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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"lived religion"”.
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Lived Religion: An Examination of "Pass the Salt" Luncheons.
… culture, such as theologies and doctrines, is lived or practiced by "Pass the Salt" luncheon participants. "Pass the Salt" participants are taught the teachings of Harvest Evangelism, an interdenominational Para-church organization; these teachings are evidenced through their cultural toolkit. …
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Internal migrants and everyday Islam in the Turkish context
… the interplay between internal migration and religion. Specifically, it examines internal migrants’ reconfiguration of boundaries and spaces of belonging, as well as the impact that migration has on the religious lives of migrants and those who are left behind. These topics are investigated in …
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The socialist sacred: atheism, religion, and mass culture in Romania, 1948-1989
… how elites produced knowledge about atheism and lived religion. This dissertation analyzes elite interactions with believers and the Central Committee from 1948, when transforming religiosity emerged as a party priority, to the end of the socialist era. My chapters focus on science popularizers, …
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Interfaith Communities: Relationships in Thirdspace
… of interfaith action and the dialectic of lived religion with interfaith engagement. Arguing that interfaith is a type of thirdspace in which engagements have affective impacts on individuals within interfaith communities, as well as orientation towards religious communities. While there …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
<p>This dissertation studies religion, sociality, and gender in contemporary India by exploring devotional intimacies and everyday life in the shadows of the regional pilgrimage temple of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines …
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Urban Planning and Religious Practice: Three Challenges
Religion in urban planning is conventionally viewed as a non-spatial, pre-theoretical, or extra- legal phenomenon. This view has been questioned recently by research in religious and pluralism studies and by the increasing religious diversity and activism in Western and non-Western cities. Yet, the …
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Internet Memes as Instruments of Subversion in the Context of Islam and Muslims
… Two major themes emerged: ‘Everyday life and Lived Religion’, and ‘Terrorism, Security and Surveillance’. The study provides evidence of agency of individuals to create fissures in the institutional narratives by reappropriating and subverting the popular symbols originally created by social …
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… the relationship between state governance, religion, reproductive politics, and competing understandings of embodied sexual morality. My study argues that at the heart of the complex politics involved in policymaking on reproductive health in the Philippines is the entanglement of national …
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Music of living: an autoethnographic study of Sikhi through Gurbani Kirtan
… the content. Approaching kirtan as a feature of lived religion this research combines theory (ethnographic, historical, and textual sources), praxis (reflections on learning and playing kirtan) and gurbani (wisdom of the Sikh Gurus) to create rich and deliberately partial narratives. The research …
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Closing in Action: Towards a Polarisation Around the Future and Memory of Catholicism in Québec? Ethnography and Media Analysis of Three Notable Church Closures at the Beginning of the 21st Century
… in the 21st century, highlighting a shift from lived religion to religious memory, and explores how religion and heritage intertwine as churches close. The study emphasizes how communities negotiate closures rather than why, showing that each case mobilizes religious, civic, and political …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
… explores the relationship between food and religion in the European Reformations, through the comparative case studies of Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 - c. 1640. It seeks to answer two broad interrelated questions: how did Protestants and Catholics understand food and …
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Pentecostal Social Thought and Action, la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal, and Military Authoritarianism in Chile, 1973-1990
… altered. Its goal is to explore how Pentecostals lived with and against the changing religious expressions and practices that were available to them under authoritarian rule. I argue that Pentecostal religion and practice were infused with new meaning and reimagined through shifting conceptions of …
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Polish Catholic Priests in Canada and Ireland: Migration, Leadership, and the Mobility of Strangers
… the relationship between migration and religion have tended to focus on the role of churches and the experiences of lay immigrants when conceptualizing assimilation and transnationalism. While the role of religious leaders has received some attention, scholars have rarely considered …
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
… to spirituality. I study these expressions of lived religion as a Catholic practical theologian, interested in how the Spirit of God works to inspire people to new forms of spiritual expression, and how the field of practical theology can enrich and facilitate the cultural conversation.</p> …
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How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity
Scholarly studies of immigration, religion, and race and ethnicity debate the role of religion in modern society, highlighting the salience of religion among post-1965 immigrants. In this dissertation, I explored the following question: How does religion shape Filipino immigrants` connection to the …
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Negotiating Identities: The Case of Evangelical Christian Women in London
Contestations around religion and secularism in the UK continue to unfold. These debates converge most polemically around women’s religiosity, as evidenced by proposed bans on the hijab, and the criminalisation of female circumcision. Research on religious women creates a binary juxtaposition …
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Blazing Turquoise and Coral Light Jewels of Veiled Empowerment: Buddha Ye shes mTsho rgyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen in the Lotus of Ever-Excellent Feminist Dialogue
<p>This Women's and Gender Studies in Religion dissertation seeks to restore awareness of women's religious leadership using the actual embodied experience of Yeshe Tsogyal and Hildegard von Bingen embedded in the philosophical terms Erlebnis (German), Padartha/Bhava (Sanskrit), and srid pa …
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Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden : The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni
… collections and what they reveal about medieval lived religion and the formation of the cults of saints. This study examines how the saints’ lives were transformed into hagiographic lives, how historical and personal incidents intertwined with the literary conventions of the hagiographic genre …
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E-mams and Hybrid Muslims in 'Convergent Spaces': Intersections of Online and Offline Religions for Canadian and American Muslims at Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention
… this in turn influences religious behaviours and lived religious experiences. The research questions guiding this study were: 1) What attracts young Muslims to RIS? 2) Does participation at RIS influence online and offline religious behaviours? 3) How are digital elements of online religion (such …
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Exploring the Lived Religious Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Ordained Clergy in the United Methodist Church
<p>The United Methodist Church (UMC) as an institution has strict language against lesbian and gay people and against the ordination of the lesbian and gay people. Prior research has focused on how denominations and congregations discuss issues around sexuality, how attitudes have shifted around …
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