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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Pilgrim"”.
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Pilgrim
This critical engagement paper is intended to reflect on the film I made for my Master of Fine Arts degree in media production. The first part describes the film and its main ideas and goals. Then it proceeds to elucidate the core and primary theories and concepts that founded my approach to …
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Pilgrim Carnival
… to writing autobiography. As a composition, Pilgrim Carnival took place as a travelling series of events. The central event was a sound installation for a blindfolded audience. This essay is a description of that series of events as well as a discussion of similar precedents in …
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A history of the pilgrim Wesleyan Missionary Society in Choma District, 1930-1990
This dissertation reconstructs the history of the Pilgrim Wesleyan Missionary Society in Choma District of Southern Province. It covers the period between 1930 and 1990. The study takes both the chronological and thematic approaches. It consists of four chapters. The first chapter examines the …
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A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: Features of Dramatic Adaptation and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
… strike a delicate balance between being a “pilgrim” toward the intentions of the source and an “outlaw” in its innovative theatrical representation of them.
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‘Pilgrim through this barren land’ Maintaining Welsh Connections and Culture in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Once considered a last outpost of the British Empire, what is unique about British Columbia, is that being so remote, it was beyond the reach of the earliest waves of Welsh emigrants seeking freedom from poverty or religious oppression. Instead, explorers, gold-miners and entrepreneurs paved the …
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The water resources structures on the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim routes to Makka and Medinah
AI-Hajj in Arabic means the pilgrimage to MAKKA. This was an ancient rite which was recognised a long time before the rise of Islam. According to the holy Quran and Islamic tradi tion, AI-Haj j goes back to the time of the prophet Ibrahim. Thus MAKKA was a focus for worship but it was also a …
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Becoming a pilgrim: the lived experience of men who become therapists following a former career
… three themes: “Fermenting Discontent”, “Pilgrimage as Project” and “The Ambivalent Allure of Acceptance”. It sees the transition as meaningful, paradoxical and complex, re-shaping their relational world and sense of identity. It also reveals the difficulties of being a minority whilst …
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The Shaping of a Pilgrim: A Discussion of the English and Continental Religious Literature Influencing Separatism and the Pilgrims
… Cooke, serving in this work as a synthesis of Pilgrim thought, to make the greatest decision of his life.
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Sermons on Jesus’s Fulfillment of the Old Testament in John’s Gospel, Presented at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Wilkesboro, North Carolina
The Gospel of John has a timeless message to churches that serves to establish them in the centrality of Jesus Christ in Scripture and demonstrates to them the divine nature of the Holy Scriptures. Biblical theology is an essential tool in helping Christians fully dive into the message of John and …
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MOVEMENTS OF HUNTERS AND PILGRIMS: FORMS OF MOTION AND THOUGHT IN MOBY-DICK, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, AND CLAREL
… forms of motion, particularly the form of pilgrimage, in three works of Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, The Confidence-Man, and Clarel. The thesis combines previous scholarly and critical perspectives on religion and philosophy in Melville with an interrogation of acts and metaphors of movement …
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Tourism, Pilgrimage, and Development in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India
… and material indigence uneasily coexist. The pilgrimage and tourist activities that have accompanied the town's status as religiously and culturally significant have resulted in growing tensions between stakeholder groups over the site's development as a place for devotional practice or a …
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
In the late Middle Ages, pilgrims travelling to popular holy shrines often purchased small, inexpensive metal badges to commemorate their visit. While these souvenirs were frequently worn on one’s clothing, hat, or bag, pilgrims began sewing the badges into the pages of their private prayer …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
… designed to guide both the reader and the pilgrim-narrator from the terrestrial life to the next life. Designed as Christian pedagogy for laypeople, the Pèlerinages form part of a tradition of memorial art and personification allegory. Nevertheless, as readers have noted, these allegories …
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Thietmar : person, place and text in thirteenth-century Holy Land pilgrimage
Using the conceptual framework for the study of pilgrimage established by Eade and Sallnow centred on the breaking down of pilgrimage into three conceptual ideas (Person, Place and Text), this thesis focuses on the close analysis of a single pilgrimage account from the early thirteenth century. The …
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The religious commitments of J. D. Salinger.
… characters in all the stories are religious pilgrims striving for religious goals. Teddy is influenced primarily by Hindu philosophy, and he attains the Hindu summum bonum of Brahman. De Daumier-Smith, though not a conscious seeker of religious enlightenment, attains his spiritual peace in …
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The baroque in the late works of Alejo Carpentier
… at the center of Carpentier's production"" (The Pilgrim at Home 17). In this study, we focus on the notion of instability to approach the baroque. This style in Carpentier's work represents the tension between two modes of signification which produce narrative excess. While it appears that this …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… through the character of Billy Pilgrim, extends choices around violence even further, suggesting that inaction is sometimes the best plan. Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men highlights how a combination of action and inaction, depending on the situation, can help or hurt …
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The Transcendent Comedy of the "Canterbury Tales": Harmony in "Quyting," Harmony in Fragmentation
… and tellers. Thus each chapter looks at how a pilgrim specifically balances the Canterbury Tales by telling a tale contrasting in tone, outcome, or genre to a preceding tale in the same fragment or to another tale in a separate fragment. Additionally, the chapters analyze specifically how a …
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Theological Dualism in the Poetry of George Herbert.
… for Herbert's illustration of the Christian pilgrim in search of divine communion. For the searching Christian to understand one abstract principle, its opposite must be equally explored. In this journey to comprehend the duality of the Christian life, one reaches spiritual enlightenment and …
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