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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Religion and politics"”.
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Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
… – is a rising threat to global health and has increased in recent years in higher income countries. This is a complex phenomenon with the potential to undo decades of progress toward eradicating communicable diseases. The recent COVID-19 pandemic introduced a new wave of vaccine …
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Faithful Form: On Religion and Politics in German Modernist Lyric
… Lasker-Schüler, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Celan-this dissertation reveals surprising conjunctions between these poets’ sustained engagement with religious images and concepts and their attempt to organize individuals into collective bodies invested with political agency. It thereby …
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The intersection of religion and politics : a two-way street
… reexamines the relationship between religious and political attitudes and challenges the conventional wisdom that religious identities are impervious to politics' influence. I not only identify the conditions under which religious identities affect political stances but also when political …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1880-1920 makes two main arguments: First, through an analysis of socialist print culture and party meeting minutes, it argues that Christianity animated socialist culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …
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Divine Democracy: Examining the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Civil Religion
<p>This thesis seeks to build upon and provide a new interpretation of civil religion in the United States. In it, the history of civil religion from the 1960s, starting with Bellah, to the 2010s will be analyzed for any themes still used in the 2020s. Similarly, understanding what a religion is …
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Rhetoric, religion and politics in the St. Paul's Cross sermons, 1603-1625
… use of rhetoric to influence the religious and political attitudes of contemporaries by comparing theories of preaching, found in sacred rhetorics and other tracts, to preachers' practice in their sermons. By this method, arguments associated particularly with Paul's Cross and its London …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… intersections between popular cinema, popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to the 2000s. By discursive field of cinema, I …
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Religion and politics: the legal regulation of religious organisations in Uganda — 2016 - present
With increased visibility and social activism of religious actors and organisations in many post colonial African states, the legal governance of religious organisations has come into tension with citizenship rights and freedoms. This is the case in Uganda in recent years, where the state …
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Religion and politics in Nigeria: the role of religious actors in government decision making, 1980-2009
In this thesis, I examine the role of religion in Nigerian government decision-making from 1980 to 2009, providing a clear and concise account of the ways in which selected Nigerian religious actors, such as the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs …
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Strategy not scripture: the dynamics of religion and politics in the George W. Bush campaign of 2000
… been a burgeoning interest in his religiosity and its political implications. This interest joined favourably with an already remarkable amount of attention given towards religion and politics in the United States. But to many, George W. Bush added a new dimension and a fresh anxiety to an area …
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Korean Christianity and the Shinto Shrine issue in the war period, 1931-1945 : a study of religion and politics
… some religious groups, including the Catholic and Methodist Churches, should choose the way of compromise, while others, such as the Presbyterian Church, represented by individual missionaries and the Non-Shrine Worship Movement and the Mount Zion Sect, chose the way of radical challenge and …
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THE USE OF THE MARIAN ICON IN VENICE: RELIGION AND POLITICS MERGE IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE
… Byzantine idea that the union of the spiritual and material could be achieved in the form of an icon. The church quickly realized the value of visual images in their apostolic mission and began the extensive use of icons, as a non-verbal way to strengthen their flock and attempt to convert …
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The twin taboos of discussing religion and politics : a study of six "basic" emotions and interpersonal relationships in response to Rick Perry's "Strong"
… or entities to achieve an array of social and political goals. For instance, law firms may use fear-based advertisements on television by listing several debilitating diseases to educate potential clients about the side effects of certain drugs. In the realm of politics, candidates may use …
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Joseph Booth, 1892-1919: an evaluation of his life, thought and influence on religion and politics with particular reference to British Central Africa (Malawi) and South Africa
… dissertation we attempt to assess Booth's life and thought and the influence he exerted in the religious and political history of Central and Southern Africa. Since 1958, when George Shepperson and Thomas Price brought Joseph Booth to the attention of the academic world for the first time, …
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Religious influences in European politics
Newspapers and television everyday carry stories in which religion and politics are seen as interconnected and at the same time, operating within different bodies of societies. To assess adequately the complex interaction between religion and politics, both sides need to be considered. Throughout …
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The interplay of Christianity, Ethnicity and Politics in Ankole, Uganda, 1953-1993
… of the 19th Century (1877 & 1879, Protestants and Catholics respectively), the Churches, both Protestant and Catholic have played a leading role in the new chapter of Western civilisation. Since then, the churches have been able to impact on people because of their pioneering advantage in …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… Early Modern English Studies on the conceptions and literary representations of national and racial identity in 16th- and 17th-century England. Central to this discourse is an examination of how the English defined themselves in relation to those they deemed as "others": the foreign and …
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Drawing Through A Linear Temperament
<p>I am a draftsman, painter and printmaker. This first person statement is a written extension of the art that constitutes my thesis. It discusses the links between my work and the Enlightenment, Humanism, Catholicism, ethics and the Western canon as well as my use of perspective and other …
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Why is the South so Conservative? A Marxian Analysis of Alienation, Religion, and Political Ideology Among Poor Southern White Voters
… the relationship among alienation, religiosity, politics of opposition, and their impact on voting trends in the southern portion of the United States. I will construct a Marxian model based on the literature available and test it by using data in the General Social Survey of 1998. I will …
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