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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"religious institutions"”.
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… the nature, source and scope of the rights of religious institutions in the American legal tradition. I analyze the Supreme Court's treatment not only of houses of worship, but of religious non-profits, schools, businesses, and student groups at public universities as well. I argue that the …
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Social and religious institutions of the Tlhaping of the Taung reserve.
The thesis is a study of present-day religion in a rural Bantu society, viewed within the framework of their social structure. The society is that of the Tlhaping of the Phuduhtswana chiefdom of the Taung reserve. After an introductory chapter on the historical and geographical background, a …
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The Romanian Orthodox Churches in Italy: The Construction of Romanian-Italian Transnational Orthodox Space
Religious institutions as transnational actors play a very important role within the context of transnational migration. Religious transnational space is formed and shaped with the involvement of different actors, particularly through the agency, commitment and religious practices of migrants that …
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The organisation of the early church in the East Riding of Yorkshire, c. 700 to�� 1100: the churches of 1086 and their origins
… sites to a consideration of all discoverable religious institutions. The inevitable predominance of Domesday Book as a source makes a focus on the end of the eleventh century inevitable. However, Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture has also been utilised in compiling an initial database of potential …
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Disciples of the state : secularization and state building in the former Ottoman World
… reform based on coöptation, thereby integrating religious elites into nascent state structures in a piecemeal fashion. This turbulent (and at times violent) process of integration and coöptation spawned a dynamic of differential growth that severely weakened religious institutions. When religious …
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Consumer Individualism and Community Orientation Among Protestant Churches
… questions, I will focus on the interaction of religious institutions within their societal contexts. I will examine religious contributions to society, and social influences upon religious groups—either to community solidarity or to the prioritization of the individual. I gathered data from …
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Sacred politics : religious leaders and conflict in Israel
My dissertation examines why religious leaders adopt nationalist positions and how these positions contribute to the duration of an ongoing conflict. I propose a general framework of sacred politics that incorporates the state, religious leaders, and religious communities. Within this framework, I …
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An exploration of six lesbian and gay people’s experiences of organised religion (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), and their implications for psychotherapy: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
… Participants self-identified with the respective religious institutions, and most were not involved with their religions at the time of the research. Data were collected using unstructured interviews and analysed to determine three major themes: “Religious Tribalism”, “Liminal Processes”, and …
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Modeling the Mechanics of Temple Production in the Middle Kingdom: An Investigation of the Shena of Divine Offerings Adjacent to the Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos, Egypt
… of bread and beer, which was attached to religious institutions. As a production area, the shena represented a place of pivotal importance in the economic structure of the Egyptian temple as a producer of divine offerings, wages and pensions for temple personnel, and as a taxpayer to the …
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Women and the Word : issues of power, control and language in social and religious life
… the current debate over women's place in Western religious institutions, i.e. the Judaeo-Christian tradition; and to provide a way of thinking about those issues which will lead to a positive, progressive and realistic vision of co-humanity, and a method of achieving it. The thorny battleground of …
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The land mourneth: a study of the homefront Baptist churches in Virginia, 1861-1865
… that America's greatest trial had on Virginia's religious institutions.
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Transnational religion in Greek American political advocacy.
… is the role religion has in forming new ethnoreligious identities and how this role is influenced by transnational relationships with countries of origin and external religious institutions. In many analyses of "ethnic poltics," religion is either excluded or viewed as a cultural element …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… have hitherto been unrecognized as important to religious sphere within Hindu studies. Through ethnographic research, this study brings into attention issues of self-decoration, gossip, and walking practices into attention. And in doing so, it moves away from the heavy focus Hindu studies has …
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?: Child Abuse in a Community Context
… stores, parks, libraries, hospitals, schools and religious institutions. Results include significant relationships between reporting rates and unemployment, vacancy rates, marital status, the elderly population, and the location of universities and hospitals. The last section on policy …
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The Attitudes of Wordsworth Toward Religion
… one notices the frequency of words that have religious overtones: the church spire, chapel bells, the cross, the hermit, the nun in her cell. These images may edify or inspire the reader with hope or holy fear. But further observation reveals implications of another kind: the pompous mass, …
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Religious communities and political participation among Chinese migrants in Australia
Religious institutions are a crucial link in the causal chain that connects citizens to the political process. This is because churches and other religious institutions have often been thought to supply churchgoers with the resources necessary to take part in the political arena, by providing …
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From the Insipid to the Inspired: Women in Thackeray's Fiction
… economic, educational, legal, aesthetic, and religious institutions on both men and women, his essential concern for truth and charity lead him to discover with increasing clarity how women can become either victims or heroines.
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… (Levy). This thesis examines the secular and religious institutions that these authors are tackling in their respective texts, looking at marriage specifically as the primary institution for Victorian women, considers the tales of sisterhood and the importance of relationships between women in …
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Sources of Sexual Knowledge, Sex Negativity, and Sexual Shame: Honors Capstone Thesis
… having learned about sex from church and other religious institutions and from school, and the less from sexual partners, the internet, and pornography. Higher SNAM scores also correlated with higher trust in church, parents, and school as sources of information about sex. Finally, higher SNAM …
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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
… Middle East, is endemically flawed because the religious, political, or cultural conditions in the region would constrain, or prohibit outright, democratization. However, upon examination, the central cultural and religious institutions of the region do not appear to have an endemic impact on …
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