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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Religious authority"”.
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Stories of Resistance to Religious Authority: A Discursive Analysis
Abuses of power within certain religious communities have become a matter of public concern in recent decades. Less well known are the stories of people within local Christian communities who experience practices of religious authority which do not make headlines, but which nonetheless diminish the …
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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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Abhinavagupta's Portrait of a Guru: Revelation and Religious Authority in Kashmir
This dissertation aims to recover a model of religious authority that placed great importance upon individual gurus who were seen to be indispensable to the process of revelation. This person-centered style of religious authority is implicit in the teachings and identity of the scriptural sources …
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Cyber-Islamic Environments and Salafī-Ṣūfī Contestations Appropriating Digital Media and Challenges to Religious Authority
… design (case study), analytical framework (religious authority), and methodology (qualitative ideological analyses). The purpose is to contribute to a greater understanding of the role of digital media in understudied and yet far-reaching online contestations within Islam—those that seek to …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
This thesis is about Sunni Muslim female religious scholars (‘alimat sing. ‘alima) of Gujarati-Indian origin in the British Midlands city of Leicester. It investigates their efforts to live a good Muslim life and to guide others in doing so. These women studied a multi-year Islamic syllabus at …
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When the Sacred Hurts: Using Grounded Theory Analysis to Understand How Former Members Experienced Abuse of Religious Authority in Christian Groups
… started to address -- trauma that occurs through religious manipulation. The current study utilizes a qualitative research design to develop an empirical definition and preliminary model of abuse of religious authority (ARA). Seventeen former members of Christian groups were interviewed by …
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The Sufi As The Axis Of The World: Representations Of Religious Authority In The Works Of Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1653-1725)
… practices and institutions to assert his religious authority as the most influential Sufi master in the Celveti order after its founder. Through a literary analysis of Bursevi’s autobiographical notes and dedicatory treatises (tuhfe) to Ottoman officials, I examine how he uses the …
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E-mams and Hybrid Muslims in 'Convergent Spaces': Intersections of Online and Offline Religions for Canadian and American Muslims at Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention
… in Canada and the United States navigate religious identities and research religious matters online. Their attendance and participation at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) convention - an annual conference in Toronto - illustrates their desire to meet in person even though they also …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… a Christian feminist perspective the unequal religious authority existing among female and male pastors in twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka. Specific objectives were to examine the motives behind becoming and training as pastors, pastoral training related to religious authority, attitudes …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… a Christian feminist perspective the unequal religious authority existing among female and male pastors in twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka. Specific objectives were to examine the motives behind becoming and training as pastors, pastoral training related to religious authority, attitudes …
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THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF THE IRAQI MARJAʿIYYA
… the evolving role of the Shiʿi marjaʿiyya (religious authority) in Iraq’s socio-political landscape, focusing on the intersection of jurisprudence, religious guidance, and political engagement. It explores historical, jurisprudential, and contemporary perspectives on the political …
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New Frontiers in Islamic Feminism: How Islamic Feminism is Being Shaped by Digital Media
… Muslim women bloggers draw upon to (re)claim religious authority for themselves and to support feminist interpretations of Islam? And 1.1) In the North American context, what factors shape the narratives of faith that Muslim women bloggers espouse and how so? Addressing question 1, Muslim …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. …
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Religious appeals in the popular presentation of cosmology
This thesis explores the use of religious language, metaphors, and images in the popular presentation of cosmology. Specifically looking at books written by cosmologists and intended for a lay audience, I argue that these religious appeals present a particular model, or picture, of cosmology to the …
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A Critical Analysis of Mary Warnock's Argument for the Exclusion of Religious Arguments from Public Moral Discourse
… OF MARY WARNOCK’S ARGUMENT FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM PUBLIC MORAL DISCOURSE Mark Wayne Warnock, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Theodore J. Cabal Mary Warnock, in her 2010 book Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics, argues for …
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Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex
… effect on this issue. Tying themselves to the religious intellectual networks that developed in the aftermath of conversion to create moral and intellectual apologetics for their rule took its place. These networks of intellectuals, whom Peter Brown refers to as <em>sapientes,</em> were almost …
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A simple, rare, truly elect soul : the troubled life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp, 1792-1897
… important questions regarding the nature of religious authority. Far from being weak-minded, he accepted ridicule as the cost of remaining loyal to dearly held beliefs. Although Sibthorp must remain a minor player in the history of the nineteenth century Church, his preaching was widely …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… Anglo-Saxon Literature” argues that Anglo-Saxon religious writers used traditions about the apostles to inspire and interpret their peoples’ own missionary ambitions abroad, to represent England itself as a center of religious authority, and to articulate a particular conception of inspired …
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Religious "Interpersonal Network Proximity" and the Case for Recognition
… ways. This has implications for religion as religious communities can also be seen as increasingly networked. Such developments might have the potential to challenge more traditional forms of religious authority. In light of these ideas, a consideration of philosophical understandings of …
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Islamic Authority and the Articulation of Jihad: Approaching Jihadist Authority through the Islamist Magazine Inspire
… impact of changing views of legitimate Islamic authority on conceptions of jihad. Spearheaded by militant Sunni movements, jihad in the modern era has taken on new purposes and practices that more closely resemble general understandings of terrorism than the regulated forms of warfare cemented …
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