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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Russian Orthodox framing of abortion in online journalism on religion. [PDF]

Soc Compass, 2023
Hill C.
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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«...MAY BE WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN WITNESSES TO THE HORRORSOF FAMINE...» [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2007
The article contains new documents about confiscation of church valuables in1922, letters of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon to the Presidium of All(Russia Committeefor relief for the starving, a previously unknown message of Patriarch Tikhon written ...
O.N. Efremova
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the greatest of the amnesia writers. [PDF]

Brain, 2022
Lees AJ.
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Joanna Baillie and the Gothic Body: Reading Extremities in \u3cem\u3eOrra\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eDe Monfort\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2001
At the time of their publication, Joanna Baillie\u27s dramas were considered to be works of genius in their sustained and powerful fixation on one of the several possible human passions.
Hoeveler, Diane
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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A Message from the Eastern Orthodox Church

Journal of Moral Theology
We should preserve the natural environment, protecting its resources from destructive and detrimental chemical materials. Hence, the collective and collaborative efforts of all academic disciplines and social domains are needed.
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
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