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... nationalists to accept that one can be a Turk and a Christian at the same time. Based on eight months of ethnographic research among Turkish Christians in Istanbul and Ankara and discourse analysis of popular antimissionary literature in Turkey, it argues that the nature of the campaign against Christian...

...Naomi Haynes Abstract In October 2015 the Zambian president broke ground on a new National House of Prayer, a building project meant to reaffirm the country's status as Africa's only self-proclaimed “Christian nation.” Over the next four years architects produced three separate sets of plans...

...Raja Abillama Abstract The end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90) brought a renewed insistence on the coexistence of Muslims and Christians. The “formula of Christian-Muslim coexistence” would seem to circumvent any injunction for the separation of religion and the state along “Western European...

...Irit Back Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Muslims and Christians in Nigeria: Attitudes towards the United States from a Post-September 11th Perspec- tive IRIT BACK One can argue that there is no clear-cut dichot- candidate of the People’s...

...Clayton Goodgame Abstract This introduction outlines the special section's intervention in the study of religion, property, and political economy, suggesting that the emerging literature on Middle Eastern Christianities can provide a clearer view of how economic relations are influenced...

...Christian Knirsch For the past decades, public discourse on veils in Western societies has mainly focused on the Islamic veil. In the Western history of thought, however, veils have frequently been used as symbols in epistemological contexts, too, both in literary and in theoretical primary texts...

...Ala Al-Hamarneh; Christian Steiner Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Islamic Tourism: Rethinking the Strategies of Tourism Development in the Arab World After September 11, 2001 ALA AL-HAMARNEH & CHRISTIAN STEINER Introduction...

...Christian Lee Novetzke The author writes a series of letters to Dipesh Chakrabarty on the subject his new book, The Calling of History , which is based upon the correspondence of Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) and Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1958). © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 India...

... of differentiation and secular ideals of national unity. Focusing on an Eastern Orthodox community in the Middle East, the article is a critical intervention in the anthropology of Christianity. It underscores localized expressions of Christianity by highlighting the social life of theological concepts amid...

... deciphered textual sources dating to the fourth and fifth centuries CE, respectively, and from the fact that Sogdian was a lingua franca of the merchant routes through Central Asia into China. Although Sogdian became the main language of dissemination of Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian texts...

... were Christians in their great majority, since the 1980s most immigrants from the Middle East are Muslims. The Muslim community in Brazil has about 1 million members today. The Muslim presence is almost exclusively urban, with important communities in São Paulo, Foz do Iguaçu, Curitiba...

... Arab Christian intellectual elite during the final decades of Ottoman rule. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Najib ‘Azuri’s Le reveil de la nation arabe: A Reception History Laura C. Robson...

...—or indeed a laboratory—for considering the uses of history in addressing issues of subnational identity. Alongside attempts to construct a national Lebanese narrative rooted in the politics and history of the country's Christian and Druze mountain communities, there exists a counternarrative of the major...

.... Satyashodh was an innovative practice of mind, though one that encountered limits when it entered the field of right conduct, which had been shaped most powerfully for Phule by the example of Protestant Christianity. His long struggle to elaborate a strategy for transforming the world by transforming oneself...

...Supriya Gandhi Abstract Around 1867, North Indian religious reformer Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari completed a translation into Urdu of fifty-two Upanishads. Alakhdhari, who later played a key role in establishing the Arya Samaj in the Punjab, wished for Hindus to emulate Christians and Muslims in giving...

... of the representation of the city. This article examines the spaces where the map and procession intersect, arguing that when taken together, both suggest a model for the future of Lagos as a new city imagined as modern, colonial, and Christian. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Lagos history maps...

... were not free from the policies of the colonial government and Christian missionaries or the networks of black Atlantic educationalists. References Adebiyi Peter Awelewa . “ Coker, Jacob Kehinde (A): 1866 – 1945, the African Church of Nigeria .” Dictionary of African Christian Biography...

.../mudaraba institution, already prevalent in pre-Islamic Arabia, contrary to the commonly believed theory that it is rooted to the Byzantine chreokoinonia , comprised by article III:17 of the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos. On the eve of the European Commercial Revolution, through trade between the Christian north...

... children to wolves and ends in a missionary theology that claims wolf children as evidence of Christian grace and redemption. It underlines how unexpectedly significant a reckoning with the nonhuman was for evangelical theology and narrative in the colony, and how the narrative depended on trans-species...