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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Dissenters."”.
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The struggle for orthodoxy: Religion, revivals, and Anglo-American relations in the British northern colonies
… the theological origins and developments of dissenters from the Church of England who settled in the British northern colonies. The views of New England dissenters are examined as well as those of dissenters in the proprietary colonies which included groups such as the Quakers and Pietists. …
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'New Light' thinking and non-subscription amongst Protestant dissenters in England and Ireland in the early 18th century and their relationship with Glasgow University and Scotland
… played a crucial role in the education of dissenters in both England and Ireland, particularly in the training of ministers. Glasgow University was predominant in this role throughout the first half of the century and was a central feature of the network of reformed churches across the …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
… culture to which he belonged and preached: the Dissenters. Watts’ hymns were not the only texts that had an impact on the Dissenters. The psalters were considered by many (Calvin, in particular) to be the only acceptable songs for use in worship. Watts responded to this belief with his hymns, …
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Guerilla Government and Policy: Lessons From The Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
… be underway for the next years. Along the way, dissenters would try to stop the administration’s policy. In her seminal work The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government, O’Leary (2019) describes these types of events as guerilla government. Guerilla government occurs when public servants …
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The Price of Dissent: Freedom of Speech and Arkansas Criminal Anarchy Arrests
… to develop an understanding of the ways in which dissenters have been effectively silenced by the controlling power and the consequences of that hegemonic silence. To illustrate this, I will use a First Amendment framework to examine four incidents: the 1934 arrest of George Cruz in Mississippi …
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Charisma and controversy: Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and the Baptist debate about congregational hymnody
… century England was fractured. A group, known as Dissenters, left the established Church of England. Some of these Dissenters challenged the use of exclusive Psalmody and began to propagate the use of hymns in public worship. These hymns were categorized as newly composed songs. There is a gap in …
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The Political Ideology of Connecticut's Standing Order
… the Connecticut’s Standing Order and religious dissenters concerning the necessity of a religious establishment in America. Relying on sermons, newspaper accounts, this project examines the ideology and justification of Connecticut’s Standing Order in defending religious establishment, as well …
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The Trinitarian Theology of John Gill (1697-1771): Context, Sources, and Controversy
… embroiled both the Established Church and Dissenters. One of the champions among the Dissenters was John Gill, a Particular Baptist minister. This dissertation will examine how Gill defended the doctrine of the Trinity against various unorthodox views. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis, …
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The Epistemology of Disagreement; Can Theists and Atheists Reasonably Disagree?
… religious utterances, and can also view their dissenters as reasonable individuals despite their disagreement.
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Managing racial risk in the U.S. university of the twenty-first century: racial theme parties, administrative management, and strategic resistance
… serve to control populations of student dissenters on campus by institutionalizing dissent in order to commodify it for profit.
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Balancing the Scale of Rationality: The Public Memory of the Boston Tea Party and the Transformation of Dissent
… created a tradition of American dissent in which dissenters created a balance between the rational and the irrational. Next, I analyze how woman suffragists participated in the centennial celebration of the Boston Tea Party in 1873 by planning protests that evoked the message of the Boston Tea …
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Mr Mercury : a biographical study of Edward Baines with special reference to his role as editor, author and politician
… editing the Leeds Mercury, both campaigning Dissenters, both Members of Parliament for Leeds and that much of their political and journalistic lives ran concurrently and not consecutively. Consideration is given to Baines's antecedents, his early years and the influences that helped shape his …
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Taking the First Steps: Human Rights Activists in the Castros' Cuba
… in Cuba. This thesis gives the podium to the dissenters (especially to Oswaldo Payá and Yoani Sánchez), their arguments against Fidel and Raúl Castro’s government, and corresponding fights to realize their goals. This thesis inquires: to what extent have internal Cuban human rights advocacy …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… generates the most resistance; instead, Bloom's dissenters more often come from the ranks of conservative traditionalists who might be expected to support him. The reaction of traditionalist critics to Bloom's work stems from a recognition and rejection of how deeply antithetical Bloom's hallmark …
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An investigation into the relationship between information and environmental behaviour : a case study of Cape Town's Smart Living Campaign
… behaviour change. Contrary to this model, dissenters claim that the information-deficit model is not participatory or deliberative and that human behaviours are determined by factors such as individual lifestyle. This dissertation tests the assumption behind the idea that added information …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… and Conyers Middleton. It considers such Dissenters as Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, who refashioned civil religion variously along Unitarian and congregational lines. In contrast to the usual scholarly preoccupation with the argument of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christianity could …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… she was bitterly opposed to Presbyterian dissenters for what she perceived as their political insubordination and breach of Christian charity on pretense of piety. This antagonism took a new form in Halkett’s Jacobitism after the Revolution of 1688-89. The violent turn of events in …
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Legacies of violence : an in-depth analysis of two case studies based on interviews with perpetrators of a "necklace" murder and with Eugene De Kock
… young men, who were responsible for identifying dissenters, strike breakers and those believed to be police informers. On the 8th December 1985 a group of marshals fetched Nosipho Zamela from her home to face accusations that she had an affair with a policeman. Initially it was decided that …
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
… champions of public educators, and political dissenters. As such, they dismantle dominant representations of their profession and advance a notion of public education that values collaboration, equitability, and the public good. Last, I examine how teachers negotiate the tension between their …
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