Représentations du jardin chez Aude et Hugues Corriveau : non-lieu ou entre-lieu ? by Christiane Lahaie

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O casamento de Leonor e Frederico III (1451-1452) e as relações entre Portugal e o Sacro Império nos finais da Idade Média by António Martins Costa

“…In the late Middle Ages, the young dynasty of Avis, after linked by kinship to England, Aragon and Burgundy, attempts to create in the space of Christianity a connection at the highest level: the Holy Roman Empire. …”
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When the Stoic Chameleon Came Across the Cylinder. Stoicism and the Matter of Confessions by Ádám Smrcz

“…Lipsian Neostoicism, hence, was not only intended to harmonize Stoicism with Christianity in general – as mainstream scholarship holds –, but with particular confessions as well.  …”
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A Phenomenology of Closed Society in “The Drowned Girl” by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles by Jūratė Levina

“…Such mechanisms are foregrounded on three planes: (1) social, of the rules of relationships between people, which in the story constitute a hierarchal system of power relations modelled on the structure of the traditional family of the agricultural holding, (2) significative, comprising sense-making discourses (traditional customs and Christianity) whereby the culture, in this story, configures the world without transcending corporeally perceivable horizons of the actually lived present, and (3) anthropological, where sociocultural praxis and self-perception are grounded in the essentially unhuman nature which the culture tries to assimilate and erase without recognising its essential otherness. …”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…Whilst a number of theological themes emerge which give the novel an apologetic dimension—the authority of the Church, the importance of the priesthood, the nature of evil and sin, the importance of the liturgy and the significance of martyrdom amongst others—the key theme of the novel, and its chief centre of interest, is to be found in the theme of conversion—this time to Christianity itself—and the role played by conscience in this process, as illustrated in the character of the young Greek pagan, Callista.…”
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Clifford's Ethic of Belief and Maximum Extreme Reasoning by Ghasem Pourhassan, Afsaneh Pandjoo

“…Locke, in "The Reasonableness of Christianity" and "Human Understanding" and Clifford in "The Ethic of Belief" attempted to form extreme reasoning approach while criticizing foundationalism and emphasizing the existence of reason for any belief. …”
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La valeur du corps saint d’après les Vitae des mulieres religiosas des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…Far from the usual clichés about Christianity in the medieval West, hagiographic literature attests to the value of the body, including that of women, at least if they were holy. …”
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Urbanisation, migration, depopulation and virtual ritual community - the village kurban as a shared meal by Hristov Petko, Manova Tsvetana

“…The paper deals with the specific use of collective rituals focused on blood sacrifice and a shared meal among Orthodox Christians in the Balkans, known mostly as kurban. …”
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De la sangre al oro : la transubstanciación del cristianismo y del capitalismo en la comida ritual huichol (México) by Frédéric Saumade

“…The author, ruling out any essentialist perspective, demonstrates that the three pillars of the Hispano-Western power – cattle, money, Christianity – have been integrated in a ritual cycle that gathers and sets in motion food, sacrificial flows, religious believes and relations of power. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTENTION OF PHILOSOPHIZING OF RENE DESCARTES AND ITS MANIFESTATION IN THE TEXT «THE RULES» by Anatolii Malivskyi

“…The determining influence on the process of the establishment of basic intention of the specificity of the experience of mathematical knowledge and Plato’s and Aristotle’s tradition of philosophizing for the first, and of personal tradition of Christianity in the second place was emphasized. In the reference to the text «The Rules» of Descartes the ambiguity of the basic direction was argued, the nature and domination of the anthropological intention were justified.…”
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Territorialidades das igrejas evangélicas nas comunidades tradicionais da Amazônia Central by José Diego Gobbo Alves, Heloísa Corrêa Pereira, Álvaro de Oliveira D’Antona

“…However, as observed in Brazil, the number of evangelical Christians has increased significantly in recent years, a growth associated with the territorial expansion of evangelical religious temples. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“… The Spanish Civil War pitted British Christians against each other in an intense battle for the hearts and minds of the public. …”
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Professionelle Kommunikation und ,intelligente‘ Werkzeuge – zur Neubestimmung eines Verhältnisses by Christiane Zehrer

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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Also, Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù’s comments on religion are basically to commend Christianity as introduced in Nigeria by the European missionaries, while Ọbasá’s poetry usually satirizes or lampoons Islamic and traditional religions. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

“…We show how Pentecostalism, in contrast to traditional forms of Christianity, is par excellence involved in the immanent/horizontal affairs of believers’ lives. …”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…Eliseeva’s novel is a synthesis of the personalities and actions of Julius Caesar and Constantine the Great, so the writer used the motif of the fantasy world, in which the Roman Republic and Rome are replaced by Latium and Eternal City with the Nazarenes (i.e., Christians) playing an important role in its future. …”
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Med det förflutna för ögonen by Samuel Rubenson

“…As a church historian, I have realized that the image of the church as a tree with a common root and branches that eventually divide us is historically false. The history of Christianity rather reveals there is a constant ongoing process of unification in which differences and divisions constantly emerge from the periphery, often from changing circumstances, and that they gradually become assimilated. …”
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Meek or oppressed? Reading Matthew 5:5 in context by W. Domeris

“…Who did Matthew’s Jesus have in mind - the meek of emerging Christianity or the poor and humiliated peasants, who made up the majority of his Palestinian audience? …”
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Critical Secularism: Perfectionism and Anti-perfectionism by Mohammad Shojaeian

“…Both Assad and Saba Mahmoud tried to reject the “dual rational argument” that puts Christianity, secularism, rationality, tolerance, and freedom on one side, and Islam, fundamentalism, obedience, bigotry, and limitation on the other side. …”
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Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46 by P. Nagel

“…To state the obvious, his death, as a central figure within Christianity, holds potential theological value and significance for how millions interpret their final moments. …”
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