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Suffering and Apostasy
In addition to social Christianity and evangelism, movies about missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood engaged two solemn spiritual...
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Apostasy, Conversion, and Marriage: Rabbi Jacob Tam’s Ruling Permitting the Marriage of a Female Apostate
Jewish law imposes far-reaching sanctions upon those who transgress the prohibition of adultery, not least of all the adulteress. Her husband must...
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Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains
This Chapter investigates an extraordinary group of company agents who have often been overlooked, but were ubiquitous in overseas corporate life;...
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Prehistory
Describes the long history of witchcraft in Christian times. The mostly rural and agricultural population followed a practice of...
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Witch Belief: Skepticism and Criticism
The role of the skeptics (Weyer 1563, Scot 1564) which was formative from the beginning is supplemented neohumanistically (Hobbes 1651) and continued...
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Conversos, Moriscos, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Spain: Some Reflections on Jewish Exceptionalism
Sacrilegious attitudes toward the Eucharistic host are one of the most commonplace accusations leveled against Jews in premodern Europe. Usually...
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Conclusion
Draw together the book’s key themes, the conclusion highlights how, by the end of the seventeenth century, England’s overseas companies had adapted...
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The Magical Space as a Mental Frame: The Clerical Playing Field
Analyzes the clerical ‘playfield’ formed and clerically decided in each case, the entire thinking and acting centrally determined religious-magical...
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The Witch Propaganda
A witch construction that—based on a “confessionalized” school education—is “enforced” both “university” at the top through the new book production,...
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The Ruling Criminal Justice System: The Legal Playing Field
The new witches’ criminal justice “playground” could, despite good intentions, in the hands of “terrible lawyers” persecution-intensive slip away,...
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Marginality without Benefits: Converting Jewish Women in Lithuanian Guberniyas
This article analyzes female conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in the Russian Empire and its increasing popularity in the late Imperial period....
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Introduction
The 1936 adventure film Rhodes of Africa represents the historical convergence of missions, movies, and empire. In one scene, a Protestant missionary...
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Maintaining Masculinity
For missionaries during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in terms of gender, the female prevails on screen—almost 60 percent of the films. The large...
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Introduction: Disorder in the Courts
The introduction to this book situates it within the current literature on Japan’s 1968 and the New Left and presents the main arguments of the book....
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Reluctant Vanguard? Finnish Building Workers’ Unions and Strikes, 1949–1973
In Finland Communist had substantial electoral support and quite strong position in trade union movement after World War II. Although there has been...
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Britain and the sea of darkness: Islandology in al-Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-Mushtaq
This paper argues that al-Idrīsī’s geography, while pursuing the sovereign interests of the Norman king of Sicily, Roger II, nonetheless critiques...
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The Witch: Construction or Reality?
The witch stereotyp is a pure construction, which needs a plausible anchoring in the experience of the community as well produces ‘real’ consequences...
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Confronting Religious and Regional Conflicts in Sudan
From 1899 to 1955, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a Condominium theoretically subordinate to two countries but in practice dominated by Britain. At its...
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The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas
This chapter examines the development of slavery in the early modern Americas in two major periods. The first period consisted of the co-option and...
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Women and Novels: Educating the Female Public in the Age of Enlightenment
This chapter addresses efforts to govern the female public in the Age of Enlightenment, bringing to light the difficult relationship between...