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Justice, Piety, and Slavery in Plato's Thought
… 1, because of his understanding of justice and piety as outlined in the Euthyphro: justice is voluntary slavery to the laws, and piety is voluntary slavery to the gods. But Plato, unhappy with the death of his mentor, revises this account of justice. According to the Gorgias and the Republic, as …
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Piety Projects: Islamic Schools for Indonesia's Urban Middle Class
This dissertation examines two educational piety projects competing for control over popular conceptualizations of piety and what it means to be a good Muslim, as presented by Al Azhar 31 Islamic Primary School and Luqman al Hakim Integrated Islamic Primary School in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Al Azhar …
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Piety and Politics in the Kingship of Henry III
Henry’s piety has received much attention from historians. They have particularly focused on the cult of Edward the Confessor, Henry’s relationship with and construction of Westminster Abbey, and his magnificent almsgiving. There has also been an appreciation that the political and the pious …
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Gender, Violence, and Piety: Performance of Masculinity in Colonial Potosi
… by the contrasting aspects of violence and piety. This dissertation centers on the performance of such masculinity and how it was performed in Colonial Potosí. I ague that three main characteristics displayed by male Potosinos --violent behavior, piety, and gender relations-- were brought …
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Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… is given to the tension between personal piety and social activism inherent in Baptist life. Chapter two explores the most controversial social issue of the nineteenth century: slavery. By weighing in on the colonization scheme, religious instruction, and abolition. Chapter three examines …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… what virtues, characteristics, and displays of piety for women. A comparison will also be made between funeral sermons for <em>Stiftsdamen</em> and those written for Catholic nuns by Catholic clergy. Convent necrologies, written by Catholic abbesses will also be used to compare what virtues were …
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Teaching History, Learning Piety : an Alevi Foundation in Contemporary Turkey
… in individual Alevi strategies for cultivating piety.Popular Abstract in UndeterminedIn Turkey, a considerable number of Alevi foundations and associations work intensively with promoting Alevi visibility and rights in Turkish society. Locally, they offer educational activities where Alevis can …
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Piety in Production: Video Filmmaking as Religious Encounter in Bénin
<p>This dissertation considers the production of video films by Nàgó–Yorùbá creators along Bénin’s southeastern border with Nigeria. There they find themselves at the margins of three better-funded arts industries with contrasting attitudes toward Nàgó–Yorùbá culture and aesthetics. In Nigeria, …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
“Performing Piety” examines the interdependent relationship between medieval sermons and plays in late-medieval East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common …
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The Progress of Piety: Hawthorne's Critique of the Puritan Spirit
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Gold, Grain, and Grace: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome
This dissertation argues that as the composition of Rome's ruling group shifted over the fourteenth century its members sought reliable, autonomous mechanisms for strengthening the cohesion of their elite community. For these they turned to various kinds of pious giving, ways of generating kin-like …
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Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation: Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles
This dissertation examines the chronicles written in England and Normandy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and explores how the writers of these histories perceived women. This study is meant to illuminate the lives of the women in the Anglo-Norman chronicles at every stage of life. While many …
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Poetry and piety : the role of verse in mid-Victorian Sunday reading
Mid-Victorian poetry of piety is verse concerned to propagate and sustain simple faith in an age frequently characterised by doubt. The proliferation of 'Sunday verse' may itself be a response to doubt. Section I (Chapters 1-2) establishes the verse's context, and its role within the respectable …
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
<p>This project consists of five stand-alone essays explicating religious themes within the following of Aphra Behn's plays: The Lucky Chance, The Feigned Courtesans, The Rover, The Emperor of the Moon, and The Widdow Ranter; Or The History of Bacon in Virginia. Since the feminist recovery of her …
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Patronage Piety and Capitulation: The Nobilitys Response to Religious Reform in England.
… The nobles because of patronage, self-interest, piety, apathy, fear, or practicality were motivated to support the king's efforts. Their response was the key to the success or failure of the Henrician Reformation. Although Henry VIII started the process of reform, the Henrician Reformation would …
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An Experiment in Piety: The Three Domed Suhrawardy Tombs at Uchch Sharif
The extant Khanqahs and Dargahs at Uchch archive the cultural imprint left by Jalāl al-Dīn Bukhāri (d. 1291) and his descendants on the urban fabric of the city. After the arrival and settlement of Bukhāri in the city, at the orders of his spiritual teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Zakariya at Multan, the city …
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The Last Patron of Tintern Abbey: The Family and Piety of Roger Bigod
… Bigod with particular attention given to his piety, demonstrated through patronage and family connection. His political life is first examined with regards to his allegiance to family, and as context for his religious activities. This is followed by the analysis of his various contributions to …
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Securing Their Place: The Ba'alawi, Prophetic Piety and the Islamic resurgence in Indonesia
… tariqa rituals, shifting emphasis on Prophetic piety, expanding the Ba'alawi textual community to include local scholars, and the projecting of a new form of Prophetic authority in a hadithi framework.
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