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Affective Matrivocality and Women’s Voices: A History of Muslim Women Writers in China
China has a unique heritage of matriliny and matrifocality among ethnic minorities. Focusing on what I call matrivocality, this chapter highlights...
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The Ethics of Liberation of Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde
Recognizing the subjugation of women in various spheres of life and empowered by their theological prowess, Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy...
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New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa
The concept of Ethiopianism incorporated various strategies for African Americans to promote transformation on the African continent. These...
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Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa
This chapter focuses on the role of Western women in the evangelization of women in sub-Saharan Africa from the early 1800s through the end of formal...
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Psychology, Religious Studies and Theology: An Unrealized Conversation?
Rituals and Practices in World Religions is a significant contribution to the study of religious ritual for several reasons. While focusing largely...
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Anthropology and the Science of the Supernatural: Souls, Ancestors, Ghosts, and Spirits
Here we provide an extended discussion of the core conceptual background and the methodological structure we employ in the subsequent chapters. We...
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Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020 and spread rapidly, coincided with an almost epochal break for churches and their organisational,...
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New Religious Studies in Quebec Since 1944: A Literature Review
The history of the “scientific study” of new religious movements in Quebec since the 1940s reveals two fascinating phenomena. First, the approach to...
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The Longevity of Justice: Assessing Peter Derkx’s Approach
Derkx defines humanism as a “meaning frame”—i.e., cultural coding serving to map out movement toward a positive identity and a stable existence—by...
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Editors’ Introduction
Although we still find ourselves in ‘Corona limbo’ as we conclude this introduction in May 2021, not entirely sure if art and performance festivals...
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Understanding Culture and Society in India A Study of Sufis, Saints and Deities in Jammu Region
This book is an in-depth account of people’s cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the...
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Map** the Terrain
Young Jewish men are growing up in a changing society—70 years of societal change with cultural diversity, liberalisation of attitudes towards...
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The Growth of the Korean Protestant Church from a Jungian Psychohistorical Perspective: Trauma, Cultural Complex, the Theology of Prosperity/Bliss, and the Governmental Support
The chapter aims to make a Jungian psychohistorical analysis of the rapid growth of the Korean Protestant Church (KPC) in the twentieth century, in...
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Globalisation, Identity and Resistance
This chapter delves into the complex interplay between globalisation and identity, examining their profound implications for contemporary society....
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Lines of Distinction and Circles of Connection: Toward a Holistic Epistemology
Acknowledging the biological and cultural bases for making distinctions, as symbolized by the line, and for making connections, as symbolized by the...
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Socio-Economic Conditions: The Rationale Behind the Financial Abuses in Neo-Pentecostal Churches in the South African Context
One of the common factors that the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL...
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Missionaries and African Christians
Taking the themes ‘Christian Societies,’ ‘Cultural Exchange’, ‘Asymmetries of Power’ and ‘Racial Inequalities’, this chapter examines relationships...
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The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical Aspects of Der Römerbrief
Karl Barth was a systematic theologian, Biblical commentator, cultural critic—and a rhetorically skilful preacher. All these aspects of his...
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“Family Complexes” (1938): An Early Model of the Return to Freud and the Conceptualization of the Father
This chapter presents Lacan’s 1938 text on “Family Complexes”, which encapsulates most of the theoretical and cultural dilemmas Lacan pursues...
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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
2023 )...