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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"politics and religion"”.
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Foguangsi on Mount Wutai: Architecture of Politics and Religion
… Buddha’s Radiance) is a monastic complex that stands on a high terrace on a mountainside, in the southern ranges of Mount Wutai, located in present-day Shanxi province. The mountain range of Wutai has long been regarded as the sacred abode of the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī and a prominent center of the …
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Troubles in Irish writing and the influence of politics and religion
It appeared to me that the differences and a particular atmosphere I found in Irish writing were due to more than the syntax of Hyberno-English. I was curious and to investigate further I returned to university to add English literature as a major to an existing degree in Psychology, Anthropology, …
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Land, politics and religion on the Clancarty estate, east Galway, 1851–1914
Studies of landed estates are important for understanding not just the life of the landlords, but also for assessing the social history of the community resident on estates. This thesis expands upon existing knowledge regarding landlordism in Ireland, with its focus being land, politics and …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
<p>By the beginning of the twentieth century, Ireland's identity was continually pulled between its loyalties to Catholicism and British imperialism. In response to this conflict of identity, W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the …
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"""Horny -Handed Sons of Toil"": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880--1910"
… of electoral fraud, internal division, and race baiting, to electoral failure in the 1890s. The party was replaced in the city by the Cracker Party, which based its success on a new platform of white supremacy, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. The dissertation concludes by uncovering …
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Puritan and Papist: Politics and Religion in Massachusetts and Maryland Before the Restoration of Charles Ii
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121161.pdf: 20584892 bytes, checksum: c001e057a29afc36193af5e2fbe3e790 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Multicultural social intervention and nation-building in South Africa : the role of Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
… in South Africa, using Islamic counselling and psychotherapy as a research case study. It merges a number of seemingly disparate disciplines in an innovative analysis of post-Apartheid social reconstruction. Culture, counselling, politics and religion converge and embrace areas of enquiry …
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Diriyah narrated by Its built environment : the story of the first Saudi State (1744-1818)
… a historical pact between political authority and religious influence, until its punitive downfall in 1818- after assuming the role of a bunker under siege for six long months, Diriyah witnessed numerous political stages which effected its built environment. Between a dire need to defend and …
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God king or king of God? : the royal ideology presented through the Deuteronomistic history.
… Near East show many signs of cultural exchange and influence. One shared aspect could be royal ideologies. There are common attributes, such as the importance of order and the intertwining of politics and religion. This research involves comparing the reigns of the Mesopotamian kings Hammurabi …
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Images de la femme dans l'oeuvre litteraire de Sembene Ousmane
… importance, the author's attitude towards them and finally Sembene's feminism. The first five chapters analyse the female characters in different contexts, namely marriage, the family, work, politics and religion. the sixth chapter studies the usually avoided subject of the dissolute woman. The …
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Persephone in Erebus: a modern paradigm
… nineteenth century spilled into the twentieth and vast tidal changes were occur[r]ing in the fields of science, politics, and religion, the arts both reflected and reinforced these alterations. The most significant result of the tides of change from a lingering pre-modern world to a thoroughly …
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Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism
<p>Recent emphasis and attention by thinkers, media pundits, and politicians on terrorism requires new, critical evaluation of the processes by which terrorism is understood. By investigating the concept of biopolitics, as developed specifically through Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, new …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
… bombing of August 9, 1945 by concentrating on politics and religion. It follows the various people and groups who contributed to the city's rise from the ashes and shaped its image in Japan and the world. In contrast to Hiroshima, Nagasaki did not make its atomic tragedy the dominant theme of …
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What's Missing: Dichotomization and Misconceptions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are two of the most famous African-American activists in American history. The purpose of this study is to analyze the similarities and differences between how King and X approached and conceptualized questions of violence, politics, and religion, while …
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
This dissertation examines Tory High-Church and Jacobite Episcopalian responses to Newton in early eighteenth century England and Scotland, providing a systematic analysis of the relationship between Newtonian natural philosophy, politics and religion from a Tory High-Church perspective. I argue …
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A corpus-based analysis of the discursive construction of gender identities via abusive language
… to study discourses involving terms of abuse and abusive swearing targeted at males and females. These discourses are analysed by utilising a combination of tools. Target descriptors and activation/passivation are used to examine the roles constructed for men and for women. Differential usage …
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Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale
… certain issues - such as violence, sexuality, politics and religion - which are problematic but have to be dealt with in society. In this dissertation types of controversial issues present in recent Afrikaans youth literature, the portrayal of those issues, and the ways in which solutions are …
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The Road to 1944 - the history of the development of education in south and south west Wales in the lead up to the wartime Education Act, and its implementation in the years that followed
… period between the two Education Acts of 1918 and 1944 and as such, builds on and contributes to the history of education in Wales. Although a number of studies1 have examined aspects of Welsh education there has not been a strong focus on its development during the interwar years. This …
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Archive As Cyborg: Imagining Archaeologies of the Future
… on the construction of cultural narratives, and reconfigured its contents to reimagine the past. However, ‘archival art practice’ has not yet extensively explored issues of Big Data, or examined its effects. Big Data promises to help us better understand the world and build models that try to …
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