This essay explores how conservative evangelical Protestants have been represented by both sociologists and journalists of American religion through the narrative “rise Christian Right” beginning in late 1970s. By exploring popular academic analyses Protestantism as understood terms such “the Electronic Church”, one is able to identify a set intellectual assumptions that characterize study evan...

The paper is devoted to the representation of Protestants in stories (legends and miracles) about miraculous images Our Lady that come from territories (former) Grand Duchy Lithuania: involving those currently incorporated Belarus, Lithuania, Poland Ukraine. It considers first both locals who converted Protestantism Orthodoxy or Catholicism 16th–17th century Lutheran Swedish invaders 17th–18th ...

In this paper we argue that the kind of individualistic ethos Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model is accused of – and in particular its notion of (non-imposition) negative face – is not simply a reflection of British culture, but a reflection of British culture at a specific point in time. That point is the nineteenth century. Before then, the notion of an individual self separate from...

This article takes up the question of how Poor Waldensians Lyon, a predecessor medieval Franciscan movement, managed to become one main Reformed ecclesiastical bodies starting from sixteenth century. The Italian are an interesting ecclesiological case since during time Protestant Reformation they underwent significant transformation, nomadic and sectarian heterodox group ordered church body ins...

In modern China, with the signing of a series unequal treaties, there were constant disputes between Catholicism and Protestantism in order to fight for missionary authority, regions discourse power. As Catholic Chinese Jesuit, Li Wenyu（1840-1911） had written many works on relationship two denominations defend Catholicism. terms content, most are continuation sectarian argument triggered by Ref...