Christianity
Quest for Identity: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Mankirdias of Mayurbhanj, Odisha
By: GEETANJALI PANDA, PRASANT KUMAR SAHOO, RANJAN KUMAR NAIK – This study presents a critical ethnographic exploration of the ongoing cultural and religious transformation among the Mankirdias, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) living in the rolling hills of Similipal forests in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha. Traditionally semi-nomadic, the Mankirdias are widely known for their expertise…
Diocletian, Maxentius and the legal status of Christianity in imperial constitutions on religious freedom (303-312 AD): a review according to the latest findings
”Judicial review” and “overruling” in Late Roman law, Christianity, Diocletian, Early Christian Women, Early Christianity, Early Donatism, Hellenism, Historical Jesus, Maxentius, Neoplatonism and Theurgy, Religious freedom in Late AntiquityBy: MARCO CECINI, DIEGO SERRA – In 2022, an interdisciplinary, preliminary study analyzed for the first time Diocletian’s edict of persecution of Christianity, which was believed to be completely lost for 1700 years. Three imperial constitutions belonging to several manuscript traditions that come from 12 Byzantine and post-Byzantine Codes have been carefully studied from a…
Civic Education Policy of Travancore: Rereading a Letter
By: VISHNU K.M. NAMBOODIRI, AGNEY G.K. – This paper is a theoretical analysis of a letter written by the missionaries of Travancore to the British Resident in 1822, which explained the condition of Christianity in the region and the progress of education as well as the policies adopted for educational and religious transmission. It is…
Modernisation and Change: A Case Study of Lawm and Sawm among the Kukis
By: JANGKHOMANG M.R. – All the tribes in India follow a specific type of village-based youth organisation, called dormitories, and known by different names among the different tribes. This is also true in case of the tribes inhabiting the North Eastern part of the Indian sub-continent. It is well known that the socio-cultural life of…
The Rebellion in Heaven. The beginning
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – From Middle Age onwards, the philosophers and theologians devoted notable endeavors to explain the evilness in the Hebrew-tradition. Whether one figure out God is an entity characterized by love, compression and omnipresence, it remains to be seen why he creates exactly his most staunch enemy, or why one of his…