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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Religious practice."”.
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Fantastic religion : fandom as religious practice
… as a meaningful category within the field of Religious Studies and to illuminate a theoretical framework based in functionalist definitions of religion as a tool for fan studies analysis. Religion encompasses the processes by which individuals orient themselves in the world and produce meaning …
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Urban Planning and Religious Practice: Three Challenges
… view has been questioned recently by research in religious and pluralism studies and by the increasing religious diversity and activism in Western and non-Western cities. Yet, the challenge remains that urban planners usually don’t understand how to address religious concerns and practices of …
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An Exploration of Religious Practice as a Valued Occupation
… Globally, millions of people engage in religious practice or religious ‘doing’ daily, but occupational science has not explored this common occupation widely, and occupational therapists continue to struggle to consider religious practice within the occupational needs of their clients. …
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An Evaluative Framework for the Improvement of Religious Practice in the Context of Pluralism
… maximize the epistemic rationality of continued religious practice, as each religion will claim to have a unique source of knowledge the others do not. However, if we set aside these unverifiable disputes, there remains an often underemphasized common thread: religions each have a conception of …
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Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood
… al-Banna's revival of traditional Islamic practices concerning the body, reconfigured for the goal not of otherworldly transcendence, but of the construction of a moral community committed to da`wa and the care of the material needs of others. This reconfiguration of embodied Islamic …
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Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859
… by sailors that document their own faith and religious practices. This thesis examines the logbooks, journals, and diaries written by American sailors while at sea, sounding the depth of sailors’ religious beliefs through their own words. While American seamen certainly drank, swore, and …
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The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250
… to clarify ninth-century developments in religious practice and their consequences. In the first chapter of the dissertation, I focus on the compilation of Bede’s text and the attribution of manuscript copies. In chapter two, I discuss one component included in top-down efforts at reform, …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
… Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women's rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, religious experience, religious …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: Does Mother's Working Behaviour Make a Difference?
… children. We consider two measures of religion: religious belief and religious practice. Our bivariate probit model shows that a youth whose mother stayed at home during his childhood is more likely to have the same religious affiliation as her, even after controlling for various background …
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A case study of the modern orthodox and ultra orthodox sectors of Johannesburg Jewry with special reference to their educational institutions
… and values of pupils at Johannesburg Jewish religiously orientated schools both towards their own education, as well as towards elements of Jewish and secular culture. An overview of Johannesburg Jewry is presented, and Jewish educational systems in Johannesburg are outlined. Although much of …
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A MUSLIM FIFTH COLUMN: MORISCO RELIGION AND THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITY IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN
… and the Muslim in specific instantiations of religious practice. For others, the Moriscos represent a crypto-Islamic community that practiced a form of taqiyya, or the Islamic practice allowing Muslims to conceal their religious affiliation under duress or the threat of death. What these …
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The Familiar Other World: Family Worship In Late Seventeenth-Century England
… in which it is normally assumed that patterns of religious practice were leading inevitably toward broad social habits we generally label modern. Family worship connected individual piety to corporate, public religious practice, and therefore worked against other individualizing or privatizing …
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
… and on the study of Theravada Buddhist texts. Religious, cultural, and social realities are contrasted with the doctrinal foundations of the Theravada Buddhist tradition taking into account indigenous perceptions and cosmological computations of relationships between religious practice, ritual, …
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Movement and Motion: Spatial Change in Roman Domestic Religion. Paganism to Christianity, 1st-5th centuries CE
… changes in Roman domestic spaces related to religious practice from the pagan to Christian period. I argue that in their spatial negotiation of pre-existing pagan spaces, early Christian belief was influenced by these pagan spaces. A long process of reinterpreting domestic space created new …
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Using multisystemic treatment for treating juveniles with serious deliquent behaviour in the social observation home in Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia
… and in increasing their level of self-esteem and religious behaviour.The fieldwork was conducted in 2000-0 I in the Social Observation Home in Riyadh City. The project consisted of three parts: therapists training for one month, a treatment programme for three months and follow up, conducted in …
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
This dissertation analyzes religious ritual in fifteenth and sixteenth century Germany. It argues that the history of ritual behavior in this period discloses what can be described as a cultural ‘reformation of the senses.’ Previous histories of religious behavior in this period have approached …
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Studying the relationship between church and state : practical limits of church, state, and society programs in higher education.
… the relationship between state authority and religious practice, and the subsequent effects this relationship has on society. As this curriculum is relatively new to higher education, it is the purpose of this thesis to critically examine the fundamental nature of Church, State, and Society …
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Orkney pilgrimage: perspectives of the cult of St. Magnus
… process of pilgrimage were central themes in the religious practice of the Middle Ages. The veneration of saints and relics, the belief in miracles, and the act of pilgrimage were aspects of Christianity rapidly adopted by the converted population of the North Atlantic. This thesis focuses on St …
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Interreligious dialogue in the religious styles perspective: a qualitative analysis of instrumental cases
Interreligious dialogue (IRD) is considered a sacred religious practice ([PCID], 2017; Merdjanova, 2016) and has become increasingly present in interventions to address conflict resulting from exposure to religious diversity (Cornille, 2013; Patel, 2018). However, few empirical efforts have …
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