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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Religious history"”.
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… physiological reform movement was deeply religious. While historians have noted the moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers' dietary recommendations, few have examined why and how a movement to reform the body became religious and how that religious impulse manifested …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… physiological reform movement was deeply religious. While historians have noted the moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers' dietary recommendations, few have examined why and how a movement to reform the body became religious and how that religious impulse manifested …
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… scholars upon the categories "experience" and "religious experience" in their writing of American religious history. I will argue that as it is employed by most historians of American religion, the category of "experience" (in its many forms) fails to provide scholars with an adequate conceptual …
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The Utilization Of Local History In Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age And Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study
<p>Teachers of college-level courses on American religious history generally leave out the importance of local and regional histories when telling the story of religion in America. The study of local history provides a fertile ground for understanding broad national trends in a local context. This …
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Components of Religious Beliefs, Religious Maturity, and Religious History as Predictors of Proscribed and Non-Proscribed Explicit and Implicit Prejudices
… intrinsic/extrinsic, fundamentalism, quest, history, and maturity) and their relationship to explicit and implicit attitudes. Two hundred and eighty eight undergraduate students completed an online questionnaire measuring aspects of religiosity and computer based measures of explicit and …
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
… colonizer.In seven chapters, I examine the religious history of the Qazaq people and probe implications for modern Christian missions. In chapter 1, I introduce the subject matter and outline the entire work. In chapter 2, I summarize, compare, and contrast the leading arguments posed by …
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We go back: antimodernism in the early Catholic Worker Movement
… for their antimodernism by way of his notion of history, which exalted the medieval and condemned the modern. By examining the Workers until approximately the 1950s, the study demonstrates that key aspects of the movement - namely, charity, poverty, and views on community - were influenced by …
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The Foundations and Early Development of Mormon Mission Theory
… developed within the context of early American religious history.</p>
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
… impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia to becoming the figurehead of the movement …
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Woman Has Two Faces: Re-Examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought
<p>Throughout the religious history of American feminism, Jewish feminist biblical interpretation shifted attention away from Eve as a viable example of women's identities. Instead, Lilith, the independent, "demon" and "first wife" of Adam is praised as a symbol of female sexuality for …
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Intrinsic patterns in the history of religious change from early Hindu traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism : an application of Cumpsty's theory of religion
This thesis, Intrinsic Patterns in the History of Religious Change from early Hindu Traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism: an Application of Cumpsty's Theory of Religion, is an application of a comprehensive theory of religion to a broad sweep of religious history and diversity. It follows …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… this argument is provided by bringing together religious history and educational history. The topics and questions examined are varied. One chapter is devoted to the question of how both church and state viewed the role of denominational colleges and universities. The remaining chapters focus on …
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Religious Practices in Classical Thebes
… uses Thebes as case study to focus on Theban religious practices during the Classical age (traditionally defined as between 510 BCE and 323 BCE). By narrowing my study to this geographical and chronological scope, my research aims to add to the traditional narrative of Theban history by …
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The Adorable Trinity: Old Columbia Seminary’s Stand for Trinitarianism in the Nineteenth-Century American South
… interpretation of nineteenth-century Southern religious history and that within that debate the Old Columbians successfully turned the tide against Unitarian advances. These conclusions are reached by examining the three main “theatres” of the conflict between Unitarianism and Trinitarianism in …
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"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
<p>This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. The history that is told in this work is that of a century-long struggle …
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Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of peace: Human revolution, dialogue and global civilization.
… the Buddhist leader of one of the most visible religious movements today, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI). In this thesis, the main research question concerns the peace philosophy of Ikeda and its contribution to peace theory. Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI have been the subject of several …
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The evolution of pilgrimage practice in early modern Ireland
In the religious history of Lreland, the pilgrimages to Lough Derg and Our Lady's Island have occupied a special place of interest for centuries. The pilgrimage practice at Lough Derg offers insights into certain aspects of study which warrant further attention in pilgrimage scholarship. Historians …
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"Far in Distant Lands to Dwell": The Sacred Harp Presence in the Arkansas Ozarks
<p>In 1999, the Shiloh Museum of Ozarks History in Springdale, Arkansas, hosted a singing school to teach the public the rudiments of the 1844 religious songbook The Sacred Harp. While enjoying a long history among Deep South singers, The Sacred Harp has few regional ties to the Ozarks. The goal of …
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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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