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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"History of Religions"”.
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Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation
This thesis provides the first narrative of a history of Buddhism in South Africa. In the absence of any coherent analysis, it thus seeks to expose an historical lacuna in the study of religions in the region and to redress an academic aphasia that appears preeminent in recent "authoritative" …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… Abrahamic faiths have written experientially of deification, what might be some of the phenomenological and anthropological lessons that we can learn today from their insights into the nature of reality and from those of the scholars who study them? To answer these questions, a working …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… that flourished in France in the first years of the Anthropocene. After the Second World War, four like-minded intellectuals cultivated archaic folkways in the fields of prehistory, ethnopsychiatry, rural sociology, and the history of religions. To reveal this peculiar tradition in the French …
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Transatlantic Latter-day Saints: Mormon circulations between America and South Africa
"Transatlantic Latter-days Saints" is an analysis of Mormonism in South Africa from a history of religions perspective. Contextualizing the Mormon experience in South Africa, the central concern of this dissertation is whether or not the religion's history in the country should be defined as …
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The eschatological garden : sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
The argument of this dissertation is that the garden can be considered a proleptic eschatological landscape outside of time. To prove this argument I pull together strands of philosophical reflections on death, history of religions analysis concerning sacred space and time and monastic …
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The eschatological garden: sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
The argument of this dissertation is that the garden can be considered a proleptic eschatological landscape outside of time. To prove this argument I pull together strands of philosophical reflections on death, history of religions analysis concerning sacred space and time and monastic …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
This study aims to interpret Lives of Christian saints as examples of religious literature. Hagiography is commonly studied as an historical artefact indicative of the politics or linguistics of the time in which a text was composed, but few theorists have attempted to interpret its religious …
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Hinduism and Christianity: Exploring the Theological Basis for Dialogue between Christianity and Hinduism in Indian accordance with the mind of Vatican II, with particular reference to the Theological method and Christology of Henri De Lubac
The ‘Other’ has always been a matter of concern from the beginning of humanity and Christians are not an exception to this. This is true at the personal, social and political level. How we treated the ‘Other’ in the history of religions gives us pause. Religious wars and the aggressive imposition …
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Religious reformers in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century: the visits of Abdul Baha
The central theme of this work is an examination of the contribution made by home-grown reformers to the construction of new religious frameworks in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. I focus on the evolution of a worldview oriented towards Asia and key individuals that sought …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. In spite of political turmoil, frequent natural disasters and widespread corruption it has, in less than four decades after its birth as an independent state, gained visible success in human development - especially the education of …
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Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). These five …
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THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG), NIGERIA. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND GLOBAL PROCESSES IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM
This study documents the history and growth of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is a pentecostal church in Nigeria, established in 1952, but was little known until the 1990s when it came into national prominence. It was founded by Josiah Akindayomi who was converted form Yoruba …
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Incarnation : Hindu and Christian thought
… pages, I have carefully avoided criticism of any kind. In these pages, I have mentioned the main differences between the Hindu and Christian faiths. I have treated this subject of incarnation with due respect to both the religions. If the subject could be discussed on an evaluative basis, …
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Galatians as Dialogical Response to Opponents
<p>This thesis seeks to discover the center of Galatians, its unique theological statement, by approaching the question from the perspective of the dialogical nature of the letter as a piece of literature, and the theology of the opponents with which it is dialogical. The context of a piece of …
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The Sacred Times Prescribed in the Pentateuch : Old Testament Indicators of the Extent of Their Applicability
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the sacred times prescribed in the Pentateuch and to determine if the Old Testament itself contains indicators of the extent of their applicability. "Applicability" refers primarily to ongoing applicability throughout time. However, whether a sacred …
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Analysis and Evaluation of Vladimir Lossky's Doctrine of Theosis
… dissertation analyzes and evaluates the doctrine of theosis as it is presented in the work of Vladimir Lossky, one of the leading contemporary spokesmen for Orthodox theology. Two main questions set up the purpose of the study: Is Lossky's soteriological position biblical, and is Lossky's …
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Mobile Societies, Mobile Religions: On the Ecological Roots of Two Religions Deemed Monotheistic
… affect the generation and development of religions? The investigation taken up in this dissertation is one attempt to address this question. This work focuses on one comparative case study: the potential causal relationship between agriculturally marginal landscapes and the two oldest …
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Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison of Texts and Power in the Generation of Religious Community
… at the same time advancing the power interests of their authors. The study is a comparative, critical, and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary excavation of the religion-making efforts of the first-century Christian Apostle Paul and the nineteenth-century Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith.</p> <p>This …
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Towards a Missiological Model for Worldview Transformation among Adherents to African Traditional Religion in Yorubaland
… Adventist missions in the western region of Nigeria are a century old, yet reversion to pre-Christian practices such as divination and sorcery are reported, especially during periods of personal crises. This study sought to understand the influence of the traditional worldview on the …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
<p>Plutarch of Chaeronea, an eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato …
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