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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"brotherhood"”.
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
… were established by reference to ideas about brotherhood. Brotherhood here refers not to biological siblings, but to a church rite of ‘spiritual brotherhood’ known in Russian as bratotvorenie. This rite has not been studied in any depth before. Based on archival work, this dissertation offers …
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Between Brothers: Brotherhood and Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
… Brothers lived in the shadow of idealized brotherhood, which entailed loyalty, support, cooperation, and love. Yet a number of structural obstacles to harmony between brothers existed in the later Middle Ages, and perhaps most critically, brothers also were men—thus implicated within …
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Towards a history of a Senegalese brotherhood in Cape Town
"Towards a history of a Senegalese brotherhood in Cape Town" studies the presence of the Muridiyya, or Mouride, order (tariqa) of Senegal in South Africa, the relationships of its members to other Senegalese migrants and to the population of Cape Town. It therefore traces the transformation of the …
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Building brotherhood: An examination of race, violence, sexuality and black fraternity membership
<p>This study examines how black men in black fraternities construct and negotiate their masculinity. We argue that the purpose of black fraternities’ hazing and pledge practices is different from that of white fraternities. Black fraternities use these processes to educate members about the …
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Servant of brotherhood: a content analysis of the columns of Drew Pearson
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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The political survival of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: from participation to boycott
… of relations between the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanian regime from 1945 to 2010, in which a distinction is made between the pre- and post-1989 eras that demarked a significant shift from partnership to crisis. Utilising an historical approach, the first era is defined by both …
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Election, Brotherhood and Inheritance: A Canonical Reading of the Esau and Edom Traditions
… by the prophets for violating a relationship of brotherhood, and for disrespecting the divine apportioning of the lands. It is this twofold rejection of their brother Israel as well as YHWH who has appointed the lands that helps account for the harsh message of the prophets. And third, it is …
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Swagger, gentlemanliness, and brotherhood : explorations of lived experiences in a high school men's chorus
… relationships. The overarching theme of (a) "brotherhood" encompassed three subthemes of (b) support, (c) pride, and (d) camaraderie. A second model was created to illustrate the remaining emergent themes, six of which were grouped into related pairs: (e) strength and sensitivity, (f) teacher …
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Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood
… reconstruct the early mobilization of the Muslim Brotherhood as "bodies in motion." Through a re-examination of both primary and secondary source material, this study highlights the ways in which founder Hasan al-Banna appropriated both Islamic and colonial choreographic logics into the Muslim …
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Millais’ Modern Christ: Religion and Critical Responses to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Nineteenth Century England
<p>This thesis explores how the press reviewed Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the years 1849 and 1850 with a partial review of 1851. In particular, the focus is on the controversial painting Christ in the House of his Parents by John Everett Millais. This painting became a physical symbol of the many …
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Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball: Profits, Beer, and the Origins of the Brotherhood War
<p>In 1890, members of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players elected to secede from the National League and form their own organization, which they called the Players League. The players objected to several business practices of the National League, including aspects of the reserve …
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Economic and political liberalisation in the Middle East:the Muslim brotherhood and the politics of succession in Egypt
… taking into consideration the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and the politics of succession in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is arguably the most important political actor in Egypt, and by looking at how the Muslim Brotherhood developed strength over the decades through a process of change in its …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
… rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric that invites women to identify themselves as Teamsters. This approach reveals how Teamsters organizing rhetoric relies on reinforcing a particular organizational identity …
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The Brotherhood of Blackness: A Phenomenological Investigation Into the Lived Experiences of African American Male High School Graduates in a Northern California City
<p>African American males are typically subjected to unbelievable barriers and negative trends, which include institutional racism, discrimination, multigenerational poverty, lack of education, chronic unemployment, and fatherlessness. These findings are rooted within historical contexts that paint …
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A influência da irmandade muçulmana do Egito na política externa do governo Morsi: do engajamento político-social à chegada ao poder (2011-2013).
… work has the aim to study the Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group actions in the process of elaboration of the country’s foreign policy, at the time Mohamed Morsi takes over the government of Egypt, in the year 2011. The group has an extensive political activism historic in the country, and in …
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For the Liberation of Black People Everywhere: The African Blood Brotherhood, Black Radicalism, and Pan -African Liberation in the New Negro Movement, 1917--1936
This is a study of the African Blood Brotherhood's role in codifying black radicalism as a distinct political tendency during the New Negro Movement. It focuses on how they came to conceptualize the relationship between race, nation, class, and socialism as they related to the Black Freedom …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
… of British literature upon the Pre-Rapheelite Brotherhood of painters who lived and worked during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is the hope of the writer to show, in treating these artists who revived the truthfulness of nature as applied to painting, that those who were realists were also …
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Fraternity Personal Health, Inspiring Transformation (FRAT PHIT): Type 2 diabetes nutrition and physical activity behaviors among African American men
… and leverage the protective benefits of brotherhoods or peer-to-peer networks of AA men. Previous researchers have engaged AA brotherhoods in T2D interventions, yet with focuses limited to barbershops and faith-based settings. New evidence suggests the need to include AA fraternities in …
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Deciphering the Real through Artifice: A Study of the Gaze in Victorian Art
… Professor, the early work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and George Eliot's novella, "The Lifted Veil." Brontë's narrator and protagonist of The Professor is an obsessive gazer who decodes the faces of those around him to find inner character; even though his gaze fails at times, he maintains …
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