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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Christianization"”.
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Presence and Voice: Understanding the Tensions over the American Church's Relationship to Its Culture through the Writings of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine
… the various interpretations over the rhetoric of Christianization in the Roman Empire and how those viewpoints surface in the positions of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine. The objective of this approach is to continue the discussion first articulated by H. Richard Niebuhr's 1951 work, Christ and …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… to celebrate the millennial anniversary of the Christianization of Russia (988–1988). Given the vast scope of this historical narrative, Schnittke decided that his composition must take into account a wide range of textual and musical developments. The analysis of the work proceeds along two …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… pre-Christian Germanic religion and society, of Christianization of Scandinavia in general the conversion and and Iceland in particular, and of the different forms of literature which have preserved this information. Background information on Germanic paganism is important for the study of …
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Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise
… forms which served to challenge and enrich the Christianization process in South Africa, eventually giving rise to the emergence of African Christianity and theologies. My aim is to show that African Christians talked back in the long conversation with the European missionaries, ""a conversation …
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Mens immobilis. Recherches sur le corpus latin des actes et passions d'Afrique romaine (IIe-VIe siècles)
… sections examine these texts as evidence of the christianization of Africa, through the study of the complex phenomenon of persecutions and martyrdom. The third part illustrates the multiple potentialities of hagiographic discourse, which tends to make a new Christian hero, combination of pagan …
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The sweet, sweet sound of liberty: black settlers and their early education initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860
… unique history was built on colonization, Christianization, and Westernization. The history of silencing the voices of Black Americans has been a practice in early historiography of Liberia. As a result, it has overlooked the important role freed Blacks from the United States played in the …
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Resurrecting the martyrs: the role of the Cult of the Saints, A.D. 370-430
… and bishops could use it to promote the Christianization of the empire. In spite of the cult's widespread popularity, churches imputed widely disparate meanings to the cult. The cult's function in a particular locale was often shaped by that place's specific religious and political …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black church played a sustained and pivotal role in the Black Power Movement at its central flashpoint, Cairo, Illinois, a city identified by contemporaries as the site …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
… by historians for the clues they offer to the Christianization of the West, critics of Old English conversion narratives have tended either to isolate their ""Germanic"" or ""heroic"" elements or to submerge their historical particulars within programmatic typological or generic …
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The Russian-Soviet Resettlement Policies and Their Implications for Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the South Caucasus
… the population in the borderland, such as Christianization and the “civilizing mission” and their connection to resettlement practices. I argue that one overarching theme of the resettlement policies was consistent throughout the Tsarist and Soviet administrations – the extension of …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… exploring the impact literate monks had on the Christianization of Byzantine society, and recursively, the impact this newly Christian society had on monasticism. This thesis contributes significantly to an understanding of the intersection between education and religion. Value is also to be …
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Constructing the Christian: Agency and Emulation in Old English Poetry
… belief and practice in England before its Christianization because the church men who held a monopoly on writing were uninterested in preserving documents detailing the preChristian ideas that they were attempting to supplant. However, the evangelists of England did not attempt to convince …
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The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel
… folktale residual material, traditional beliefs, christianization, urbanization, industrialization, etc. all have in one way or another impacted on the art of characterization in the Zulu novel. For this purpose we have divided the Zulu novel into three different developmental periods. These …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
… of the body in late antiquity and the nature of Christianization itself, especially the limits imposed upon the Church when confronted with social practices that were deeply rooted in Roman imperial history. Yet it also demonstrates that bathing in public remained central to daily life at this …
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Literature between two worlds : the first fifty years of the Xhosa novel and poetry
… an origin that is located in the history of Christianization. This history has haunted Xhosa literary creativity from its early beginnings to the present. The success of the mission to convert them to Christianity was anchored on the principle of total alienation of the Xhosa from their …
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Efektifitas infaq 25 sebagai upaya pengentasan kemiskinan di Desa Karangbesuki Kecamatan Sukun Kota Malang
… sympathize orphans and anticipate the rise of Christianization. About the effectiveness of Infaq 25 is not maximal. This case happen because there is not assistance for people who borrow, the lack of human resources management, lack of assertiveness sanctions for noncompliance, lending small …
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Die Kirchenbauten in Alt-Goa in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. und in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 17. Jahrhunderts : zur Entstehung eines Sakralbautyps
… former Portugese colony of Goa are evidence of Christianization and christian life in India which has been continuing for approx. 450 years and the town- or landscape would be unthinkable without these. The features of the facades and the interiors are a constant in Goa's sacral architecture and …
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A zsidó nők és férfiak 18. századvégi-19. század eleji letelepedése Pesten, különös tekintettel a zsidó nők helyzetére
… too is addressed in the chapter discussing the Christianization of “women”. In the same place mention is made of cases when the women took independent decision on withdrawal of the religious community or conversely: they did not follow their husbands in becoming Christian. Similarly to Vera …
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A obra de Apríngio Pacense: subsídios para uma caracterização sócio religiosa da diocese de Beja nos primeiros séculos cristãos
Procuraremos, a partir da única obra de Apríngio - o primeiro bispo conhecido da atual cidade baixo alentejana de Beja - chegada aos nossos dias, o ‘’Comentário ao Apocalipse de São João’’, bem como do eco por ela produzido na literatura do seu tempo, caraterizar a comunidade cristã de Pax Iulia …
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A Theological Appraisal of Marriage in Tiv Culture
… in marriage. Nevertheless, after many years of Christianization, polygamy in Africa has vivaciously persisted as a cultural institution. But on arrival to the African continent, the Christian missionaries require married converts to Christianity to be monogamous. Those in polygamous marriage …
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