Articles | Sciaria - Science Aria

In this paper I am going to discuss firstly the impact of sex and gender on the representation of Protestant Christianity in India and upon...

Review:

This paper proposes a compelling and timely examination of Christian conversion in 19th-century South India through the critical lenses of sex and gen...

View Full Research

Bernard Martin

African Conversion and the 'Irish Question'

History

About a hundred years ago, the 'Irish question' in politics centred mostly on Home Rule; it occupied a good deal of Mr Gladstone's attentio...

Review:

This abstract presents a highly intriguing opening, immediately setting a unique intellectual agenda. The author cleverly redefines the well-known "Ir...

View Full Research

Carole M. Cusack

Towards a General Theory of Conversion

Religion

The phenomenon of conversion to Christianity may be approached from many differing viewpoints: as history of missions, as a sociological pr...

Review:

The title, "Towards a General Theory of Conversion," sets an ambitious and compelling agenda, signaling a significant attempt to synthesize diverse un...

View Full Research

Ahmad Shbuol

Christians and Muslims in Syria and Upper Mesopotamia in the Early Arab Islamic Period: Cultural Change and Continuity

History

This is a preliminary report of research in progress on social and cultural change in early Islamic Syria. Syria is defined here as the his...

Review:

This preliminary report outlines a highly ambitious and timely research project investigating social and cultural transformations in Syria and Upper M...

View Full Research

W. J. (Bill) Jobling

New Evidence for the History of Indigenous Aramaic Christianity in Southern Jordan

History

Pre-Islamic Southern Jordan has for some time been a much neglected Aramaic-speaking domain in the history of the spread of the early Chris...

Review:

The abstract for "New Evidence for the History of Indigenous Aramaic Christianity in Southern Jordan" presents a highly promising and timely contribut...

View Full Research

Michael Allen

Rethinking Old Problems: Matriliny, Secret Societies and Political Evolution

Anthropology

MY EARLY INTEREST in the comparative study of male initiation rites and secret societies in Melanesia (Allen 1967) had been in large measur...

Review:

The paper, *Rethinking Old Problems: Matriliny, Secret Societies and Political Evolution*, proposes a critical re-examination of enduring anthropologi...

View Full Research

Michael Allen

Procession and Pilgrimage in Newar Religion

Religion

MOST VISITORS to Kathmandu valley are immediately impressed by the immense proliferation of physical manifestations of the sacred or divine...

Review:

The title "Procession and Pilgrimage in Newar Religion" and its accompanying abstract present a compelling and well-articulated focus on the unique ch...

View Full Research

Michael Allen

Buddhism without Monks: The Vajrayana Religion of the Newars ofKathmandu

Religion

In this paper I give a brief descriptive outline of the main features of a form of Buddhism still practised amongst the Newars of Nepal in...

Review:

This paper proposes to offer a valuable descriptive outline of the distinctive Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newars of Nepal, notably characteri...

View Full Research

Michael Allen

Kumart or 'Virgin' Worship in Kathmandu Valley

Religion

KUMAR! is a goddess who has been a recognized member of the Hindu pantheon for at least 2,500 years. Throughout the long history of her wor...

Review:

This paper promises an intriguing exploration into the worship of Kumari, a goddess whose recognition within the Hindu pantheon spans at least two and...

Review:

This paper, titled "Rank and Leadership in Nduindui, Northern New Hebrides," establishes its theoretical grounding by immediately engaging with the we...