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What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we inspect the main findings from the feminist political science of political parties, candidate selection and gendered barriers to elected leadership;
Rosie Campbell, Joni Lovenduski
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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500 Years of Protestantism

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2017
In 2017, a variety of events are planned on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the event, which is usually regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Planning and carrying out of them have already begun.
Peter Berger, Artemiy Deyneka
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia [PDF]

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas.
Becker, Sascha O., Woessmann, Ludger
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The Strategy of the Work of Religious Associations with Immigrants: from Social Adaptation to the Mission [PDF]

Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2019
In the article analyzed the role of the religious associations in their work with migrants from different countries on the example of the activities of the set of Christian churches in Russia and European Union.
Roman Lunkin
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Religion and the Money Laundering Risk

Economies
In this paper, we investigate the impact of religion on the money laundering risk, focusing specifically on Protestantism compared to other religions. Protestantism is often associated with greater individual self-discipline and stronger institutional ...
Hamza Mahmood, Badar Nadeem Ashraf
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Authority and astronomy: On the historical frame of the rise of modern science [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2013
Topic of the article is relation of the rise of modern science and religion in Western Europe in XVI-XVII Century. Author gives try to contribute to polemics unfolded around Robert Merton's study Science, Religion and Society in XVIIth Century England ...
Brdar Milan
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