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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Socio-religious"”.
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DISABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS STIGMA IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
… understandings of women’s bodies set up a religious framework for considering gender difference as potentially impairing, such that Margery’s gendered body heightens the visibility of her non-normative cognition. Utilizing a socio-religious perspective on disability and stigma, this thesis …
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The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania
… (3) How do the two radio stations deal with the socio-religious discourse prevailing in Tanzania? (4) What kinds of meanings do audiences construct from the broadcasting activities of Radio Maria Tanzania and Radio Imaan? (5) What are the implications of the constructed meanings on national …
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Jang Ilsoon's socio-religious thought and its relevance for the Catholic Church in South Korea
Religious individuals and communities have been at the heart of civil society and played a crucial role in the social and historical sphere of twentieth-century Korea. In particular, the Catholic Church in Korea had been widely credited for its dedication to justice for the weak and to democracy. …
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Insider Movements: An Assessment of the Viability of Retaining Socio-Religious Insider Identity in High-Religious Contexts
… missiological strategy where adherents of a high-religious system retain their socio-religious birth identity as a means of preventing extraction, thereby aiding the evangelistic and church planting task by keeping the social and family network intact. The strategy has produced a significant …
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Managing socio-religious expectations in an intimate space : examining Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst working class communities in Cape Town
… communities in Cape Town. It also explores the religious identity of individuals and its effect on the marriage. Interfaith marriage has become increasingly prevalent amongst Muslims in South Africa. Moreover, while it is often assumed that Muslims in whatever context follow Islamic law in their …
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Theories of religion and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-1857
… engagement of this endeavor. In the study of a religious event, in particular, these individual theories prove inadequate in illuminating the many varying factors that often contribute to the event's emergence. This work will address this problem and further propose that in fact many theories, …
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Culture and Christianity negotiated in Hindu society: a case study of a church in Central and Western Nepal
… life of the Christians from conversion through socio-religious negotiations of boundaries to cross-religious relationships and friendships. These cases are also a lens for identifying whether or not Nepali Christians connect in a logical way with the local culture through an inculturation …
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The alchemy of the dhikr ritual: South African Sufi women experiences
… and gendered frameworks that have long shaped religious and social life in South Africa. Situated in feminist theory, the study adresses the historical marginalisation of women's voices in both Islamic and South African socio-religious discourses, focusing on how patriarchal structures and …
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Negotiating marriage and divorce in Accra : Muslim women's experiences.
… their perspectives, experiences and responses of socio-religious norms concerning gender roles. In addition, they shared their experiences and perspectives on wife abuse and their consequent reactions and management of wife abuse.
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The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England
… by distilling five clusters of issues (social, religious, cultural, legal and political) which it is argued have "entails" for established religion in England. Chapter 4 on Established Religion, The Controversy and the Issues outlines the inheritance of established religion in England. It brings …
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Ideological Collocation in Meta-Wahhabi Discourse Post-911 : A Symbiosis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
… diametrically opposing stances towards the same socio-religious practice of Wahhabi Islam/Wahhabism. First, using WorSmith5, keywords were used to identify the different semantic foci in the two texts, along with their relevant 'macropropositions' (Van Dijk 1980, 1995, 2009b). A small number of …
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Religious appeals in the popular presentation of cosmology
This thesis explores the use of religious language, metaphors, and images in the popular presentation of cosmology. Specifically looking at books written by cosmologists and intended for a lay audience, I argue that these religious appeals present a particular model, or picture, of cosmology to the …
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The enduring yod: an examination of Torah observance in the prophetic ministry and teaching of Jesus
… of Jesus’ Jewish context, both his devout socio-religious setting and his conservative upbringing presented by Matthew and Luke. This study then highlights indicators of Torah praxis in Jesus’ life and the significance of Jesus’ role as a prophet, restoring Israel back to covenantal …
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The Romanian Orthodox Churches in Italy: The Construction of Romanian-Italian Transnational Orthodox Space
Religious institutions as transnational actors play a very important role within the context of transnational migration. Religious transnational space is formed and shaped with the involvement of different actors, particularly through the agency, commitment and religious practices of migrants that …
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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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The Pragmatics of Apology Speech Act Behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English
… nature of Iraqi culture as well as the socio-religious conceptualization of apology. The results also showed that, unlike the Iraqi Arabic native speakers, the Iraqi EFL learners were less aware of pragmatic competence than of grammatical competence. The perception of apologies achieved …
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Religiositet bland migranter : Sverige-chilenares förhållande till religion och samfund
… from the inquiry and the interviews show that religious changes are common among Swedish-Chileans. The changes however move in different directions, are of different intensity, and touch on different aspects of the religiosity of the individuals. The findings from the interviews point at that …
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Piety Projects: Islamic Schools for Indonesia's Urban Middle Class
… of Islamic movements, Islamic education, and the religious middle class. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this dissertation demonstrates how schooling can be a tool for shaping socio-religious and political climates of a community and country. It adds to the growing literature on the …
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Social and religious interaction and integration of Chinese Muslim converts with Malays in Kuala Lumpur an empirical study
… to explore the exact levels of the social and religious aspects of interaction and integration between Chinese Muslim converts and their Malay counterparts in Kuala Lumpur. I was sure that interaction and integration in both social and religious aspects are dilemmas which Chinese Muslims face …
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Understanding Madrassah Education and Its Impacts. A Case Study of Chach (Attock) region in Pakistan
… madrassah education within the economic, socio-religious and cultural context of Pakistan. A number of publications have reached generalised conclusions about the madrassah education system in Pakistan. Inspired by this, and by adopting qualitative research methods, this study focused on …
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