In the summer of 38 C.E. the Jewish community of Alexandria in Egypt was brutally persecuted. An edict issued by Flaccus, the Roman prefect, by declaring the Jews foreigners, cancelled their civic privileges, especially residence privileges, and the Alexandrian citizens, after h…
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In the year 167 BCE, Jews in Palestine began to face religious persecution under the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. They faced the choice of assimilation or death. In this crisis, no consensus existed among Jews as to the proper response to the persecution. Four texts emerged f…
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the expansion of Christianity in the pre-Islamic Middle East, from Edessa to Mazun/'Uman on the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. This area today would include the peninsula occupied by Oman and the United Arab Emi…
At the end of WW II, the Yugoslav state passed judgment on the ethnic-German minorities residing in diaspora. This postwar verdict, without any official trail, labeled them, regardless of their age or gender, as guilty of Nazi war crimes. As a way of punishment between 1945-1949…
This is an interpretative phenomenological study examining the recalled experiences of Baptist pastors during the Soviet era in Belarus. Six pastors were studied using semi-structured interviews. Six themes were derived from the data: (a) persecution and marginalization methods;…
Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystifying relationship with the Soviet government, and with Joseph Stalin in particular, has long been understood to be a result of the dictator’s aesthetic appreciation for the writer’s early work. In an era defined by Stalin’s Great Terror, Bulgakov escaped…
The collective memory of persecution as formulated by Parley P. Pratt in his autobiography impacted the Mormon community for generations. With the help of theorists Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assman, and others to explain collective memory and how it is transmitted, this dissertatio…
The concepts of orthodoxy and heresy mostly refer to the politics of domination between competing groups to determine which one shall be considered the bearer of the 'correct' beliefs. The winning party would claim its teachings orthodox, while the losing party would be condemne…