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The Roman Society at the Senate House History Day, 2019. The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 [1] as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire.
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; Society for the Social History of Medicine; Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour; Society for the Study of Christian Ethics; Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature; Society for the Study of ...
The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content (e.g., a tradition's ritual observances) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct;
He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His most important works include a study of Roman citizenship based on his doctoral thesis, a treatment of the New Testament from the point of view of Roman law and society, and a commentary on the letters of Pliny the ...
Roman historian Geoffrey Nathan explains that "a widow in Roman society who had lost her husband, and did not have money of her own, was at the very bottom of the social ladder". [173] The early church provided practical support to those who would, otherwise, have been in destitute circumstances. Esther Yue Lhis Ng writes that this "was in all ...
Though the history of the Roman Empire dates back to 27 B.C.E., its contributions to Western civilization can still be observed today—in everything from the military, engineering, and ...
His research was primarily in Roman History. [5] In 1940, he was elected Junior Proctor of Oxford University; serving from March 1940 to March 1941. [6] In 1956, he was a candidate for the Rectorship of Exeter College, but lost out to Kenneth Wheare. [1] He served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 1968 to 1971. [1]
In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War. [11] [12]In the 1960s, American sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.