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Seeds of Faith, Roots of Resilience: The Cathol...
Seeds of Faith, Roots of Resilience: The Catholic Church in Colonial Mozambique Through the Eyes of the "Anamwanamuke" Welcome back to *Ecclesia H...
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Digital Faith and Local Realities: Pentecostali...
Digital Faith and Local Realities: Pentecostalism, Politics, and Power in Nigerian Cyberspace The rapid proliferation of internet access across th...
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When Pestilence Prays: Christian Responses to P...
When Pestilence Prays: Christian Responses to Pandemics Before the 20th Century Pandemics, those terrifying moments when disease sweeps across pop...
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Shaping Saints, Singing Scriptures, and Counting...
Shaping Saints, Singing Scriptures, and Counting Coin: A Look at the Underexplored Corners of Medieval Church History The medieval Church, a toweri...
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Seeds of Dialogue: Exploring the Mekane Yesus Ch...
Seeds of Dialogue: Exploring the Mekane Yesus Church’s Unique Theology of Interfaith Engagement in Ethiopia Ethiopia, a land steeped in ancient his...
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A Fortress of Faith: How the Ethiopian Orthodox...
A Fortress of Faith: How the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Safeguarded Cultural Heritage Through Political Storms Ethiopia's history is a tap...
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God's Earthly Garden: Monastic Land Management...
God's Earthly Garden: Monastic Land Management and Ecological Theology in the Medieval Era The study of Church History has increasingly embraced i...
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The Imperium of Nomos: Canon Law and the Shapin...
The Imperium of Nomos: Canon Law and the Shaping of Byzantine Society (9th-12th Centuries) The Byzantine Empire, a crucible of Roman legal traditi...
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Scripture, Spectacle, and the Screen: Technolog...
Scripture, Spectacle, and the Screen: Technology and the Transformation of Christian Experience, 1500-Present The enduring story of Christianity i...
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Labora Fidei: Unseen Hands and Unspoken Voices...
Labora Fidei: Unseen Hands and Unspoken Voices – Laywomen and Religious Labor in Carolingian Francia The Carolingian Renaissance, a period of rene...
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By the Candle's Glow: Laywomen, the English Bib...
By the Candle's Glow: Laywomen, the English Bible, and the Shaping of Faith in the Reformation The English Reformation, a period of profound relig...
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Apocalyptic Anxieties and Prophetic Politics: U...
Apocalyptic Anxieties and Prophetic Politics: Unveiling Revelation’s Radical Edge in the Early Modern Period The Book of Revelation, with its vivi...
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Mundane Relics: Unseen Objects and the Material...
Mundane Relics: Unseen Objects and the Material Culture of Medieval Monasteries The soaring arches and illuminated manuscripts of medieval monaste...
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Beasts of Burden, Partners in Prayer: Unveiling...
Beasts of Burden, Partners in Prayer: Unveiling the Untold Story of Animals in the Medieval Church (1000-1500 AD) For centuries, scholars have int...
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Sounding Salvation: Charles Wesley and the Shap...
Sounding Salvation: Charles Wesley and the Shaping of Methodist Theology Through Hymns For Ecclesia Historia, the study of Church history, music...
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Echoes of Faith: Exploring the History of Churc...
Echoes of Faith: Exploring the History of Church Bells and Bell Ringing Traditions For centuries, the sound of church bells has resonated through...
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The Arian Shadow: How Priscillianism Shaped Chu...
The Arian Shadow: How Priscillianism Shaped Church Administration and Architecture, 380-550 AD Ecclesia Historia has long explored the profound...
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Inventing the Sacred: Fabricated Relics and the...
Inventing the Sacred: Fabricated Relics and the Flourishing of Aquitaine Pilgrimage (c. 1000-1300) The High Middle Ages, a period of burgeoning tr...
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Holy Hilarity: A History of Religious Jokes in...
Holy Hilarity: A History of Religious Jokes in Christendom (18th Century to Today) Laughter, they say, is the best medicine. But what happens when...
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Mors Spiritualis et Corporalis: Disease, Publ...
Mors Spiritualis et Corporalis: Disease, Public Health, and Christian Practice in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1348-1600) The late...
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Parchment, Pennies, and Power: Unveiling the Bu...
Parchment, Pennies, and Power: Unveiling the Bureaucracy of the 13th-Century English Church For centuries, scholars have painted vivid pictures of...
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Ekklesiastika Dikaia: When Bishops Wielded th...
Ekklesiastika Dikaia: When Bishops Wielded the Law – Marriage and Morality in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Courts (7th-11th Centuries) The Byzantine...
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The Whispers of the Well: Water, Sanctity, and...
The Whispers of the Well: Water, Sanctity, and Survival in Early Medieval Galicia Introduction: While hagiographical accounts of saints in la...
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Weaving the Word: The Theological Consideration...
Weaving the Word: The Theological Considerations of Translating "Hesed" in the Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible, a cornerstone of both Jewish and Chr...
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The Price of Grace: Economic Theology and the F...
The Price of Grace: Economic Theology and the Franciscan Poverty Debate The Church, throughout its history, has grappled with the thorny issue of...
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"A Subtle Exclusion: Navigating Neurodiversity...
"A Subtle Exclusion: Navigating Neurodiversity in Early 20th Century Protestant Missions" The history of Christian missions is often painted with...
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Worshipping in the Shadows: Modern-Day Catacomb...
Worshipping in the Shadows: Modern-Day Catacombs and the Resurgence of Religious Secrecy Abstract: The term "catacombs" evokes images of early...
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Lux Nova: Engineering the Divine in Gothic Chur...
Lux Nova: Engineering the Divine in Gothic Church Architecture Ecclesia Historia may whisper of ages past in a language of scholars, but the sto...
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Echoes of the Great Spirit: Linguistic Bridge-B...
Echoes of the Great Spirit: Linguistic Bridge-Building and the Construction of Christian Meaning in New France For Ecclesia Historia The early...
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From Scriptural Vine to Sacramental Wine: Bened...
From Scriptural Vine to Sacramental Wine: Benedictine and Cistercian Influence on Viticulture and the Socio-Economic Transformation of the Rhinelan...
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Mapping Salvation: The Church, Cartography, and...
Mapping Salvation: The Church, Cartography, and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela For centuries, the faithful have embarked on journeys of...
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Ecclesia Historia The Sound of Power: The...
Ecclesia Historia The Sound of Power: The Evolution of Liturgical Chant in Aquitaine (9th-12th Centuries) The medieval church, often imagined...
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Veiled Voices, Embodied Faith: Exploring the Qu...
Veiled Voices, Embodied Faith: Exploring the Queer Presence in Medieval Monasticism The history of the Church, often presented as a monolithic nar...
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A Sanctuary on the Move: The Church as Facilita...
A Sanctuary on the Move: The Church as Facilitator and Mediator in the History of Migration Throughout history, the ebb and flow of human movement...
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Charting Souls and Shores: The Church of Englan...
Charting Souls and Shores: The Church of England and the Mapping of Colonial North America (17th-18th Centuries) For centuries, the Church has bee...
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Beyond the Double Wall: Gender, Land, and Spiri...
Beyond the Double Wall: Gender, Land, and Spiritual Authority in Irish Female Monasticism, 1100-1450 The history of monasticism in medieval Irelan...
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The Cistercian Paradox: Asceticism, Resource Ma...
The Cistercian Paradox: Asceticism, Resource Management, and Environmental Transformation in Late Medieval Europe The Cistercian order, founded in...
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Scents of Sanctity: The Sensory Environment of...
Scents of Sanctity: The Sensory Environment of Early Christian Worship The early Christian Church, often portrayed in austere terms, was far from...
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Pixels and Prayers: How Digital Platforms are R...
Pixels and Prayers: How Digital Platforms are Reshaping the Religious Identities of Marginalized Christian Communities The grand narrative of chur...
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Retia Reformationis: Mapping the Spread of Refo...
Retia Reformationis: Mapping the Spread of Reformation Ideas in 16th-Century Germany Through Network Analysis The Reformation, a seismic event in...
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God's Granaries: The Economic Might of Monaster...
God's Granaries: The Economic Might of Monasteries in Post-Roman Southern Gaul (6th-8th Centuries CE) The collapse of the Western Roman Empire ush...
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The Echoes of the Vault: How Church Archives Sh...
The Echoes of the Vault: How Church Archives Shape (and Misshape) Historical Narratives Church archives, often seen as dusty repositories of aged...
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Beyond Prayer and Parchment: Unearthing the Mon...
Beyond Prayer and Parchment: Unearthing the Monastic Economic Revolution of Medieval Europe For centuries, scholarship has painted a vivid picture...
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Taming the Wolf: Canon Law, Marriage, and Inher...
Taming the Wolf: Canon Law, Marriage, and Inheritance in Medieval Aquitaine (11th-13th Centuries) The influence of the Church on medieval life is...
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The Church and Technology: A History of Faith i...
The Church and Technology: A History of Faith in the Digital Age Part 1: The Early Church and the Manuscript Revolution The narrative of the...
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Aura Sacra: Sensing the Sacred in the Fifteenth...
Aura Sacra: Sensing the Sacred in the Fifteenth-Century Parish Church For the ordinary faithful of 15th-century Europe, the parish church was far...
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Laughter in the Lord: Religious Humor and the S...
Laughter in the Lord: Religious Humor and the Subversion of Authority in 16th-Century German Sermons Abstract: This blog post examines the use...
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When Saints Become Spirits: Indigenous Appropr...
When Saints Become Spirits: Indigenous Appropriations of Christian Iconography in Colonial Mexico The history of Christianity is not a monolithic...
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From Siberia to the Shogunate: Contextualizing...
From Siberia to the Shogunate: Contextualizing Orthodoxy in 19th-Century Japan The history of Christian missions is often painted with broad strok...
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The People's Book: Luther's Bible and the Democ...
The People's Book: Luther's Bible and the Democratization of Faith in the Reformation The Reformation, often portrayed as a clash of titans – Luth...
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Leaving the Fold: A History of "Nones" in Ameri...
Leaving the Fold: A History of "Nones" in American Methodism The rise of the "Nones" – those religiously unaffiliated individuals who check "none"...
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Hearing the Divine: A Sonic History of Quaker S...
Hearing the Divine: A Sonic History of Quaker Silence For centuries, the history of Christianity has been written in sound: the soaring polyphony...
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Rivers of Faith, Currents of Change: Water Mana...
Rivers of Faith, Currents of Change: Water Management and Environmental Sustainability in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1700-1900) The E...
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Saints of Steel: Courage and the Shifting Sands...
Saints of Steel: Courage and the Shifting Sands of Sanctity in Christian History The concept of sainthood has always been a fluid one, a dynamic m...
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God's Acre, God's Axe: Monastic Land Use and Ec...
God's Acre, God's Axe: Monastic Land Use and Ecological Transformation in Early Medieval Europe (c. 500-1000 CE) The story of early medieval Europ...
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The Unsettling Silence: Recovering the Voices o...
The Unsettling Silence: Recovering the Voices of Converted Jewish Women in Early Modern Convents The history of the Catholic Church, often depicte...
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The Printing Press and the Pulpit: How Movable...
The Printing Press and the Pulpit: How Movable Type Reshaped Early Modern Preaching The Reformation often occupies center stage in narratives of e...
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Land, Law, and Legitimacy: Church Property in S...
Land, Law, and Legitimacy: Church Property in Southern France (1000-1300 CE) Through the Lens of Canon Law The medieval Church was not merely a sp...
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The Church of the Holy Ghost: Aladura Spiritua...
The Church of the Holy Ghost: Aladura Spirituality and the Negotiation of Modernity in Post-Colonial Nigeria The explosion of indigenous African...
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Utopia and Unease: The Social and Economic Impa...
Utopia and Unease: The Social and Economic Impact of Jesuit Missions in 18th-Century Paraguay The image of the Paraguayan Jesuit missions in the 1...
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The Whispers of the Beads: Tactile Devotion and...
The Whispers of the Beads: Tactile Devotion and Religious Understanding in Late Medieval Europe The history of religion is often told through the...
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A Church Uprooted, A Faith Unwavering: The Assy...
A Church Uprooted, A Faith Unwavering: The Assyrian Church of the East in Diaspora For many studying theology and church history, the narrative of...
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The Gutenberg Gospel: Printing, Dissent, and Re...
The Gutenberg Gospel: Printing, Dissent, and Reformation in 16th-Century Bohemia The 16th century witnessed a seismic shift in European society, l...
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Painting Salvation: Art, Theology, and the Shif...
Painting Salvation: Art, Theology, and the Shifting Sands of Orthodoxy in Early Modern Europe The relationship between the Church and the arts is...
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The Radicals of Silesia: Unveiling the Bohemian...
The Radicals of Silesia: Unveiling the Bohemian Brethren and Their Challenge to Late Medieval Order The late Middle Ages was a period of profound...
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From Refectory Servant to Scholarly Pursuit: Th...
From Refectory Servant to Scholarly Pursuit: The Evolving Cistercian Kitchen (12th-14th Centuries) Welcome back to Ecclesia Historia, where we d...
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Avatars for Apostles: Virtual Reality and the R...
Avatars for Apostles: Virtual Reality and the Re-Imagining of Missionary Work in the 21st Century The hallowed halls of cathedrals and the intimat...
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Silence and Sight: Material Religion and Deafne...
Silence and Sight: Material Religion and Deafness in Medieval Cistercian Monasteries The Ecclesia Historia blog often explores familiar terrains...
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Option 5: Sacred Groves and Environmental Ethi...
Option 5: Sacred Groves and Environmental Ethics: Re-Examining the Ecological Impact of Shinto Shrines in Japan For Ecclesia Historia, our focu...
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The Sound of Salvation: Liturgical Music and th...
The Sound of Salvation: Liturgical Music and the Shaping of Medieval Religious Experience (800-1300 CE) The medieval Western church, a towering ed...
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Veiled Resistance: Peasant Women and the Preser...
Veiled Resistance: Peasant Women and the Preservation of the Old Belief in 17th-Century Russia The schism (Raskol) within the Russian Orthodox Chu...
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Gardens of Grace: The Environmental Impact of M...
Gardens of Grace: The Environmental Impact of Monastic Orders and the Seeds of Sustainable Practice For centuries, the stone walls of monasteries...
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The Tithe War and the Temple: Legal Battles of...
The Tithe War and the Temple: Legal Battles of the Knights Templar in Thirteenth-Century England The Knights Templar, more formally known as the P...
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Ashes and Action: The Methodist Response to the...
Ashes and Action: The Methodist Response to the 1935 Quetta Earthquake The history of the Christian church is often told through the lens of grand...
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Caring for the Dying: Buddhist Monasteries and...
Caring for the Dying: Buddhist Monasteries and End-of-Life Rituals in Pre-Colonial Tibet For centuries, Western models of hospice care have empha...
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Saints and Strangers: Religion, Migration, and...
Saints and Strangers: Religion, Migration, and Transformation in 19th-Century America The 19th century witnessed unprecedented waves of migration...
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Mapping Souls: Religious Cartography and the Sh...
Mapping Souls: Religious Cartography and the Shaping of Faith in 17th Century South America The 17th century witnessed a surge in cartographic act...
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Whispers of Liberation: The Ethiopian Orthodox...
Whispers of Liberation: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Resistance to Italian Colonialism (1936-1941) The history of *Ecclesia Historia...
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Florence: Where Heaven Kissed Earth – Exploring...
Florence: Where Heaven Kissed Earth – Exploring Faith, Art, and the Florentine Soul (Part 1: Reliquaries and the Materiality of Belief) Introduc...
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Beyond the Frozen Rivers of Europe: Christian R...
Beyond the Frozen Rivers of Europe: Christian Responses to the Little Ice Age in the Non-European World The Little Ice Age, a period of fluctuatin...
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Sowing Seeds and Stirring Soils: Missionaries a...
Sowing Seeds and Stirring Soils: Missionaries and Environmental Transformation in Colonial New Guinea For Ecclesia Historia, the study of church...
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Patrons, Prelates, and Power: The Amira Clas...
Patrons, Prelates, and Power: The Amira Class and the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Ottoman Empire, 1700-1799 The Armenian Apostolic Church,...
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The Inner Light and the Outer Economy: Early Qu...
The Inner Light and the Outer Economy: Early Quaker Testimonies on Economic Equality, 1650-1900 The Society of Friends, or Quakers, emerged from t...
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The Mimeograph and the Spirit: Pentecostals and...
The Mimeograph and the Spirit: Pentecostals and the Democratization of Theology (1906-1945) The Pentecostal movement, bursting onto the American r...
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Mirrors of Simplicity: Photography and the Shapi...
Mirrors of Simplicity: Photography and the Shaping of Shaker Authority in Late 19th-Century America The American Shaker communities, with their d...
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Mountains of the Spirit, Guardians of the Earth...
Mountains of the Spirit, Guardians of the Earth: Exploring Early Environmental Stewardship in Armenian Monasticism (4th-12th Centuries) The histor...
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From Chant to Chart: How the Medieval Church No...
From Chant to Chart: How the Medieval Church Notated Divine Sound (10th-13th Centuries) The echoes of medieval plainchant, a soundscape both ether...
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Shadows of the Cross, Echoes of the Dharma: Chr...
Shadows of the Cross, Echoes of the Dharma: Christian-Buddhist Encounters in Early Modern Japan The history of religion is rarely a story of isola...
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*Syncretismus in Umbra Imperii: Nova Religio in Af...
Syncretismus in Umbra Imperii: Nova Religio in Africa Postcoloniali Introduction: The Ghosts of Empire and the Birth of New Faiths The long sh...
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Heresy on Trial: Canon Law, the Council of Basel...
Heresy on Trial: Canon Law, the Council of Basel, and the Shifting Landscape of 15th-Century Bohemia The 15th century was a period of profound up...
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The Filioque in León: Dogma, Discord, and Local...
The Filioque in León: Dogma, Discord, and Local Politics in 11th Century Iberia The Filioque controversy, concerning the procession of the Holy S...
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Divine Madness or Demonic Possession
Divine Madness or Demonic Possession? Unveiling the Mystical Feminine and the Suspicions of the Church Mysticism, the pursuit of direct and intima...
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Souls in Shadow: The Early Church and the Burge...
Souls in Shadow: The Early Church and the Burgeoning Landscape of Mental Well-being in Greco-Roman Society The world of the early Church, a period...
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The Benedictine Algorithm: Early Data Managemen...
The Benedictine Algorithm: Early Data Management Practices in Medieval Monasteries For the readers of Ecclesia Historia, the phrase Ad fontes...
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The Pope's Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy, Papal...
The Pope's Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy, Papal Patronage, and the Ambiguous Boundaries of Faith in Renaissance Rome For Ecclesia Historia, the r...
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The Hungry Heart: Fasting, Famine, and the Emot...
The Hungry Heart: Fasting, Famine, and the Emotional Landscape of Medieval Scandinavian Christianity For centuries, the Ecclesia has shaped not...
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The Church and the Algorithm: A Historical Theo...
The Church and the Algorithm: A Historical Theology of Technology Blog Post 1: Before Gutenberg: Manuscript Culture and the Technological So...
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A Symphony of Senses: Experiencing Christianity...
A Symphony of Senses: Experiencing Christianity in Late Medieval Japan (1336-1615) The arrival of Christianity in Japan during the late medieval p...
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Seeds of Change: Examining the Intersection of...
Seeds of Change: Examining the Intersection of Church History and Environmental History in Pre-Colonial West Africa The tapestry of West African h...
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The Silent Sermons of the Cochabamba Angels: Ma...
The Silent Sermons of the Cochabamba Angels: Material Piety and Indigenous Agency in 18th-Century Bolivia For readers of Ecclesia Historia, the...
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The Sword and the Soul: Catholic Theology and t...
The Sword and the Soul: Catholic Theology and the Birth of International Law (1500-1800) The period between 1500 and 1800 witnessed a dramatic res...
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The Shepherd of Hermas and the Allure of Dualis...
The Shepherd of Hermas and the Allure of Dualism: A Second-Century Dialogue on Creation and Responsibility The early church, a vibrant tapestry of...
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Beyond the Cross and Sword: Unearthing the Hidd...
Beyond the Cross and Sword: Unearthing the Hidden Story of Christianity in Pre-Modern Japan The history of Christianity is often told as a story o...
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Beyond the Usual Suspects: Exploring the Margin...
Beyond the Usual Suspects: Exploring the Margins of Dissent in the Early Medieval Church (c. 800-1200 CE) The early medieval period, often romanti...
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The Two Swords Forged Together: Canon Law, Roman...
The Two Swords Forged Together: Canon Law, Roman Law, and the Birth of European Legal Systems in the 12th Century The 12th century represents a p...
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Sanctifying Silence: Disability, Monasticism, a...
Sanctifying Silence: Disability, Monasticism, and the Theopoetics of Deafness in Medieval Ireland The history of the Church, as often told, privil...
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Option 3: The Church and the History of Science...
Option 3: The Church and the History of Science (Pre-Enlightenment) Heavenly Harmony, Earthly Inquiry: The Church and the Seeds of Science Befo...
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Per Litteras et Possessiones: The Medieval Ch...
Per Litteras et Possessiones: The Medieval Church, Cartularies, and the Dawn of Communication Networks For readers of Ecclesia Historia, accus...
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A Breath of Heaven, a Whiff of Earth: The Olfac...
A Breath of Heaven, a Whiff of Earth: The Olfactory Landscape of Medieval Monasteries Medieval monasteries, often envisioned as silent retreats of...
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Ecclesia Historia: Explorations in Church Histo...
Ecclesia Historia: Explorations in Church History The Digital Sanctuary: Ethical and Social Implications of the Rise of Online-Only Churches...
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Deforestation, Devotion, and Degradation: Mona...
Deforestation, Devotion, and Degradation: Monasteries and the Medieval Landscape of Castile The establishment of monasteries during the medieval...
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Beyond the Stained Glass: Reimagining Church Hi...
Beyond the Stained Glass: Reimagining Church History Through New Lenses For centuries, church history has been dominated by accounts of popes and...
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Broadcasting the Gospel: A History of Christian...
Broadcasting the Gospel: A History of Christian Radio in 20th-Century Africa Radio, often heralded as a tool of modernization and development, als...
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Heavenly Calculations: Monasteries, Clocks, and...
Heavenly Calculations: Monasteries, Clocks, and the Dawn of Computing in Medieval England We often think of the digital age as a sudden leap forwa...
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*De Fluxu Idearum: Buddhismus et Christianismus...
De Fluxu Idearum: Buddhismus et Christianismus in Via Serica per Tempus Nestorii The Silk Road, more than a mere trade route, served as a condui...
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Ecclesia Historia: The Aladura Churches of Nige...
Ecclesia Historia: The Aladura Churches of Nigeria: Indigenous Agency and Spiritual Resistance to Colonialism Introduction The history of Chr...
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Teaching the Word: Shifting Sands of Religious...
Teaching the Word: Shifting Sands of Religious Education and Pedagogy in the Late Medieval Period (1300-1500) The late medieval period, often pain...
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Beyond Belief: Heresy Trials and Social Control...
Beyond Belief: Heresy Trials and Social Control in Goa during the Early Modern Period The weight of theological debate has often overshadowed a cr...
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Weaving Light and Shadow: Kabbalistic Threads i...
Weaving Light and Shadow: Kabbalistic Threads in the Tapestry of Renaissance Esotericism The history of religious ideas is rarely a story of prist...
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Typographia Sacra: The Printing Press and th...
Typographia Sacra: The Printing Press and the Forging of Reformation Hymnody in Germany The Reformation, a seismic event that irrevocably alter...
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A Woven Tapestry: Canon Law and the Sanctity of...
A Woven Tapestry: Canon Law and the Sanctity of Life in the Eastern Orthodox World (7th-15th Centuries) The sanctity of life, a concept deeply emb...
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Seeds of Change, Roots of Disruption: Environme...
Seeds of Change, Roots of Disruption: Environmental Impacts of Missionary Activity in Southeast Asia (16th-18th Centuries) The story of Christian...
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Stones that Speak: Using Architectural Analysis...
Stones that Speak: Using Architectural Analysis to Uncover the History of a Midwestern Quaker Meeting House Church history often focuses on texts,...
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Veiled Voices, Visible Influence: Women and Chu...
Veiled Voices, Visible Influence: Women and Church Governance in the Byzantine Empire (6th-8th Centuries) The Byzantine Empire, a continuation of...
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Beyond the Sanctuary Walls: The Ecological Footp...
Beyond the Sanctuary Walls: The Ecological Footprint of Coptic Monasteries in the Egyptian Desert For centuries, the image of the desert monk has...
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Vox Dei in Verbis Indigenarum: The Vital Role...
Vox Dei in Verbis Indigenarum: The Vital Role of Tagalog in Early Filipino Christianity (16th-18th Centuries) The story of Christianity in the Ph...
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Singing Resistance: Liturgical Music and Separa...
Singing Resistance: Liturgical Music and Separatist Identity in 17th-Century England The English Reformation was far from a singular event. It was...
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Ink and Idolatry: The London Missionary Society...
Ink and Idolatry: The London Missionary Society and the Preservation of Samoan 'Fa'a Samoa' The palm-fringed shores of Samoa, once resonating with...
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From Papal Decrees to Parishioners' Lives: A Hi...
From Papal Decrees to Parishioners' Lives: A Historiographical Shift in Ecclesiology For centuries, the study of church history, or *Ecclesia Hist...
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The Yellow Scourge and Soul-Searching: Methodis...
The Yellow Scourge and Soul-Searching: Methodists, Memphis, and the Crisis of Divine Providence During the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic The Black De...
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Beyond the Silk Road: Re-Examining Christian-Bu...
Beyond the Silk Road: Re-Examining Christian-Buddhist Syncretism in Pre-Mongol Central Asia For historians and theologians familiar with the ebb a...
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*Vox in Machina: Typographia et Dissensio in Re...
Vox in Machina: Typographia et Dissensio in Reformatione Prima (The Voice in the Machine: Printing and Dissent in the Early Reformation) The ear...
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Seeds of Salvation: Vernacular Agronomy and the...
Seeds of Salvation: Vernacular Agronomy and the Environmental Theology of the Late Medieval Parish For Ecclesia Historia, we often find ourselve...
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When Two Laws Collide: Canon Law and Divorce Re...
When Two Laws Collide: Canon Law and Divorce Reform in 1950s Ghana Ecclesia Historia delves today into a fascinating, and often fraught, interse...
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Whispers of Rebellion: Ana Micaela's Cacao Serm...
Whispers of Rebellion: Ana Micaela's Cacao Sermon and Indigenous Agency in 18th-Century Quito For centuries, the grand narratives of church histor...
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Tango, Piety, and Politics: The Catholic Church...
Tango, Piety, and Politics: The Catholic Church and the Rise of Tango in Early 20th Century Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the early 20t...
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Mapping the Sacred Landscape: Monastic Land Man...
Mapping the Sacred Landscape: Monastic Land Management and the Preservation of Geographical Knowledge in Merovingian Gaul The early medieval perio...
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Ecclesia Historia: A Legacy Forged in Faith and...
Ecclesia Historia: A Legacy Forged in Faith and Scholarship For decades, Ecclesia Historia has served as a crucial forum for scholars dedicated...
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Ecclesia Historia: Bridging Faiths, Protecting L...
Ecclesia Historia: Bridging Faiths, Protecting Lands: Christian-Muslim Environmental Stewardship in 19th & 20th Century Indonesia Introduction:...
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Mapping the Monastic Mind: A Digital Network An...
Mapping the Monastic Mind: A Digital Network Analysis of Cluniac Correspondence in 12th-Century England The Cluniac Order, with its grand abbey at...
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Dividing the Divine Right: Canon Law and Inheri...
Dividing the Divine Right: Canon Law and Inheritance Disputes in 17th-Century Rural Bavaria The rolling hills and fertile farmlands of 17th-centur...
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A Tapestry of Belief: Women's Voices in Medieval...
A Tapestry of Belief: Women's Voices in Medieval Parish Life The medieval parish, often envisioned as a domain solely dominated by men – priests,...
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The Lion of Judah and the Ark of the Covenant:...
The Lion of Judah and the Ark of the Covenant: Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and the Solomonic Dynasty Ethiopia, a land of ancient mysteries and...
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Ecclesia Historia: Threads of Faith and Resis...
Ecclesia Historia: Threads of Faith and Resistance: Kongo Christianity and the Kimpa Vita Movement Introduction: Beyond Conversion Narratives*...
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Sacred Vessels: Reliquaries and the Cult of Sai...
Sacred Vessels: Reliquaries and the Cult of Saints in Merovingian Gaul The study of church history is often perceived through the lens of theologi...
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The Shadows of Observation: Anatomical Discover...
The Shadows of Observation: Anatomical Discoveries and the Soul’s Dwelling in the 17th Century The 16th and 17th centuries, a period often dubbed...
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Singing the Faith: Early Christian Hymnody and...
Singing the Faith: Early Christian Hymnody and the Shaping of Theology and Community The echo of sung prayer resonates through the centuries, carr...
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God's Stewards, Earthly Keepers: Monastic Envir...
God's Stewards, Earthly Keepers: Monastic Environmentalism in the High Middle Ages For too long, the story of the medieval Church has been told th...
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The Word Made Manifest: How the Printing Press...
The Word Made Manifest: How the Printing Press Fueled the Reformation in Central Europe The 16th and 17th centuries witnessed a seismic shift in...
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Augustine's Ordo and the Dawn of Just War: Seed...
Augustine's Ordo and the Dawn of Just War: Seeds of Legitimate Violence in the Early Middle Ages Augustine of Hippo, a towering figure in Western...