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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"monks"”.
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Common core thesis and a qualitative and quantitative analysis of mysticism in Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns
… among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses identified Hood’s Mysticism Scale as a valid tool for studying mysticism across religions and cultures. Stace’s common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood’s …
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An Archaeological Model of the Construction of Monks Mound and Implications for the Development of the Cahokian Society (800 - 1400 A.D.)
… focuses primarily on the construction of Monks Mound. Through a combination of stratigraphic and chronometric data, the construction of Monks Mound is argued to be a definable and discrete event in the history of Cahokia. In this view, Monks Mound is a ritual vehicle created to integrate a …
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THAI BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY AND ITS INFLUENCE IN SINGAPORE
Thai monks and their talismans have become increasingly popular among Singaporean Chinese, particularly through the setting up of Buddhist residences and enterprises which have proliferated since the 1980's. The popularity Thai monks and their talismans is associated with the idea that the power of …
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L'économie des monastères: recomposition d'une utopie dans la modernité religieuse en comparaison européenne = Economy of Monasteries, Reorganization of a Utopia in the Religious Modernity: European Comparison.
… to deny because off it religious character. Monks spread then an arsenal of strategies of reorganization to reconcile economy and religious life. These tensions between work and prayer are essential of the monastic life, but modernity and secularization of society bring with them new data who …
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The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.
… study of Augustine of Hippo. Nevertheless, the monks hailing from the southern portion of Roman Gaul were the first critical respondents to Augustine’s doctrine of grace, providing an important perspective for those that had concern over some of his positions, specifically with regard to free …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… larger corpus of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities; instead they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier, venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as Cassian's formed a closed …
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A vehicle of social mobility: utilitarian factors in the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the early Tokugawa period
… civilization. Since the Kamakura period, Zen monks had monopolized access to Neo-Confucian scholarship to enjoy exclusive political patronage. However, Fujiwara Seika, a Neo-Confucian convert from Zen, changed this situation. He established a private school to train a younger generation of …
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Factors in the Undergraduate Experience that Influence Young Alumni Giving
… alternative source of revenue is alumni giving (Monks, 2003; Archibald and Feldman, 2012; CAE, 2014). Research has shown that the factors that influence alumni financial giving include demographic characteristics (Hoyt, 2004; Monks, 2003), academic experiences (Monks, 2003; Pumerantz, 2005), …
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Cultural identities as reflected in the literature of the Northern and Southern dynasties period (4th-6th centuries A.D.)
… in addition to the Buddhist one for the monks in his book Gaoseng zhuan, (Lives of Eminent Monks), a collection of biographies of Buddhist monks, to bring Buddhism closer to Chinese tradition and more acceptable by Confucian standards. Through the identity construction he also made …
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Taking stock
… and decline. This is the story of the material monks, who, garbed in the protective cloaks of their foundry, take back their material agency to mine cities of rust, combing through the dross around them. They come from a world of quotidian obsolescence, but they bring with them a new assessment …
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The aisleless cruciform church: its occurrence and meanings in romanesque Europe
… and twelfth centuries—canons, rather than monks—and focusing on the hitherto undetected phenomena of the frequent appropriation of these churches by monks, as well as their replacement by aisled structures. A paradigm is proposed in the shape of the Basilica Apostolorum, an aisleless …
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Innovation in Tradition: Gregory the Great's Use of Classical and Patristic Thought in His Commentary on the Song of Songs
… desert monastics into Latin.<sup>1</sup> These monks employed eastern monastic theology in order to help interpret the Bible, especially the use of allegory and typology, which interpreted that the Old Testament as foreshadowing the New Testament. Monks made commentaries on different books on …
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The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace
… is that the clergy—priests, friars, and monks—supported, stirred, and spread the rebellion throughout Lincolnshire and the North Country of England. In addition, this dissertation supports the argument that both the Lincolnshire rebellion and the Pilgrimage of Grace were essentially …
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Historia, hagiografía y memoria en el ámbito monástico
… to define the strategies followed by each of the monks. We also want to reflect on the relative success of this process, analyzing the evolution of the stories studied over time to determine their changes, renovations, and their influence on their environment. We refer especially to the …
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Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation
… and observations of immigrant Burmese Buddhist monks and American Buddhist meditation leaders. In doing so, I also examine the various ways in which the southern American landscapes affect change within traditional Burmese Buddhism through a process of Americanization. As a result of Theravada …
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Monasticism without frontiers : the extended monastic community of the Abbot of Cluny in England and Wales.
… model for this relationship whereby all Cluniac monks are said to have constituted an extended monastic community under the authority of the abbot of Cluny whose purpose was the transmission and maintenance of a distinctive monastic observance. This model was developed from a comprehensive …
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On Conversion
… and the seed of education planted by the monks the new school sprung. The memory of the lost limbs, still present in the city, began to materialize slowly, letting the old structure breathe again.
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The dissolution of the monasteries: an economic study
… transfer of the vast landed estates of the monks to the laity. In the sixteenth century land was still the paramount source of wealth and influence. Englishmen looked to the land not only for their food and drink, but also for their fuel and industrial materials. The dissolution occurred in …
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