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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Exorcism"”.
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Exorcism in Islam
… is an investigation of the orthodox concept of exorcism in Islam. The main purpose of this study is to identify the orthodox Islamic viewpoint of spirit-possession of humans and its treatment (i.e., exorcism) based upon evidence from the Qur'An, the Sunnah, views of the sahabah (companions of …
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TOUCHING THE CENTER THAT BURNS: AN EXORCISM
<p>This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between language, traumatic memory, and identity. Through a cross-genre creative style of writing and scholarship, the writer engages with trauma theory, performative language theory, psychoanalysis, and literature in order to illuminate how …
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Biblical understanding applied to contemporary African Christian methods of exorcism
… is caused by evil spirits. As a result, exorcism plays a central role in solving their problems. The Christian church, especially the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Neo-Pentecostal churches are seeing the importance of publicly practising exorcism. It is common knowledge that the biggest …
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Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
"By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was already well underway in Europe. While Catholic reform had been taking place long before Luther and his ninety-five theses, the Council of Trent (1545-1563) was an integral part of the revitalization of Catholic …
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Representations of the Catholic Church in horror cinema: Demonology and exorcism in The Conjuring films
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan katolisen kirkon representaatiota osana Kirottu-elokuvia, etenkin demonologian ja eksorsismin kautta. Tutkimuskysymys onkin: Miten katolista kirkkoa representoidaan osana Kirottu-elokuvia? Katolisen kirkon representaatiota populaarikulttuurissa, etenkin kauhuelokuvissa, …
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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre
Although interest in exorcism has spiked in real world and fictional filmic contexts, scholars have yet to fully identify the exorcism film as a subgenre of the horror film. Following Anne Rothe’s (2011) argument that representation of trauma in popular culture may function like “a discursive knot …
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The phenomenon of possession and exorcism in north India and amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton.
… focuses on the prevalence of possession and exorcism as a manifestation of Punjabi religion amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton. Euro-centric scholarship and reform movements in the 1900s, in India, suppressed religious traditions that did not conform to the textual and …
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The significance of music in the performance of svikwembu ritual practices amongst the Shangana Tsonga people of semi-urban southern Mozambique
… divination, consultation (leu pahla), exorcism (kufemba) and healing practices. Music activity has different functions in each of the above-mentioned practices. Specific instruments (gocha, ngoma, ntxomana, and whistle) and styles of music (Ndau, Nguni, mahlonga and Monhe) are used and …
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The Narrative Function(s) of Evil Spirits in the Gospel of Luke
… Luke’s narrative world. On a micro level, since exorcism by itself is not self-evident in explicating Jesus’s identity and work and is easily misunderstood, the evangelist must control its interpretation. In Luke’s case, he often places Jesus’s exorcism stories within the framework of core …
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The New American Book of James
… it was a demon. His father clumsily attempts an exorcism, traumatizing his son and robbing him of sleep. Daniel, believing he’s cast out a demon, grows increasingly fanatical, and as Dickie ages his doubts not just about Christianity but also his father deepen, even as he convinces himself that …
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The relationship of the son to the father in Justin Martyr
… a Mediators there were elements present of magic exorcism and certainly Gnostic ideas. The will of God was the greatest element in the relationship between the Father and the Son. We concluded that the tolerance for Gnostic ideas was so great in Justin that there were serious implications for what …
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Daimonion : A multi-disciplinary perspective on aggressive evil and its interconnection with individual psychology and criminal behavior
… ‘banality of evil’, T. Bran’s case of a lethal exorcism at Tanacu in Romania and the essay on the social psychology of evil comprised by A. Miller. The idea that initiated an interest to study the criminal nature of ordinary people and the delimitations of aggressive evil between a causal, …
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FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA EN NARRADORES CUBANOS DE LA GENERACIÓN CERO
… intention to use the figure of the monster as an exorcism against the problems and difficulties that Cuban society faces. In this way, this research adds how these narratives despite being classified as futuristic, dystopic or uchronic, they are a great value to think and reflect on the present. …
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The attitude of the Anglican church of Uganda to the new religious movements and in particular to the Bacwezi-Bashomi in South Western Uganda 1960-1995
… of new religious movements stressing healing and exorcism and to date are attracting a large following. Although the literature on these movements is still scanty with no attempt having been made in the area of academics, the researcher investigated this topic at some considerable length (assisted …
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… shape how Gaddi Dalits experience divinities, exorcism and witchcraft. Individual chapters trace forms of spirituality, religious conversion and ritual practice that provide powerful personal arenas for the re-articulation of ethnic identity and the burgeoning emergence of tribal …
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… of this revivalist, Salafi-based therapy of jinn exorcism and counter-sorcery that is rooted in centuries-old Islamic practices of healing, all the while developing them into new configurations. During the same period, heated public debates stirred by the emergence of Qur'anic healing have …
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The tragedy of Islamism in Britain: a fetishism for politics
… -- through the convex mirror of repression and exorcism; politics, as discoursed and practiced through the emotional, the visceral, and the de-sacralization of the secular and the religious at the same time. The novelty also lies in providing a new ethnography of a political actor -- the British …
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The Africanization of the Methodist Church : with special focus on the Revs. Zaccheus R. Mahabane and the Rev. Seth Mokitimi
… of the Word by human laity, healing and exorcism, etc are important African experiences that the Manyano's made use of. The thesis further offers a critical analysis on the BMC and argues that it is no longer relevant given its exclusivity in nature. The author proposes an alternative …