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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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Eastern Orthodox Church and modern religious processes in the world [PDF]
Međunarodni Problemi, 2012 The majority of the Christian world today is affected by weakening adherence to principles of religious practice. The reverse is the case in the countries of predominantly Orthodox tradition. After the collapse of communism, all types of human freedom
Jevtić Miroljub
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The Dark Age Church Period of Barbarian Invasions [PDF]
, 2009 With the endorsement of the Emperor and obligatory church membership for all Roman citizens across the empire, Roman Christianity continued to change the nature of the Church, in stead of visa versa.
Fanning, Don
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Vox Patrum, 2014 The article is consecrated to Constantine’s conversion and to its consequences for the Church, for the Roman Empire and for Europe. There is a general opinion that, even if his attachment to Christianity was not very mature, he worked for the Christian ...
Józef Grzywaczewski
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Religions and education in England: social plurality, civil religion and religious education pedagogy [PDF]
, 2007 In England, religious groups have been involved since the nineteenth century in partnership with the state in the provision of schools and the curriculum subject of religious education.
Jackson, Robert, O'Grady, Kevin
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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The Impact of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Business and Public Policies Strategies [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied InformaticsThe present study, based on data provided by the National Institute of Statistics on the ethnic and religious distribution of the population in Romania, analyzes the main ethnic groups in our country: Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Germans and Ukrainians ...
Iustin Cornel Petre, Kamer-Ainur Aivaz
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2013 Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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