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"We Represent a Definite Social Class": The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Huttenlocher T, Wilde M.
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Bioethical Issues as Triggers of Religious Transformation in Orthodox Christianity. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT The advent of new biomedical technologies has given rise to an emerging area of sociocultural discourse. The sociocultural perception of these technologies is contingent upon a number of factors, including the prevailing attitudes within dominant religious traditions. Religious bioethics is fundamentally distinct from secular bioethics.
Tarabrin R.
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Costly tolerance

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Tolerance is an aspect of the balance between power and freedom. This contribution starts from a decision taken by the general synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in 1914, on the issue of church members who did not recognise infant baptism.
Leo Koffeman
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Holy Synod and Political Crisis of Interregnum

Научный диалог, 2020
The features of the development of the dynastic crisis of the interregnum of 1825 through the prism of the functioning of one of the key public authorities - the Holy Synod is discussed in the article.
M. S. Belousov, T. V. Lebenkova
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Afríka-sinkretisme - gereformeerde prediking en pastoraat

In die Skriflig, 1996
The Reformed Churches in South Africa are facing a completely new situation as (black) members of the Reformed Churches (Synod Midlands) will ask to be admitted to the (present white) congregations, especially in the metropolitan areas, where more and
W. L. Kurpershoek
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The Icelandic Lutheran Synod of America and its missionary in Japan, 1916–1941:

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2022
In 1910, despite low membership and limited funds, the Icelandic Lutheran Synod of America began directly supporting mission work in Asia. It first sponsored a Danish missionary who was serving in India and later commissioned one of its own members ...
Kristín Ingvarsdóttir
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Missionary Brotherhood at the Printing House of St. Job of Pochaev in Ladomirova in the Carpathian Mountains during the Second Period of Its Existence (1934–1945). Part 1: Preface and Minutes of the Spiritual Council Meetings, Nos. 1–170 [PDF]

Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии, 2023
Records of the “Book of Resolutions of the Spiritual Council of the Missionary Brotherhood at the Printing House of Rev. Job Pochaevsky in Ladomirova in the Carpathian Mountains” highlight the second decade of work of the Typographical Brotherhood of St.
Alexander K. Klementiev
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The Bible, theology and the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa 1920–2020

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Professor Johannes du Plessis (1868–1935) of the Theological Seminary at Stellenbosch was fascinated by the results of the historical-critical research into the Bible.
Izak J.J. Spangenberg
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Organizational issues of the Supreme Church Administration of the Orthodox Russian Church in 1918 [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви
The article provides a brief overview of the organizational issues of the activities of the Supreme Church Administration bodies under the leadership of Patriarch Tikhon in 1918 based on the study of documents from the Office of the Patriarch and the ...
Evgeniy Ageev
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Nogeens: watter kerk vergesél die Groot Trek?

Acta Theologica, 2011
It is sometimes argued that the Great Trek of 1835-1840 removed its participants from the Cape Colony, under British control, thereby also taking them out of the congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) based in the Cape.
P. J. Strauss
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