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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
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide [PDF]
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins.
Ludger Woessmann, Sascha O. Becker
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“The Ethics of the Moment” in the early works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского институтаThis 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
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The economic effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber hypothesis in the German Lands [PDF]
Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the “Protestant ethic,” have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development.
Davide Cantoni
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Narrativization of Religious Conversion Experience in the Environment of Evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine [PDF]
, 2016 In the context of this article and in the perspective of interpretational approach we have considered possibilities of sociological analysis of a religious conversion.
Myronovych, Dmytro
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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 +2 more
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(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
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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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