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open access: yesTheological Librarianship, 2014
Theological Librarianship
doaj   +3 more sources

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological or Theological Dynamics of Students who Wear Cadar at Islamic Universities in Indonesia

open access: yesMazahibuna: Jurnal Perbandingan Mazhab
Cadar is a type of veil worn by some Muslim women that covers the face, leaving only the eyes visible. Several studies have been carried out with the primary aim of exploring the use of this veil in Islamic colleges. These explorations identified several
Mayyadah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

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open access: yesTheological Librarianship, 2013
Theological Librarianship
doaj   +3 more sources

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Worship-Based Leadership: A Study of the David Model and Its Relevance in the Formation of Charismatic Church Leaders [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Leadership in the context of the church often faces crises not because of a lack of managerial competence, but because of the fragility of its spiritual roots.
Samuel Elkana   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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