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Social Polity and Ethnic Classification in Hawaii
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… control exerted by the Mississippian Cahokia polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural …
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Policy and Polity: Space, Boundaries, and Governance in Early Modern London, 1580-1640
… perceptions of space and authority. Policy and Polity, Space, Boundaries, and Governance in Early Modern London, 1580-1640 examines bordering at London Bridge, the Tower of London, the City Wall and gates, and the built-up frontier near the bars that marked the Corporation's jurisdiction.There, …
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'First the Original': the Place of Adam in Seventeenth Century Theories of the Polity
… the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. It notes the strong impulse in this period of political upheaval to find foundations and patterns for the polity by returning to the original of Adam’s existence in the Garden of Eden as recorded in Genesis and reinterpreted in Christian …
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Reforming reformed church polity in South Africa's Black Reformed Churches (RCSA) : an African decolonial approach
The issue of decolonising the Reformed church polity in Africa and South Africa has its roots in the history of colonialism and missionary activity on the continent. The black Reformed churches in South Africa still operate primarily from within the Europe mindset especially in terms of church …
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A Glorious and Salutiferous Œconomy...? An ecclesiological enquiry into metropolitical authority and provincial polity in the Anglican Communion.
… little attention is the place of provincial polity and metropolitical authority across the Communion. Yet, this is a critical area of concern for Anglican ecclesiology as it directly addresses questions of authority, interdependence and catholicity. However, since at least the twentieth …
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Pictures, power and the polity: a vision of the political images of the early Dutch Republic. [In two volumes]
… of the old Habsburg Netherlands. This new polity confronted intense hostility from Habsburg dynastic interests. It sustained itself militarily against these interests, and extended its power globally. In addition it developed a remarkable and wealthy mercantile culture. However …
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Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776
This thesis examines the role of the colonial American jury, particularly the petit jury, during the quarter century leading up to the American Revolution. The thesis argues that the colonial jury at the inferior and superior court levels was central to a "law court culture" that provided colonists …
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A comparative analysis of younger and older pastors' perceptions of leadership
… the use of a questionnaire on issues related to polity, power, control, authority, and leadership assumptions. Once the questionnaires were received, appropriate statistical measures were used, including the Chi Square Test for Independence and Chi Square Goodness of Fit, correlational analysis, …
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Thank You For Not Coming? Policy, Politics, and Polity: How Education Stakeholders Interpret Post-Apartheid Education Policy for Immigrants in South Africa-- The Case of Cape Town
… the specialized demographics of the Western Cape polity, and the interactions and politics between the organizations of the educational institutions and immigrant service organizations in Cape Town. Study findings are discussed in detail with reference to agenda for future research and actionable …
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The relevance of the Calvinistic understanding of ordination within the current Zimbabwean context
… This research lies in the field of Church Polity. In Church Polity, ecclesiology is of fundamental importance. Ecclesiology forms the basis of all Church Polity. The methodology chosen for this research could be described as practical-ecclesiological, because much attention is given to the …
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Liminal Identity: The Swedish -Speaking Finnish Theatre Lilla Teatern During the Years of 1967--1972
… the centers of the Finnish-speaking Finnish polity, the Swedish-speaking Finnish polity and the European corpus through its linguistic connection to Sweden.
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
… changes. With the reestablishment of peace, the polity experienced a flourishing of historical scholarship which aimed to come to terms with the ruptures of the prolonged military conflict, to redefine a Bohemian identity and the Bohemian polity in its aftermath, and to legitimate a vision of …
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The Centrality of the Church Covenant among Early Separate Baptists on the New York Frontier
… This thesis shows how their congregational polity was exercised in their monthly covenant and conference meetings in which the church covenant was an essential building block. This paper hopes to sound a voice from the past that introduces into current Baptist thinking another model of …
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