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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Religious movements"”.
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Free to Play: An Analysis in Aesthetic, Ethical, and Religious Movements
… conceptions of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of existence. Liberty and limitation appear differently under each of these categories. Further, their forms change depending on whether they are viewed in light of children's play, videogames, gambling, puppetry, or improvisation, …
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MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA: THE ORIGINS OF REVIVAL AND REFORM
During the British colonial period of South Asia, religious movements such as Buddhist modernism and Hindu nationalism became powerful agents of resistance and change. These developments, shaped by the contrasting influences of Western cultural domination and the pervasiveness of preexisting social …
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
The study of Japan's New Religious Movements (NRMs) has long been a preoccupation of Western scholars. However, significant disagreement and confusion has existed in the West over whether some of these movements, exemplified in this study by Kurozumikyō, Tenrikyō, and Konkōkyō, are monotheistic or …
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Deviant Healing Practices within Contemporary Religious Movements in Ṱhohoyanḓou, Limpopo: Towards a Post-Colonial African Practical Theology Perspective
… an impact on the conventional understanding of religious meaning, practice, and function. The introduction of Eurocentric orientations into African spirituality did not only encounter Indigenous religious systems but resulted in the development of religious pluralism. As such the researcher felt …
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The attitude of the Anglican church of Uganda to the new religious movements and in particular to the Bacwezi-Bashomi in South Western Uganda 1960-1995
… of the Anglican Church of Uganda to the New Religious Movements and in particular to the Bacwezi-Bashomi in south-western Uganda, 1960-1995. Since the 1960's Uganda has been witnessing a wave of new religious movements stressing healing and exorcism and to date are attracting a large …
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Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth
… of the use of science and technology within new religious belief systems. The emphasis is placed upon the incorporation of scientific method, scientific findings, scientific theory, scientific terminology, and technological components within the rhetoric and praxis of historical and contemporary …
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Judaizing and Singularity in England, 1618-1667
… in England, a remarkable number of small, religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Typically, this phenomenon has been explained with reference to other tropes of Puritan practical divinity. It has …
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Our Master’s Legacy: Belief and Ritual in Mission De L’esprit Saint
… thesis is a folkloristic examination of the religious beliefs and rituals associated with members of a religious movement known as Mission De L’Ésprit Saint. Mission De L’Ésprit Saint is a Quebecois religious denomination which believes that their founder was the physical incarnation of the …
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Conspirituality in the Age of TikTok: A Thematic Analysis of #AgeofAquarius
… literature beliefs and themes within New Religious Movements and alternative spiritualities on social media, the field of cyberethnography, and further illuminates the convergence between conspiracy theories and New Age beliefs.
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Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism
<p>Neo-Paganism, a nature-based new religious movement, provides a rich backdrop for the study of spiritual environmentalism. This ethnographic project analyzes the dynamic interconnectedness of neo-paganism and environmentalism, or "eco-paganism," and how Heathenry reframes the natural world using …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… party during their shared fight to secure religious liberty in the infant nation, Baptists increasingly embodied Jeffersonian ideals through ecclesial practices that prioritized individual liberty and opposed any semblance of authoritarianism. However, the same partisan loyalty that aided …
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Disfellowshiped: Pentecostal responses to fundamentalism in the United States, 1906-1943
… of Evangelicals, which combined these two movements (along with holiness churches), though their history was marked by dispute. On closer examination, the two groups held an evangelical heritage in common from the nineteenth century. Like a new species that is introduced into a particular …
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The missionary career and spiritual odyssey of Otto Witt
… matter, his role in Scandinavian nonconformist religious movements for nearly a third of a century beginning in the early 1890S is a largely untold chapter in the ecclesiastical history of the region. This thesis is intended to redress these lacunae by presenting Witt's career as both a foreign …
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From sect to cult to sect: the Christian Catholic Church in Zion
… definitions. Both cult and sect are deviant religious movements. The sect revitalizes an established religion and the cult begins a new religion. The Stark and Bainbridge definition proves inadequate in its prediction of cult origins in secular roots and in its failure to highlight the …
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Vale do Amanhecer: uma nova expressão religiosa em Santa Rita/PB
… for the categorization of it in the context of religious classifications, because most theorists as Silas Guerriero (2006), that we use on this occasion, means that religion as belonging to the block of NRM (New Religious Movements). Thus, we will make a reflection on the New and Religious terms …
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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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A feminist anthropological study on women's mediumship in Florida
… faced (and continue to face) marginalization in religious settings, exhibited through such power plays as control over their bodies (rules for dress and behavior in church and home) and prohibitions from formal leadership positions. It is now the role of feminist scholars to undertake research …
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Control of Internet search engines in China -- A study on Google and Baidu
… into 3 different areas. They are political/religious factors which include news, blogs, BBS forums, opposition parties, political process in Taiwan, anti communist, independence movements, illegal religious movements; cultural/moral factors which include sex and homosexuality, health, …
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