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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"evangelical christianity"”.
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Reclaiming British Gujarati culture after conversion to Evangelical Christianity
… ideological diaspora influenced by British Christianity that resulted in the challenge of the binary of religious affiliation. For some British Gujarati this resulted in a complete change of religious self-identity to Evangelical Christianity. By using ethnography and autoethnography this …
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Replacing identity: Evangelical Christianity's role in identity creation and restoration
… experiencing a damaging experience by examining Evangelical Christianity’s role in identity creation and restoration. The articles specifically deal with the role stigma has on identity. The findings indicate that a primary function of Evangelical Christianity is redeeming “spoiled” identities. …
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Ruptured Lives: Narrative Accounts of US American Adult Converts to Evangelical Christianity over the Life Course
… the rupturing effect that conversions to Christianity have in indigenous contexts. Individuals who have converted to Christianity from indigenous religions frequently speak of a disruption between their pre-conversion and post-conversion selves and social worlds. Anthropologists have yet, …
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Ethnic identity negotiation through dialogical self: the case of Anywaa and Nuer evangelicals in Gambella, Ethiopia
… ethnic identity negotiation of Anywaa and Nuer Evangelical Christians in the Gambella region, Ethiopia, using the Dialogical Self Theory. The two ethnic groups are living in conflict due to different reasons such as historical narratives and cultural differences. Though they have differences on …
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'A Deep and Imperturbable Joy': Saving Christianity from Postmodern Evangelical Heresy
<p>This paper offers an internal critique of evangelical Christianity as a thoroughly postmodern expression of Christianity in the sense that evangelical worship is informed by minimalist tendencies that lead to 'de-sacramentalized' life and worship. The standard for 'orthodox' Christian worship by …
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Love is a series of vaultings
… body and metabolizing the violence of white, evangelical Christianity toward a more ethical, ecological ritual consciousness. The writing is hybrid in medium and genre, which speaks to its attempts to defamiliarize easy boundaries of time and space, prose and poetry, text and image, body and …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
… people. This thesis argues that revivalism and evangelical fervor was carried to rural portions of the region by migrants from western New England. Evangelical Christianity and revivalism provided emotion succor for rural people grappling with negative social conditions, such as isolation, …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Using the methodologies of micro-history, and sources like vernacular …
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Paul's Proclamation, Defense, and Application of the Gospel in Galatians as a Paradigm for Gospel-Centered Preaching
… preaching. The dissertation argues that evangelical Christianity suffers from a lack of gospel rich preaching, assesses that Galatians can be understood as a sermon, and then analyzes each passage in light of the gospel. In Galatians 1-4 Paul alternates between proclaiming and defending …
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Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism
"Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism" traces the conjoined histories of evangelical Christianity and evangelical book culture in the United States. Although existing studies of religion, media, and business have explored evangelical print culture in the …
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The pastoral intent of the writings of Henry Holcombe Tucker
… and defense of the core doctrines of historic, evangelical Christianity. Tucker was a Baptist, but he was first and foremost a Christian. He upheld such critical doctrines as the person and work of Christ and justification by faith in a manner that placed him in the mainstream of historic …
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An analysis of Virginia's public school policies on religion: from historical, public policy, and evangelical Christian perspectives
… and state. One major religious constituency, evangelical Christianity, in recent years has begun to vocalize its concern about this relationship. Evangelicals, although not necessarily wanting to return to the days of the Protestant public schools, do want this relationship corrected and …
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The Shiraz Controversy: Henry Martyn, Crucicentric Conversionism, and Islam 1811–12
… tracts—the Shiraz Controversy—which presented Evangelical Christianity to Muslim scholars. Although contemporary Muslim scholars and the Persian shah read Martyn’s tracts, recent scholarship has neglected the context and content of the Shiraz Controversy. In this early Evangelical encounter …
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Negotiating Community : An Ethnographic Study of an Evangelical Church.
Evangelical Christianity is commonly interpreted in terms of an ongoing reaction to a religiously and morally defunct modernity. Some commentators argue for its popularity on the grounds that it compensates for the discontents of modernity, offering certainty in a context of uncertainty, clarity …
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Protestants and the public sphere in Brazil, c.1870 - c.1930
… in the country: the production and diffusion of evangelical literature. On the one hand, this work analyses the ideological and doctrinal contents of the literature circulated by evangelical agents in Brazil, showing how foreign missionaries and Portuguese-speaking ministers actively engaged with …
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Renewing Homeland and Place: Algonquians, Christianity, and Community in Southern New England, 1700-1790
… and Place” explores the complex intertwining of evangelical Christianity and notions of place and homeland in Algonquian communities in southern New England during the eighteenth century. In particular, this dissertation examines the participation of Algonquian men and women in the Protestant …
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A Decade of Home Schooling in Saskatchewan, Canada (1984-1994): A Case Study
… movement and those whose programs were based on evangelical Christianity. The definition of home schooling was expanded to focus on multidirectional teaching and learning. Each participant's self-esteem, ambition, and self-confidence in transferring the skills, knowledge, and values to their …
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Imagined Communions: One Woman's Spiritual Journey
… analyzes the epistemological connections between evangelical Christianity and Miller's literacy practices, connections acknowledged by a significant population of middle class women like Miller in nineteenth and turn-of-the-century America who created and shaped some of America's first service …
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Whatever Happened to Respect? Values and Change in a Southwest Ethiopian (Aari) Community
… almost two thirds of the population have become evangelical Christians. Motivated by a quest for blessings, conversion came at the cost of respect: it is only by abstaining from numerous practices which previously mediated respect that God’s blessing can be secured. Second, over the past decade, …
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