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Scholarly writings on material found in the Nag Hammadi codices have increasingly focused on their socio-historical contextualization, since the dismantling of Gnosticism as a coherent religious affiliative category - as initiated by Michael A. Williams (1996) and Karen L. King …

The second half of the 20th century introduced an unexpected phenomenon-the rise of religion as a marker for political identity, and as a power for structure mobilization. Policymakers often ignored this de-privatization of religion, thus failing to comprehend and recognize its …

The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…

This is the first full length study of Paulos Mar Gregorios, an Indian Orthodox theologian who offers a creative approach to current issues in the church and theology. It explores the relationship of Christian tradition to context and change. Most tradition minded theologians ma…