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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Spiritual Identity"”.
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Torture, text and the reformulation of spiritual identity in old English religious verse
The Introduction to this thesis includes a brief discussion of various understandings of what torture is, and a statement of the definition of torture adopted for the purposes of this study. Torture, as it is examined in this study, is not so much an act of violence as it is a violent process; that …
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A Workshop to Improve Experienced Therapists’ Capacity to Integrate a Client’s Cultural and Spiritual Identity
Spirituality has not been extensively included in the training curriculum of academic programs for therapists. Therapists have expressed a desire for continuing education to support their capacity to be responsive to clients’ spirituality (e.g., Plumb, 2011). In light of a need and desire for …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… as a case-study for transitions in sanctity and spirituality during the twelfth century. It highlights the lack of appropriate vocabulary and models available in the 1130s and 1140s to make sense of the new manifestations of holiness that Christina embodies. By using three distinct but …
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Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944
… in the liturgy, and the effect of music upon the spiritual identity. This study utilized liturgical history, ritual studies, musicology, and liturgical theology to derive and compare the spiritual identity fostered through music in the liturgy by these ethnic groups. This study considered both the …
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"We Are Strangers in this Life": Theology, Liminality, and the Exiled in Anglo-Saxon Literature
… of the Anglo-Saxon era as a way of conveying the spiritual condition of eschatological separation. The anthropological theory of liminality will be applied in this dissertation as a way of contextualizing the existence of the exiled, and the multiple ways in which exile is enacted. The …
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A WALK THROUGH TRAUMA
… thesis explores questions of geographical and spiritual identity. Photographs are interspersed throughout the text to give the reader context for geographical location and shared collective memory.</p>
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IS FAITH ON THE CAMPUS TOUR? RURAL, PUBLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS' EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
… dissertation examined how students of diverse spiritual or religious beliefs or worldviews at a rural, public college interpreted, made meaning of, and drew upon their spirituality in relation to other aspects of their identity (e.g., race, gender, sexual identity), focusing particularly on the …
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Equipping Members at First Baptist Church in Leadville, Colorado to Understand and Practice Biblical Sanctification
… foundation for sanctification in a secure spiritual identity, a commitment to consistent spiritual growth, and a call to a continual spiritual battle. Chapter 3 continues the discussion into the theological realm and argues for a theological model that promotes consistent spiritual growth. …
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Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
… emerging adults’ (18-29 years old) cultural identity domains of race/ethnicity identity, gender identity, sexual identity, spiritual identity, and socioeconomic class identity with their features of individuation from parents and life satisfaction. Additional emphases were placed on …
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Eco-spirituality: Collective identity and spirituality in the wilderness action group
… of rational and homogenous internal group identity. This façade has led some social movement theorists to take for granted the internal cohesiveness of the groups they are studying. Yet this emphasis on the rationality and structure of collective action over-simplifies the complex and …
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The idolization of Kim Il-Sung and its missiological implications
… and belongs to a superior spirit in terms of spiritual identity. The sixth chapter offers implications from the findings for North Korean missions and recommended further studies in this area.
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Effects of Religiosity and Self-Control on At-Risk Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency
… was defined as a general valuing of religious or spiritual identity (i.e., religiosity is not restricted to Christianity). Adolescent personality domains were also evaluated in relation to substance use and delinquency, as many theories indicate the importance of personality in the development of …
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Envisioning a Career With Purpose: Calling and Its Spiritual Underpinnings Among College Students
… current study tested the hypothesis that student spirituality would relate positively to the construct of calling and that these constructs together would lead toward career decidedness. To test this model, a sample consisting of 1139 students from a large Midwest university was surveyed. Results …
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Shiftings of the self : towards a deterritorialized view of identity and belonging : the case of East and Central African-Asians in Canada
Who am I? The question of identity is formulated with particular intensity by the fifteen respondents of this study, members of the East and Central African-Asian diaspora residing in Canada. The respondents are Ismaili by faith, a spiritual identity that underpins all other aspects of their …
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Evangelical women negotiating faith in contemporary Scotland
This thesis explores the experience of spiritual dissonance described in the spiritual life histories of twenty one Christian women associated with the evangelical Christian community in Scotland. It describes the symptoms of constriction, paralysis and impasse which some of these women report and …
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An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
… was the dialectic of insider/outsider related to spiritual identity and the dialectic of insider/outsider related to cultural knowledge. Second, the study illustrates the challenges that Native researchers face in conducting community research and in navigating the academy. The findings point to …
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Becoming-Spiritual: Conceiving the Spiritual Family in Post-Reformation England
… that insisted that God was the only true father, spiritual kinship was not simply one bond among others. Period writers took seriously Christ's assertion that 'whosoeuer shall doe my Fathers will, the same is my brother and sister and mother.' Consequently, I argue that the spiritual family in …
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Adoption: exploring a neglected doctrine of salvation
… as “sons” or “daughters" of God in their spiritual identity, these doctrinal issues become crucial in our understanding of what grounds our spiritual-familial identity, and demand investigation into how adoption functions as an organising framework of salvation and faith using the language …
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Paul's opponents and views of women in 1 Corinthians
… 2021. This thesis will aim to explore the identity of Paul’s opponents in Corinth and seek to prove that they consisted of a group of Jewish-Christians. Different aspects of Paul’s styles of writing will be highlighted to support this claim. The thesis will then go on to question, exegete …
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I Used to Speak in Tongues: Spirituality and Pentecostal Deconversion Narratives
… of Pentecostalism, the protagonists adopt a spirituality that is either liberal or neoliberal. Liberal spirituality encourages experimentation and assimilation of various religious practices and beliefs as long as they complement classic liberal values like individualism, freedom, …
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