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- 1From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChristianity provides a viewpoint on the problems of global climatic changes and the attitude of western civilization towards the third world and nature. The western world is based on a dualism separating subject and...
- 2From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUsing recent cross-national data, this study examines the differential impact of religious identification on political attitudes in eight western nations: the United States, Great Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, West...
- 3From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 54, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe number of significant decisions and documents adopted at the jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow in August 2000 made it unique among the other councils of the past decades. Among the...
- 4From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe church has a worldly role of promoting reconciliation among nations, and this can be viewed in five ways. One aspect is to promote fellowship among Christians. Another aspect is international political affairs....
- 5From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 235)One of the temperamental advantages to be gained from a belief in divine providence is serenity in the face of history's ambiguities. This may be one of the more subdued and unheroic expressions of faith, but for...
- 6From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 265)At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, when the Communist party defeated the Nationalists and founded the People's Republic of China, Christians in China numbered half a million. Yet almost seventy years later,...
- 7From:International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the preface of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, author Anne Fadiman, a self-described "cultural broker," sets forth her reasons for...
- 8From:Early American Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo observant Puritans, the death of an Indian was always a sign from God. The first settlers noted the epidemics that had swept through coastal communities before their arrival, attributing widespread deaths to God and...
- 9From:International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedProselytism encompasses the transfer of allegiance between churches and religion and is subject to different responses that are influenced by social, political and cultural factors. It has been regarded with ambiguity in...
- 10From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeThe importance of the Christian tradition for the concerns, inquiries, and reflections constituting FIRST THINGS (the magazine) and "first things" (the substantial reality) is patent. Without claiming an exclusive...
- 11From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDaniel Defoe's Roxana seems to resist interpretation, though it has been scrutinized for its likeness to a trade manual, a spiritual autobiography, and a "'woman's novel.'" [1] Leopold Damrosch, for instance, remarks...
- 12From:The Futurist (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChristianity's Future The First-World Church Takes a Back Seat The twenty-first century will be a period of challenge and change for Christianity in Western Europe and North America. Theological, political,...
- 13From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 76)The values of liberty, equality and fraternity have a profoundly Christian basis. Humanity's ultimate achievement of them depends upon its widespread recognition and pursuit of their fundamental Christian nature....
- 14From:Interpretation (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedON AUGUST 14, 1912, IN COATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, John Jay Chapman spoke at a prayer meeting that commemorated the lynching of a black man the year before: "We are met to commemorate the anniversary of one of the most...
- 15From:HTS Teologiese Studies (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRitual studies are slow to make a large impact on New Testament studies, despite a number of notable exceptions. This notwithstanding, rituals occur frequently in the New Testament, in particular when there is a problem...
- 16From:Oceania (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the way Gogodala men in Western Province experienced colonialism and change not simply in terms of alienation or emasculation but as a dynamic process that reinforced many aspects of their work...
- 17From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 92, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe screening out of Christian influences in the history of republicanism betrays a gross misinterpretation of medieval political ideologies. Republicanism during this age was not treated as the antithesis of monarchical...
- 18From:Early American Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNarratives recounting the efforts to convert Indians were ubiquitous in the eighteenth century. (1) Missionary tracts, as Hilary Wyss terms such texts, were published by missionary societies, such as the Society for the...
- 19From:Global Virtue Ethics Review (Vol. 2, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article argues that South African society, which must not emulate the ethical mistakes of the past regime, needs to reject the past as wrong and bad. The current government also must go beyond blaming...
- 20From:Leadership Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 4)Daniel Hill holds a steady part-time job working one or two shifts a week at Starbucks. It's hardly a career-track position, and it's not that he needs the extra cash or battles a secret caffeine addiction. It's the...