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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Religious culture"”.
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The Role of Self on Ethical Consumption in a Religious Culture: A Case of Consumers in Thailand
… morality as Thai people place high importance on religious values. Ten consumers are studied through in-depth, phenomenological interviews, focusing on ethical consumption experiences and meanings. The self-concept is viewed as an experiencer and a moral entity that is dynamic and contextual …
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Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent scholarship by historians such as Steven Mintz and Amanda Porterfield have …
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Glossolalia: an ethnographic study of the rhetorical role of speaking in tongues in the creation of the pentecostal religious culture
… structures of discourse endemic to that church culture. The positions taken up in the discourse place individuals in a predisposed reaction to the meanings derived from that discourse. Glossolalia is rhetorical in that it serves as a symbolic act that reinforces shared beliefs and is learned …
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Religious Culture or Cult?: Literary and Visual Perceptions and Experiences of the Virgin Mary in Spain and the New World (13th-16th c.)
… in medieval Spain and its colonial territories’ religious cultures? Is it a physical or symbolic place? What were the characteristics of these varied spaces she inhabits? How do these places and spaces change over time based on historical evidence and events? It is critical to discuss and …
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Lived Religion: An Examination of "Pass the Salt" Luncheons.
… study used a case study approach to examine how religious culture, such as theologies and doctrines, is lived or practiced by "Pass the Salt" luncheon participants. "Pass the Salt" participants are taught the teachings of Harvest Evangelism, an interdenominational Para-church organization; these …
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An Investigation of Strong Religious Cultures in Selected Catholic Secondary Schools
The culture of a school includes the values, symbols, beliefs, and shared meanings of members of the school community. Catholic high schools have features which are distinctly Catholic, such as programs, personnel, and religious activities. As a result, religious cultures quite distinct from those …
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Modernized Traditional Temple
… techniques, while still preserving traditional religious culture and elements. The research commences with the analysis of traditional temple architecture, encompassing aspects such as spatial layout, key elements, and architectural techniques. It then delves into various methods of integrating …
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Reconciling Disparate Identities: A Qualitative Study with women in the LDS Church Experiencing Same-sex Attractions
… one's sexual orientation with one's own religious beliefs. Yet counselors and counselors-in-training indicate that they have received very little education and/or training for working competently with LGB clients or with clients dealing with issues of religion and spirituality. The …
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Right Reverend Stephen Elliott: Political Influence and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1840-1866
By the late 1840's, the South's religious and political convictions upheld slaveholders' social and economic views. These convictions permeated worship services in Georgia via the ministries. At the onset of the Civil War, spirituality provided an essential source of Southern strength in both …
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"And the Great Dragon was Thrown Down:" A Historical Examination of the Protestant Stewardship Theological Principle
… relationship with the land and expansion, its religious culture, and its changing political situation over several centuries.
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
… consists of five stand-alone essays explicating religious themes within the following of Aphra Behn's plays: The Lucky Chance, The Feigned Courtesans, The Rover, The Emperor of the Moon, and The Widdow Ranter; Or The History of Bacon in Virginia. Since the feminist recovery of her works in the …
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Urbanism and Social Transformation in Peter the Great's Russia
… campaign of modernization, disrupting the culture of a country mired in traditions he considered hopelessly out of date. The young emperor’s transformations of Russia’s military forces, administrative structure, religious culture, and social and political practices have been well …
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An Exploration of Worship Practices at an African American Church of Christ
… stance on racial relations. Many leaders in the religious movement have claimed racial immunity but have not addressed the evident division among ethnic lines. This study explored the extent of cultural influence that Caucasian Churches of Christ have on African American congregations.</p> …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… in nineteenth-century American political and religious culture, these authors engaged deeply with Catholic sacramentality, discovering an appeal in the Catholic faith tradition that provided possible answers to questions about spirituality in an increasingly pluralistic democratic society. The …
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The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
… into premodern terms. I thus avoid reducing the religious culture of premodernity to 'ideology' or 'power' and show how premodern religion can be taken seriously as a critique of secular modernity. My conclusion from readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Hooker, Perkins, Spenser, Shakespeare, Nashe, …
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God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England
… the center of Anglo-Saxon life was a thriving religious culture, which—in one of its most vibrant forms—was expressed in the cult of saints. The virgin martyr became one of the most popular forms of sanctity, yet with hundreds of possible martyrs who could have been venerated, the question …
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Aimee Semple McPherson : "the forgotten evangelist"
… charismatic and controversial woman in modern religious history"$\sp1$ been largely ignored by religionists? How significant a role did gender play not only in her success but in the vituperous attacks on her character which arose as a result of this success? Was there a conflict between the …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
… how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to which he belonged and preached: the Dissenters. Watts’ hymns were not the only texts that had an impact on the Dissenters. The psalters were considered by many (Calvin, in …
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Contextual studies of the dramatic records in the area around The Wash, c. 1350-1550
… to have records which evince a highly dramatic culture dependent on entertainment and social ritual. The surviving records of King's Lynn, Snettisham, the Lestrange household of Hunstanton, Tilney All Saints, Leverton, Long Sutton and Sutterton are studied in depth with reference to surrounding …
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Religious Sculpture of the Chiloé Archipelago, From the 17th to the 21st Century
Despite its central role in religious life of the region, the sculptural tradition of the Southern Chilean Chiloé Archipelago, ranging from the 17th century to the present day, has been vastly understudied. Isidoro Vázquez de Acuña’s 1994 volume Santeria de Chiloe: ensayo y catastro remains the …
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