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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Religious Authorities"”.
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The spread of the African Independent Churches in postcolonial Southern Africa is a challenge to political and religious authorities : a case of the Lumpa Church in Zambia
… 2005:101) "engaged in detailed appropriations of religious resources that can be mobilized in working out the meaningful contours of the world" (Chidester, 1997:11). The major part of the study focuses on the Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina in Zambia. It traces the founding of the church based on a …
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The role, position and experience of female teachers within faith schools
For hundreds of years leadership of religious organisations has been dominated by males, despite the acknowledgement that much religious work and support of the institutions has been done by women. Historically, leadership carried the notion of masculinity and the belief that men were born with …
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
… more closely to Buddhist teachings than these religious authorities.Drawing on the fields of music studies, religious studies, and anthropology, this dissertation investigates the sonic practices bhikkhuni employ to establish these alternate channels of recognition. Part I (Chapters 1-3) …
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When Dispute Threatens Harmony in the Public Sphere: Discerning the Dynamics of State-Religion Relation with Particular Reference to Singapore's Muslim Scholars
Islamic religious contestation is not new in Singapore. Its roots took shape during the formative years of early Singapore when Islam came to its shores on the waves of trade and migration. However, over the years, the contestation was characterized by new dynamics, chief of which were …
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"I Will Write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities
… Council of the State and both Trapnel and the authorities she sought to dismantle escalated their attacks against each other. It was not solely Trapnel’s prophecies that made her a threat to the State, however. Rather, her unwavering commitment to converting her fellow citizens into Fifth …
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שאלת ההזרעה המלאכותית בספרות השו"ת
… and the examination of attitudes of Jewish religious decisors towards artificial insemination (AI), as well as other reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy and egg donation. The study attempts to elucidate the formation of Halacha on this question according …
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An Analysis of the Human Rights and Gender consequences of the New South African Constitution and Bill of Rights with regards to the recognition and implementation of Muslim Personal Law
… be used to justify behaviour by conservative religious authorities ( Ulama) in South Africa which deny women equality. Earlier research partly allayed her suspicions and fears but did not lay them to rest completely. The fact that South Africa was to face a human rights revolution which would …
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The Nature of Jesus’ Obedience: A Narrative-Critical Reading of Matthew’s Gethsemane (26:36-46)
… for supremacy. There are the conflicts with the religious authorities of Israel who label him as an impostor, his disciples who find his standard unattainable, and even God whose seeming inactivity throughout Jesus’ suffering may bring into question Jesus’ genuineness. In setting the stagefor the …
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The origins of money: evaluating chartalist and metallist theories in the context of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia
… that money emerged in the context of religious practice and ideology of archaic Greek societies marked by socio-economic hierarchies and inequalities. Money was first embodied in the portions of sacrificial bull's flesh distributed by religious authorities during the rituals of …
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Spiritual healing in search of an identity: analysis of spiritual healers’ own accounts of healing in Britain from 1900 to 1965
… progression through time, from early religious and traditional healing, through the Holistic Health movement of the 1970s and 80s, to the ‘holistic milieu’ healing model described by Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (2005) as an integral part of New Age ‘spiritualities of life’. This …
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Speculating on architecture : morality, the new real estate, and the bourgeois apartment industry in late nineteenth-century France
… by architects, aesthetic theorists, and religious and political figures over the course of the Third Republic against speculation practices and their architectural effects. The changes brought by property's increased circulation-the very idea of apartments designed for unknown future …
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Faith and failure in the gospel of Mark
… foils for the disciples, Jesus’ family and the religious authorities. These characters are compared against one another in terms of their knowledge, faith and courage and in relation to Jesus, and the story of negation and failure which emerges becomes one of Mark’s primary motifs permeating the …
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A critical evaluation of the religious festival and pilgrimage of Maha Shivaratri in Mauritius: the religious experiences of local Hindu participants, the authenticity of the religious experiences and the perceived potential impacts of any future commoditisation on those experiences.
… study focuses on the annual, and century-old, religious festival and pilgrimage of Maha Shivaratri (Festival) in Mauritius. The Festival, consisting of a pilgrimage to a sacred site, is celebrated by those of the Hindu faith in reverence to Lord Shiva. This research critically evaluated the …
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Preaching Marxism? The Politics and Ethics of Leftist Muslim Activists in Java
… part of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU; The Awakening of Religious Scholars), a traditionalist Sufi organisation, which was established in 1926 in light of the growing influence of Islamic Modernism and is particularly strong in rural Java. In the first half of the 20th century, NU was pitted against the …
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Találkozás a szent igazzal : A magyar nyelvű orthodox zsidó sajtó cádik-képe (1891-1944)
… responses of a journalism elite of an urbanising religious community to the trends towards individualisation as well as to changing attitudes towards the past and community traditions. First of all there is a need to define such key concepts as modernity and tradition. Academic research on the …
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Making Sense of a Loss: Masculinities and Assisted Conception in Contemporary Iran
… significantly, have been widely legitimised by religious authorities. Although the state partly subsidises ARTs, they are not equally accessible to all. In Iran, (in)fertility—a stigmatised condition—is dominantly considered a ‘woman’s problem’; male (in)fertility is hardly recognised or …