Results 51 to 60 of about 164,956 (391)

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
core   +3 more sources

Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2010
This work, a product of dialogue with texts written by the guerrilla Deolinda Rodrigues, interrogates how a religio-cultural system identified as Protestantism, home to Angolan nationalist elites, in one of its ramifications – that known as the Methodist
Margarida Paredes
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)defining the English Reformation [PDF]

, 2009
The study of the Reformation has arguably never been in better shape, as new books and articles appear with dizzying regularity. The current rude good health of the subject can be substantiated by a few minutes spent with the catalog of the British ...
Marshall, Peter
core   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

“The Ethics of the Moment” in the early works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
This article is an analysis of the ethical texts by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which arose in the early period of his oeuvre (1925–1932). The first part of the article is dedicated to the report “Basic Questions of a Christian Ethic” (1929).
Dmitriy Lebedev
doaj   +1 more source

‘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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source