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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Religious Change"”.
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Losing or choosing faith : mother loss and religious change.
Maternal religiosity is often associated with children's religiosity even as children grow into adulthood. However, experiencing the death of one's mother during adolescence or young adulthood may modify the transmission of maternal religiosity across the life course. Drawing on national data on …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… Kalinga, northern Luzon, people's contemporary religious assertions and practices. In particular it explores the cosmological principles that shape much of Kalinga quotidian domestic activity. Kalinga society is configured relative to an ethicized cosmology in which persistent sickness and …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… Kalinga, northern Luzon, people's contemporary religious assertions and practices. In particular it explores the cosmological principles that shape much of Kalinga quotidian domestic activity. Kalinga society is configured relative to an ethicized cosmology in which persistent sickness and …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
… into three parts, the thesis traces the roots of religious syncretism by examining traditional Niasan culture, initial Niasan interpretations of Christianity, and the process and nature of cultural change. Part I investigates traditional Niasan culture before the arrival of missionaries by …
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Negara dan Masjid: Mosque Architecture and Religious Change in Early Modern Period Java, Indonesia
… of the most significant episodes of large-scale religious change in Southeast Asian history. Scholars have argued that religious beliefs in the past were not confined to a discrete religious sphere but are also woven into a society’s social, political, and economic structures. Within the Javanese …
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A study of Indian Pentecostal Church membership with reference to a model of religious change
… of Southern Africa, with reference to a model religious belonging and change developed by Professor J.S. Cumpsty. The members of Bethesda are drawn largely from the descendants of Tamil and Telegu speaking indentured labourers who were brought to South Africa mainly to work in the sugar …
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Ntsikana : history and symbol studies in a process of religious change among Xhosa-speaking people
… symbol, is the focus of this study. I argue that change may come about by giving new meanings to old forms and images or by taking the new forms and content and filling them with the old, and that these two sets continue to exist side by side for a long time. Cumpsty's "Model of Religious Change …
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Heritage and the Holy Spirit: Religious change and the politics of the past in postcolonial Nigeria
This thesis considers how different valuations of the past coexist, converge and compete with one another in present-day Yorubaland, southwest Nigeria. Within this region, Born-Again Pentecostalism, a hugely popular and politically ascendant Christian movement has, in recent decades, called upon …
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The roles and representations of women in religious change and conflict in Leinster and south-east Munster, c.1560-c.1641
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Intrinsic patterns in the history of religious change from early Hindu traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism : an application of Cumpsty's theory of religion
This thesis, Intrinsic Patterns in the History of Religious Change from early Hindu Traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism: an Application of Cumpsty's Theory of Religion, is an application of a comprehensive theory of religion to a broad sweep of religious history and diversity. It follows …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… concept for understanding processes of religious change. From initial consideration of the previous sociological treatment of the secularization concept, as found in church-sect literature, it was argued that a redefinition of the concept was necessary for two reasons. First, the usage …
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Secularization as a Decline in Religious Authority Over Gender
… that secularization occurs as a decline in religious authority, is an effective theoretical tool for describing religious change over time. Using GSS data and the example of gender ideology, I attempt to illustrate this concept and argue that this view of secularization, combined with a …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
… to demonstrate the profound impact of identity, religious change, collection, selection and interpretation, and memory on the creation of these textual monuments. This shift of focus to commemorative intent circumvents the pitfalls of genre-driven analysis and encourages a holistic and …
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The Yao Muslims : religion and social change in southern Malawi
… hundred years since their conversion. A model of religious change is developed that attempts to account for both the dynamics of change and the contemporary situation of Islam in southern Malawi. The Yao Muslims are shown to be divided into three competing and sometimes hostile factions that are …
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The experience of discipline in parish communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1638 - 1651
… until 1651, and in response to the unpopular religious innovations of Charles I, the Covenanters, Scotland’s leading Presbyterian divines, enforced a programme of moral reform that was intended to re-shape the lives of every member of society. This thesis is a bottom-up history of their …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… revolution that has been unfolding in Israel’s Religious-Zionist society for the past two decades. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Israel between 2014 and 2017 among religious congregations and nongovernmental organizations that belong to liberal circles of Religious-Zionist society. …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
… of providence seemed to be at the heart of a religious world view in the Christian tradition, and thus essential elements for study in any historical investigation of religious change. The midcentury years, ostensibly a period of high religious consciousness, provide an opportunity to explore …
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