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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Religion, General"”.
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The Analysis of the Preschool Curricular in Tanzania: implications for a National Curriculum
… and counting while non academic activities were religion, general science and plays. Some of the schools used primary one syllabuses, therefore their activities were not strongly based on early childhood principles and structure. The varying nature of the curricular created one of the problems …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… American civil saint whose life and work blended religion into his civic engagement. Yet prominent political theorists and religious ethicists writing since the Civil Rights Movement fail to make a place for King's type of activism. Drawing heavily upon King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," …
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The approval of new forms of consecrated life in the light of Canon 605.
During the Second Vatican Council the state of life then known as religious life was recognised as a structure in the Church though not of the Church. This recognition was verbalised in a separate chapter in the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church, Lumen gentium. Chapter 6, "On Religious", was a …
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The understanding of defection in the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
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Islam and the West : Problematizing a Discourse of Dualism
… opposites in terms of politics, culture, religion, and otherwise. This thesis argues that the perceived division between Islam and "the West" arises within a discourse that presumes, configures, and reinforces a relationship of conflict between the two. Coming from different viewpoints, …
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The Nenets Song Tradition
Conclusion draws attention to the survival value of the musical expression among the Nenets whose performance skills and inspirations have continuously contributed to the series of the people's adaptations to the challenges of the ecological and socio-cultural environments.
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Predicting Rehabilitated or Relapsed Status of Malay Drug Addicts in Singapore: The Role of Familial, Individual, Religious, and Social Support Factors
The implications of the findings were discussed at several levels--policy makers, program developers, social work intervention, and future research.
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The Religious Paintings of Emil Nolde, 1909-1912
… vocabulary of stylistic devices and motifs generally not found elsewhere in his works. Perhaps most importantly, little like them exists after the advent of modernism, with its general disdain for literary subjects. Nolde himself recognized the significance of his early religious paintings. …
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Breaking the Sound Barrier, Breaking Faith: How Some Evangelical Christians Perceive Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Film
"Overall, the participants' reactions to movies suggest a genre of response that revolves around the practices of spiritual discernment. Whether discerning what type of filmic content is appropriate to view or whether a character in a film is a ""true"" Christian, the participants' viewing …
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Through the Lens of Interpreters: The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana in Its Classical Re -Presentations
… asked in almost all exegetical works, i.e., the general exegetical tradition determines how a particular exegetical tradition surveys its text---Chapter 4 thus examines the exegetical re-presentation of the authorial from the perspective of the introductory inquiries in the writing of commentary.
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
The Bhagavad-Gita and the Manusmr&dotbelow;ti view the self as the locus of divine authority, but they struggle with the social implications. Jones and Wilkins filtered their translations through a Neoplatonic Christian lens with a liberal Enlightenment tint, while also weakening the political …
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Of God and Death: Music in Ritual and Everyday Life. A Musical Ethnography of the Kotas of South India
"An examination of the idea of ""tribal music"" in India reveals that although the construction of tribe and/or tribal music may be fruitfully studied, from an analytical standpoint, the notion of a specifically tribal music must be abandoned. Instead a more inclusive understanding of south Asian …
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Filled With the Spirit: The Musical Life of an Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
"Pentecostal doctrine, ritual, and language are examined, both singly and in relation to the church's music. Speech and song both attest to the specialized and formulaic character of Pentecostal language, and a reservoir of favorite song texts clearly facilitates verbal performance among …
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A Modern Edition of MSS 5 From the Biblioteca Communale at the Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi, Italy
The bulk of this dissertation consists of a modern edition of the manuscript, accompanied by three chapters which describe the physical condition of the bound volume and its contents, provide information on the composers represented, and analyze representative works from the collection.
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The Role of Leisure in the Personal Spirituality and Religious Practices of New Paradigm Christians
… of a multi-faceted relationship between religion and leisure (Brightbill, 1965; Heintzman, 1996, Johnston, 1983; Kelly, 1987; Norden, 1965; Pieper, 1963). New Paradigm Churches are a recent development within Christianity that combines modern culture with a conservative message (Miller, …
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