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‘PROTESTANTISM’ AS A HISTORICAL CATEGORY [PDF]

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2016
ABSTRACTThe term ‘Protestant’ itself is a historical accident, but the category of western Christians who have separated from Rome since 1517 remains a useful one. The confessionalisation thesis, which has dominated recent Reformation historiography, instead posits the two major Protestant confessions and Tridentine Catholicism as its categories, but ...
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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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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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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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Eurasian ideology in Ukrainian Protestantism

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2017
If Western Protestants and Neoprotestants preaching about “universal Christian brotherhood”, thus are carriers of postmodern global culture, come forward as propagandists of Westernization of the world, missionaries from countries, socalled “near abroad”
Pavlo Pavlenko
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
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FEATURES OF THE SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN CHINA IN THE XX - XXI CENTURIES.

Вестник Брянского государственного университета
Several religious traditions coexisted in China. The elite practiced Neo-Confucianism, the majority of the population adhered to the folk religion, and Buddhism was regarded by the authorities as a foreign religion.
Miazin N.A.
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Religious, sociopolitical, cultural and civilizational dimension of the European Reformation and peculiarities of its perception in Ukraine

Волинський благовісник, 2017
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation (1517–2017), which is celebrated in Ukraine at the state level, gives an opportunity to evaluate this event in various dimensions of its foundation, development and transformation in the context of the European ...
Petro Yarotskyi
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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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