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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Religious conviction"”.
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Religious Conviction, Respect, and the Doctrine of Restraint in the Exclusionist-Inclusionist Debate
… challenged by Christopher Eberle in <italics>Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics</italics>, who argues that although a citizen has an obligation to pursue a convincing secular rationale for a coercive law, he does not have an obligation to withhold support for a law for which he lacks …
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Acceptance of Negroes by White College Students as a Function of College-Class Standing, Religious Conviction, and Race of Experimenter
… students to Negroes; what effect the strength of religious conviction has on these attitudes; and what effect the race of the experimenter has on student response.</p>
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The churches of S.S. Teulon
… 'Sketches in Verse 1 reveal a young man of deep religious conviction and sensitivity - aspects of his person which continued to be a primary force throughout his life. Teulon’s new churches together with extracts from his personal memoranda help a better understanding of this enigmatic and …
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Ethical ideology: an inquiry into factors affecting the ethical position of selected future health administrators and practitioners
… factors as discipline, sex, ethnic membership, religious conviction, and locus of control were predictors of their ethical ideology. Two hundred sixty-seven junior and senior students enrolled in allied health, nursing, and medicine programs at two universities completed questionnaire's used in …
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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
… who supported the movement out of altruism, religious conviction, and/or legal resignation. Third, East made his stand for equality in Mississippi’s Piney Woods, a place of intense racial violence. Exploring the responses he received from various segregationist groups further illuminates how …
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Three essays on organizational paradox, history, and resilience: An ethnography of Buddhist temples
… Buddhist meditative practice to support their religious conviction. I report the findings at both organizational and individual levels of analysis, in an effort to unpack how an individual level paradox is manifested to an organizational level paradox. The second essay explores an enabling role …
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The Other and the construction of cultural and Christian identity : the case of the Dutch Reformed Church in transition
… to explore the interaction between cultural and religious identity, and more especially, Christian identity; how they develop in relation to each other, and how they differ. This thesis takes as its, starting point the conviction that the understanding of, and the relationship to, the other, is …
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A Reformed Theological Perspective on God’s Providence Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Thulamela Local Municipality, South Africa
… number of individuals experienced a loss of religious conviction as they saw a sense of divine abandonment. The comprehension of the Providence of God proves advantageous in times of adversity. The primary objective of this study was to present a theodicy of God's providence in relation to …
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The role of Evangelicalism in the formation of nineteenth-century Ulter Protestant cultural identity
… and establish the extent to which it had a religious framework. The catalytic role of evangelicalism seemed evident as the synthesis between Loyalism, Orangeism and evangelicalism was explored against political chronology and in relation to covenantalism. A change in direction and a new …
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"Women With No One": Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter
… of the shelter involved passionate displays of religious conviction, continuous ethical deliberation, and reflection on cultural ideals of womanhood and family. Secularism, in other words, was a religious, cultural, and gendered idea and practice. Second, just as there were many secularisms, …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… was actually addressing these Jews of limited religious conviction, whose insufficient religiosity, if not apostasy, served as Pseudo-Aristeas’ main impetus in writing the Letter. Moreover, this text’s overarching purpose, as I shall demonstrate, was to restore the Jewish identities of these …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… was actually addressing these Jews of limited religious conviction, whose insufficient religiosity, if not apostasy, served as Pseudo-Aristeas’ main impetus in writing the Letter. Moreover, this text’s overarching purpose, as I shall demonstrate, was to restore the Jewish identities of these …
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The impact of the mentally handicapped child upon parents : a comparative study
… The variables of socio-economic status, religious conviction and the parents' medical and psychological history were related to parental stress. Interpersonal social support was shown to influence the manner in which parents coped with the mentally handicapped child. Findings were …