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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"religious concepts"”.
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William Butler Yeats' transformations of eastern religious concepts
… the thesis that the poet transformed certain religious concepts for his own purpose, thereby removing those concepts from the purview of Eastern religion. Quite the contrary, many of the analyses argue a parallel between Yeats' poetry and the religious concepts.In Chapter 1 this study gives a …
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Divine justice: Cosmology, ritual, and Protestant missionization in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
… refer to themselves as fanatic Christians, their religious concepts and practices are not completely orthodox from the point of view of Western missionaries. This study looks at changing Tobaku religious concepts and practices as a process of negotiation and argumentation based on indigenous moral …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… the Mambila is followed by an account of their religious concepts. It is argued that, despite their adherence to Christianity (and to Islam), traditional practices continue to be of great importance in everyday life. In order to examine traditional practice descriptions are given of divination …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… the Mambila is followed by an account of their religious concepts. It is argued that, despite their adherence to Christianity (and to Islam), traditional practices continue to be of great importance in everyday life. In order to examine traditional practice descriptions are given of divination …
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Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism
… an excessive form of violence, and/or as religious fervency gone awry rely on embedded biopolitical concepts. The continual attempts to solve terrorism through increased biopolitical strategies, thereby making terrorism a problem for biopolitics, only further substantiate the crisis that …
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Religion, Rewards, and Prosocial Behavior
… are equivocal. Recent findings on priming religious concepts seem to show that religion drives prosociality. But here I suggest that these studies confound religion with anticipated rewards. I present the results of a new experiment that primes reward-related and reward-unrelated religious …
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WHEN I BELIEVE, I AM BIASED: TWO ESSAYS ON WHEN AND HOW CONSUMER BELIEFS LEAD TO JUDGMENT BIAS
In two essays, this dissertation examines how religious beliefs and belief-in-fate affect consumers’ hope for advertised benefits. Further, the downstream effect of hope on judgment of advertisement credibility is investigated. Essay 1 studies the impact of degree of religiosity and priming …
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Goal Drought
… within the sport as well as the strategy, concepts, and controversies that make up much of soccer. Beyond just the game, the collection also engages with religious concepts and the more general themes of obsession, desire for community, and the act of participating and watching …
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
… media content creators have routinely drawn from religious concepts when seeking inspiration for new material. Developers in the West have traditionally relied heavily on Christian themes to supply new ideas. Now, more artists have begun to look towards Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Shinto …
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A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
… similar figures evince highly evolved communal religious practices. This interpretation also supports the existence of generally unacknowledged trade between ancient West Mexico and the rest of Mesoamerica, both in tangible assets and in ideological/religious concepts. This new perspective will …
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The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility
… philosophy. As with other philosophical and religious concepts, I argue that Levinas inverts the dynamic of martyrdom by deposing the fundamentally agential subject. From this redefinition of the martyr as primary subjectivity emerges a politics of recurrence—in stark contrast to the politics …
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The effect of religious priming on recalled regrets
Recent research has demonstrated the effects of religious priming on cognition and behavior in the present. For example, priming participants with religious concepts promotes cooperation in economic games (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007) and increases public self-awareness (Gervais & Norenzayan, 2012). …
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Religion, cognition and author-function : Dyer, Southwell, Lodge and As You Like It.
… of communication is impossible. Accordingly, religious meanings of Elizabethan literary texts usually read as "secular" works are registered herein without recourse to positing an allegorical level of meaning in those texts. In order to arrive at relatively secure readings, texts have been …
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Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… her, of learning to see the appropriateness of concepts to the facts of the case, and of the value of 'attention' in the development of moral behaviour. The thesis Outlines the way in which Iris Murdoch's early interest in the existentialist philosophy of Sartre becomes a firm point of …
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An Assessment of the Perceived Inservice Needs of K-12 Teachers of the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
… inservice needs, such as integrating the religious concepts into the curriculum, making it applicable to everyday life, motivating and instilling in the student the will to learn on his own. On the other hand, distinct differences were observed such as secondary teachers perceived a …
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Rethinking Indigenous Christianity in Northwest Canada: perspectives from the Nuu-chah-nulth
… tlooqwah-nah offer a view of their social and religious structure. This research focusses on the form of Indigenous Christianity from Northwest Canada and attempts to represent the perspective of Nuu-chah-nulth people. The study shows that the Nuu-chah-nulth culture and religious traditions are …
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In between Materiality and Meaning: World, Dust and Daemon in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
… in particular, but also his worries about religious absolutism and story-telling based in Christian belief. As a New Atheist fantasy fiction written to young adult and adult readers, Pullman’s enthusiasm for playing with and materializing obscure religious concepts and relating them to our …
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The Background, Formation, Development, and Presentation of Ellen White's Concept of Forgiveness From Her Childhood to 1864
… formation, and early development of her religious views.</p> <p>Method. Ellen White wrote little about forgiveness during her early years. Her concept of forgiveness can best be deduced from inferences found in her writings. Examination of factors that contributed to her religious thought …
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The lived experience of God and its evolution in children and adolescents
Children's and adolescents' spirituality is important, especially to those entrusted with their education. To effectively nurture children's spirituality, parents, teachers, and ministers would benefit in knowing how young people experience God, what they think about God and how they relate to God: …
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Psalms of assurance: an analysis of the formation and function of Psalms of Solomon in Second Temple Judaism
… a point of comparison in highlighting these concepts within the document. In section four, a comparison between the theology of Psalms of Solomon and Qumran is made on three points, the Law of Moses, the Temple, and the will of God. Section five consists of a brief evaluation of the use of …
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