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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Revivalist"”.
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Perspectives of Pro-revivalism: The Christian History and the Great Awakening
<p><em>The Christian History</em> was a pro-revivalist magazine printed in Boston from 1743-1745 during what is known as the Great Awakening. It contained accounts of revivalism written by pro-revivalist ministers from throughout the American colonies, England and Scotland. These ministers believed …
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Islamic Activism: The Socio-Political Dynamics of the Indonesian Forum of Islamic Society (FUI)
… an escalation in the activism of Islamic revivalist movements whose goals revolve around the implementation of sharia (Islamic law) such as HTI (Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia or the Liberation Party of Indonesia), FPI (Fron Pembela Islam or Islamic Defenders Front), and MMI (Majelis Mujahidin …
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Experiment and Tradition: A Builder's Thoughts
… by local traditions yet not illustrating a revivalist form of vernacular construction.
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The Welsh Revival (1904-1905): Recovering the Role of Welsh Women
… on the role of Evan Roberts, the enigmatic revivalist who was portrayed as the divinely appointed leader of the movement. My original contribution to knowledge is an analysis of the role of women during the Revival, an aspect of the Revival’s history which has remained unexamined. In …
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… of the authors above. It analyses how Irish Revivalist Literature was reshaped in the Chinese context and explicates the various cultural and political implications of these processes. The research provides evidence of the following aspects: (i) The Irish Revivalist linguistic legacy had a …
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Religious Identity, Ideology, and Dilemma of Bangladeshi Muslims in Atlanta
… Muslims like fundamentalist, extremist, and revivalist are intermingled with terrorism and radicalism; Muslims are identified based on these terms and concepts. This paper also examines the fear of Islam in America and how this fear impacts Bangladeshi Muslims in Atlanta. This research will …
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Urban Water History of Shahjahanabad, Delhi (1639-1857): Situating Mughal Hydrology and Urbanism in the ‘Persianate World’
… a study of Shah Nahr, the Mughal canal. As a revivalist homage to antecedent water management practices in Central Asia & Iran, the Shahjahanabad model offers insights into societies that have historically managed water resources in arid/semi-arid areas of the ‘Persianate world’. The …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
“Adventures in the Archaic” unearths a revivalist sensibility that flourished in France in the first years of the Anthropocene. After the Second World War, four like-minded intellectuals cultivated archaic folkways in the fields of prehistory, ethnopsychiatry, rural sociology, and the history of …
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Just As I Was: The Presence of Sacramentalism in the Methods of Southern Baptist Revivalism
… paper will argue that Southern Baptists in the revivalist tradition have unknowingly adopted a sacramental understanding in many of their methods and practices. The two methods specifically addressed are the sinner’s prayer and the altar call. Chapter one will give an introduction to the subject …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… culture, showing how desires written into a revivalist gaze forced artists to assume what I term ‘black masks’ for the benefit of white male fantasy. Focusing on televised performances, I argue that the semiotics of blues events provide a way of understanding the workings of racial identity …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… secular ways of being worldly and pagan revivalist ways of being earthly I set out in the previous chapter. My fourth chapter examines how Richard Jefferies adopts and adapts a unique form of pagan affectation. I argue that Jefferies affects a paganism grounded in intimate connections to …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the Preaching of Asahel Nettleton in The Second Great Awakening
… examines the life and ministry of American revivalist Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844) with special attention given to his preaching. The project is a rhetorical analysis seeking to dissect and understand what made Nettleton’s preaching so effective during the Second Great Awakening and …
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Analysis of the labeling discourse between the Jamaat ud Dawa and its critics seen through the Pakistani print media
… GWOT alliance. The JuD is a Pakistani Islamic Revivalist relief and welfare organization that the UN has accused of being part of the Al Qaeda network and the Government of Pakistan has banned. Results of the study showed that newspapers published in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, …
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The Dialectics of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi
<p>This dissertation analyzes Said Nursi's revivalist discourse and mobilization strategies in the context of the development of secularism in Turkey. This study starts with the exploration of the development of the secularist movement and its discourse with regard to philosophical foundations of …
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'Facile Princeps': The Country Houses of David Bryce (1803–1876)
… years, and newly argues that Bryce was an early revivalist of Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture. The second section treats the mature practice. This argues that Bryce was not only the leading re-interpreter of the Scottish baronial, but that he did so according to a strictly taxonomical …
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Khoe, San, Coloured, controvert or conform: Physical attributes influencing the formation of cultural identity in ""Coloured"" women of the Western and Northern Cape
… racial basis. In certain communities the Khoisan revivalist movement has seen an uprising in individuals claiming their indigenous Khoisan identity and their rights as indigenous people in the postapartheid South Africa. This study was performed through oral interviews with over 100 women, and a …
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… the increased visibility and popularity of this revivalist, Salafi-based therapy of jinn exorcism and counter-sorcery that is rooted in centuries-old Islamic practices of healing, all the while developing them into new configurations. During the same period, heated public debates stirred by the …
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Sectarian influences within Islam in Britain with special reference to community
… Will Islam in Britain be moderate, or strongly revivalist in nature under their influence? Are they unifying or divisive forces? Can they hope to resolve traditional differences and work together in the new environment of Britain? In spite of the increasing interest in the Muslim presence in …
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Alive in death : Bataillean eroticism in the 60s gothic cinema of Mario Bava
… desire by concentrating purely on his 60s Gothic Revivalist works Black Sunday, Black Sabbath (The Wurdalak segment), The Whip and the Body and Kill, Baby Kill!, and his 60s Modern Gothic works The Telephone, The Girl who Knew Too Much and Blood and Black Lace. In order to achieve this the thesis …