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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"devotional practices"”.
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The Relationship Between Parental Influence and Christian Spiritual Practices Among Adventist youth in Puerto Rico
… education, attitudes, behaviors, and religious practices. The dependent variables were devotional practices and church attendance practices. The control variables were age and gender. These variables were tested using ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple …
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Changing forms of parish renewal : toward a restructuring of the parochial model, 1950-1999
… and there is evidence of a resurgence of popular devotional practices. This thesis will examine both collective and individual forms of worship by describing communal devotion and personal piety. It will do so by looking at some of the more popular devotional practices such as the veneration of …
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Portraits as Relic: A Set of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Lineage Paintings of the Dalai Lamas
… a type of “relic” that is foundational to devotional practices in Buddhism. Specifically, this thesis will investigate portraits of Dalai Lamas within the framework of Buddhist relic traditions. As a secondary focus, the thesis will examine the artistic conventions through which the figures …
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Mother of God, Cease Sorrow!: The Significance of Movement in a Late Byzantine Icon
… evidence makes it difficult to address specific devotional practices associated with this particular object, although some observations can be made. I am able, however, to align it with its iconographic antecedents and establish contemporary relationships, illuminating aspects of its original …
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
… through an examination of pastoral texts and devotional practices, the thesis moves on to case studies of interactions at local levels as recorded in ecclesiastical administrative documents, most notably bishops' registers. The discussion here, among other things, includes the interactions and …
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
… monotheism,” and scholarly assumptions about devotional practices. This thesis begins to address this classificatory impasse by first expanding on recent advancements in the taxonomy of religion, including a definition of monotheism that takes into account its nuances and includes new …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… at the National Gallery, London, in light of the devotional practices of his original viewers, and contemporary theological and art-theoretical debates. By applying a holistic approach, this thesis enables a nuanced understanding of how Crivelli’s distinctive pictorial language operated in the …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… dangers of parturiency, women employed a set of practices which they believed would ensure their survival. Using an interdisciplinary approach influenced by histories of the senses and emotions, the thesis investigates childbirth and its relationship with devotional trends, concepts of domestic …
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Development of the Concept of Salvation in the Argentinean and Paraguayan Seventh-day Adventist Children and Adolescents From Ages 6 to 17 Years
… salvation (ATS), (2) a demographic and religious practices information survey, and (3) drawings. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.</p> <p><em>Results.</em> There were significant differences in concepts of salvation and assurance of salvation levels among the hypothesized …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
… on late Medieval and mid-20th century texts and devotional practices. Key primary sources will be Julian of Norwich, William Langland, and Gerald Vann OP. By thus bringing voices from an era in which incorporationist ecclesiology and theological impassiblism were axiomatic into dialogue with …
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Moral Orientation, Ego Maturity, and Religious Commitment : an Exploratory Study from a Developmental Perspective
… and the care-oriented showed a higher level of devotional practices than did the justice-oriented (<em>p</em> = .01). No statistically significant relationship was observed between moral orientation and ego maturity. However, qualitative analysis revealed a steady increase in integration with …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 CE proved crucial in a coming-of-age period for the papacy, whose spiritual authority had begun to resonate from the Mediterranean northward as the vicar of St. Peter. My consideration of women through the lens of …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… has been placed upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern devotional texts have explored their literary content, investigated their censorship by the Church, or concentrated upon an elite readership. This thesis, …