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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"religious identities."”.
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Mediating Catholicism – Religious Identities, Polish Migrants and the Catholic Church in Ireland
… there is considerable variation in migrants’ religious beliefs and practices, ranging from migrants who strongly identify with Catholicism to migrants who dis-identify with Catholic identity. Third, some Polish migrants rely on the church for various resources while others do not, depending on …
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Religious identities and allegiances in the transformation of Ukrainian national consciousness 2013-2018
… for this was Ukrainians' turn to particular religious institutions, revisiting religious identity as an expression of agency. While Ukrainian state democracy has struggled, Ukrainians are democratizing vis-à-vis religious allegiance. This culminated, in part, in the 2018 decision to combine …
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National and religious identities : an interpretation of Regis Debray's Critique of political reason
… standard concepts are recast in new terms. The religious nature of social identities, that is, the role of the sacred in society, is identified and explained. Some mainstream theories of ideology, religion, and nationalism are explored in an attempt to determine whether these tools of analysis …
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A Comparative Study of Giving and Volunteering Patterns Among Adults with Seventh-day Adventist and Other Christian Religious Identities
… with Seventh-day Adventist and other Christian religious identities, with secondary consideration given to the effect of potential ethnic variations.</p> <p><em> Method.</em> The sample (<em>N</em> = 1359) for this study was selected for the purpose of comparing Seventh-day Adventist adults with …
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Journalistic strategies in conflict reporting and the representations of ethnic and religious identities in Jos, Nigeria : towards solutions-review journalism
… strategies and the representations of ethnic and religious identities in the conflict narratives focusing on the most cited and vicious conflict in Jos which occurred in 2001, 2008 and 2010. Drawing on in-depth individual interviews with print and broadcast journalists resident in Jos (to …
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AMMA'S DAUGHTERS: A TRANSMODERN STUDY OF PERSONAL, GENDER, CULTURAL, AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES AMONGST WOMEN IN THE AMMA COMMUNITY IN UNITED STATES
… of disidentification from personal and social identities to the state of connectedness, to highlight how spirituality works in particular and contextual ways amongst Amma's daughters in the community to enable alternative transmodern articulations of self and difference. The study focuses on …
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Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement
Within the field of American religious studies, a growing area of scholarship has been that of "spirituality" as a category distinct from religion. Scholars have examined the sociological, cultural, and historical features that characterize Americans' use of the concept of spirituality. Within this …
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Standing at The Crossroads: The Intersection of Sexual, Racial/ethnic, and Spiritual/religious Identities in African American Men Who have Sex with Men
… perceived homonegativity within racial and religious communities, and frequency of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) among religiously affiliated African American men who have sex with men (AAMSM). A review of literature on the established relationships between disproportional HIV-incidence …
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God and I are Good – Finding Spiritual Health After Conflict Between Sexual Identity and Non-Affirming Christianity
… exists a perceived conflict between sexual and religious identities that needs to be reconciled. This qualitative research study explores how participants came to terms with this conflict, reflecting on this conflict in relation to justice and using interview tools from Insight method to direct …
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Longitudinal Study of LDS Men Reconciling Conflicting Religious and Sexual Identities
… and reconcile seemingly incompatible sexual and religious identities. The experience of espousing a religious identity which prohibits homosexuality while simultaneously being attracted to others of the same gender is not uncommon. This phenomenon and how individuals navigate it is poorly …
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The Intercultural Communication Experiences of Arab Muslims Studying in New Zealand: Academic and Social Perspectives
… students (re)construct and (re)ne¬go¬tiate their identities as a result of their intercultural communication experiences. The purpose of this study is to examine how universities’ communication practices influence the negotiation process of these students’ cultural and religious identities. In …
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The alienated religion studies teacher: a case study in Cape Town, South Africa
… a programme of teaching and learning about religious diversity that constitute the nation. While this revised policy enabled Religion Studies educators to grapple with new ways of thinking about the study of religion, it still demanded them to assume a standardised role that focused more on …
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The intersection of religion and politics : a two-way street
… dissertation reexamines the relationship between religious and political attitudes and challenges the conventional wisdom that religious identities are impervious to politics' influence. I not only identify the conditions under which religious identities affect political stances but also when …
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The Life and Times of Medieval Drifters: The Social and Environmental Significance of Driftwood in the Medieval Icelandic Culture and Identity, 9th - 13th Centuries
… a vital part of the environmental, cultural, and religious identities of the Icelandic people. By examining place names, laws, sagas, and mythology a better understanding of the importance of driftwood can be found in the early Icelandic culture, and the lines between environmental importance and …
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On the edges: Mennonite peacemakers on Christian peacemaker teams
… to how these CPT members understand their religious identities; specifically, their sense of being similar to or different from their families, friends and religious tradition—in this case, the Mennonite faith. Charles Taylor’s theories of identity formation form the basis of this …
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Engineering the immobilization of ethnic parties in Sub-Saharan Africa : the enforcement and effect of particularistic party bans
… to help reduce the salience of particularistic identities. In Sub-Saharan Africa, government intervention in political party development has been often been concerned with countering the political mobilization of ethnic, racial, and/or religious identities. This concern has led at least 19 …
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Catholic Latina Identities and Romantic Relationships
… how Latinas negotiate their ethnic and religious identities when making romantic decisions. This study conducted in-depth (semiconstructed) interviews of 20 Catholic Latinas between the ages of 20 to 30 to better understand how they negotiate their ethnic and religious cultural …
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Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic
… changing the practice of defining ethnic and religious identities. Other chapters explore recent urban music influenced by hip-hop and Jamaican dancehall, which has vindicated an emerging--if still somewhat controversial--positive Dominican attitude towards blackness. </p>
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… and health answers to both development goals and religious norms. At the same time, women's everyday frameworks of (reproductive) meanings are also inextricably bound with state policies and popular culture. My ethnographic study examines the relationship between state governance, religion, …
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