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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Church and Community"”.
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Heartland Sonshine: A Thriving Rural Church and Community
xi, 236 leaves. Advisor: Dale Patrick.
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The South African township funeral : a 'site of resistance' of HIV and AIDS that promotes leading causes of life
… used to develop the analysis) needed to create and sustain life in the midst of illness and death? This study will seek to answer these questions through a close look at the J L Zwane Church and Community Centre, a faith based community in Gugulethu, South Africa. By exploring township funerals …
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African American Women Roles In The Baptist Church: Equality Within the National Baptist Convention, USA
… of African American women in the black Baptist churches from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, with emphasis on four women associated with the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. - Virginia Broughton, Mary Cook Parrish, Sarah Layten, and Nannie Burroughs. …
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Parents, Religion and Interpersonal Orientation : An Attachment Theory Perspective
… between parenting in the early years and later psychosocial functioning and religious orientation within the social context of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Recent research in the application of paradigms from attachment theory to adult relationships and the psychology of religion …
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Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Implications from Bonhoeffer's [Work] for a Communicative Praxis of Reconciliation Grounded in Christian Narrative
… be considered as the repairing, restoring, and mending of that which has been broken, namely relationships be they interpersonal, communal, or national due to some type of conflict between two parties. This project seeks to establish a Rhetoric of Reconciliation as a narratively constructed …
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An Exploratory Study of the Experiences of Recent Graduates Who Participated in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
… as qualitative interviews, to provide a detailed and insightful description about the experiences of the participants in this study. They participated in the McNair program as undergraduate students and completed a bachelor's degree during the academic years of 2009–2010 and 2010–2011. One-hour …
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Educating Lyon’s poor : children, charity, and commerce in the seventeenth century
… surprising in Counter Reformation France as the church was obliged to foster education, what was innovative about Lyon’s écoles de charité is that “professional education” was stressed alongside Catholic doctrine in the seventeenth century. Catering to Lyon’s poor youth, these schools taught …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… upon the capacity of African American Protestant churches in New Orleans to provide spiritual and social ministry to the city's underprivileged. More than three years after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city, fifty per cent of the churches remain as the hurricane left them. …
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The church as a moral agent in society: a case study of residents' perspectives of the role the church has played in the Kraaifontein residential area over the last ten years: 1994-2004
… vicinity, perceive the moral role that the church has played over a period of ten years from 1994 to 2004. The clergy and pastors of two mainline churches and two evangelical churches in Kraaifontein were chosen as the participants. They were asked to put forward the names of members of …
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The Use of Social Power Bases by Southern Baptist Leaders: A Mixed Methods Study
… introduces the background of social power bases and explains the taxonomy introduced by John R. P. French, Jr. and Bertram H. Raven in 1959. A brief review of the literature on social power in the context of evangelical churches shows that little or no quantitative research has been conducted on …
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The Antichrist and the "trewe men": Lollard apocalypticism in late medieval and Early Modern England.
… of apocalyptic thought in the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries in England has been acknowledged, the sources of these ideas have not been explored sufficiently. The aim of this study is to redress that imbalance by showing the pervasiveness of fear aroused by the Antichrist and the …
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Catholic schools in Scotland: mapping the contemporary debate and their continued existence in the 21st century
The faith school debate in Scotland focuses almost exclusively on Catholic schools because they are the predominant form of faith schooling. Historically, the Catholic schools have had strong links with the Catholic Church and the wider Catholic community – a post-Reformation Catholic community …
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The Feasibility of Peer Group and Text Message-Based Weight Loss and Management Intervention for African American Women
… groups. For many decades, healthcare providers and researchers have developed weight-loss interventions to help people achieve weight loss and management. Unfortunately, it is typical for people to lose weight quickly during the intervention period but then slowly regain weight until they return …
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Coming of Age in Coto: An Autoethnographic Account of Silence, Subjectivization, and the Experience of Becoming a Late-in-Life Lesbian in Orange County, California
… how subjectivity is produced, regulated, and reoriented through personal experience in South Orange County, California. It focuses on my life as a late-in-life lesbian, mother, and former Evangelical Christian, and examines how gender, sexuality, and moral expectations are internalized …
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The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church
… Council ended over forty years ago, the Catholic Church has been struggling to find a firm ground in a world of ever-advancing technological change and increasing globalization. Prior to the convening of the Council, the church virtually isolated itself from the rest of the world because it …