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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Evangelical Protestantism"”.
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Power from on high : the political mobilization of Brazilian evangelical Protestantism
The resurgence of religion as a vehicle for mobilizing voters and influencing government policy has surprised those who assumed religion would become less important as nations modernized. This dissertation proposes a new explanation of religiously based political mobilization and tests the …
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Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.
Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970's. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present a dilemma for Evangelical Democrats, whose religious and political identities …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… contexts include (but are not limited to) Evangelical Protestantism, slave culture, gender roles, regional variations in the slave and free black experience unique to the Eastern Shore and Chesapeake area where Tubman grew up, the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad, refugee …
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The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
… and social upheaval, associated the values of evangelical Protestantism with American middle-class respectability. Individuals who contested those values, like Scottish heiress Frances Wright, came under intense public scrutiny. Once the intimate of revolutionary heroes, liberal theorists, and …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
… intra-Lutheran unity, cooperating with Anglo-evangelicals, and modifying certain traditional doctrines considered to be too Catholic, they hoped to raise their denomination's level of respectability and influence. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, the opposite had occurred. Divided …
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Change in Seventh-day Adventist Theology: a Study of the Problem of Doctrinal Development
… that tended to move the church closer towards evangelical Protestantism and denominationalism. (5) In the past, Seventh-day Adventists have predominantly advocated the historic and/or organistic theories of doctrinal development; more recently, theological, situationist, and revisionist …
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Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859
… religious, still reflected the worldview of evangelical Protestantism found on the mainland when considering their shipmates of other races or faiths. White sailors used class, race, and religion to craft an American identity for themselves that coupled Protestantism with a stoic, masculine, …
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A physiological definition of style: science, religion, and women���s writings in the early American republic
… My dissertation brings together early American evangelical Protestantism, Enlightenment rhetoric, and Benjamin Rush’s physiological psychology in an analysis of transatlantic religious writing, speaking, and reading practices in the Atlantic world. Using Methodist women's spiritual journals, …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… change across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in the Ecuadorian Andes. This process, which I term re-generating Christianity, involves negotiating the legacies of mass conversion in shifting sociocultural contexts in and through generational and gender relations. Based on fifteen …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
… in the world. Further, guns and conservative evangelical Protestantism stand in an intimate cultural relationship to each other in the United States. As such, the place of guns in US American life constitutes a wound that calls out for theological reflection and redress. This study aims to …
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
… that many previous scholars have attributed to evangelical Protestantism.</p>
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Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture
The present dissertation argues that more fully than any other fictional work in the latter third of the nineteenth century, Harold Frederic's _The Damnation of Theron Ware_ illuminates the cultural controversies within fin de siecle America. Given the inconsistent nature of its subsequent critical …
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Right Reverend Stephen Elliott: Political Influence and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1840-1866
By the late 1840's, the South's religious and political convictions upheld slaveholders' social and economic views. These convictions permeated worship services in Georgia via the ministries. At the onset of the Civil War, spirituality provided an essential source of Southern strength in both …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. …