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Showing 1 to 20 of 579 for “"Christians"”.
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Locating Citizenship of Indian Christians
This project explores how Christians in India, especially those from caste-marginalized backgrounds, experience citizenship, along with the challenges Muslims also face. It focuses on how people from these communities often struggle to be seen as full and equal citizens. The study digs into history …
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Personal accounts for religious prejudice in Christians
Despite the long history of research on prejudice, investigation into religious prejudice, defined as the derogation of individuals from religions other than one’s own, is limited. Grounded in the justification-suppression model of prejudice, the present study attempted to identify personal …
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Christians in Al-Andalus ( 8th-10th centuries)
… to say about the situation of the conquered Christians, a willingness to engage with both Latin and Arabic texts opens up a wide range of material on such controversial topics as acculturation and conversion to Islam. This thesis examines a number of texts written by or attributed to …
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Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships
In contrast to research on fundamentalism and death anxiety, there has been very little empirical research on the relationship between a person's eschatology, religious thought and behavior. This study attempts to identify associations between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death …
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State Attitudes towards Palestinian Christians in a Jewish Ethnocracy
… theories it argues instead that the Palestinian Christians are inextricably associated with the wider Arab “problem” and remain, as a result, permanently outside the boundaries of the dominant Jewish national consensus. Moreover, this thesis argues that state attitudes towards the small …
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Reverse Mission: African Christians in Cambridge London and Lagos
… secularisation occasioned by non-white migrant Christians converting white non-migrant non-Christians. Instead, this study explores how mainly-Nigerian church members articulate and act upon their divinely-commissioned purpose in their country of residence, the UK. The observations emerge from …
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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
This dissertation addresses the entanglements of Christianity and financializing capitalism in Colombia, South America. At its most empirical, this dissertation details ethnographically the debt upon which the Gospel of Prosperity rests. The ethnographic research, collected over two and a half …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
Christian - Muslim mixed couples in Greece challenge marital norms and group identifications through re-negotiation of religious affiliations, identifications and practices. They are sociologically significant because they contest historically and socially constructed ethnic, cultural and religious …
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The Lived Experience of Chinese American Christians in Family Life
… <p>Second generation Chinese American Christians struggle with conflict with their parents and their ties to Chinese American culture, values and Christian faith (Sam Kim & Park, 2012). This intersection of culture and faith requires further research in the field of marital and family …
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Playing the Christ Card: Courting Christians through Religious Appeals in Political Campaigns
In spite of a corpus of work over the last three decades acknowledging the centrality of religion in politics, (see e.g. Hunter, 1991; Layman, 2001; Putnam & Campbell, 2010; Wuthnow, 1988), there remains a scarcity of research examining the consequences of religious communication in political …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
<p>This dissertation will engage in a historical-critical encounter with a peculiar subset of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their …
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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical …
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Teaching Christians about Islam : a study in methodology / by Colin Gilbert Chapman.
Some of the major Issues Involved in teaching Christians about Islam are discussed on the basis of the author's experience of teaching in three different contexts: in work with Christian students in the Middle East, in an Anglican Theological College in Bristol, and in the Department of Mission at …
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Latin Christians in the Literary Landscape of Early Rus, c. 988-1330
… investigates conceptions and depictions of Latin Christians in Early Rusian texts. Unlike previous smaller-scale studies, the present study takes into consideration all indigenous Early Rusian narrative sources which make reference to Latins or the Latin world. Its contribution is twofold. …
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From gravity to grace: finding a redemptive voice among displaced Christians in Europe
This thesis addresses the growing need to understand the religious perspectives of forcibly displaced persons. It looks at the subject in terms of a journey and how a small group of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe retell their journey stories with theological significance. The research asks …
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