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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"gender and religion"”.
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Gender and religion in the Phoenix
… poem in Old English depicting the life, death and resurrection of the mythical phoenix bird, complete with a religious commentary at the end. The authorship of the poem has been the subject of many critical works, with the poem being ascribed to Cynewulf by some critics based on the lexis. Many …
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A Study of the Literary Discourse in the Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: The Dynamics of Gender and Religion
… the study has shown that Mahfouz's own stance of religion and the way he perceives it affect his portrayal of gender in general and the religious gender in particular. It has also illustrated that it is characteristic of Mahfouz to juxtapose and parallel his characters. When Mahfouz favors a …
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Die hantering van identiteite in Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe romans in Suid-Afrika na apartheid : 'n kritiese evaluering = The treatment of identities in Afrikaans prescribed novels in post-apartheid South Africa : a critical appraisal
… It helps shape their perceptions of reality and teaches them what to expect from the world and the people around them. Therefore, it is important to do a communicative analysis of the literature that is prescribed for schools, in order to determine how identities are ascribed and negotiated, …
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Faculty Perceptions of Campus Diversity
… University. A Diversity Survey was developed and administered to faculty at Western Kentucky University. Responses from the 378 fulltime faculty members who completed the survey were used in this study. Composites including campus diversity climate, satisfaction with diversity effects, race, …
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The impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences and views of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales.
… research question: “What is the impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales?”. It conducted interviews with 21 Muslim men living in south Wales around their views and experiences of mental health, in relation to their gender and …
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Who are the dissidents? : analysing changes in the sociological profile of violent dissident republicans in Northern Ireland
… analysis of a unique data set of 427 men and women who have been charged with criminal offences as a result of suspected involvement in dissident republican activity in Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2014. The charges result from involvement in the four main dissident groups currently …
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
<p>The elements associated with mimicry and colonialism are found in Elizabeth Nunez’s <em>Prospero’s Daughter </em>(2006), as the novel reveals how colonized subjects use mimicry to survive their colonized spaces. Keeping in mind the ideologies of Homi Bhabha and Wumi Raji, the novel also suggests …
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The impact of Nazi medical experiments on Polish inmates at Dachau, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck
Polish citizens of various backgrounds, gender and religion suffered greatly during the six years of Nazi occupation (1939-1945). Thousands of members of the country's elite, including physicians, priests, writers and politicians, were executed during the first months of World War Two along with …
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… controversies are never only about reproduction and health. They serve as proxies for more fundamental questions about citizenship, the state, national identity, class and gender. In a post-colonial context such as the Philippines, where a particular historical relationship between the Church and …
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Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African -American Female Experience
… African-American women found themselves silenced and placed in subordinate roles during the developing phases of the African-American church, yet they found a ""formula"" for using what appeared to be an oppressive institution as the foundation and strength of their lives and community. Gendering …
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Male Prophets in Early Modern England, 1559-1662
… examines the phenomenon of male prophecy in England between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. It focusses on Protestant expressions of prophecy, especially those which existed within the godly and dissenting communities. Grace Sujin Pak has recently highlighted the multivalency of …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
<p>In "Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure …
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In Their Own Words: Using Retrospective Narratives to Explore the Influence of Socio-Cultural and Contextual Factors on Discourses About Identity of Self-As-Principal
This study explored how socio-cultural and contextual factors influence construction of identity of self-as-principal. Bakhtin's theories of intertextuality, self and other, and utterance and the theories of Mead, Dewey, Bruner, and Cherryholmes regarding the social construction of the self …
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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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The Family As the New Collectivity of Belonging In the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri
<p>Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, writers of Indian origin, have earned recognition in the English speaking world as American writers, since both of them are residents of the United States. Their literary work has mostly been received as literary production in the United States reflecting the …
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PLANNING TO ASSIST LOW ACHIEVERS: PERSPECTIVES OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS AND TEACHERS
<p>Is there a connection between stereotypes and the achievement gap? The issue of stereotyping is a consistent topic of concern in the United States based on labels such as race, ethnicity, gender, and religion (Gollnick, 2013). The United States is a multicultural nation where the classroom is …
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Community Formation in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands: San José de las Huertas, New Mexico
… San José de las Huertas, occupied from 1765-1826 and excavated in 2002-2004. In my historical study of this 18th-century village, I draw upon archaeological evidence, archived documents, and oral historical accounts in order to explore processes of community formation and maintenance as they are …
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Legal Requirements of Custody: A Comparative Study between the United States and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… that is often contested. The Saudi legal system and the American legal system are fundamentally different, although, they both treat custody as a very important matter. Among one of the distinctions is that in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a custodial dispute may arise between a married couple. …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
<p>This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical study of youth activism in a space of geopolitical conflict. It examines ways in which young activists in Indian-administered Kashmir, caught in chronic conditions of state violence and traversed by transnational discourses of identity, …
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