The paper presents a historical and theoretical analysis of the issue of local currency (coins and paper money), undertaken in various forms by the Orthodox Christians in the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire (XVII 鈥揦IX centuries). The paper has two main goals. The first is to enrich...
trade treated imports and exports as barter, so as to dovetail into the U.S. GNP accounting format. Most payments for U.S. oil imports were paid in dollars to the U.S. firms that were supplying the oil (from offshore banking centers in Liberia or ...
, and church membership was normative. Yet increasing secularization in the United States has led to more Americans’ identifying as nonreligious. In addition, the entrenched cultural value of individualism makes it unsurprising that most Americans deem church membership as optional for Christians....
By sending the Jews to Israel, we are free to do what we want. Me too… I mean, since I’ve been relentlessly banned by the Jews—me a recognized “Orthodox Christian”—on every venue they run with their overpowering command. Even the big guys get hit. Merely allowing some semblanc...
the two major traditionsin contention among most Christian authors who engage in social theo-logy about state and society. Some authors, such as Don Browning, seea certain complementarity and convergence between these two tradi-tions.2Recent Catholic social thought explicitly evokes the “covenantal”...
“Most of the feminist movement is a secular movement, and they’re against the religious code anyway,” he said. The subset of changes is backed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, neither of which have female members of the Knesset. The prelimin...
It is a holiday established by Orthodox Christians to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus, which remains the only nation-level ICH item inscribed in five inventories so far. 4 Since the 15th century, Nyingma, the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, gradually adapted and ...
Evangelical Christian: Meet the born again criteria plus seven other conditions. These conditions include saying their faith is very important in their life today; believing they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; believing that Satan exists...
Once *the* definition of a person,religionlost some of its importance under the Soviet atheist regime.Roman Catholic(~85,9%) practices and holidays are generally considered mainstream, whileRussian Orthodox(~4,6%) is the most visible minority. Interfaith relations are cordial; religious (93,2%)...
of God’s providence in this place from biblical history to the present day. This testimony need not negate the Jewish or Muslim narrative in the land, but the Nation-State law sets the Jewish narrative in direct opposition to that of the Christians who have historically lived in The Land....