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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Heathen"”.
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To what extent do the writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York demonstrate a survival of heathen practices?
… felt the need to preach and legislate against heathen practices on a number of occasions.<br/>The aim of this study is to examine through a study of Wulfstan’s writings the evidence for the survival of heathen practices within the Danelaw. I will study both the writings of Wulfstan and his …
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‘Heathenism’ in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 - c. 1700
This dissertation argues that the concept of the 'heathen' expressed the exclusionary and expansionist precepts of English Protestantism in the Atlantic world between c. 1558 and c. 1700. Building upon recent scholarly developments in the cultural history of unbelief and the global history of …
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The Negotiation of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identification in American Heathenry
… racial identification in the social "field" of Heathenry. Heathenry is a reconstructionist religious movement attempting to reconnect with or revive the pre-Christian traditions of the Germanic tribes of northern Europe. Often articulated as an "ethnic religion," Heathenry has also been …
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The churches of Bishop Robert Gray & Mrs Sophia Gray : an historical and architectural review
… and schools, to establish missions among the 'heathen' and to found a training college for young men. The focus of the thesis is Gray's second objective - his church building programme.
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Moonscape
… is patterned after Eliot's Sweeney, the heathen pragmatist who appears throughout his poetry until 1927, the year of Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism. The themes of sin and forgiveness form the focus of the novel.
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The Decline of Indian Tribal Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
… as "the white man's burden" and "saving the heathen form hell". To our cynical generation this jargon of concealed desires seems the ultimate in hypocrisy but it should be remembered that such an attitude was not an isolated phenomenon; it was merely one of the high points in an imperialism …
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The rhetorical strategy of victimization in Sioux rhetoric from 1866 to 1883.
… century was that of an uncivilized and heathen inhabitant of the North American continent. As the American colonies expanded into the United States of America, the Native American was displaced and became the target of civilization programs which aimed to eradicate Native American …
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Plaatberg on the Caledon Bastaards: hunters, raiders and traders or pious converts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society?
… was to transform the Plaatberg Bastaards from “heathen” inhabitants into “civilized” Christian converts, by the imposition of a variety of rules and regulations to achieve this aim. I consider how the very nature of being a creolized mobile group may have influenced the Plaatberg Bastaards …
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The Heroic Biography of Cú Chulainn
… been Christians distancing themselves from past heathen ways. This backward glance maybe taken from the literature tradition in Latin transferred from the continent and read by Irish scholars. Where the authors “undertake to inform the audience concerning the pagan past, characterizing it as …
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The Actual Characteristics of the Decian Persecution According to Saint Cyprian’s Letters
… or voluntary abjuration, offered incense to the heathen gods and participated in the sacrifices offered to them. Cyprian’s treatise De Lapsis is quoted particularly with reference to the moral and spiritual condition of the Church in the third century.
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… their energy to campaigns against features of heathen society which fell short of this standard. The Anglicans, strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement as well as by romantic concepts of the 'natural man', were more hesitant in their approach to traditional cultures and more sceptical of the …
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… their energy to campaigns against features of heathen society which fell short of this standard. The Anglicans, strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement as well as by romantic concepts of the 'natural man', were more hesitant in their approach to traditional cultures and more sceptical of the …
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Proclamation in Cross-Cultural Context: Missiological Implications of the Book of Daniel
… purpose in the cross-cultural context of heathen kingdoms.</p> <p>The main objective of this research is to validate the book of Daniel as a missionary document and show that its missiological implications are still relevant to present-day missions. Chapter 2 explores the salvific purpose …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… to speed the conversion and civilization of ""heathen"" populations, who would then be equal to whites. Native Hawaiians and Creeks attending these boarding schools sought the knowledge of whites to preserve their sovereignty and to adapt to the many upheavals that accompanied the colonization …
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Vision and imagination in Jewish mystical texts
… who embraced what they considered to be heathen and idolatrous practices. Because of this they had to become discerning with regard to the upholding of their laws and customs and this led to the development within Judaism of manifold laws and regulations against idol worship. This …
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Mandom och mödom: Sexualitet, homosocialitet och aristokratisk identitet på det senmedeltida Island
… him from other men in the romances. The heathen, for example, acts without respecting the rules of chivalry. He lacks the ability to reason and his urges cannot be subdued. These traits apply to the berserk as well. Sexuality was also important in distinguishing aristocratic women from …
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Diaconal ministry in Namibia: Challenges from the perspective of the Evangelical Lutheran church in the Republic of Namibia (ELCRN)
… in Namibia was started not only to ‘convert the heathen’ but to provide also in the bodily needs of the African people, and that this legitimate diaconal function of the Church should still be taken very seriously The biblical and theological basis of this ministry will be reviewed in Chapter 2, …
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Tinjauan ushul fiqih terhadap fatwa Yusuf Al-Qardlawi tentang kebolehan seorang muslim menerima warisan dari kerabat non muslim
… with permissibility of a Moslem woman marry a heathen and abilitiy take ghanimah treasure. And understanding to hadith that reads "مِلْسمُ لَا ُرِفاَكلَْا ُثرِ َي اَلَو ,رِفاَكلَا ُمِلْسمُ لَْا ُثرِ َي اَل ", then according to Yusuf al-Qardlawi make a takwil as did the followers of the Hanafi …
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Russian Migration to the United States
… of the conversion of Basal a, shorts on the heathen gods, and some of the practices of the church. One of the immigrants a had visited the monastery of Kiev it and gave an interesting account of it. Criticisms of the church are else given in this chapter. It gives us some light on the …