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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Vow"”.
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The Nazirite Vow and Fertility
… role of women within the context of the Nazirite Vow. The goal of this paper will be to examine the role of women within the Nazirite Vow, as well as examining the constraints that might arise when one takes into account the purity laws. The Nazirite Vow is the only vow within the Bible that …
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A Study of the Vow of Poverty
… subject matter pertaining to the simple vow of poverty and its implementation in the lives of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, Congregation of the Most Holy Cross.</p> <p>The present paper is not intended to be a treatise. The topics considered are those which seem …
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A Study of the Vow of Chastity
<p>From the world of confused, vague, and false notions of the utility of sex in the plan of God, the work of the apostolate today beaches out more imploringly than ever to the beatitude of purity. Religious, busied with the work of souls, are obligated by profession to contribute to the …
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A Study of the Vow and Virtue of Obedience
… with freedom, all of which is implied by the vow of obedience. (December 8, 1950)</p> <p>Despite the dearth of religious vocations and the great needs of the apostolate, His Holiness nevertheless looked with grave concern on a new rule proposed in some quarters: "Restrict freedom only so far …
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A critical edition of William Sampson's 'The Vow Breaker' 1636.
… Sampson's mid-seventeenth-century play, The Vow Breaker, or The Fair Maid of Clifton, edited according to the guidelines set down by the Revels Plays Series. The Introduction is divided into ten sections: William Sampson; performance; synopsis; the siege of Leith; navigation of the Trent; …
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The cultural significance of the Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg KwaZulu-Natal
… study of the history of the Church of the Vow (also sometimes referred to as the Church of the Covenant) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, which was built in fulfilment of a vow taken by the Voortrekkers before the Battle of Blood River (also referred to as Ncome in Zulu and Bloedrivier …
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Religious Life
… College, she submitted a dissertation on the vow of chastity. This was the first step in a project being undertaken by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Dominic, Congregation of the Holy Cross. The plan called for a similar study of the vow of poverty, another for the vow of obedience, and …
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Precarity and pastoral care : nuns and bishops in the fifteenth-century diocese of Lincoln.
… chapter considers the gendered dynamics of the vow of chastity, arguing that concerns about reputation were different for male religious than for female religious and this impacted women's pastoral care. The fourth chapter examines female monastic houses and the vow of poverty, arguing that …
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Virtual Online Worlds: Towards a Collaborative Space for Architects
… collaboration and use of virtual online worlds (VOW) amongst architects and architectural students (2006-2010), little discussion is dedicated to how the use of VOWs have improved collaboration, communication and quality of design for those that have used it. Researching VOWs and their use in …
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The Experience of Lasallian Association on the Part of Lay “Associates in Fact” in the District of San Francisco
… ministries for more than 330 years, take a vow of association for the educational service of the poor, and this vow marks their identity as Lasallian educators. In recent years, lay people have come to be considered associated with the Brothers for the Lasallian educational mission. The …
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Three Essays on the Employment of Veterans
… of the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011 (VOW) on labor market performance of veterans. The effect of the legislation was evaluated on five outcomes; labor force participation, unemployment, employment, weekly hours of work and weekly earnings. These effects are analyzed separately in …
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Variations on a Theme: Forty years of music, memories, and mistakes
… I've lost my voice. I eventually reclaim it and vow that I will perhaps meet my sister at some point in the future.
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An Examination of the Application of Three Deep Learning Principles (Active Learning; Bloom's Taxonomy; Neuroscience of Learning) in Counselor Education Masters Level Ethics Courses
<p>Despite the vow to do no harm that clinicians make upon licensure, incidences of ethical violations of varying kinds in the counseling profession occur fairly frequently, regardless of the many inputs of ethical training in the development of a clinician’s ethical identity. The purpose of this …
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The Man in the Backseat
… life-altering events unfold on television, vowed to change their ways for the better, and then either forgotten that vow or become lost in the quest for how to change. Each main character is placed in either absurd or extreme situations that forces them to reexamine their lives and what they …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… Tamburlaine plays in 1590, to Sampson’s Vow Breaker in 1636. The thesis encompasses four major contexts for the study of dying speeches: beheadings, murder, revenge and suicide. Chapter One, on public execution, focuses on scaffold speeches delivered prior to simulated beheadings on the …
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Towards understanding the dynamics of transformation in spiritual psychology with particular reference to Buddhist teachings
… and as such it is perfected in the Bodhisattva vow to save all beings. Central to sustaining the spiritual path is to have a question such as ‘Is what I am doing what God is doing’. Life and the spiritual path are unpredictable; the unpredictable challenges the mind’s tendencies to conceptualize …
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Reconstructing the Dedicatory Experience: Flexibility and Limitation in the Ancient Greek Dedicatory Process
… and gender, as well as the inheritance of a vow. A careful review of the evidence suggests that notions of specialization and appropriateness were less limiting than previously thought. Worshippers could dedicate an offering of their choice to a deity or hero because they were flexible beings …
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Theorizing prayer in Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Ælfric
… to God. For Ælfric, prayer functions like a vow: it is a performative statement of allegiance that both expresses the intention of those praying to serve God and also brings them under God’s protection. Because prayer was both an individual and communal regimen practiced in some form by all …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
… analyses of the text focus on Isabella’s broken vow to remain in the convent as the source of her ruin at the end of the novella. In contrast, this interpretation argues that Isabella’s execution was precipitated by her abandonment of her fellow nun, Sister Katteriena, with whom I suggest …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
… few vinaya-rules such as observing the chastity vow and not keeping donations obtained in merit making for personal use. In an attempt to move beyond the obvious, this dissertation applies an exchange theory to problematize the above. Two separate but intimately related spheres exist in modern …
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