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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Protestant churches"”.
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Consumer Individualism and Community Orientation Among Protestant Churches
… of the individual. I gathered data from Protestant churches in five states on the West Coast and in the Midwest. These consisted of predominantly non- denominational churches, but also including several denomination affiliated churches as well. My methods include participant observation, …
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An analysis of factors contributing to the decline of Protestant churches in a metropolitan center
… the factors contributing to the decline of protestant churches in metropolitan centers. Houston, Texas, was named as the metropolitan center. The research concern is that there is a lack of current and recent knowledge of factors leading to the decline of Protestant churches in metropolitan …
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A changing paradigm of mission in the Protestant churches of Mozambique : a case study of Eduardo Mondlane
… traces a changing paradigm of mission within the protestant churches of Mozambique and particularly in the Igreja Presbiteriana de Moçambique (IPM), as it moved toward autonomy within the context of the Portuguese colonial project. In this shifting paradigm, the church was forced to define its …
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Singing foreign songs in the Lord’s House: an examination of the worship music sung in Songhai/Zarma protestant churches of the West African Sahel with special reference to Niger
… for comparison, the thesis proceeds to examine Protestant Songhai music using information obtained during observations of twenty-three churches and case studies of three of those churches. The analysis of the data shows a significant confusion or loss of identity amongst Songhai Christians under …
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Shared leadership and member engagement in Western Protestant house churches: a naturalistic inquiry
Western Protestant churches measure success through member engagement. Waning church member engagement has led some to argue that ineffective leadership structures are to blame. While the possibility of shared leadership has been advanced to this end, its use in Western Protestant Church settings …
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Attitudes Concerning Euthanasia Among Protestant Denominations
… was to uncover differences in attitudes among Protestant denominations concerning euthanasia. Variations in attitudes were viewed using social theories of religion by Emile Dukheim, Max Weber, Charles Glock, and Rodney Stark. These theories were used to establish a basis for variation among the …
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The missionary vision in the Italian Evangelical Church starting from the Unity of Italy to the present day
… explores the development of the Pentecostal Protestant Churches in Italy from the time of the Unification of Italy. Italy is a predominantly Roman Catholic country, strengthened by the fact that the main centre of Catholicism, the Holy See, is situated in the very heart of the country. …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
… the number of socialist Christians outside the churches was so great that the new Protestant denominational federation, the Federal Council of Churches, organized a series of nationwide campaigns to root out socialists from industrial workforces and draw politically neutral Christians into the …
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization: Is Reform Possible?
… the European Union, the Vatican and many Protestant churches. The PLO and the many splinter and subgroups it is composed of have shown themselves to be a highly militant and at the same time rigidly structured and hierarchically composed organization. The goal of this thesis is to …
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The paradoxical co-existence of submissiveness and subversiveness in the theology of Yu-Ming Jia
… Yu-ming Jia (1880-1964) is a conservative Protestant theologian who was actively engaged himself in Chinese protestant churches and theological education during the first half of the 20th century. It was seen that he constructed his theology mainly in a hierarchical context, i.e., the …
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Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
… and with Germany in total ruin, the Catholic and Protestant churches sought to re-Christianize German society. Bringing Germans back to Christ was seen as the only way to make good on the Nazi past and ward off any future slips into political radicalism of either the left or right. These efforts …
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Distributed Succession: Managing The Transition Of Multi-Site Campus Pastors
Succession planning is vital for certain Protestant churches that utilize a unique ministry model called multi-site. For multi-site churches, a critical senior leadership role is the campus pastor. The focus of this qualitative research was to study how multi-site churches within the Converge …
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Church in Black and White: Racially-Integrated Churches and Whites' Explanations for Racial Inequalities
… Emerson and Smith (1999) finds that conservative Protestants tend to blame racial inequalities on individual traits like motivation or ability as opposed to structural constraints such as oppression or discrimination. Emerson and Smith have also established that churches tend to be racially …
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Religious Politics: An Individual Level-Examination Of The Political Implications Of Faith In Brazil
… the Catholic Church is losing its members to the Protestant churches, mainly Pentecostal ones. Between 1940-2010, the number of Protestants increased from 2.6% to 20.2%. On the other hand, between the same period, the number of Catholics decreased from 95% to 68.5%. One of the consequences of this …
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The place of religion in education from the stand-point of Roman Catholicism
… of the nation, the Church of Rome, and later the Protestant Churches also, gave both religious and secular education, the emphasis lying on the former. Once the state had taken over control of education, the emphasis shifted to the latter. Gradually, religious and moral instruction, leading to a …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… Katrina upon the capacity of African American Protestant churches in New Orleans to provide spiritual and social ministry to the city's underprivileged. More than three years after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city, fifty per cent of the churches remain as the hurricane left …
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Religion and differential justice.
… In the second study, I assess the role of black Protestant churches in civil society by estimating the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation …
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Religion and differential justice.
… In the second study, I assess the role of black Protestant churches in civil society by estimating the effects of county-level affiliation rates on crime rates in the South. Applying spatial analyses to data from the 2010 Religious Census and Uniform Crime Reports, Black Protestant affiliation …
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Theological renewal and the role of the church in the social reconstruction of Zambia
… Particular attention is given to the mainline Protestant Churches. Directed towards bringing to realisation the vision of God's reign on earth today, imperatively, God's reign is defined. The definition sees reign from two dimensions: as a future hope and as earthly utopia. An interpretive link …
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