The article contributes critically to the current discussion of militant piety in Russian Orthodox Christianity. It argues for a more historically informed use notion piety, which can benefit from critical discourse analysis personal narratives and focus on lived experience religion Christians who were involved wars. analyses ego-documents collected two recent volumes: first showcases stories c...

Ruan Yuan, a Chinese contemporary of Tasan, was the last of the high officials who advocated Han studies in the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. As a patron of scholarship at his time, he went beyond his own intellectual propensities and did not set aside all partisans of Song studies. He thus contributed to the harmonisation of Song and Han studies. He also paid particular attention to the Xiaoji...

Rodney Stark (2002) has sought to explain the greater religiosity of women, something that he asserts to be a cultural and historical universal, by suggesting that male physiology makes males more impulsive and so less likely to submit to religious prohibitions. Although he presents evidence suggesting that greater female religiosity is true today cross-culturally, he presents no real evidence ...

The universality of higher female religiousness and insufficiency of any social explanation have led to proposals that it is a product of psychological or physiological differences. However, the female advantage in religiousness is not universal. Distinguishing Affective (personal piety) from Active (organizational participation) religiousness, in a third of nations (World Values Survey) women ...

The fourteenth century anonymous English romance Robert of Cisyle takes its plot from the saints’ legends; therefore, it is classified under title homiletic romances. Considered as a secularized hagiography, describes miraculous interference divine power to chastise king, his subsequent submission all suffering and withstanding owing piety. Robert, proud King Cisyle, indeed self-victimizer he p...

This article is based on the results of research conducted at a special child development institution in Pontianak. The focus this paper internalization religious values carried out students Pontianak Special Child Development Institute. purpose study to find cultivation show that several activities such as: congregational dzuhur prayers, Friday dhuha Saturday recitations, joint recitations mon...