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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"History, Church"”.
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Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Ireland): Analysis of the governance structures.
This dissertation analyses the evolution of the governance structures of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Ireland), since its foundation by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. The topic is subdivided into four questions: (1) What form of governance did the Congregation of the …
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Au fil des ans, l'Union catholique des fermières de la province d'Ontario, de 1936 à 1945.
L'Union Catholique des Fermieres de la province d'Ontario connue aujourd'hui sous le nom de l'Union Culturelle des Franco-Ontariennes, oeuvre depuis soixante ans dans les milieux francophones de la province de l'Ontario. Notre these etudie un domaine peu explore concernant les circonstances qui ont …
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Ethnic minority churches: The case of the Canadian Chinese Christian churches in Ottawa.
… survey of the nine Chinese Christian churches in Ottawa shows that this community has been deeply influenced by Canadian social policies and Chinese immigration patterns. Cultural variables such as dialect, place of origin, and social class have also shaped the formation and the growth …
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Late Byzantine Liturgical Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power
Previous scholars have argued that the Orthodox clergy actively borrowed elements from the dress of the emperor and his court in the late Byzantine period. I argue that, in addition, the decoration of liturgical vestments adapts the hierarchical code of imperial imagery used on court costume. …
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The Monastery Tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople
… to survive in Constantinople. The earlier church, dedicated to Theotokos Panachrantos, was erected in the early tenth century by Constantine Lips, a high military official of the imperial army. At the end of the thirteenth century, a second church, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, was …
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The Chanted Mass in Parisian Ecclesiastical and Civic Communities, 1480--1540: Local Liturgical Practices in Manuscripts and Early Printed Service Books
… and manuscripts used in the cathedral, parish churches, and civic communities from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Additionally, the dissertation provides evidence that certain groups and individuals involved in different aspects of the book trade helped to shape liturgical …
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian State and the Alexandrian See: Indigenizing the Episcopacy and Forging National Identity, 1926--1991
It analyzes how the administrative changes in the church and the political changes in the country in the 1990s affected the church, how the secession of Eritrea brought about the division of the historical church into two, the conflict and ethnic politics engulfing church leaders, the flight of …
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"""As Good a Right to Pray"": Copperhead Christians on the Northern Civil War Home Front"
Taken as a whole, this study forces historians of the American Civil War to reassess the nature and scope of Democratic opposition to the Republican war effort, and acknowledge an important and overlooked religious dimension to the Copperhead movement.
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Fundamental Words: The Construction of Identity in the Protestant Fundamentalist Community, 1925--1940
"This study explorer, the question of how religious identity is formed within faith communities. It argues that for fundamentalists, the identity construction and reconstruction process centered on the language shared by community members. In particular, it focus on three discursive domains: the …
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Presbyterian Attitudes Toward Science and the Coming of Darwinism in America, 1859 to 1929
The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. served as a weathervane for the American Protestant reaction to developments in science following the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species. The reaction to Darwin, of course, was varied and historians continue to examine the effects of the Darwinian Re
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Creating Christian Granada: Religion and community on the old-world frontier, 1492-1570
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
… between apocalypticism, criticism of the church and ecclesiastical reform at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It focuses on Berthold Purstinger (1465-1543), bishop of Chiemsee (reg. 1508-1526), and forms a commentary on his apocalyptic treatise Onus ecclesiae (1519, 1524, 1531), …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
… The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the abbesses of Sainte-Croix built the strength of their office on the memory of their founder, Saint Radegund, who was a model …
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The divided roots of Lutheranism in South Africa : a critical overview of the social history of the German-speaking Lutheran missions and the churches originating from their work in South Africa
… that the present social location of the Lutheran churches can be explained by examining the history of their internal divisions and their relation to broader struggles in society. The history of the Lutheran missions and churches is considered in relation to the political and socio-economic …
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The struggle for orthodoxy: Religion, revivals, and Anglo-American relations in the British northern colonies
… 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. The implicit affinity …
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Strangers, foreigners, and fellow citizens: Case studies of English missions to the Indians in colonial New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1755
"Over the course of America's colonial history, a number of English missionaries sought to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. Many efforts were made in New England and the Middle Colonies, where Puritans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Quakers worked to save native …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
… gained increasing prominence in the Christian church.</p>
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An Historical Study of the Tithe in the Christian Church to 1648
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1948
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Remembering The Church In The Wildwood: The Archival Processing And Digitization Of The Martinsville Baptist Church Collection
<p>Martinsville Baptist Church was founded in 1912 in a rural farming community on State Highway 7 in eastern Nacogdoches County. The church was founded during a revival being held in the community of Martinsville and has been in continuous operation ever since. The church grew throughout its …
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