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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Sect"”.
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From sect to cult to sect: the Christian Catholic Church in Zion
… 1893 to 1905. This group is analyzed as first a sect, then a cult, and finally a sect. This is not the expected change from sect to denomination suggested by Niebuhr following Troeltsch;Recent research on cults and sects follows Stark and Bainbridge's definitions. Both cult and sect are deviant …
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The Most Dangerous Sect: Baptists in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1929
"This study explores a period of profound religious searching, possibility, and change in Russia through the prism of the Baptists, the fastest growing non-Orthodox religious movement among Russians in the early twentieth century. From the 1905 imperial declaration of religious toleration to the …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
… Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, religious experience, religious salience, and religious practice have direct effects on women's rights attitudes, while controlling for gender, in a majority-Muslim context. My findings show …
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Strategies for Developing Entrepreneurial Capacity and Capability in Coffee Industry Sect in Timor-Leste
… entrepreneurial ecosystem in the coffee industry sector in Timor-Leste. The coffee industry has a significant contribution to Timor-Leste's economic growth. Therefore, the growth and the coffee industry must be maintained in the long term. As an effort to maintain the continuity of the coffee …
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Church, Sect, and Government Control, a History of Seventh-Day Adventists in Austria, 1890-1975
<p>Seventh-day Adventism, a young American-based denomination, encountered strenuous opposition when it first reached Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. This was especially true in Austria, where traditional allegiance to Roman Catholicism, linked with a strong emphasis on …
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Training of observers in risk rituals of the Manasa sect of Hinduism and serpent handling sects of Appalachia
This study proposes to examine observer attitudes. Any ritual action that has the potential for injury or death, will be coined a religious risk ritual (RR). Observers will examine examples of video from the Manasa Hindu tradition in India and the Pentecostal and Holiness Serpent Handling …
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The Koh verbal system
… system I will introduce the basic phonology (Sect. 1.4) and syntax (Sect. 1.5) of Koh. Then in Sect. 2 I will examine the relevant phonological and morphological information concerning verb roots. In Sect. 3 the classification of verb roots will be discussed. Then in Sect. 4 I will turn to the …
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A revision of Hoodia and Lavrania (Asclepiadaceae-Stapelieae)
… to contain 13 species which are divided into 2 sections. Sect. Hoodia contains H.currorii, H.dregei, H.gordonii, H.juttae and H.parviflora. Sect. Trichocaulon contains H.alstonii, H.flava, H.mossamedensis, H.officinalis, H.pedicellata, H.pilifera, H.ruschii and H.triebneri, all except H.ruschii …
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Le directoire pour la gestion des biens temporels dans les instituts religieux (c 635, § 2) avec application particulière aux Missionnaires Oblats de Marie Immaculée
… temporels dans les instituts religieux (c. 635, § 2), avec application particulière aux Missionnaires Oblats de Marie Immaculée." Le premier chapitre étudie la nature et la place du droit propre dans les instituts religieux, ainsi que son importance. La réalité ecclésiale est située dans son …
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Farklı mezhepten bireylerin bazı değişkenler açısından incelenmesi
… in the level of prejudice is dependent on the sect, the sex, the level of education, relationship from another sect, family relationship which includes different sects and political attitude. 2)It has been calculated how the prejudice correlate with the values. Also the correlation between the …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… the secularization concept, as found in church-sect literature, it was argued that a redefinition of the concept was necessary for two reasons. First, the usage of the secularization concept within church-sect literature lacked clarity of definition, and was too often associated with normative …
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Identification of Intracranial Lesions With Dual-Energy Computed to mography and Magnetic Resonance Phase Imaging
… conventional Single-energy Computed Tomography (SECT), lesions with an attenuation greater than 100 Hounsfield Units (HU) can be definitively diagnosed as calcification. However, low-density calcifications and hemorrhage may have overlapping attenuation ranges between 40 and 100 HU and, …
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Performance Evaluation of Material Decomposition Using Rapid Kvp-Switching Dual-Energy Ct For Assessing Bone Mineral Density
… (DXA) or single-energy computed tomography (SECT). Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is able to create two three-dimensional sets of images representing the densities of two materials in a given basis pair. DECT is theoretically capable of providing a true density measurement of …
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The Convoluted Origin and Diversification of Strangler Figs in the Neotropics
… of strangler figs in the Neotropics (Ficus sect. Americanae, ca. 120 species), and I make emphasis on the evolutionary role of hybridization. I base my investigation on field collections and molecular data (RADseq) of >400 samples (>80 species) from the entire range of the section. I apply …
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A state of change : an historical archaeology of Doukhobor identity at Kirilovka village site (FcNs-1)
… Russian immigrants belonging to the Christian sect known as the Doukhobors arrived in western Canada beginning in early 1899. Three colonies of at least 61 villages in total were established in the Districts of Saskatchewan and Assiniboia in the Northwest Territories. Due to internal tensions …
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Imaging Techniques for Proton Range Determination in Proton Therapy
… values of a single-energy computed tomography (SECT) scan through a stoichiometric calibration technique. This technique is subjected to a variety of factors that congregate on the uncertainties in SPR estimation, including the calibration uncertainty (up to 0.5% to 1.8% of the total proton beam …
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Machine Learning techniques to discover and understand the population of flare stars in MeerLICHT data
… observed light curve. We train random forest (sect 4.1.1) and multilayer perceptron neural network (sect 4.1.3) models on simulated LSST PLAsTiCC data and real data from the MeerLICHT survey. We found that the random forest model outperforms the neural network model in both data sets, achieving …
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Argumentation and Understanding: A Study of Tibetan Religious Debate
… traditional methods of debate of the dGe lugs pa sect to interpret Buddhist scriptures. The fieldwork for this study was done with Tibetan refugees in Nepal, India, and the United States.
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Zakat Fitrah di Lembaga Pendidikan Perspektif mazhab Syafi’i dan mazhab Hanafi: Studi Komparasi antara Sekolah Dasar dan Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Desa Bandar Kedung Mulyo, Kecamatan Bandar Kedung Mulyo, Kabupaten Jombang
… and to review the law of Syafi’i and Hanafi sect perspective. In this study uses the type of empirical research with qualitative approach. Most of the primary data collected through semi-structured interviews and field observations. Literature and related documentation of this issue are used …
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