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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Why ‘Doing Good in the Community’ Is Both a Good and a Bad Idea: The Congregation as the Hermeneutic of the Gospel and Public Trust

Religions
The theme of the current Special Issue, ‘Faith in Action: Examining the Power and Purpose of a Public Theology in Contemporary Society’, leaves a lot of scope for definition.
T. Michael J. Earl
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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T. C. Chao’s Response to the “Anti-Christian Movement” and His Reference to Taixu’s Buddhist Reformation

Religions
In the early 20th century, Chinese Christianity was greatly impacted by the “Anti-Christian Movement”. T. C. Chao, an influential modern Chinese Christian theologian, actively contemplated and responded to accusations such as being “the accomplice of ...
Peng Su, Tao Xu
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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The Gospel and Economic Disorder: Ephesus and the Cult of Artemis

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This paper will explore the background of how the first-century cult of Artemis was central to the economy of Ephesus, and subsequently, how Paul’s preaching of the gospel caused an economic disruption during his visit to the city, as narrated in Acts 19:
C. Eric Turner
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Performative insights: The future‐in‐the‐now method for ethnographic data collection

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract This article presents the innovative “Future‐in‐the‐Now method,” an ethnographic and theatrical approach designed for anthropological research, particularly effective for futures‐anthropologists and those exploring sensitive topics through arts‐based methods.
Roanne van Voorst
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Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew

Religions
The present article summarizes the research assembled in my book Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew (1990), which in turn was based on my doctoral dissertation of a decade earlier, “Evidence for Spoken Hebrew in Biblical Times” (1980).
Gary A. Rendsburg
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Über welchen Gott sprechen wir denn?... Interkulturelle Szenen aus der Psychiatrie

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, 2021
Which God are we talking about? – Intercultural scenes from psychiatry The study starts based on an actual situation in Germany: A group of people, a polychrome, multilingual and „much believing” group of people sitting coram deo in the “room of ...
Gábor HÉZSER
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The Activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Under the Soviet Totalitarian Regime and the Second Vatican Council

Religions
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was officially liquidated by the Soviet authorities at the L’viv Pseudo-Council of 1946. However, the clergy and faithful who remained loyal to their Church formed an underground church structure. In the late 1950s and
Taras Bublyk
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