The article analyzes the problem of formation a historical scheme created by Old Believers, to include socio-religious movement in global Christian history. It shows that monks Solovetsky Monastery reproduced stratagem proposed scholars Ancient Russia for incorporating Russian history into world history, accompanying it with perception events from an eschatological perspective. At same time, th...

The article contributes critically to the current discussion of militant piety in Russian Orthodox Christianity. It argues for a more historically informed use notion piety, which can benefit from critical discourse analysis personal narratives and focus on lived experience religion Christians who were involved wars. analyses ego-documents collected two recent volumes: first showcases stories c...

This paper deals with the reactionary form of chronopolitics that characterizes work German jurist, political theorist, and radical conservative intellectual Carl Schmitt (1888–1985). Called both latest classic thought Crown Jurist Third Reich, remains a controversial figure, not least because his practical support Nazi regime authoritarianism. Another aspect Schmitt's are unabashed outspoken r...

One prominent aspect in Persian literature that distinguishes it from the literatures of other nations is the inclusive religious tone of this literature, especially from the tenth century (C.E.) onward. Divine messages heard from the tongues of the prophets of the Abrahamic religions are featured in Persian poetry. The poets and writers of Persian literature have given a prominent place to a n...

The paper explores Hryhorii Skovoroda’s dialogue “Archistratigus Michael's Fight with Satan” (“Bran Arkhystratyha Mykhaila so Satanoiu”, 1783), which contains several quotations from two authors — Teofan Prokopovych and Varlaam Liashchevskyi – who belonged to Alma Mater, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Being a unique occurrence in writings, these contemporary have been analyzed as an instance of pecul...

Various cases of treatment recorded by Yagel demonstrate his synthesis of medicine with astrology and Judaism. The contemporary view ofdemonology in relation to disease is shown to include rabbinic and Cabalistic ideas. The author shows how Yagel's study of nature reaffirmed his belief in the unity of God and discusses his attitude towards prodigies of nature, contemporary scientific discovery,...

"Fertility control has always been a culturally dependent category. Accordingly it is impossible to write 'the' history of the patterning of fertility, since the experience of each society has been unique" (p. 5). McLaren offers little on medical aspects of birth control such as the technology and pharmacology of abortion, or the medical havoc of bungled and septic abortions as a factor in its ...

Undoubtedly the masterpiece of Luca Signorelli is the fresco decoration of the San Brizio Chapel in the Orvieto Cathedral. In only three years from 1499 to 1502 Luca painted six of the eight triangular rib vaults of the gothic ceiling (the other two were depicted by Fra Beato Angelico and Benozzo Gozzoli half century before) and the side walls of the Chapel. The fresco cycle represents the Prea...