In This Issue
Teachers’ remarks about their salaries in 1800 in the Helvetic Republic
Paedagogica Historica, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00309230.2014.934695?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Democracy promotion in Kosovo: mapping the substance of donor assistance and a comparative analysis of strategies
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09557571.2014.912612?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Promoting democracy or the external context? Comparing the substance of EU and US democracy assistance in Ethiopia
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09557571.2014.891099?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09557571.2014.902036?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Imperial Intervention in the Disputed Roman Episcopal Election of 418/419
Evidence for the conflict between two rival candidates for the bishopric of Rome following the death of Zosimus at the end of 418 comes from a group of twenty-five letters, most of which are official letters to and from Emperor Honorius (the rest being from other imperial officials and the emperor's sister), all but one of which are found in the Collectio Avellana. Interestingly, we have nothing preserved from the two episcopal claimants about this matter. The group of letters chronicle imperial concern for the preservation of public order. Do we have here an example of imperial interference in episcopal elections in Rome? In this article a careful examination of the letters reveals that Honorius was concerned only that the Roman church's procedures had been followed (Collectio Avellana, Ep. 15), which should determine who was lawful bishop. Sociological Conflict Theory is employed to investigate the nature of the evidence to address issues of the nature of the dispute and its participants, what values were contested, how it escalated, and how it was resolved. Such an approach makes clear that our evidence focuses on the role of the emperor and only incidentally tells us of the thinking and strategy of the two candidates. The final decision was made not on the merits of the candidates and the legality of one of the two elections, but upon Eulalius' violation of the conditions imposed upon the two rivals while the dispute was to be settled. Despite the emperor's concern only to facilitate the church settling this conflict itself, in the end it was an imperial measure that determined the outcome of the disputed election.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12159
“sche hungryd ryth sor aftyr Goddys word”: Female Piety and the Legacy of the Pastoral Programme in the Late Medieval English Sermons of Bodleian Library MS Greaves 54
The pastoral programme guiding the content of most Middle English sermons had a gendered side effect: it encouraged treating female parishioners as individual souls rather than emphasising the subordinate status of women. A close study of Bodleian Library MS Greaves 54, a fifteenth-century pastoral manual containing two sequences of Middle English sermons, shows how these sermons reached out to women through gender-inclusive language, pastoral directives that regarded women as distinct from men, and didactic narratives that both encouraged female participation in devotional activities as well as highlighting women as exemplars for all Christians. Thus Greaves 54 models how Middle English sermons could have appealed to ordinary women and affected their piety, even to the extent of encouraging the extreme devotional behaviour of Margery Kempe.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12140
“Under the Blood” at Azusa Street: Exodus Typology at the Heart of Pentecostal Origins
This article intends to analyse the spirituality of the Azusa Street Mission with a view to achieving two things. Firstly, I will draw attention to an emphasis that seems almost wholly ignored in studies of early Pentecostalism: the blood of Jesus. Secondly, while drawing attention to the considerable prominence of this Christological-soteriological motif within the discourse of Azusa Street, I will seek to find a context for it that might help to explain it. This context will be explored in biblical, spiritual, and racial terms.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12139
Huguenot Belief and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Protestantism was illegal in eighteenth-century France, yet many French Reformed Protestants, better known as Huguenots, managed to maintain their religion and identity until the French Revolution granted religious freedom. Several thousand of them lived in Paris, but remained a tiny minority in a very Catholic city. Given this context, and little access to pastors or collective worship, what kind of Protestantism did they observe? This article suggests that, like other minority groups, their religious practice and thinking were influenced both by the Catholic environment in which they lived and by the culture of the late eighteenth-century city. By 1789 they had moved away from certain Calvinist traditions, and some of them had adopted a surprising ecumenism.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12131