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The Belarusian Orthodox Church and Its Role in the Belarusian Regime
This text, conceived as an interpretative case study, deals with the role that the Belarusian Orthodox Church plays in the contemporary Belarusian regime.
Maria Avanesova
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Russian orthodox church to-day [PDF]
After years and years of persecution, we can say that the continuing and all-embracing revival of church life of the Russian Orthodox Church is going on and the general tendency to the development of all aspects of her diocese, parish and social ...
Pecherskaya, Natalia
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Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination
Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Charity in the russian orthodox church [PDF]
Almost two thousand years ago the question was asked, "And who is my neighbor?", and Jesus answered it with the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10. 29-37), and so the idea of charity was inseparably linked with Christianity.
Pecherskaya, Natalia
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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„Bogurodzico przegoń Putina” – rola Cerkwi Prawosławnej we współczesnej Rosji [PDF]
The article presents an analysis of the role of the Orthodox Church in modern Russia. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the Orthodox Church defines its role, what regulations are applied by Russian state on the Church and alsowhat role the ...
Kusa, Natalia
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
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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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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Просветительские традиции православной церкви в культуре Западной Беларуси, 1921–1939 годы [PDF]
PRESERVATION EDUCATION TRADITIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN CULTURE OF WESTERN BELARUS, 1921–1939 / N. SAMOSIUK The features of the conservation educational traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church in the culture of Western Belarus in 1921–1939.
Самосюк, Н. В.
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ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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