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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"nonconformist"”.
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Andre Gide, the nonconformist
The life of André Gide is divided into four periods: his early life which he considered his period of darkness, his adolescence which was his period of mental confusion, his early mature years which was his period of defiance, and his later years which was his period of leadership. By studying his …
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A Seat at the Table: A Nonconformist Approach to Grassroots Participation in the Articulation of Health Standards
This paper assesses the need to articulate standard protocol in regards to decision making and monitoring of biomedical and ecosystem health in Canadian Aboriginal communities. This is critical, as standards in Aboriginal communities are applied by external regulators. Absence of collaboration …
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The radical and nonconformist influences on the creation of the dual system of universal elementary education in England and Wales, 1866-1870
… and pressures initiated by both radicals and nonconformists on the final outcome, and the resultant antagonisms in the struggle for universal elementary education, especially those political and religious controversies which were characterised by the wider debate of the years between 1866 and …
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Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady
… as Mary Steele, a provincial young woman with a Nonconformist background who was an active participant in a literary coterie that included other published authors such as Mary Scott, Anne Steele, and Hannah More. Drawing upon the work of Marjorie Reeves as well as the original manuscripts …
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The Mormon mission to Wales 1840-49 : a reassessment
… It has considered the response to the mission by Nonconformist ministers, and in particular, that of the Baptist minister Revd W. R. Davies, Dowlais, and asked whether the primary explanation for Nonconformist opposition lay in their concern that Latter-‐day Saints were poaching some of their …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
… allowed and encouraged the emigration of the nonconformist artists to the West.This dissertation analyzes the foundation and growth of the nonconformist artistic movement in the Soviet Union, focusing on a key group of artists who reached artistic maturity in the Brezhnev era and began forging …
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
… Asylum. Soon after, a group of middle class Nonconformist women inspired by Ellice Hopkins' vision, established an alternative to the Anglican model. It is argued that this initiative marked a small shift in the process of reform but did not alter it fundamentally for whatever the gender, …
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The Sabbath in English Nonconformity, 1830-1860
… from 1830-1860. The project argues that Nonconformists believed every Christian was required to practice a proper Sabbath. This study examines every available sermon and treatise produced by a Nonconformist during this era. The Biblical warrant for a proper Sabbath is examined in chapter …
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With Strange Aeons
… up a job. There, he meets Shokare, a combative nonconformist who challenges him to break free of the "African bubble" to which Wome has begun to attach himself. Not wholly persuaded, Wome is nevertheless drawn by Shokare's charisma and eclecticism. Wome's eyes are opened to the energy and …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
… to Congregationalists and did not portray other Nonconformist groups of their religious issues
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Crisis, Challenge, and Consolidation: A Study of the Anglican Church in a Rural Welsh Parish 1700-1900
… Were all parts of Welsh Wales overwhelmingly Nonconformist, largely due to an indolent and vice-ridden alien institution, which many labelled ‘the Church of England in Wales’, or was that very same Church alive and very active, at least in some parishes.In an undated pamphlet, written on …
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The move to independence from Anglican leadership: an examination of the relationship between Alexander Alfred Boddy and the early leaders of the British Pentecostal denominations (1907-1930)
… Pentecostalism and most Pentecostals came from Nonconformist backgrounds, Boddy dominated the leadership from the beginning. As a result, most of the British Pentecostals who were actively involved in the forming of Pentecostal denominations were either directly or indirectly influenced by him. …
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To Take Posesion of the Crown: Forms, Themes, and Politics in Julia Palmer's Centuries
… that its author was perhaps the only self-taught Nonconformist woman to have composed centuries during the Restoration period. Although religion shaped the lives of most British citizens at the time, the public literary expression of spiritual experiences-particularly by middle-class women-was …
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People, place and policy : Westminster College and Methodist teacher training in the early twentieth century
… the tensions between the establishment and nonconformist traditions; and early conversations surrounding environmental planning concerns.
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Differentiation within the artisan sector in Saffron Walden in the eighteenth century
… religious persuasion, particularly if he was a nonconformist or a Quaker. A man favoured in these ways might gain the appellation of ‘gentleman’. A less fortunate artisan might end his days as a pauper. Differentiation within the artisan segment in eighteenth century Saffron Walden indeed …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… Loxley Brothers of Sheffield. Quaker and Nonconformist antecedents are revealed to define the values of both administration and printers. The thesis explores the RoSPA posters’ use of Surrealist techniques and iconography and also their appeal to a wider and international Left community. …
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Agricultural trades unionism in Shropshire 1900-1930
… institutions, and the weakness of alternative nonconformist and socialist ideologies. This meant that the prevailing loyalty for Shropshire farmworkers was to a' local patriotism ' rather than to broader class based systems. This, it is believed, has possible important implications for future …
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Aristocratic Whig politics in early-Victorian Yorkshire: Lord Morpeth and his world
… between the Whigs and some of the region’s nonconformist liberals over issues of Church and State and the Whigs’ social reform policies. Chapter Three details Morpeth’s activities as a philanthropist in the county. It suggests that this maintained his links to his supporters, shaped his …
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Friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1912
… in larger open settlements with a substantial nonconformist and artisan population, were drawn from all sections of the membership but village craftsmen predominated. The club anniversary which became the principal feast day for many villages was initially, along with public house meetings and …
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Sectarianism in the north west of England, with special reference to class relationships in the city of Liverpool 1846 - 1914
… and 1914 to being a workingclass, Low Church or Nonconformist obsession.
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