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The Rise of the Baptists in South Carolina: Origins, Revival, and their Enduring Legacy [PDF]
, 2018 Baptists have played an important role in the development of the religious landscape in the United States since the First Great Awakening. This religious sect’s core of influence eventually migrated south around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Pruitt, Steven C.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano +3 more
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ESCHATOLOGY OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS SCHISM
RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2014 The article is devoted to the eschatological component of the Russian religious schism of the XVIIth century. The authors prove its significance in terms of the social cataclysms of the "buntashny century" and consider the correlation between the ...
V E Bagdasarian, S I Resnyansky
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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The Physicalist Worldview as Neurotic Ego-Defense Mechanism [PDF]
, 2016 The physicalist worldview is often portrayed as a dispassionate interpretation of reality motivated purely by observable facts. In this article, ideas of both depth and social psychology are used to show that this portrayal may not be accurate ...
Kastrup, Bernardo
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The transformative and informative nature of elections: Representation, schism, and exit
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2018 In democratic elections, constituents may view unconventional or non-prototypical candidates as attempting to reshape their national identity in the wrong direction.
Amber M. Gaffney +4 more
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution [PDF]
, 2012 We present new data documenting medieval Europe’s Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining ...
Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Whewell\'s Wager: The Continuing Dialogue of Metaphysics and Physics in Science [PDF]
, 2012 In his library at Trinity College, Cambridge University, around the year I860, William Whewell (1794-1866) engages in conversation with a company of thinkers on the province of metaphysics and physics, to form a comprehensive scientific belief.
Cassidy, O.P., Joseph D. +1 more
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