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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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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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Issues of International and Interchurch Relations in the Work of Holy Council 1917–1918 of the Orthodox Russian Church

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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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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“Strange” affinities

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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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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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 5, Page 1881-1902, September 2024.
Abstract Can development be decolonised? The dominant form of contemporary development thinking prioritises capital accumulation and economic growth, guided, if necessary, by violent means by national elites and hegemonic states. This article recounts an early moment in the struggle over the form and content of development.
Benjamin Selwyn
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The history and nomenclatural significance of herbarium collections made by Alexander A. Tatarinow in North China and Mongolia in 1841–1850

TAXON, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 556-572, April 2024.
Abstract Alexander A. Tatarinow (1817?–1886) made an extensive collection of vascular plants and insects in North China and Mongolia while serving as a physician in the 12th Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing during 1841–1850. Tatarinow's plant collection included about 800 species and became the basis for 70 new species, of which 12 ...
Alexander N. Sennikov
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Establishment of Orthodox Palestine Society and Activities of M.P. Stepanov (1881-1883)

Научный диалог
This article explores the involvement of Colonel General Mikhail Petrovich Stepanov, an officer of the General Staff, in the formation of the Orthodox Palestine Society under Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
A. A. Sorokin, D. M. Sofjin, M. V. Sofjina   +2 more
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Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco‐Based Multi‐Level Marketers of “Healthy” Food Tell Us About Values in Market Societies

Economic Anthropology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 100-111, January 2024.
Abstract Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of alternative food networks (AFNs) in the US and Europe. While social scientists classify heterogenous practices as AFNs, their participants share the desire to work against the existing food system, and efforts to access food from outside this system.
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen, Maris Boyd Gillette   +1 more
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