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Russian Orthodox Church in the Structure of State Administration in the XIX- Beginning XX Centuries [PDF]

, 2017
The article outlines the key areas of the charitable and educational activities of the Orthodox Church, which are analyzed during religious reforms in the 19th and early 20th centuries. in Russia.
Anatolievich, Ershov Bogdan, Nikolaevich, Fursov Vladimir   +1 more
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Increasing State Restrictions on Russian Protestant Seminaries

, 2020
In sum, Russian Protestant seminaries are presently undergoing a trial by state inspection that threatens their very existence. Academics Perry Glanzer and Konstantin Petrenko are correct in asserting that the Russian state’s “power to license and ...
Elliott, Mark R.
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Rural is different: rural is special [PDF]

, 2008
Those of us who live, work, worship and minister in the countryside know all too well that rural is different, that rural is special. Yet for us country folk there remain so many frustrations that secular policies may be driven by an urban agenda and ...
Francis, Leslie J.
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Metric books in imperial Russia: Church recording vs. legal proof (18th - early 20th centuries)

RUDN Journal of Law
The study distinguishes ecclesiastical from legal aspects in Russian Empire parish registers (metric books) spanning the 18th to early 20th centuries.
Victoria A. Mun
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The practice of elections and the ordination of the highest clergy in medieval Iceland

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
The position of bishop in medieval Europe was important not only religiously but also politically and culturally. Top clergy often performed secular authority in their city and diocese.
I.O. Kravchenko
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The psychological-type profile of clergywomen in ordained local ministry in the Church of England : pioneers or custodians? [PDF]

, 2012
This study employs psychological-type theory to compare the psychological profile of 144 clergywomen serving in ordained local ministry in the Church of England alongside the established profile of 237 professional mobile clergywomen serving in the ...
Advisory Board of Ministry, Advisory Board of Ministry, Advisory Board of Ministry, Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry, Baab LM, Butler A, Craig CL, Duncan B, Edwards L, Fowke R, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Goldsmith M, Grant WH, Hind J, Jones SH, Jung CG, Keirsey D, Kendall E, Leslie J. Francis, Malone P, Mandy Robbins, Martinez P, McGuinnes J, Michael CP, Myers IB, Myers IB, Osborn L, Oswald RM, Roberts T, Sanford JM, Susan H. Jones   +36 more
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Catholic Church Responses to Clergy-Child Sexual Abuse and Mandatory Reporting Exemptions in Victoria, Australia: A Discursive Critique

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2015
This article presents empirical findings from a critical discourse analysis of institutional responses by the Catholic Church to clergy-child sexual abuse in Victoria, Australia.
Michael Andre Guerzoni, Hannah Graham
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Disentangling religion and culture: americanizing Islam as the price of assimilation [PDF]

, 2013
This essay is an exploration into the social inevitabilities of culture shifts within the American Muslim community’s self-understanding of their faith.
Morgan, John H.
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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