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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Lutherans."”.
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For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
… process of more than six hundred Saxon Lutherans who migrated to Perry County, Missouri, in 1839. As one of the few groups in the nineteenth century who chose to move to the United States because of religious persecution, their history is a unique part of American religious and …
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GIS analysis of the mid-nineteenth century emigration of the Old Lutherans from Prussia
<p>The Old Lutherans constituted fewer than 20% of the Germans who emigrated from Prussia between 1835 and 1854. In this study, more than 483 cities and villages of origin of 6,911 Old Lutherans were mapped. These origins were in the central provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Saxony, and …
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So Many Thieves and Lutherans at Sea: Spain's Reaction to the Emergence of French Huguenots in the New World
… the settlers were not "hung as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans.” Finally, in the inquisitorial proceedings brought against the captured French pirates, the inquisitors accused the Frenchmen of upholding Lutheran beliefs and performing iconoclastic acts throughout the Yucatn Peninsula. The Frenchmen …
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The Development of the Concept of Salvation in Lutheran and Seventh-Day Adventist Parochial, Secondary-School Students
… comparative. The SCI was used to interview 16 Lutherans and 21 SDAs ages 15 to 18. Subjects also completed a religious activities survey and a drawing. Parents completed a survey of demographic data and personal and family religious activities. Data were analyzed qualitatively and …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
… outlook. In the antebellum era, the majority of Lutherans believed that their church was on its way to becoming part of the American Protestant mainstream. By increasing intra-Lutheran unity, cooperating with Anglo-evangelicals, and modifying certain traditional doctrines considered to be too …
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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
… The findings of the thesis are that white Lutherans have been the dominant group in the Lutheran churches throughout their history in South Africa. White Lutherans produced the dominant theology of all the Lutheran churches for most of the history of Lutheranism in South Africa. This …
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Metaphors for Listening in Johann Sebastian Bach's Germany
… flow as a concept central to how early modern Lutherans understood music to come from God, move between performers, reach a listener, and affect change in a listener’s body. The second chapter is dedicated to the metaphor of farming. Lutherans were taught to cultivate their hearts as if …
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Inquisitorial Women: Unconventional Readings of the Spanish Reformation
… women tried by the Spanish Inquisition as "Lutherans." I examine the manuscript confessions of luteranas tried by the Inquisition of Toledo from 1534-1565 to demonstrate that conflicting discourses of gender and heresy evolve within Inquisition proceedings throughout the sixteenth century. I …
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A knowledge of spirit and flesh: a novel and exegesis exploring the numinous feminine, the interior journey and sites of resistance within a patriarchal world
… to save her from a witchcraft accusation by the Lutherans of the city. The novel explores themes of resistance, both political and personal, within a context of religious tension. The exegesis scrutinises A Knowledge of Spirit and Flesh in relation to feminist, numinous and writing theorisations. …
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Mission Education in Early Sierra Leone, 1793-1820
… early CMS missionaries were German-speaking Lutherans. As a result of their work, Freetown became a center of culturally diverse learning. This thesis examines mission records for the period 1808-1820 in order to analyze the cultural diversity of the Freetown population. Children came from a …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… cloistered Catholic nuns due to the desire of Lutherans to incorporate these women into their communities. An analysis of the perception of <em>Stiftsdamen</em> by Lutheran pastors and the nuns' consciousness of their own position, duties, and piety is the cornerstone of this new research on …
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Esteettinen kokemus kulttuurisiltana : Soile Yli-Mäyryn taide kiinalaisen, japanilaisen ja suomalaisen yleisön kokemana
… followers, Zen Buddhists in Japan or Evangelist-Lutherans in Finland. Keywords: experience, reception, bridge across cultures, types of experiencing subjects, experiential process, ideal landscape, elementality
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
… the Lowlands, and England, where the Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, and Puritans came to the fore.</p> <p>Because life in the sixteenth century was so closely tied up with the church, such a revolution was bound to have ramifications outside the purely ecclesiastical realm. It was …