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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Women and religion"”.
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (1584) highlights the various ways …
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Canudos: uma guerra no sertão... muitas mulheres...
… of the research “Canudos: A War in the Backlands... Many Women” is to analyze the female presence in the Canudos War, beyond the Euclidean view, highlighting their contributions to the formation of the settlement through their knowledge and activities. After 130 years of the massacre that …
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… analyzes the contributions of three prominent women religious leaders to 1920s and 30s public debates over how to best address extreme human needs. To enter the debates, these women had not only to offer compelling visions of religiously inspired social service, but to distance themselves from …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… Joyce's Ulysses provides a basis for examining and analyzing the influence of Joyce on selected works of William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess especially in regard to the major ideas and style, and pattern and motif. The works to be used, in addition to Ulysses, include Faulkner's "The Bear" in …
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Spiritual inspiration for women of faith: scripture and the struggle for hope
Religion has always traditionally been a male dominated area and it is one of the few places where women are still excluded from full participation across the board. The belief systems we have today come from texts and scriptures written by a collection of different people thousands of years ago. …
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
… as when, in the sixteenth century, a mere handful of men advanced the Scriptural doctrines that were to result in the rise of Protestantism. The sole authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, and righteousness by faith alone rapidly took hold in a large part of Europe, …
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Voicing women's resistance within religious studies: An interrogation of rational choice theory
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… dissertation analyzes the texts of contemporary women writers who consciously engage dominant Catholic, American, and southern ideologies in their narratives and who posit Louisiana as a liminal, hybrid space. Building upon postcolonial concepts of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, I …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… This papers focuses on the implied social roles and expected virtues of Protestant nuns [<em>Stiftsdamen</em>] in the works of male Lutheran pastors who supported Protestant theological positions that promoted marriage as the proper place for women, and yet who also praised unmarried female …
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Hierarchy Attenuating/Enhancing Organizational Environments and Intergroup Attitudes: Relationship of Racism, Classism, and Sexism in Multiracial and Monoracial Churches of the United States
… to lessen the social distance between Whites and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine how racially hierarchy-attenuating and hierarchy-enhancing environments affect classism and sexism attitudes among congregations. The finding shows that multiracial churches promote H-A …
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Spirituality, Religiosity, and Weight Management in Black Women
… is a major concern in the United States and Black Americans are among those with the highest rates of overweight, obesity, and related co- morbidities. While weight loss among Black women has been studied within the context of a faith-based setting, there is little information about the …