This article is devoted to the analysis of growing importance brotherhoods and sisterhoods Belarusian Orthodox Church. Currently these organisations perform important social, educational, informational charitable functions, up including at regional level. analyses how conditions logic their operation are dependent on local religious contexts they inscribed in broader context role church emergin...

Talibés are children sent to Quranic schools, which are also known as daaras. The term talibé is a French word derived rom the Arabic tâlib, meaning a person seeking knowledge. According to Cruise O’Brien (1969, 1970) the phenomenon of he talibés originated in the Muslim brotherhoods founded by Amadou Bamba, brotherhoods that began to proliferate from 880. This was a widespread phenomenon in Fr...

The post-civil war period in America the same era that witnessed an unprecedented growth in industry, science, technology and urbanization was also the golden age of secret brotherhoods, and above all, the more elaborate orders such as Scottish Rite Freemasonry. While a variety of historians have discussed the importance of Masonry and other fraternal organizations in Victorian America, few hav...

Scholars have for decades challenged the popular belief that Islam is intrinsically and implacably hostile to anthropomorphic art. Rooted in this literature, essay argues was responsible popularizing portraiture Senegal, which previously featured none. With founding of local Sufi brotherhoods such as Mouridiyya 1880s, eminence religious leaders led an unprecedented demand their portraits. Glass...

This paper is an analysis of the religious brotherhoods Skalbmierz and their Early Modern furnishings. The article discusses both preserved objects those known from written sources, with particular emphasis on recent discoveries made during restoration works. In era, was classified as a medium- sized city in Lesser Poland, but due to collegiate church school there, it important centre region. v...

One of the main aspects space in medieval town consisted various kinds sacred structures, above all, parish churches, but also churches belonging to religious houses and hospital chapels. Many spheres social life centred on them, both terms community (corporate ones involving forms collective experience within guilds brotherhoods) individual (private piety). The article considers issue relation...