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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Mainline Protestantism"”.
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Incompatible: The Construction of the Homosexual Subject in American Mainline Protestantism
<p>Many American mainline Protestant denominations discriminate against gays and lesbians or have discriminated against them in recent history by denying ordination to "self-avowed practicing homosexuals." This dissertation analyzes such ordination policies and their enforcement in ecclesial courts …
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The Holy Ghost Beyond the Church Walls: Latino Pentecostalism(s), Congregations, and Civic Engagement
… Latino Catholicism, Evangelicalism, and Mainline Protestantism? The dissertation argues that Latino Pentecostal congregations, depending on a variety of reasons such as demographics, and pastor's education, can either be very conservative, inward-looking, and otherworldly, or progressive …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… and faiths. By the end of the twentieth century, mainline Protestantism's historic preeminence in American society began to wane, due in part to an increasing acknowledgement of religious pluralism in the United States. Through their developing support for cultural pluralism and their persistence …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… and the protest culture of dissenting Protestantism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through the lens of an American-born apocalyptic movement: Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground their anti-imperialism, Adventists developed a …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. …