the Olonets diocese based on the researching of a significant array of Spiritual Consistory papers.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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Parish Clergy of Central Chernozem Governorates of Russia in the Second Half of the 19^th - early 20^th Centuries: Assessment of Living Standards

Научный диалог, 2019
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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З ІСТОРІЇ КИЇВСЬКОЇ ЦЕРКВИ СВЯТОЇ РІВНОАПОСТОЛЬНОЇ МАРІЇ МАГДАЛИНИ [PDF]

Storìnki Istorìï, 2012
The certain historical aspects of the Orthodox parish Church’s function on Kyiv Shulyavka’s suburbs, the prospects of the temples restoration in the contemporary conditions have been analyzed in this article on the basis of the published sources and ...
А. І. Махінько
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