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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change
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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Letters Russian nuns from Jerusalem in 1945–1967
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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Byzantine Missions among the Magyars in the Later 10th Century? [PDF]
Byzantine missions among the Magyars during the later 10th century? For many 10th century Christian observers, as they frequently noted, the arrival of the conquering Hungarians at the end of the 9th century meant the beginning of the Apocalypse ...
Bollók, Ádám
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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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The slav reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s works: an overview of early slavonic translations [PDF]
Although a lot has been written about the "translatio" of Byzantine Christianity in the mediaeval Slavia orthodoxa, advancing a critical assessment of the Slav reception of the Greek Fathers remains a precarious undertaking.
Sels, Lara
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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 +1 more
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Establishment of Orthodox Palestine Society and Activities of M.P. Stepanov (1881-1883)
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 +2 more
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Kyiv Theological Academy Professors at the Beginning of the 20th Century: At the Intersection of Cultures [PDF]
This article attempts to reveal intercultural connections at the Kyiv Theological Academy at the beginning of the 20th century by reconstructing the spiritual biographies of two theological academy professors: Archimandrite (later, Archbishop
Pastushenko, Liudmyla
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John R. Mott and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: Dimensions of an Unlikely Friendship
This research report is based on research performed at the Rockefeller Archive Center during January 2019. The report explores several dimensions to the friendship and professional relationship of Dr. John R. Mott and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Hartley, Benjamin
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The article is concerned with the role of St. Clement’s Church in the preservation and the spread of Cyril and Methodius’s literary tradition and Slavic church services.
Pop-Atanasov, Gjorgi
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