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Educational values and practices of fundamentalist Mormons
Fundamentalist Mormons believe in plural marriage, or polygamy. Many practice it. Polygamist groups live in insular settlements and in mainstream communities, mostly in the western United States and Canada. Polygamists often have large families, and they educate their children in a variety of …
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Montana Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community
… of Pinesdale, Montana. Established by the Mormon fundamentalist leader Rulon Allred and his group in 1961, the town served as a haven for those practicing polygamy as well as an opportunity for group members to live a Mormon form of communalism known as the United Order. Compelled by the social …
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Montana Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community
… of Pinesdale, Montana. Established by the Mormon fundamentalist leader Rulon Allred and his group in 1961, the town served as a haven for those practicing polygamy as well as an opportunity for group members to live a Mormon form of communalism known as the United Order. Compelled by the social …
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Academic Dishonesty: Attitudes and Behaviors of Fundamentalist Christian College Students
… (1) the extent to which cheating occurs in fundamentalist Christian colleges; (2) the attitudes of fundamentalist Christian college students toward cheating; (3) attitudes of fundamentalist Christian college students toward cheating among their peers; (4) the kinds of cheating practices of …
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The Fundamentalist Controversy Among The Disciples of Christ, 1890-1930
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God's Glass Ceiling: Women's Education in Christian Fundamentalist Higher Education Institutions
Fundamentalists have historically held complex relationships with education and with women. This thesis examines the intersection of the three topics through a case study approach by looking at the education of women at fundamentalist institutions Bob Jones University, Liberty University, and …
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The root of all evils: creation science and the fundamentalist mission
… science is a direct historical product of fundamentalist thought, theology, social character, and organizational structure. Indeed, creation science is most clearly understood in light of its historical and social relationship to fundamentalism. Scientific creationism is the newest phase in …
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Fundamental Words: The Construction of Identity in the Protestant Fundamentalist Community, 1925--1940
… within faith communities. It argues that for fundamentalists, the identity construction and reconstruction process centered on the language shared by community members. In particular, it focus on three discursive domains: the rhetoric of child rearing, fictional literature for young adults, …
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These Bodies Were Born to Die': Separatism and Medicine in a Fundamentalist Mormon Community
… separatism within a polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Mormon community called "the Group." Based on almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork, it specifically explores how adherents understand, construct, and negotiate their often-ambiguous position within the power structures in which …
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Violence for a Peaceful End: Rhetorical Violence, Fundamentalist Eschatology, and the Interpretive Tradition of Revelation
<p>With the rise of extremist fundamentalist groups, such as ISIS, it is important to note similar happenings in other traditions. This thesis traces the interpretive tradition of the Book of Revelation, from its composition in 90 C.E. through the dispensationalist usage of it by John Nelson Darby …
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The Use of Re-authoring to Reconcile Fundamentalist Religious Beliefs with Sexual Orientation: A Narrative Study
<p>A narrative qualitative research design was used to understand the journeys of three lesbians with Oneness Pentecostal backgrounds who have reconciled their religious beliefs with their sexual orientation. Three participants were selected who met the following criteria: (a) the participant is a …
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Divine Order, Divine Myth: The Necessity Of Gender Paradigms In The Study Of Protestant Fundamentalist Thought
Protestant Fundamentalism is a religious movement that has enjoyed a particular American resurgence over the last few decades. Among the most noteworthy and, perhaps, controversial aspects of this movement is its espousal of traditional, hierarchical gender roles (i.e., female submission to male …
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The incombatibility of the Free Methodist Church and fundamentalist theology: why Free Methodists are not fundamentalists
… responded to the doctrines and mindset of the fundamentalist movement in America. Chapters in the thesis cover the historic and theological context of the Free Methodist Church and the fundamentalist movement, and the way in which Free Methodists received and responded to two primary doctrines …
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A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World
… a significant surge in the number of Islamic fundamentalist movements, and there has not been a concise reason as to why. The main objective of this research is to determine the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, and, in so showing that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is inherently a social …
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Both sides of the coin: counsellors’ stories of the influence of a fundamentalist religious upbringing on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood
… counsellors’ experiences of the influence of a fundamentalist religious upbringing on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood. The primary aims were to facilitate volunteer co-researchers in the telling of their own and/or their clients’ anonymised stories of growing up within Fundamentalist …
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Comparative Literalisms: An Assessment of Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist Scriptural Hermeneutics through the Writings of Falwell, Rushdoony, Qutb, and al-Maqdisi
… that Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim ‘fundamentalists’ share a similar approach towards the interpretation of their sacred texts, the Bible and the Qur’an. They are particularly singled out for their preference for hermeneutic ‘literalism’. For that matter, in this comparative study, I …
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
… shared frames of reference that allowed a broad fundamentalist coalition to emerge. Fundamentalists felt their faith in their guts. </p><p>Each chapter of this work explores the role of one of the senses in fundamentalist life: sight, hearing, touch, and the spiritual senses. Using visual and …
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