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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Protestants"”.
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Cavan Protestants in an age of upheaval, 1919-22
… one is concerned with identifying Cavan’s Protestants as a group, both politically and culturally Chapter two, given the cultural and political identity of the county’s Protestants, shows how this group reacted and adapted to the political changes of the years 1919-22. It was found that …
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Anti-Slavery and Church Schism among Protestants in Antebellum Central Kentucky
<p>This thesis is an examination of the effects of anti-slavery and church schism among Protestant Christians in the Bluegrass region of antebellum Kentucky. A variety of secondary and primary sources are utilized, including books and journal articles from current scholarship, journals kept by …
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Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants: Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy
Toward the end of the Troubles, the notion of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity, culture, and language began to be pursued by certain unionists and loyalists more desirous of ‘something more racy of the soil’ (Dowling 2007:54). Peace-building in Northern Ireland had undergone something of a cultural turn: …
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Protestants and the public sphere in Brazil, c.1870 - c.1930
… evangelical libraries, and colporteurs, Protestants circulated Christian literature widely in the country. Missionary societies and their transnational circuits connected the missionary work in Brazil with Portugal, Britain, and the United States, generating a Lusophone evangelical …
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
… At its core are common mixed marriages between Protestants and Catholics, as well as the relatively less common ones between Jews and non-Jews. Like Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities themselves, social boundaries shaped these unions and spurred the ways in which their meanings changed …
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The Influence of Religiosity and Fundamentalism on White Protestants' Attitudes Toward Women's Issues
This study examines factors of religiosity and fundamentalism that lead to sexist attitudes toward various women's issues. Analysis of data from the 1996 General Social Survey was implemented to ascertain the dependent variables: the Attitude toward Abortion Scale, the Women in Politics Scale, the …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… and communism, mainline ecumenical American Protestants aimed to create a universalist “Christian World Order” based on liberal democracy and Christian ethics. Only this new order, they argued, could supersede nationalist and materialist agendas and restore world peace. By rhetorically …
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Taking the Moral Ground: Protestants, Feminists, and Gay Equality in North Carolina, 1970-1980
<p>“Taking the Moral Ground” examines the relationship between Protestantism and the movements for feminist and gay equality in North Carolina during the 1970s and 1980s to answer two central questions: How did a group of white heterosexual clergy, moderate mainliners, and African American …
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Lecrae and the Differing Perceptions Among American Protestants of the Causes of Disparate Racial Experiences
While White evangelical Protestants and Black Protestants are remarkably similar across measures of theological belief and practice, their views on racial issues tend to be deeply divergent. These divergent views have often been a source of racial alienation when applied to contemporary discourse …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… tolerating diverse immigrant cultures. Some Protestants grew more comfortable with cultural pluralism by midcentury, while remaining reluctant to embrace a religious pluralism that would replace their vision of a Protestant Christian nation. Many Protestant leaders, often holding positions in …
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American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam
This dissertation considers American Protestant perceptions of U.S. foreign policy directed toward Soviet Union during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency (1953-1961). The question of what a culture dominated by Protestant denominations thought of its global adversary has not yet been sufficiently …
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Christians and citizenship: a critical study of the contribution of ecumenical Protestants to the citizenship of Africans in Kenya from 1918 to 1982
… study of the joint efforts that ecumenical Protestants made towards the citizenship of Africans in Kenya, between 1918 and 1982. It is based on archival documents including minutes, government and church reports, correspondence, biographies and interviews as primary sources. Though it …
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The Nature and Development of Liberal Protestantism in Waterford 1800-42
… between 1800 and 1842. Waterford liberal Protestants had much in common with their British Whig counterparts, but their ideology had been fundamentally altered by the experience of the late eighteenth century. This thesis focuses on the development of liberalism among the Protestant …
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Christian Duty in the Crisis of Secession: A Comparison of Charleston and Philadelphia
… responses, not only informing the worldview of Protestants, but directing their actions in the midst of the crisis. Charlestonians and Philadelphians defined the concept of "Christian duty" in similar ways, however as the crisis progressed they applied it in increasingly different manners. Early …
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Historical Reflections on Religion, Finance and Economic Development
… to an economic convergence between Catholics and Protestants in the post-Famine era in what might be described as a "Catholic embourgeoisement". However, further evidence, presented at the individual level for 1911, suggests a residual human capital gap between Catholics and Protestants, even …
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Parental concern and the baptism of children : representations of children from the late Medieval era to 1640.
… this conflict was between Catholics and Protestants, but by the seventeenth century, Protestants fought among themselves as Reformed Protestants and English Baptists debated the nature of baptism, Original Sin, and infant salvation. This dissertation argues that people were concerned …
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The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-1949
… to Home Rule. The strong commitment of Protestants and unionists to the war effort weakened the unionist movement in Sligo. The inability of the Sligo unionists to reactivate their movement after the war and their refusal to reach any accommodation with moderate nationalists resulted in …
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