The article attempts to objectively analyze the problem of Islamization in history Chagatai and Jochi uluses aspect personal choice religion initiation process by supreme rulers certain medieval post-Mongolian states. In literature Soviet period, a superficial, vulgar sociological view use “super class” was widespread instead intention understand phenomenon conversion new faith as complex socio...

The article analyzes the Eurasianist religious doctrine, views of leaders 1920s Eurasian movement and their relationship with hierarchs Russian Orthodox Church in exile at home. Until now, this issue has not been featured special papers or monographs. attention researchers attracted to political, ideological other aspects doctrine. Two founders movement, Georges Florovsky prince Alexander von L...

The variation of the haptogIobins of human plasma was shown by Smithies (1955) and Smithies & Walker (1956, 1956) to be a Mendelian trait controlled by two alleles. These two alleles, Hpl and Hp2, co-exist generally in human populations, and their relative proportions exhibit geographic variation. Additional haptoglobin variants have been detected, but their genetic relationships to the first t...

gaining control over midwifery in part by reinterpreting pregnancy to be a disease, hydropathists sought to restore an older definition of childbirth as a natural process over which women themselves had substantial control. Water-cure doctors were committed to the prevalent reformist belief in the perfectability of humanity, but maintained that sound health was a prerequisite to social redempti...

measured. In demonstrating this interaction between public and private activities, Geison goes to the heart of what makes science so powerful a means of generating not just experimental novelty, but also effective new technologies for ordering and controlling the world. But in making clear the extent to which even so great a scientist as Pasteur was tempted, on occasion, to conceal the truth ab...

In Reclaiming the Wilderness, Sébastien Billioud presents a systematic study of contemporary development Yiguandao religion (一贯道), “the Way Pervading Unity.” Though movement claims long spiritual lineage (daotong 道统) with its origin tracing back all way to dawn Chinese civilization, this redemptive society named was not established until late nineteenth century. The underwent striking in China ...

Building on existing literature on fan studies, this ethnography examines the multiple modes of engagement between the audience and the performers/producers at live professional wrestling events. This study identifies five ways in which fans interact with the pro wrestling texts at live events: as spectators, as critics, as performers, as community members, and as theorists, and also suggests t...