Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…It concludes with an exploration of the relationship between contemplation and politics in a number of twentieth and twenty-first century theologians, both Catholic and Protestant. …”
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S’opposer au Maghreb by Thierry Desrues, Miguel Hernando de Larramendi

“…In such a context, the opposition may take various forms including partisan, syndicated, associative or protestant. Protest movements may in fact arise out of a spirit of individuality, even if the objective is to generate collective action. …”
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Peunerovská odyssea. Problematika měšťanské konverze na pozadí osudů raně novověké těšínské rodiny by Veronika Chmelařová

“…Timotej, as well as the other protestant members of the town council, was forced to convert to Catholicism. …”
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Furtive majesty in John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck by John Gillies

“…One root of this opposition, I suggest, is a tension between the Stuart tendency to vest divine right in the monarch’s person, and the protestant parliamentary vision of a polity-centred kingship (oddly reminiscent of Henry’s actual monarchical practice). …”
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Symposium on the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Africa: Zambia's case by F.D. Sakala

“…It also discusses how the Christian Church (Catholic and Protestant) has worked together on political and social issues in Zambia. …”
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Czy zasada „sola Scriptura”pomaga czy przeszkadza w zjednoczeniu chrześcijaństwa? by Dariusz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz

“…Its meaning, however, is not precisely determined. Protestants consider the Bible the only source of Revelation. …”
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HISTORICAL MELODIES IN GALLUS HUSZÁR’S HYMNAL OF 1560 by Ágnes TÖRÖK

“… Gallus Huszár’s hymnal is the first Hungarian Protestant congregational hymnbook. The origin of its melodies is mainly from Europian sources: Luther’s songs, odes, Gregorian chants, other mediaeval melodies and their variations can be found in this cantional. …”
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THOMAS MÜNTZER: A HISTORICAL CATALYST IN GERMAN PEASANTS WAR by Emre Taşkıran

“…Examining social, political, and theological dynamics in the 16th century German Reformation process, this article has tried to find the potential answers to the basic question, which is how contradicted theological conflict between prominent Protestant doctrines led to revolutionary tendencies among exploited groups in German Reformation Process. …”
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L’invention du culte musulman dans l’Algérie coloniale du xixe siècle by Oissila Saaidia

“…If the framework seemed obvious for Catholic, Protestant and Jewish worship, despite some reluctance, what was there to say about Islam, the religion of the colonized? …”
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Paul’s Jewish Prophetic Critique of Jews in Romans by Lionel J. Windsor

“…It argues against the traditional Protestant problematization of “works righteousness”, Sanders’ claim that Paul reasons from solution to plight, and the New Perspective’s problematization of ethnic distinctiveness. …”
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Císařská volba a korunovace ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem roku 1612 a česká účast na těchto událostech by Petr Vorel

“…The election of king Matthias is explained as a victory of Protestant imperial estates. The author works also with two kinds of sources that have not been used before – a very detailed accommodation list of the Matthias‘ court and a very large documentation of the preparation of the Matthias‘ journey that is preserved in the registry of Bohemian court chancellery (Böhmische Hofkanzlei). …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…This article combines close readings with material analysis of three female-authored autobiographical manuscripts to suggest that, contrary to Western, Protestant and masculine assumptions, these pious seventeenth-century women perceived of themselves primarily not only as authors but readers of their own divinely-authored life stories. …”
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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Towards Depicting the Dog in the Nineteenth Century by Beryl Gray

“…I draw on texts and images to support my belief that in late medieval and early modern England the stance towards the dog was markedly unbiblical, while the authoritatively expressed ‘contempt or aversion’ made familiar through the Geneva Bible significantly influenced society’s attitudes to dogs in Protestant Britain. From the outset, the adverse effect conflicted with an established and persisting association of the dog with fidelity. …”
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Geneva. An Urban Sociodemographic Database by Michel Oris, Olivier Perroux, Grazyna Ryczkowska, Reto Schumacher, Adrien Remund, Gilbert Ritschard

“…Combined with qualitative information extracted from the archives of public administrations and the National Protestant Church, as well as from newspapers, these databases were used to study the transformation of a medium-sized European city, sociopolitical tensions embedded in demographic and social structures, and the impact of the immigrants who made the 'Calvinist Rome' a religiously mixed city. …”
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“A democratic art at a democratic price”: The American Celebrations of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916 by Monika Smialkowska

“…This article demonstrates that public interest and participation extended beyond the narrow circles of Anglo-Protestant elites. Moreover, most American Tercentenary initiatives did not originate from governmental institutions and bodies, but rather from the grassroots: members of the public, clubs and associations, individual educationalists, churches, schools and colleges. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…It was only within the Protestant countries of Europe that the modern constitutional state under the rule of law emerged,  accompanied by a process of societal differentiation unparalleled in world history. …”
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People of the book: Fundamental issues of the regulation of Christian, Jewish and Muslim marriage rights by Ištvan Kasuba Robert

“…The system of canon law influenced and shaped the thinking of legal scholars who formed civil matrimonial law, and this is also true of Protestant marriage. Jewish and Islamic marriage law, however, differs significantly from the Christian conception and is definitely contractual in nature. …”
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The Existence of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Bondowoso, 1962-2019 by Dewi Salindri, Ratna Endang Widuatie, Wana Arta

“…This article presents a historical analysis of the growth of GKI Bondowoso, a Protestant Christian church in Indonesia. Employing a sociological approach and functionalism theory, to analyze the social functions of the church within its community as well as the interactions between the church and other social institutions. …”
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The “State Interest” and Humanitarian Diplomacy of Oliver Cromwell by L. I. Ivonina

“…Aware of the complicated domestic political situation in France and of the goals of French foreign policy, he was sure that Prime Minister Cardinal Mazarin was unlikely to give up the alliance with London in response to the London’s support of the Protestant subjects of the Duke of Savoy. Cromwellian Foreign Policy in SavoyPiedmont demonstrates one of the most significant cases of implementing the humanitarian principles in international relations. …”
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Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Ruskin ‘Relics’ Exhibitions of 1926, 1931 and 1933 by Haruka Miki

“…As in the painting A Stray Child (1902) by Taikan Yokoyama, which shows a Japanese surrounded by Western and Eastern philosophers and redeemers, Japanese young intellectuals faced a spiritual crisis after a massive influx of Western thought and subsequent cultural and social changes to westernize Japan. Ryuzo, a Protestant Christian, stated that he had chosen Ruskin rather than Karl Marx, Buddha and Christ. …”
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