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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Religion--Society"”.
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Religion, society, and politics, and the Liber Vitae of Durham
… information the Liber Vitae can provide about religion, society, and politics in Northumbria in the seventh to ninth centuries, with particular regard to the role of St. Cuthbert's community in Northumbria. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the Liber Vitae; the second part focuses …
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The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England
… of the complex constitutional nexus of religion, society and state currently embodied in the establishment of the Church of England. Chapter 1: The Introduction, acknowledges the academic and professional contexts that have informed the thesis. It clarifies the central research …
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Religion, Culture, and Modernity : Some Missiological Implications of the Process of Secularization in East Asia
… societies and the effects of secularization on religion, society, and the individual. The focus in chapter 2 is on worldview and worldview change and the functions of these in the process of secularization. A five-part theoretical paradigm of the traditional Chinese worldview analyzed vis-à-vis …
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Religion as an instrument of oppression: a thematic analysis of ‘Allah is not obliged,’ ‘the poor christ of bomba’ and ‘arrow of God
Religion is an institution that helps people to find deep meaning of life, identity and feel sense of belonging. Its quests, yearnings, needs are perfectly respectable and they are found rooted in human nature. Religious beliefs have helped human beings to make sense of life’s mysteries, moreover, …
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Revolution and Revelation: Theology in the Political Thought of Friedrich Julius Stahl, Wilhelm Weitling and Karl Theodor Welcker
… proceeds from a critical discussion about how religion has been unsatisfactorily treated in much intellectual history, something also witnessed in research on Weitling, Stahl, and Welcker. The aim here is to deepen the understanding of the early evolution of the modern political ideologies in …
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The divine hand of the state? : how religion has influenced social policies for the poor in Iran
… Iran has a distinctive constellation of religion, society, and politics. This thesis examines how religion has influenced the ways in which the poor have been helped in Iran since the formation of the (modem) nation-state in the 1870s. Religion has often been considered a monolithic …
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Mellan makten och himmelriket : perspektiv på Hallands medeltida kyrkor.
… religious significance is also stressed. Religion should not be viewed merely as an instrument used by the elite to promote power, but as an underlying ideology permeating the whole of society. Architecture can be viewed as an instrument to help make power more permanent and less dependent …