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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Evangelicals."”.
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Evangelicals and public education
… dissatisfaction with public schooling. Because evangelicals represent a large segment of the American populace, their dissatisfaction has had a significant effect on the functioning of the public schools. More importantly, dissatisfaction on the part of evangelicals has led them to form private …
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Seeking Christian enculturation among Vietnamese Evangelicals
… piety, that is, a filial habitus among non-Evangelicals and Vietnamese Evangelicals alike. This enculturated trait may be seen in the Evangelical ritual of the Lord’s Supper and aids in bridging the cultural gaps between Evangelical beliefs and indigenous pre-Christian practices. The filial …
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Adoption Rates Among Evangelicals: A Mixed Methods Study
ABSTRACT ADOPTION RATES AMONG EVANGELICALS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY Matthew Scott Thompson, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Anthony W. Foster The purpose of this study was to examine the adoption rates of evangelical Christian adoption agencies and to determine what …
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Presidential Campaigns, White Evangelicals, and the New Republican Coalition
… Party coalition prominently including white evangelicals. First, Republican candidates have been willing to express support for the traditional morality issues and attitudes which are the cornerstone of the white evangelical agenda. They have been encouraged to do this by the potential for …
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Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences
… influence the political preferences of Latino Evangelicals. Participants of this qualitative study were interviewed and asked a series of open-ended questions regarding their identity as Latinos and as Evangelicals. Participants were then asked to articulate whether either identity plays a role …
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Conformed to This World? The Cultural Patchwork of New Evangelicals
… and others assert that this shift is caused by evangelicals' accommodation--their conformity--to the modern world. I contend, however, that the relationship between religious congregations and the larger society is much more complex and heterogeneous than these analyses allow.
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The cosmic challenger : what American evangelicals think about Islam and why
… point by which to better understand American evangelicals. The driving hypothesis is that some things about what and why evangelicals think about Islam will reveal broader conclusions about evangelicals themselves. Evangelical Christian literature is broken down into four classifications: …
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When Sunday Meets Monday: American Evangelicals, their Gospel, and the Workplace
… interviews, this study argues that when American evangelicals think about engaging their workplaces evangelism takes center stage. While, at a glance, this gospel and the effort to share it may seem at odds with contemporary sensibilities, a closer examination reveals certain concessions to …
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"There can be no education without religion": Tennessee evangelicals and education, 1875--1925
… education as necessarily "godless," Tennessee evangelicals gradually acquiesced, assuming that the schools would reflect the values of their predominantly Protestant local communities. Further, they believed that the home, Sunday school, and denominational college would provide any additional …
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Ethnic identity negotiation through dialogical self: the case of Anywaa and Nuer evangelicals in Gambella, Ethiopia
This study explores the ethnic identity negotiation of Anywaa and Nuer Evangelical Christians in the Gambella region, Ethiopia, using the Dialogical Self Theory. The two ethnic groups are living in conflict due to different reasons such as historical narratives and cultural differences. Though they …
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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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A critical examination of Evangelicalism in South Africa, with special reference to the Evangelical Witness document and concerned evangelicals
… Witness document (EWISA), and the Concerned Evangelicals organisation (CE), with which the document is associated. Evangelicalism is approached as the site of a struggle for certain theological elements, which have a particular material force as ideology. This struggle is discussed in four …
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Boundaries and traditions: defining American evangelicalism from 1965-1980
… of evangelicalism. Each chapter identifies what evangelicals advocated, how they made those appeals, and the lines of fracture that split the movement. Ultimately, these historical fractures link to contemporary debates within evangelicalism that are still used to define and bound ""evangelical"" …
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Begetting, Not Making, in the Brave New World: IVF Abstinence and Considerations for a Christian Ethic
… seeks to answer the question: How should evangelicals think about and position themselves toward in vitro fertilization (IVF) and similar artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs)? I argue that evangelical theological commitments and the retrieval and embrace of theological ethics, …
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Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism
… to as the Cold War.In the 21st century, American evangelicals are juggernauts in the field of international humanitarianism. Massive international charities like World Vision, Compassion International, and Samaritan’s Purse all generate revenues of over one billion dollars a year. However, this …
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