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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Religious competition"”.
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Religious competition, Creole identities, and economic development : foundations of competitive diversity in early Victorian Cape Town
… cities that display a high degree of cultural, religious, ethnic and social diversity? Much can be gleaned from examining defined periods in their history that show a rapid transition in religious/cultural and socio-economic terms. Cape Town, a city that prides itself on its deeply rooted …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
… politics, including Jonathan Fox’s Secular-Religious Competition Perspective. These have been adapted and applied to the Middle East, exploring their usefulness beyond providing explanations for domestic political behaviour. To test this, the co-optation patterns of sect and degree of …
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Contested Spaces: Protestantism in Oaxaca, 1920-1995
This study focuses on intra-village religious conflict stemming from Protestant conversion in Oaxaca. Protestant expansion is nowhere more visible than in southern Mexico. Of the southern states Oaxaca has the highest growth rate of Protestantism, increasing 531% between 1970 and 2000. From 2000 to …
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
… of the Zeus cult, suggesting an element of religious competition underlying this scene. Finally, Paul's survival of the snakebite in Acts 28 depicts Paul as a divine man, a characterization in line with his portrayal as a wonderworking philosopher throughout Acts. This study dispels the …
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Modernizing Indigenous Priesthood and Revitalizing Old Shrines: Current Developments on Ghana’s Religious Landscape
… of the agents of more than one indigenous religious tradition (IRT) in contemporary Ghana. We concern ourselves with two case studies. These are the neo- and the old indigenous religious agents represented by two major shrines. The two shrines, headed by a priest and priestess, both claim …