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The Seminary's Political Abstention: A Hypothesis Without Empirical Basis [PDF]

‫سیاست متعالیه‏
Numerous studies analyzing the positions of various political and social groups concerning the Islamic Revolution have categorized the clergy and seminaries into three groups: political activists, political abstainers, and political avoiders.
Seyed Mohsen Tabatabaei far
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Description and Analysis of the Current Situation of Religious Education in Cyberspace [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2019
The religion of Islam is a universal and eternal religion and was revealed to explain and regulate the relationship between God, man and the world; Such a religion, in order to realize the characteristics that arose from its finality, must by nature also
Tayyebe Ghasemi Varjani (Iran), Dr. Alireza Ibrahimi (Iran)   +1 more
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Peculiarities of the Structural and Functional Organization of Theological Seminaries in Soviet Times (The case of Kyiv Theological Seminary)

Київські історичні студії
The purpose of the article is to identify the transformations that theological seminaries underwent in the Soviet era in their structural and functional organization.
Archimandrite Mitrophan (Oleksii) Bozhko
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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An Analytic Study of Perpetuated Revolutionarism of Clergymen in the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Politico-sociological Ground [PDF]

سپهر سیاست, 2018
Considering the fact that clergymen in Iran’s seminaries in general have had three approaches of reformism, revolutionarism and traditional/conservatism compared to Pahlavi political system and since the Islamic Revolution has divided clergymen into ...
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2004
While the public role of intellectuals in North America, and perhaps in the West more generally, is declining, one may hazard to say that their role remains significant in the Muslim world, judging by the number of intellectuals who have been censored in
Ali Hassan Zaidi
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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