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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Religion, History of."”.
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Securing a faithful ministry: Struggles of ethnicity and religious epistemology in colonial American Presbyterianism.
Securing a faithful ministry: Struggles of ethnicity and religious epistemology in colonial American Presbyterianism.
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Abhinavagupta's Portrait of a Guru: Revelation and Religious Authority in Kashmir
This dissertation aims to recover a model of religious authority that placed great importance upon individual gurus who were seen to be indispensable to the process of revelation. This person-centered style of religious authority is implicit in the teachings and identity of the scriptural sources …
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The use of Gothic in nineteenth century church architecture of the Ottawa Valley.
Abstract Not Available.
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Kuli ngi daw = (La force sacrée du mil) : de la religion du mil à l'Eucharistie chrétienne chez les Gizigas du Nord Cameroun.
… (G.S. 53). Et Paul VI d'insister sur la profondeur de cette conversion: il s'agit selon lui "d'atteindre et comme de bouleverser par la force de l'Évangile les critères de jugement, les valeurs déterminantes, les points d'intérêt, les lignes de pensée, les sources inspiratrices et les …
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Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as a Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature
The last chapter of my dissertation deals with thematic and stylistic application of holy foolishness in the writings of the leader of Russian Schism Archpriest Avvakum (1620--1682).
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"""A New Heaven and Earth"": Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity in Britain, 1901-1918"
"Employing a broad definition of what constitutes ""religion,"" this study explores the interplay between religion and suffrage politics on the personal, communal and institutional levels. After an introductory chapter that maps out the current historiography on late nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Soul and Body: Reading the Anglo -Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book
This project explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book's selection and arrangement of texts has long perplexed scholars, but close …
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Convoluted conjugality: Hymnographic repression, transference and co-optation in the Byzantine sanctoral's commemoration of married saints
This thesis examines the hymnography of the services for married saints in the Byzantine-Rite Menaion ("Book of Months"), with a view to identifying the theology of marriage that it presents. It is an exercise in liturgical theology, as conceived of by Alexander Schmemann. The first part of the …
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England and America, 1660-1811
The history of Anglican chanting practices is continuous from musical and liturgical antecedents in the pre-Reformation Latin rite to the persent, except for the brief mid-seventeenth century Interregnum. When the Latin Offices and Mass were consolidated and translated into English, the imprecision …
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Popes, politicians and political theory: The principle of subsidiarity in 20th century European history
The transformation of the principle of subsidiarity from a philosophical principle in Catholic social teachings to a constitutional article in the 1992 Treaty on European Union has been a source of confusion for scholars of European integration. Political scientists have examined subsidiarity from …
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Catholicism and the literature of New England, 1815--1865
Abstract not available.
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… but one element in the anti-Catholic tradition of Victorian Britain. The anti-Maynooth campaign had both a parliamentary and an extra-parliamentary character, and printed sources form the basis for studying the two. Of particular value were the organs of sectarian public opinion, such as the …
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Style in rhetorical criticism: The case of Martin Luther's vernacular sermons
Serious attention to style of the discourse analyzed remains a neglected feature of the tradition of rhetorical criticism. A survey of the literature reveals a fundamental neglect of style in both the theory and practice of rhetorical criticism. Application of stylistic matters to discourse has …
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
… on fieldwork in Mandalay, Burma and on the study of Theravada Buddhist texts. Religious, cultural, and social realities are contrasted with the doctrinal foundations of the Theravada Buddhist tradition taking into account indigenous perceptions and cosmological computations of relationships …
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'Storming the heavens': The Soviet League of the Militant Godless and Bolshevik political culture in the 1920s and 1930s
… the effort to counter the pervasive influence of religion was among the most visible. From 1924 to 1941, the League of the Militant Godless, the quasi-governmental organization charged with disseminating atheism, maintained a nationwide network of activists, published a wide array of propaganda …
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Church and society in Tuvalu
… consensus as exemplified in the Christian religion of Tuvalu (Central Pacific). It also examines that notion in Western social science, official descriptions, and missionary accounts and posits a strong ideological connection between these and indigenous communalism.
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"""to Grind the Faces of the Poor"": Journeymen for Jesus in Jacksonian Baltimore"
… Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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The rhetoric of restoration: Alexander Campbell and the rhetoric of affect
… operationalized an ""affective"" philosophy of rhetoric which he acquired from the Scottish universities of the late eighteenth century. A significant figure in nineteenth century American religion, Campbell (1788-1866) thus represents a key link between this particular notion of rhetoric and …
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Patchwork jacket and loincloth: An ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal, a specific group of people who are mendicant religious musicians and whose religious beliefs and practices are expressed in their songs. Since Rabindranath Tagore called the attention of the public to the richness of the Baul songs …
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"""Issue of the late civill wars"": James, duke of York and the government of Scotland, 1679-1689"
James VII & II sat on the throne of Scotland, England and Ireland for three and a half years. But by the time he ascended the throne, he had already had personal experience in governing Scotland, first personally, in Edinburgh from late 1679 through 1682, then from London for the remainder of …
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