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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"History of Religions of Western Origin"”.
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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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Towards a Missiological Model for Worldview Transformation among Adherents to African Traditional Religion in Yorubaland
<p>Seventh-day 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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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
<p>In 1807 the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers)<br />established a society near the Gasper River in Logan County, Kentucky. The society was soon named South Union, and it lasted until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the …
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Fisher of Men
<p><em>Fisher of Men</em> tells the story of an ancient and secretive group of supernatural balance keepers. When God goes missing, it is up to them to locate him before the armies of Heaven and Hell lay siege to the earth, but they have their own problems. When knowledge of a secret weapon …
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The Foundations and Early Development of Mormon Mission Theory
… question facing missiologists and historians of Mormonism: given their sustained preoccupation with converting others to Mormonism and their thriving tradition of missionary work, how do Mormons conceive of their mission? By focusing on the theoretical frame in which Mormon missionaries …
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To Know, Love, and Serve God: The Characteristics of a Holy Cross School
… have contributed notably to the shaping of the American Catholic experience through their schools. Many of these congregations, founded in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, brought to the United States their values, traditions and expertise to sustain and complement the growing …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
<p>The Book of Mormon is a text published in 1830 and considered a sacred work of scripture by adherents of the Latter-day Saint movement. Although written 200 years later, it exhibits many linguistic features of the King James translation of the Bible. Such stylistic imitation has been little …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
<p>This purpose of this thesis is to examine the extent of the agency Pope Damasus I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on …
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Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery
<p>‘Ayahuasca’ is a plant mixture with a variety of recipes and localized names native to South America. Often, the woody ayahuasca vine (<em>Banisteriopsis caapi</em>) is combined with <em>chacruna</em> leaf (<em>Psychotria viridis</em>) in a tea, inducing psychedelic effects among its users. …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
<p>This thesis offers a new reading of William Shakespeare’s late play <em>The Winter’s Tale</em> (1623), positing that in order to understand this complex and eccentric work, we must read it with a complex and eccentric eye. In <em>The Winter’s Tale</em>, planets strike without warning, pulling at …