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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 285-301, September 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 469-487, December 2024.Hugh Ray Easton (1906–1965) was a leading mid‐twentieth century British designer of stained‐glass windows. His works combined neo‐baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique magazines.
Jane Brocket, Dominic Janes
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Pedagogy of Lesninsky schools: ways to overcome the split between secular and ecclesiastical [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского институтаThe article is devoted to the issues of public education in the Russian Empire at the end of the XIX — beginning of the XX century in connection with the missionary development of the north-western suburbs.
Parfenova E. G.
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Power and Authority in Eastern Christian Experience: Papers of the Sophia Institute Academic Conference New York, December 2010 [PDF]
, 2010 The essays in this volume were delivered at the Third Annual Conference of the Sophia Institute in December 2010 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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Finding Wang Tonghui: The life and after‐life of a pioneer female Chinese anthropologist
Feminist Anthropology, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 230-245, November 2024.Abstract Our article recovers the obscured intellectual trajectories and contributions of Wang Tonghui (1912–1935AD), a pioneering female Chinese anthropologist, introducing her story for the first time to the Anglophone anthropological audience. By tracing her life, death, and after‐life, we critically examined how Wang's image as an ambitious and ...
Mengzhu An, Jing Wang, Jing Xu, Wei Ye
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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019 The convocation of the Local Council in 1917, the first Council in over two centuries, had a great significance for the internal life of the Orthodox Church of Russia. But in a period when the World War was still ongoing and there were pressing issues to
A. I. Mramornov
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Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 20 [PDF]
, 1965 https://epublications.marquette.edu/mupress-book/1004/thumbnail ...
Shimoniak, Wasyl
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American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 490-501, November 2024.Abstract British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition,
Muneeza Rizvi
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Czarist Missionary Contact with Central Asia: Models of Contextualization?
, 2007 Although the Western church knows little of these ventures, Russian Orthodoxy in fact has a rich missionary heritage. There have been instances of great courage, passion, and cultural sensitivity in Orthodox attempts to bring the Gospel to the Muslim ...
Johnstone, David M.
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