Religion of Minobusan and religion area in modern period

Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France

Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin.

IN 1698 THE ENGLISH ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST Francis Place visited Ireland. Travelling along the east coast, sketching as he went, he arrived at Dublin in early 1699. From a hill to the south-west of the city, he drew a prospect of the cityscape using a camera obscura. In some ways the result was not unlike contemporary prospects of large English cities such as London, York or Norwi...