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Showing 1 to 20 of 1275 for “"Christianity"”.
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Herman Melville: Critic of Christianity
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… Superman comic books, Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz film. These iconic figures reflect respectively: a fundamentalist and nostalgic desire for the past; libidinal authoritarianism; commodification of religion; and the triumph of grift and hucksterism. Together, …
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The Discourse of Cannibalism Within Christianity
… the dialogue of cannibalism within the realms of Christianity; more so this thesis will focus on how cannibalism is relevant to Christianity. The paper will introduce the reader with two distinct versions of cannibalism, endocannibalism and exocannibalism, providing a historical reference within …
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Anglican Christianity in Birmingham 1945 – 1975
… will consider the nature of changes to Anglican Christianity during this period, examining previously untapped statistical records for Birmingham parishes during this period. These statistical records of church attendance will be considered alongside oral history which has been gathered from …
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The daily walk: Christianity in business organizations
… organization and among its culture incorporate Christianity into their workday. The findings revealed an explanation of the daily life of Christians in the workplace and their difficulties as well as multiple guidelines for Christian businesspersons to follow in order to successfully incorporate …
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The Transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria
The study examines the transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria, focussing on three major strands of Aladura churches, namely Cherubim and Seraphim, the Church of the Lord Aladura, and Celestial Church of Christ in three major cities of Lagos, Ibadan, and Jos. In Nigeria, there are lots of …
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The daily walk: Christianity in business organizations
… organization and among its culture incorporate Christianity into their workday. The findings revealed an explanation of the daily life of Christians in the workplace and their difficulties as well as multiple guidelines for Christian businesspersons to follow in order to successfully incorporate …
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Socialization in Chinese Academic Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity
… in Chinese academic immigrants’ conversion to Christianity using the perspectives of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory. The research data are drawn from observation and interviews. Fourteen Chinese student converts were interviewed. The analysis focuses on the interaction …
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Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation
<p>In 1958, J.O. Urmson's landmark article "Saints and Heroes" was the first in the history of philosophy to treat supererogation in a systematic manner. Arguing that the traditional threefold classification system consisting of <em>duties</em>, <em>permissible acts</em>, and <em>wrong acts</em> …
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The Creation of Families: Christianity and Contemporary Adoption
This thesis is a theological and practical reflection on the practice of adoption in contemporary Britain, as it affects Christian adoption agencies, Christian social workers, Christian parents and adopted children. The first three chapters set the background context to the research by examining …
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The impact of Zoroastrianism upon Judaism and Christianity
… French and English to establish that Judaism and Christianity have been influenced by the ethical religion of Zoroaster. In the first section the early date of Zoroaster (660 B.C.), is initially suggested as a factor in the developmental precedence of Zoroastrianism. The influence of Zoroaster is …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
… specific attitudes toward the forms of organized Christianity by which he was confronted during his lifetime. The purpose of this thesis has been to reveal his attitudes and his personal beliefs which are either quite similar to or are definitely contrary to the tenets of these forms of …
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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… a time of both uncertainty and innovation within Christianity, during which a series of doctrinal and institutional challenges resulted in a wide range of new forms of literary response.
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Christianity and the state in the first century
This dissertation studies the New Testament perspective of the Christian's attitude and duty towards the State. In it the first chapter is devoted to an investigation of the political attitude of Jesus of Nazareth as can be recovered from his reported actions and pronouncements concerning the Roman …
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Transhumanism-Christianity Diplomacy: To Transform Science-Religion Relations
… death. Yet observers who see transhumanism and Christianity in monolithic terms often portray them as adversaries. Against this view, I argue that within each community are factions that have comparable, but contested, views on God, the divine attributes, and human origins, responsibility, and …
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The role of Christianity in post-war Liberia : an assessment of how Christianity can play a role in mending societal fragility
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Reclaiming British Gujarati culture after conversion to Evangelical Christianity
… ideological diaspora influenced by British Christianity that resulted in the challenge of the binary of religious affiliation. For some British Gujarati this resulted in a complete change of religious self-identity to Evangelical Christianity. By using ethnography and autoethnography this …
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