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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"religious experience"”.
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Religious Experience In World of Warcraft
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Nongqawuse's Prophecies Revisited: Centring the Religious Experience
… examines the role played by traditional Xhosa religious belief and experience in the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-57. Using a range of primary and secondary historical sources, this study focuses on the period between 1856 and 1857 where many of the amaXhosa slaughtered their cattle …
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Religious experience of the destined human being
… and its needs for religion, and that their experiences and interpretations thereof help humanity engage those needs sanely and fruitfully. In other words, they enrich religion as a quest. Different senses of identity, modes of engagement, models of reality, methods of expression are …
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The incompatibility between free will theodicies and religious experience
… incompatibility between free will theodicies and religious experience. Free will theodicies are responses to the problem of evil and religious experience is form of interaction between God and people. The free will theodicies that are discussed say that God gives us free will for two purposes. …
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Active imagination and Christian religious experience: A study in relationship
… practice of active imagination and Christian religious experience. The research is qualitative, using the heuristic research method as developed by Clark Moustakas. The experience of active imagination is defined and the practice is explained. Consideration is given to its values and benefits. …
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Contemporary American sport, muscular Christianity, Lance Armstrong, and religious experience
… in contemporary American sport culture and religious sensibilities. In this project I demonstrate that sport can be viewed in contemporary American culture operating as a culturally influential activity where athletes reproduce muscular Christian ideology in unique ways. To illustrate this …
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Vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality: studies in religious experience and expression
… the publications is religion as it is lived and experienced, not religion as it is defined by texts or as represented by authority figures. The studies examine how people interpret, act out and adapt their beliefs in a variety of spiritual milieux; the emphasis is on the experience and …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
<p>This dissertation uses resources from religious studies to critique the problem of digital dualism haunting notions of the "virtual" in the discourse of contemporary virtual reality technologies (VR). Digital dualism is the idea that digital or "virtual" worlds are fundamentally distinct from …
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Dulhyggja. Þýðing á lykilkafla úr The Varieties of Religious Experience með nokkrum skýringum
Bókin The Varieties of Religious Experience eftir bandaríska heimspekinginn og sálfræðinginn William James kom út árið 1902 og varð fljótlega með vinsælli heimspeki- og sálfræðiritum þess tíma og hefur verið fáanleg á prenti í rúmlega hundrað ár. Eitt það merkilegasta og áhrifaríkasta við bókina er …
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What meaneth this? A postmodern 'theory' of African American religious experience
… to provide a 'theory' of African American religious experience that is guided by postmodern critical thought, with particular emphasis on methodologies attempting to grasp what is referred to as the quotidian, the ordinary, but primarily as "everyday life." It is my contention that this …
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Space, Ritual, and Religious Experience and the Ottoman hajj, c. 994/1586–1194/1780
… in this time. It investigates the lived experiences of the thousands of Ottoman pilgrims who undertook the hajj every year, as well as how the hajj was celebrated and memorialised by ḥajjīs and Muslim men and women in locations throughout the Empire. The dissertation further examines how …
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… number of scholars upon the categories "experience" and "religious experience" in their writing of American religious history. I will argue that as it is employed by most historians of American religion, the category of "experience" (in its many forms) fails to provide scholars with an …
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