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The Romanian Orthodox Church expanded significantly after the First World War, yet Protestant Repenter and schismatic Orthodox movements such as Old Calendarism also grew exponentially during this period, terrifying church leaders who responded by sending missionary priests into the villages to combat sectarianism. Several lay renewal movements such as the Lord's Army and the Stork's Nest also appeared within the Orthodox Church, implicating large numbers of peasants and workers in tight-knit religious communities operating at the margins of Eastern Orthodoxy. Bringing the history of the Orthodox Church into dialogue with sectarianism, heresy, grassroots religious organization and nation-building, Roland Clark explores how competing religious groups in interwar Romania responded to and emerged out of similar catalysts, including rising literacy rates, new religious practices and a newly empowered laity inspired by universal male suffrage and a growing civil society who took control of community organizing. He also analyses how Orthodox leaders used nationalism to attack sectarians as 'un-Romanian', whilst these groups remained indifferent to the claims the nation made on their souls. Situated at the intersection of transnational history, religious history and the history of reading, Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania challenges us to rethink the one-sided narratives about modernity and religious conflict in interwar Eastern Europe. The ebook editions are available under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Liverpool.

In recent Pauline research, the critical importance of implicit narratives for understanding the apostle's Epistles gained importance. The study examines this in a critical analysis using narrative theory and text linguistics. Heilig's text analysis lines out a new narratological approach to Pauline exegesis.

"In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: "I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be." This sentiment, the brash assertion of individual freedom, informs and empowers each of the four personalities profiled in this book. Randal Maurice Jelks shows that to understand the black American experience beyond the larger narratives of enslavement, emancipation, and Black Lives Matter, we need to hear the individual stories. Drawing on his own experiences growing up as a religious African American, he shows that the inner history of black Americans in the 20th century is a story worthy of telling. This book explores the faith stories of four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali. It examines their autobiographical writings, interviews, speeches, letters, and memorable performances to understand how each of these figures used religious faith publicly to reconcile deep personal struggles, voice their concerns for human dignity, and reinvent their public image. For them, liberation was not simply defined by material or legal wellbeing, but by a spiritual search for community and personal wholeness."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Chapter 1. Apostasy and Blogs -- Chapter 2. Theories and Concepts Related to Blogging -- Chapter 3. Identity Construction in Blog -- Chapter 4. Storytelling in Blog -- Chapter 5. Rhetorical Strategies in Blog -- Chapter 6. Recapitulation of Discursive Behaviour in Blog

Gedanken zum Verhältnis von Menschenrechten und humanitärem Völkerrecht -- Menschenrechte und humanitäres Völkerrecht -- Menschenrechte – universal geltend? -- Unvermischt und ungetrennt. Überlegungen zur notwendigen Einheit von rechtlicher, politischer und ethisch-moralischer Dimension der Menschenrechte -- Humanitäres Völkerrecht und Menschenrechte: Synthese und Ausblick

Das Glossar präsentiert die Belege für die hebräische und aramäische Fachsprache des biblisch-jüdischen Rechts von den biblischen Zeugnissen bis zum Abschluss des babylonischen Talmud und bietet neue Möglichkeiten im Rahmen der vergleichenden antiken Rechtsgeschichte. Der zwischen Kontinuität und Neuschöpfungen wechselnde Sprachgebrauch bezeugt die zeitlich wie regional differenzierte Anwendung rechtlicher Normen und Institutionen. Nicht zuletzt erleichtert es das Verständnis zahlreicher biblischer Passagen, auch im NT und in der frühchristlichen Literatur

Setting the stage: the inscrutable joy of the melancholy Dane and the mystical theology of the Eastern church -- For the wages of sin is the sickness unto death: anxiety and despair in light of the East -- The crucifixion and resurrection of the understanding: Kierkegaard's epistemology in light of the East -- Being as love: personhood and communion -- Concluding unscientific remarks on the ecclesiastical event.

Juxtaposes several of the miracles in the Islamic and Christian traditions. This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration. What are the stories of the miracles? What are the contexts which gave rise to these miracles and allowed them to garner belief and flourish? Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena. Similarities and differences in content and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions are discerned.