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Showing 1 to 20 of 384 for “"Religious Studies"”.
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Voicing women's resistance within religious studies: An interrogation of rational choice theory
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To Know a Buddha: A Tibetan Contemplative History and Its Implications for Religious Studies
… and visionary experiences. Such peak religious moments--along with historical, social, and textual context--must be considered seriously to provide the richest possible history of other-emptiness.
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An Exploration of Catholic High School Religious Studies Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Their Role and Practice
… that emanates from the literature is that religious studies teachers are expected to be as professional as their counterparts in other disciplines, yet they lack the structural resources for developing that teaching professionalism (Cook, 2001; Cook & Hudson, 2006; Sacred Congregation for …
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A Quantitative Analysis of a Critical Pedagogy in Catholic Secondary School Religious Studies Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area
… that can serve as a relevant pedagogy for religious education.</p> <p>In a researcher designed, online, cross-sectional survey, 18 questions from relevant literature using both binary “yes / no” questions and Likert scales measured the frequency and importance of pedagogical practices …
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age: Pedagogical and Theological Perspectives of Religious Studies Teachers in U.S. Catholic Secondary Schools
… that the bishops sought to establish a uniform Religious Studies curriculum for all U.S. Catholic secondary schools. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of six Religious Studies teachers regarding their experience of teaching courses based on the USCCBFramework; …
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Religious literacy in the social work profession
… States. The last couple of decades have brought religious diversity to the forefront of the discussion about multiculturalism. Religious diversity has gained attention in the mainstream media, especially since the September 11th attacks and events that have occurred afterwards. It is troublesome …
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A Theological Analysis of Confessional-Centric Curriculum of Christian Religious Education: Towards an Inclusive Religious Pluralistic Centered Curriculum for Nigeria Colleges of Education
… and unity despite the multi ethnic and multi religious composition of Nigeria, remain ideals that are constant in the nation’s Constitution. However, accruable benefits of a culturally and religiously pluralistic society have continued to elude Nigeria due to incessant religious violence …
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Monetary Effervescence: A Sociological Theory of Religion Applied to Money
… money together?" by asserting that it is money's religious nature which provides the moral compulsion for people to use, and continue to uphold, money as a socially constructed concept. This project is primarily descriptive and focuses on the religious nature of money by employing a sociological …
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Typologies of religious market model: an economic approach to religion
… to religion and suggest a new frame for the religious market model. In religious studies, various approaches have been attempted, for example anthropology, sociology and psychology. Recently, some sociologists and economists have started to observe the marketization of religion and to explain …
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The Desire for Utopia in the Critical Study of Religion
… developed by and used within the field of religious studies can be reimagined as an expression of the modern desire for Utopia. It investigates how applications of critical social theory occlude the category of experience either deliberately or through methodological slight. Utopia …
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Buddhism and the postmodern : the nature of identity and tradition in contemporary society
… in turn, their isolation from developments in religious studies. The discipline of religious studies itself has sometimes colluded in this process of marginalisation and isolation by a reluctance to engage with the intellectual dynamism of similarly eclectic disciplines such as cultural …
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Space, place and the communicative (re)production of Christian practices.
… combined CCO-semiotic framework to be applied to religious studies. To accomplish this, this study first reviews relevant literature on different CCO schools of thought, materiality and CCO, semiology, and religious literature on sacred spaces. Following the literature synthesis, …
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The Study of Negative Space
… work draws on diverse fields, including platform studies, theories of mediation, media archaeology, legal and corporate governance scholarship, and religious studies. These have informed a series of publications including journal articles, book chapters, and the monograph Governable Spaces: …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion in America
… ritual, and new media before two case studies: one on death, one on play. First developing conceptual relationships between posthumanism and religious studies and methodological connections between new media and ritual theories, it then asks questions in the playful and experimental …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion In America
… ritual, and new media before two case studies: one on death, one on play. First developing conceptual relationships between posthumanism and religious studies and methodological connections between new media and ritual theories, it then asks questions in the playful and experimental …
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