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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Religious ethics"”.
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Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa
… seems to be the only solution. This thesis: "Religious Ethics, Capital Punishment and Reconciliation in a New South Africa," contends that reintroducing capital punishment is not a solution to the problem of violent crime, for two principal reasons: It violates the principle of legitimate …
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THE HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATE IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Religious Ethics, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, and The United Methodist Moral Landscape
… of the mechanisms that guide United Methodist ethics, this study suggests the possibility that United Methodist teaching on homosexuality may change, arguing against Amanda Udis-Kessler (2008). This study employs what one might call an existential map model, allowing for a fresh evaluation of …
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Ancestors in African religion : a comparative study of the role of ancestors in the Sotho and Nguni worship and religious ethics
Belief in ancestral spirits among the Africans has always aroused a hot debate among scholars of African Religion. To a great number of scholars this belief seems to have been exaggerated. The fact that Africans speak more about their ancestors than about God has led some scholars into thinking …
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Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town, South Africa
… as "development." Until recently, however, religious modes of contemporary development have been overlooked in development scholarship. The dissertation uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse, and practices of development agents in Catholic Welfare and …
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Wealth and ethics in Pindar
… an approach developed with the anthropology of ethics and in critical dialogue with socioeconomic historicism. It aims to restore the place of divinity in Pindar’s valuation of wealth and provide a productive framework for interpreting apparent inconsistencies in Pindar’s gnomic wisdom. The …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… Yet prominent political theorists and religious ethicists writing since the Civil Rights Movement fail to make a place for King's type of activism. Drawing heavily upon King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," this dissertation problematizes the work of several religious and political …
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Augustine and the Limits of Memory: Augustine’s Account of Memory and its Contemporary Theological and Ethical Significance
This study explores Augustine’s account of memory and argues for its significance as a constructive resource for contemporary theological and ethical reflection on memory and related loci. In doing so, my project contributes to and expands historical understandings of Augustine’s account of memory …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… identity rooted in a secular, rather than in a religious, ethics. This identity was liberal, tolerant, and cosmopolitan. I show how, in response to Britain’s growing mercantile and colonial empire, British writers repurposed Jewish histories and political philosophy to promote toleration as a …