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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"American religion."”.
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Asatru in America: A New American Religion
… of pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Pagan religion. It has been one of the least studied of the Pagan movements in America. In addition, Asatru has often been associated with far right or fascist political views and racist ideology, developing a reputation as a movement in high tension with …
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The Wal-Martization of African American Religion: T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed
… (WTAL) as a case study. T.D. Jakes is an African American televangelist who pastors The Potter’s House, a supermegachurch in Dallas, Texas. He is the quintessential example of a New Black Church pastor—a religious entrepreneur with several successful faith brands. WTAL is by far his most …
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The Restoration Movement and the American Bible Union, 1850-1883.
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century American religion was in a state of ferment. The gaining of independence had brought changes to the political order which required organized religion to re-evaluate its position. Nearly all the traditional churches saw the need to develop national …
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SEEKERS NO MORE: HISTORICAL SOURCES OF AMERICAN VOLUNTARYISM
As the twenty-first century gets underway, Americans are shopping for faith as never before. Voluntaryism in American religion is nothing new. The megachurch is simply another form of institutionalized revivalism as voluntaryism became normative within elements of American Evangelicalism. This …
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The paper tiger and its predecessors: An ethnologic history of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act has proven to be a terrible disappointment for the Indians all across the country. This act presupposed an analogy between Native American ceremonial practices and Euro-American religions, but Native American ceremonies involve a broader range social …
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… many factors affect levels of religiosity in American religion. This study extends the research on the relationship between cohort membership and public religious participation and individual personal involvement. Most of the research pertaining to the effects of cohort on religiosity has been …
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Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
… be a complete departure from traditional African American religion because it is so different from its immediate predecessor-black Baptist religion. However, upon closer inspection Earthseed helps its followers deal the harsh realities of life because it acts as and has much in common with the …
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The rhetoric of restoration: Alexander Campbell and the rhetoric of affect
… A significant figure in nineteenth century American religion, Campbell (1788-1866) thus represents a key link between this particular notion of rhetoric and American religious discourse. After tracing the antecedents of this rhetorical tradition, four significant rhetorical episodes in …
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… and "religious experience" in their writing of American religious history. I will argue that as it is employed by most historians of American religion, the category of "experience" (in its many forms) fails to provide scholars with an adequate conceptual tool to aid in the writing of history …
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Constructing conscience: freedom and self-governance in colonial New England
American politics and law, like other liberal democracies, couches itself in the protection of the free individual, one who possesses both “beliefs” and the unalienable right to those “beliefs.” The “freedom of religion” guaranteed to U.S. citizens in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of …
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Broadcasting the Faith: Protestant Religious Radio and Theology in America, 1920-1950
… their programs to counter the secularization of American culture. Ultimately, however, their programs contributed to secularization by accelerating changes already evident in both the conservative and liberal streams of American Christianity. To reach a vast American audience, radio preachers …
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Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
… the New Age with a focused case study of Iranian-American healers, whose prominent presence in the alternative healthcare landscape demonstrates the importance of including immigrant communities in studies of American religion and culture, the diversity of New Age spirituality, and the prominence …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… While home missions among immigrants and ethnic Americans focused on spiritual edification, these ministries also reinforced American citizenship and culture. Home missionaries often promoted an "American Way of Life," while simultaneously tolerating diverse immigrant cultures. Some Protestants …
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Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation
Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation" is an analysis of gay martyr discourses from the 1970s through 2014. In particular, the dissertation examines the archives, narrative representations, memorials, and media depictions of Harvey Milk, Matthew …
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Creative Participation: Rethinking Reclamation
… that Native Cultures, particularly Native American Cultures have with nature. This reveals Western Man's reliance on the concept of objectivity and the resultant objectification of the natural world. In so doing Western Man has put himself apart from the rest of the world, somehow above it. …
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Unruly Sisters: Moravian Women, Dissent, and the 18th Century North Carolina Piedmont
This thesis is about how Moravian women in the community of Salem, North Carolina, challenged the policies of the church in order to gain more autonomy in the late 18th century. Settling into the Piedmont, these women encountered excessive materialism and a widely accepted racial hierarchy, which …
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Not your father’s religion: A case study of Hoodoo practitioners on TikTok
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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"I only love them" : Dorothy Scarborough and the supernatural in literature.
… Baylor University. Constant contact with African-American culture became a profound influence on Scarborough's writing, particularly Conjure and other occult traditions. World War I also constituted a significant influence on her work, as well as her views on supernatural literature in general. …
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Secularism Narratives And Arab American Fiction
"Secularism Narratives and Arab American Fiction" focuses on contemporary fiction's challenge to the liberal political construction of minority religious practices and community life as incompatible with modernity, progress, and secularism. U.S. secularism is not simply the absence of religion from …