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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"religious congregations"”.
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On the Road to Samaria: Urban Religious Congregations as Resource Brokers
… networks to advance socially and economically. Religious congregations are enduring neighborhood organizations that present the opportunity for social interaction and resource access. Thus, this study examines the role of religious congregations in providing access to resources embedded in …
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Inequality within Congregations and Congregations’ Response to Inequality: Studies of Gender and Mental Health, Race and Mental Health, and Participation in the Sanctuary Movement
… aims to address the ways that American religious congregations and religious leaders respond to and are formed within the context of a society marked by inequality. Specifically, I study: (1) the ways that the stress of the pastorate, and the ways that clergy respond to those stressors, …
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Ownership, Control, Sponsorship, and Trusteeship: Governance Relationships Within Private Catholic Religious-Sponsored Secondary Schools in the United States
<p>The governance of private Catholic religious-sponsored secondary institutions in the United States is wholly unique, for many different influences distinguish these institutions from not only their public counterparts but also other Catholic schools operated by a diocese or parish. In the face …
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Religious participation and social justice: Individual and congregational effects
… a closer examination of the mediating role that religious congregations serve in society, especially in relation to the promotion of social justice. The current study provides such an examination, offering a multilevel examination of religious individuals (n = 5,023) nested within Christian …
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Moral Landscapes: Religion, Secularism, and Symbolic Boundaries
<p>This dissertation is a comparison of three religious congregations and one secular congregation on the moral boundaries they use to understand themselves and others. Through a newly developed graphical instrument, in-depth interviews, and surveys, this dissertation shows that contemporary …
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Conformed to This World? The Cultural Patchwork of New Evangelicals
… contend, however, that the relationship between religious congregations and the larger society is much more complex and heterogeneous than these analyses allow.
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Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland, 1849-1907: self representations and public perceptions
… in more people, particularly women, joining religious orders. While there has been significant research into the activities of female religious congregations in Ireland, very little has examined representations of women religious in the Irish public sphere. This thesis investigates how the …
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Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Ireland): Analysis of the governance structures.
… that pertained especially to apostolic religious congregations of women in the twentieth century. In Chapter III we trace the restructuring of the governance structures of the Congregation in response to the Second Vatican Council's mandate for adaptation and renewal. Chapter IV examines …
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The Theological Anthropology Underlying Libermann's Understanding of the "Evangelization of the Blacks" in Dialogue with the Theological Anthropologies of the East African Context: Implications for the Contemporary East African Catholic Church
… European missionaries and founders of missionary Religious Congregations often overlooks the part played by the people who were evangelized and their influence on the so called Christian heroes. Far from being a hagiology of Libermann, this study engages in an ideological dialogue by first, …
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To Know, Love, and Serve God: The Characteristics of a Holy Cross School
<p>Religious congregations have contributed notably to the shaping of the American Catholic experience through their schools. Many of these congregations, founded in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, brought to the United States their values, traditions and expertise to sustain and complement …
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"Intonations of their Own Language": An Analysis of Leadership and Resonance in Two Progressive Young-Adult-Filled Congregations in the Pacific Northwest.
… exodus is especially noticeable in mainstream religious denominations, although evangelical groups are beginning to experience a similar waning. The fastest-growing “religious” group consists of those who identify with no religion.</p> <p>Simultaneously, young adults are experiencing a far …
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Empreintes architecturales de femmes sur les routes de l'Europe : étude des couvents des annonciades célestes fondés avant 1800
… of a true “conventual invasion”. Among the new religious orders which emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Annonciades Celestes (or Blue Nuns), founded in Genoa in 1602 by Vittoria Fornari, are particularly representative of the Catholic Reform. Extolling renunciation of the …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… revolution that has been unfolding in Israel’s Religious-Zionist society for the past two decades. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Israel between 2014 and 2017 among religious congregations and nongovernmental organizations that belong to liberal circles of Religious-Zionist society. …
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Topics in Selective Migration and Economic Assimilation of New Immigrants
… new immigrants utilize potential resources from religious organizations to help their entrepreneurial businesses in the United States (U.S.). Although a number of qualitative studies have previously identified the resource attainment through ethnic churches among immigrant entrepreneurs, such …
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Querying the Church: Christian Church Leaders' Perspectives on Homosexuality
… topic – but mainly they could be defined as the Religious Right, who consider homosexuality a sin, and the Welcoming and Affirming churches, which do not regard homosexuality as a sin and are explicitly inclusive towards homosexuality. Church leaders rely on combination of Scripture, reason, …