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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 20-37, March 2026.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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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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St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church Jersey City

, 2014
The Saints Peter and Paul Parish was established in 1907 by immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires as a parish of the North American Ecclesiastical Mission under the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia. On October 15, 1907. The
Beards, Daniel E.
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Pedagogy of Lesninsky schools: ways to overcome the split between secular and ecclesiastical [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
The 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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The Past Requires Reconciliation

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 3-4, Page 205-221, July–October 2025.
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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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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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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Letters Russian nuns from Jerusalem in 1945–1967

Христианство на Ближнем Востоке, 2020
During the period when the Patriarch of Moscow was Alexy I in the Old City of Jerusalem, which from 1948 to 1967 was under the jurisdiction of Jordan, a group of nuns lived there, consisting of ten people, headed by schema-abbess Eugenia (Mitrofanova)
Evgenii V. Palamarenko
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