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The Institute for Christian Ethics: The Social Engagement of Lutherans in Society [PDF]

, 1996
Waterloo Lutheran ...
Pfrimmer, David G. A.
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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
wiley   +1 more source

War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 56-76, March 2026.
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
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Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
The global spread of Salafism, though it began in the 1960s and 1970s, only started to attract significant attention from scholars and analysts outside of Islamic studies as well as journalists, politicians, and the general public following the September
Christopher Anzalone
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“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 372-391, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

The State-Society Relations During 1963-1979 in Iran [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat
IntroductionThe social life can be divided into two spheres: state and society. It is evident that societies tend to coexist in based on either agreement or conflict.
Pegah Kheirollahi, Hamid Dehghani, Hamid Nassaj   +2 more
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Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification

Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 105-121, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
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Explaining the Iranian-Islamic University Idea in Higher Education Evolutionary Documents of Islamic Republic of Iran

مسائل کاربردی تعلیم و تربیت اسلامی, 2021
This research seeks to investigate ‘the analysis of Iranian-Islamic university idea in Iran’s higher education documents’ (Islamic university document, country’s comprehensive scientific document, twenty years perspective document, and the law of the ...
Mohammed hasan Mirzamohammadi, Mohsen Farmahini   +1 more
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