Le retour du gnosticisme by E. Kayayan

“…This article explores some of these features, in particular the way in which both forms of Gnosticism relate to Christianity: borrowing some of its teachings they forge a belief system in which an ontological continuity between God and mankind is asserted, while the relation between the one and the many becomes blurred. …”
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Les croisades en Orient. Histoire, mémoires by Abbès Zouache

“…After the end of the Crusader states, this memory was enriched with other episodes of the struggle between the Christians and the Muslims. During the Ottoman period, this memory was revived each time the tensions between the Muslims and the Europeans were strong.…”
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“One Nation under God?”: Ethnicity and Identity in Modern America by Gary D. German

“…This paper examines the sources of “Anglo-Saxonism”, the invention of English ethnicity and the manner in which the latter came to fuse with Protestant Christianity from the 16th century onwards in creating the notion of the WASP. …”
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Le Saint-Siège et les élites en Extrême-Orient : la création des universités catholiques de Pékin et de Tokyo, Fu-jen et Sophia (1908-1936) by Olivier Sibre

“…The foundation of the universities Furen in Beijing and Sophia in Tokyo expresses the will of the Holy See to convert the elites of the westernized Far East, and to give to these institutions a real universal dimension, catholic, in front of the tensions between the missionary institutes and congregations, but also in front of the cultural et political strategies of the great powers towards the Christians missions. The comparative study of the two foundations from the end of the XIXth century to the beginning of the 1930’s try to bring out the different factors which influence the pontifical initiative within a “polycratic” government and a complex institution, while the popes describe their magister as a suprema et plena potestas.…”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“…Though almost completely ignored in histories of the Society of Jesus, this work vividly illustrates how a dramatic event in the history of Christianity can speak to subsequent issues. …”
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La fin des derniers cathares ou le retour de Bélibaste by Christiane Amiel

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Nauka o szatanie i demonach w ujęciu Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…Looking at his statements on the devil we should pay attention to the fact that Sulpicius Severus tells of the coming of the Antichrist, and he inextricably links this fact with the persecution of Christians.…”
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INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE INDIGENOUS USAKEDET SOCIETY, 1895 – 1977 by EDET EFIONG OKON

“… Before the advent of the colonial instrument of courts and Christianity, Usakedet people have developed home-made methods and instruments of indigenous administration of their society with the consciousness that no society could thrive in lawlessness, injustice and poor social standards. …”
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Fakecraft by Paul Christopher Johnson

“…The essay then takes up a specific example of fakecraft and its prolific work, namely in early modern Christianity’s process of purification and self-definition through evaluations of demonic possession as ‘real’or ‘fake’, terms that were then applied to the west coast of Africa. …”
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Intolerance, Religious Lynchings and the Future of Indonesia by Andre Vltchek

“…Two days later, on February 8 in Temanggung, Central Java, a crowd stormed a local courthouse and vandalized three churches after a man – a former priest who allegedly insulted both Islam and Christianity in his pamphlet – was sentenced to five years in prison, the maximum sentence. …”
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TRANSLATING ??? IN JOB 2:9- A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH by G E Lier

“…in Job 2:9 in line with Christiane Nord’s Model of Literary Communication to demonstrate how early translators’ cognisance of the language and culture of the source text may have influenced the way they translated ??? …”
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L’injure dans la société libanaise Les mots, le sens by Aïda Kanafani-Zahar

“…In the Lebanese society, the social organisation, the practises of sociability and hospitality, the sense of honor, lie on the same culture, the arabic culture, christians and muslims have towards insults the same sensibility. …”
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What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

“…Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities between these two groups. …”
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Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy by B.B. Senokoane

“…The article argues that the unsuspicious reception of the Bible in Africa and the “interpretation” by missionaries has created a cultural bipolarity for African Christians and demonised polygamy.  …”
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Mysticism: a way of unknowing by C. E. T. Kourie

“…A short survey of this concept in some of the major religious traditions, together with an analysis of the place of apophasis in Christianity, brings this pertinent area of study into greater focus. …”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“…In this embodiment, Social Gospel aspects of Christianity come to the fore. …”
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MISSION AS RECONCILIATION by A van de Beek

“…In this article, it is argued that it will be a great challenge for scholarly missiology and for the churches to accept this new paradigm, which involves a reconsideration of the basic paradigm of Christianity. …”
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Para uma compreensão da Clausura Monástica e Emparedamento enquanto fenómenos históricos e religiosos by Paula Barata Dias

“…In this article we seek the relations between the enclosure and the walling in as parts of a universal religious language and we explore the manifestations of self closure and desired walling in which took place in a particular moment of increasing ascetic and monastic mouvements of the history of Christianity. Far from being exhaustive in enumerating concrete cases of closure and walling in, we intent to present reasons for the progressive feminization of this phaenomenon well documented in the medieval world.…”
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About Galatians, apocalyptic and the switching of paradigms by Gys M. H. Loubser

“…Written against the background of modern day Christianity still grappling with law and the old paradigm two thousand years into new creation, this article hopes to share some of Paul’s vigour toward understanding the time we live in as post-law. …”
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La conquête chrétienne d’Ejea à travers l’intervention de guerriers gascons et d’un saint girondin by Alexandre Giunta

“…At the end of the 11th Century, Christians tried to snatch Ejea from the Muslims without success. …”
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