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Individual Pieties" und "Non-Pieties"

, 2022
Die Gesellschaften Nordafrikas und des Nahen Ostens werden häufig pauschal als „muslimische“ Gesellschaften und als Teil der „islamischen Welt“ beschrieben, die Religion („der Islam“) wird dabei als zentrales Merkmal dieser Gesellschaften beschrieben, die das Leben in diesen Gesellschaften grundlegend strukturiert.
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
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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One of the causes of the great migration of 1771

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
There are many facts related to the history of Mongolian migration and settlement. One of them is the Great Migration of the Torguds, which took place 254 years ago. Today is a historic day to commemorate the great migration of the Torguds.
A. Batsuuri
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Reducing agrochemical use for nature conservation by Italian olive farmers: an evaluation of public and private governance strategies

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2018
A variety of public policies and private strategies have been implemented to stimulate farmers to implement nature conservation measures. Examples include publicly funded agri-environment schemes (AES) but also eco-labels and Alternative Food Networks ...
Tatiyana Giomi, Piety Runhaar, Hens Runhaar   +2 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Characteristics of Competent Managers in the Letters of Nahj Al-Balāghah with an Emphasis on Spencer’s Model [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: The appointment of executive and administrative officials constitutes one of the most critical and necessary duties of an Islamic government, as the persistence of a system and government is contingent upon the competency of its ...
Fātemeh 'Alāie Raḥmānī, Fereshteh Mo'tamad Langrūdī   +1 more
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THE PIETY OF THE HADITH FOLK

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002
One of the most remarkable surveys of Islamic history and civilization remains Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam, published posthumously in 1974.1 For an introductory text, it has some bad faults—notably, a very dense style. Moreover, it has inevitably fallen out of date at many points. For example, one may admire Hodgson for coming up with
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