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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Religious denominations"”.
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Natural law and religion in the thought of Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
… to decades of continuous "Warre" inspired by religious differences. The natural jurists of the seventeenth century (Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf) all sought a remedy for the condition of war in independent sovereign states. Pufendorf's concept of a state derived from an assumed natural state …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
… have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the historical reality that shaped nineteenth century readers and writers' imaginative encounters with the sea. As sensational …
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'Our glory and our grief': Toronto and the Great War (Ontario)
… Everywoman's World, The Labour Gazette, and the religious periodicals of major religious denominations in the city. In addition, extensive searches were conducted in the City of Toronto Archives, the Archives of Ontario, the Public Archives of Canada, Baldwin Reading Room, Directorate of History, …
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Relational Spirituality in Adolescents: Exploring Associations with Demographics, Parenting Style, Religiosity, and Psychopathology
… spiritual, and parenting variables in a large, religiously and ethnically diverse sample of adolescents, and 2) investigating its associations with highly prevalent forms of psychopathology in adolescents. Participants were 615 adolescents representing a broad range of ethnicities (Caucasian, …
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The Impact of Conservative Protestantism upon The Time Fathers Spend with Their Children
… The influence of religion was assessed using the religious beliefs reported by fathers. The performance of fatherhood focused on the amount of time fathers spent meeting the physical needs of their young children. This research hypothesized that conservative Protestant fathers would spend more …
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Black Conversions to Catholicism: An Analysis of Louisville Data
… the opportunity to participate as equals in the religious life and other institutions of the larger society, black people organized their own religious denominations as a means of coping with the social isolation which they encountered. As the opportunities for social, economic, and educational …
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"Intonations of their Own Language": An Analysis of Leadership and Resonance in Two Progressive Young-Adult-Filled Congregations in the Pacific Northwest.
… exodus is especially noticeable in mainstream religious denominations, although evangelical groups are beginning to experience a similar waning. The fastest-growing “religious” group consists of those who identify with no religion.</p> <p>Simultaneously, young adults are experiencing a far …
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Examining the moderating effects of subclinical religous intrusive thoughts on religion centrality and self-compassion among Christian women
… than men. Additionally, subclinical unwanted religious intrusive thoughts, a common factor noted within Christian women, might impact self- compassion rates in Christian women. Yet there is a dearth of research exploring subclinical religious intrusive thoughts and their impact on individuals. …
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A New Promised Land? Denominations, Local Congregations, Camp Meetings, and the Creation of Community in Early Kentucky, c.1780-1830
This thesis examines the importance Kentucky's religious denominations played in the development and transformation of early Kentucky (1770's to 1830). This thesis will show that though federal and regional governments may have created the laws that established newly opened territories, it was …
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Examining HIV diffusion through cultural explanations : a cross-sectional comparison of sub-Saharan Africa
… shows no clear relationship between different religious denominations and HIV diffusion. In addition, the correlations that exist between HIV diffusion and religiosity all show that increased religiosity leads to more diffusion. Therefore, international aid programs should avoid using religious …
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The impact of the struggle for racial equality in the United States on British racialised relations from 1958 to 1968
… themselves; antiimmigrants groups; the religious denominations and British Jews: and organisations which sought to promote racial harmony. The study examines not only the response of these sections of the population to American racial trouble but the ways in which their activities had an …
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"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South
… south as missionaries of various Northern religious denominations, built their identities as men and as citizens upon their ability to perform the normative roles of manhood as they were defined within the dominant culture. They worked hard to assert their authority over their communities …
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LAICITÀ DELLA REPUBBLICA E PROGRESSO SPIRITUALE DELLA SOCIETÀ
… and conflict between public powers and religious denominations (and specifically between the State and the Catholic Church), but also the models of the relationship between law and culture that have occurred in the various historical phases of the Italian State. From the analysis that …
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The battle of the stages : the conflict between the theatre and the institutions of government and religion in England 1660-1890
… at the same time, theatre came under fire from religious groups of many different denominations. This condemnation and the measures taken by this special interest group in society to combat the influence of the stage has also been held to have had a restrictive effect on the institution of …