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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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MARGARET FULLER’S PUBLICISTIC DIALOGUE WITH AMERICA’S PURITAN HERITAGE
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2019 The article analyzes the work of Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850), a key figure of American Transcendentalism; it focuses on Fuller’s writings from the New-York Tribune in 1844 – 1846 and their religious dimension. Methodologically the article is based on a
M. P. Kizima
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Etudes EpistémèThis article aims to demonstrate the essential role of compassion in the puritan practice of spiritual healing, as it developed in England from the end of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the 1630s.
Paula Barros
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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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Political and Institutional Development in England
The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 438-449, July 2026.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013 The article deals with the influence of ideas of Reformation and Puritanism on the understanding of the main forms of social ties – family life, leisure, fine arts, theatre, music and dancing among the Englishmen and Englishwomen in the second half of ...
V. N. Yerokhin
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History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 386-403, June 2026.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Francis J. Bremer - Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism
, 2016 Francis J. Bremer's account of 'the role played by countless named and unnamed women in the story of the shaping of puritanism' has now been published as Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
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