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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"sectarians"”.
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The Russian Molokan Colony at Guadalupe, Baja California: Continuity and change in a sectarian community.
… of the modern migration of a group of Russian sectarians to Baja California, Mexico. Excavations undertaken in seven households at different levels of assimilation with their Mexican and Indian neighbors suggests that material culture does reflect ethnicity under these best of all …
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The use of Isaiah in the Sibylline Oracles, Qumran literature and Romans (a source-influence study)
… in Sibylline Oracles 3 and 5 and the Qumran sectarians. This enables a comparison between Paul and other Jewish writers in order that better appreciation of the distinctive features of the Apostle's use of Scripture, both hermeneutical and theological, may be achieved. To attain this goal, I …
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Manufacturing History and Identity: A Study on the Teacher of Righteousness, Collective Memory, and Tradition at Qumran
… biblical heroes abound the memory of the Qumran sectarians. In arguing for a fictitious Teacher figure in the Dead Sea Scrolls, this thesis seeks to discourage further research into the figure's historical persona and rather encourage future inquiry to focus on the influence of its narratives on …
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Taking Terrorists at Their Word: Testing the Co-Religionist Hypothesis in Islamic State Propaganda
… identifies not only co-religionists, but also co-sectarians and co-fundamentalists, and, further, non-co-religionists who are of different, but similar religious traditions. These findings can help inform future peaceful counterpropaganda campaigns that focus on religious conflict.</p>
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
… deepest on the margins of society among radical sectarians. Purstinger was a conservative theologian and a respected bishop, at home in the heart of the church yet convinced of his place in the last days. Secondly, it shows that Purstinger's idea of reform was different from its late-medieval …
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"I Will Write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities
<p>As a Fifth Monarchist prophet, Trapnel believed it was her duty to spread the word about the ungodly nature of world powers and to warn others about the impending apocalypse, as prophesied in the Bible. Although Trapnel received visions from God as early as 1646, over the next eight years her …
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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600-1660
… scholars of anatomy, and female religious sectarians. Essentially, this competition came down to a question of where to locate somatic meaning: In the opaque, uncertain bodies of women? In women’s equally uncertain and unreliable words? In the often contradictory claims of various …