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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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Revisiting the collection of Tatar musicalethnographic materials by the teachers of the Kazan Ecclesiastical Academy in the context of their missionary-educative activity (19th century) [PDF]
, 2014 Musical and ethnographic observations of the Tatars by the research faculty of the Kazan Ecclesiastical Academy are discussed in this article. Their scholarly works allow us to consider the specifics of national traditions and culture of the 19th century
Safiullina E.
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Russian-Chinese Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern Period
, 2017 This chapter investigates the development of Sino-Russian exchanges from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The author emphasizes the role of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing for transmitting social-cultural information between the
Nikolay Samoylov
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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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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 +1 more
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Józef Kowalewski’s Studies on the History of Catholicism in China
, 2020 Józef Kowalewski, a founding father of Mongolian studies in Russia, stayed in Beijing from November 1830 until July 1831. He stayed with the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission and, being a Catholic himself, Kowalewski was very interested in the history and ...
Uspensky, Vladimir
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, 2013 Russian Palestine Diploma thesis Vojtěch Kolář Praha 2013 Abstract This diploma thesis entitled "The Russian Palestine" deals with activities of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian diplomatic corps designed to help Russian pilgrims to the holy places
Kolář, Vojtěch
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This article explores the Ukrainian ecclesiastical crisis, focusing on the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2019 and its global repercussions.
KOUREMENOS, Nikos
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, 2020 Musical and ethnographic observations of the Tatars by the research faculty of the Kazan Ecclesiastical Academy are discussed in this article. Their scholarly works allow us to consider the specifics of national traditions and culture of the 19th century
Safiullina E.
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Master of philosophy, Vasiliy Vasilyev, and his mission to Beijing (1840-1850) [PDF]
, 2017 The major developments in the life of Vasiliy P. Vasilyev (Wassiljew) (1818-1900), a Russian academician-sinologist, as well as his works are quite familiar.
Martynov D., Martynova Y., Valeev R.
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