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7 godz. temu · Religion, Law, and the Power of Myth “The question of the ‘religions,’ ” historian of religion Jonathan Z. Smith wrote, “arose in response to an explosion of data.” 1 The same could be said of the relationship between religion, race, and law in the Atlantic world. Since the European arrival in the western hemisphere, ideas about “race” and “religion” were codified in law ...
7 godz. temu · Black Churches and Institutional Religious Life. In addition to the often hidden and covert religious activities in the invisible institution of slave religion, antebellum African American Christians developed churches that provided arenas for independent interpretation of Christian teaching and practice as well as a platform for political organizing.
7 godz. temu · The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b iː æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and ...
1 dzień temu · Wichita (/ ˈ w ɪ tʃ ɪ t ɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.. Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s ...
7 godz. temu · Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), is a landlocked state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its ...
7 godz. temu · Appalachia (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə,-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə /) is a geographic region formally located by the federally legistated Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) as following "the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi" (and so lying entirely in the the eastern United States), but that has, per colloquial parlance, no definite boundaries.
7 godz. temu · Porto Alegre (UK: / ˌ p ɔːr t uː ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ r eɪ /, US: /-ɑː ˈ l eɪ ɡ r i, ˌ p ɔːr t oʊ ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ r ə /, Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoʁtwaˈlɛɡɾi] ⓘ; lit. ' "Joyful Harbor" ') is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.Its population of 1.332.845 inhabitants (2022) makes it the 11th-most populous city in the country and ...
