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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Religious Tolerance"”.
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Constantine's Policy of Religious Tolerance: Was It Tolerant Or Not?
… the question of Emperor Constantines policy of religious tolerance is examined. Constantine and his times and issues introduce the theme. The sincerity of Constantine's Christian belief and his relationship to the Church set the background of the debate, along with a look at three influences …
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Religious Tolerance and its Relationship to Spiritual Maturity and Religious Orientation Among Seventh-day Adventists in Jamaica
… generally intolerant of persons who do not hold religious beliefs that are similar to theirs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which spiritual maturity and religious orientation are related to religious tolerance among Seventh-day Adventists in East Jamaica …
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From religious discrimination to religious tolerance: an analysis of illness and healing in African religion and Christianity
… this thesis is an endeavour towards developing religious tolerance in South Africa. It contributes to the wider discussion on religious discrimination and religious tolerance. The title ofthis thesis, "From Religious Discrimination to Religious Tolerance: An analysis of illness and healing in …
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Mythology for Christians: An investigation and empirical test of C.G. Jung's proposal that protestant theologians and adherents should think of God as a mythologem.
… There is an implied benefit of greater religious tolerance. The research methodology is to investigate the theoretical concepts involved, operationalise them, and then conduct an empirical test of their relationship. There are multiple problems that have to be overcome, including Jung’s …
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Exploring the Interplay of Religious and Worldly Dynamics through the Development of the Dunhuang Grottos
… case for studying the relationship between religious diversity and tolerance, shaped by historical conflicts. This study examines these dynamics at the Mogao Grottoes, a key site for understanding regional religious and cultural exchanges. Utilizing spatial archaeology and G. William …
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
… the archival evidence points to Sedgwick's religious faith and her concern for tolerance as strong influences on her authorship and Hope Leslie . This study finds that, through Hope Leslie , Sedgwick explores the historical tensions within the Puritan settlement in order to suggest a future …
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
… argue that there was a "Golden Age" of religious tolerance between Jews, Christians and Muslims. This supposed "Golden Age" was particularly evident in the tenth century under three succeeding rulers, Abd al- Rahman III (912-961), Al-Hakam (961-976) and Hisham II (976-1009). This thesis …
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An Evaluation of the Wider Horizons Program in Pittsburgh form 1989 to 2002
… and finally a recorded increase in one's ethno-religious tolerance upon completion of the program.</p><p> The results showed that the program was successful in increasing the employability of its participants upon their return to Ireland. The findings showed that there was limited success …
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Continental Drifters: Holocaust Memory, Decolonization, and Postwar Migration to Europe
… represents the failures of assimilation, religious tolerance, and minority rights in Europe. This literature's attentiveness to Holocaust memory, I show, critically disrupts both the strategic forgetting of the Holocaust and the simultaneous repurposing of its memory as instructive of the …
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Tolerance and toleration: the experience of the Quakers in East Yorkshire c.1660-1699
… thesis examines the practice of tolerance and intolerance that surrounded the development of Quakerism in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the mid seventeenth century. It is important to offer a distinction between the terms tolerance and toleration, which are used in the title of …
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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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Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
… communicate Islamic values and address issues of religious intolerance and violence in Indonesia, particularly in the context of the country’s social and political transformations following the fall of the Suharto government in 1998. The subsequent decentralization of governance and accompanying …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
… optimism produced by the oratorio's religious tolerance--demonstrated by the omission of the Fall narrative--and musical eclecticism. Musical inclusivity is conveyed by a mixture of styles and conventions that cross normative standards for setting sacred texts. The analysis of …
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How Patriotic Are Albanians? The Comparative Study of Patriotic Attitudes in Albania and the Albanian Diaspora
… an examination of Albania’s communist era, religious tolerance, nationalism, patriotism, art and diasporic consciousness I want to see how Albanians embody a strong sense of patriotism for their homeland outside of its original borders. This thesis attempts to explore the attitudes, beliefs, …
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Carlo Cattaneo: The Religiosity of a Relunctant Revolutionary
… logically and rationally argued for racial and religious tolerance of the Jews over one hundred years before the enactment of the infamous Racial Laws in Fascist Italy. Today most know Carlo Cattaneo as the father of Italian federalism. During the Cinque Giornate insurrection in Milan in 1848, …
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Crossing borders: conscious journeys with my family
… searching for roots and a sense of belonging; religious tolerance, equality, respect, climate change and children’s rights are some of the issues grappled with in countries as diverse as Cuba, Greenland and Sweden. Although each chapter focuses on a different country, themes of dispossession, …
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Rembrandt redefined : making the “global artist" in seventeenth-century Amsterdam
… Rembrandt’s sensitivity towards cultural and religious tolerance, as exhibited in all aspects of his artistic practice. Prior to his Mughal drawings, Rembrandt already exhibited a curiosity for foreign peoples and places. As a resident of Amsterdam, the global epicenter of Europe, he took …
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… social networks, language learning efforts, religious adaptation, contact with the German lands and their status in Cape society. Research in archives in Europe and South Africa forms the basis for the analysis. “Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony” argues for the incorporation of the Dutch …
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'The truth is bitter' : Socrates Scholasticus and the writing of a history of the Christian Roman empire
… these communities in intellectual humility, in religious tolerance, and - in a move almost unparalleled in contemporary Christian thought - in humour. Socrates was also concerned with the state, and the disequilibrating effects on lateantique society of imperial overreach. He was, I argue, …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… interesting to explore, as society shifted in religious belief from pagan pluralism to Christianity. This religious transition led to questions on the nature and purpose of education as compromise was sought between the two religions. Such a struggle for educational compromise parallels …
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