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American Progressives and the European Left [PDF]

, 1983
Until comparatively recently, historians treated progressivism of the early twentieth century variety as if it were a purely American affair. In 1952, Eric F.
Stokes, M
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Introduction: Religious plurality, interreligious pluralism, and spatialities of religious difference [PDF]

, 2019
The introduction to this special section foregrounds the key distinction between ‘religious plurality’ and ‘interreligious pluralism’. Building from the example of a recent controversy over an exhibition on shared religious sites in Thessaloniki, Greece,
Mahadev, N., Walton, J.
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Smaug the Magnificent: A Critical Analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Anarcho-monarchism [PDF]

, 2017
For all of the political machinations at work in The Lord of the Rings, there is astonishingly little detail paid to political institutions in it or any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works.
Hayes, Michael
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholic Networks, Bibles and School Disputes in the Nineteenth Century

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 520-536, December 2025.
In the later nineteenth century, British, Canadian and American Evangelicals set up transatlantic religious networks to fight the Catholic Church and to affirm their Protestant Anglophone identities. Accordingly, Evangelical militants perceived their struggle as being transnational despite the diametrically different State–Church relationship contexts ...
Geraldine Vaughan
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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 907-917, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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Why Chinese “Society” is So Called: How Social and Managerial Discourse Caused the Choice of the Word at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Introduction. The purpose of this article is to investigate the reasons for the choice of the   term “shehui” to designate the concept of “society” in China at the turn of the 19th and 20th   centuries.
E. V. Kremnyov
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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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The Object Not of One's Desire: UK Service Club Membership Recruitment, Retention, and Public Image

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 525-538, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Membership organizations rely on maintaining and growing their membership base, both for financial stability and to allow them to increase their impact. UK service clubs are one such kind of membership organization that has suffered a decline in membership in more recent years and is seeking to address this to maintain their presence. However,
David Yates
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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.
Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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