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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"revivalism"”.
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Religious Revivalism and British Methodism, 1855-1865
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The politics of decentralisation and indigenous revivalism in Sulawesi, Indonesia
… often takes the form of indigenous (adat) revivalism, a highly contested and contingent process linked to intensified political struggles and conflicts throughout the archipelago. This thesis considers the ways in which decentralisation and adat revivalism intersect by foregrounding …
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Choro and Music Revivalism in Rio De Janeiro, 1973--1995
The choro revival had several results. Its immediate effect was to fill a void in the expressive culture of sectors of the middle class, serving as a basis for reestablishing their Brazilian identity in a politically and socially turbulent period. As a musical movement, it reinvigorated choro as a …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
In this project, I argue that during the late-Victorian period a revived form of paganism developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate …
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Perspectives of Pro-revivalism: The Christian History and the Great Awakening
… as the Great Awakening. It contained accounts of revivalism written by pro-revivalist ministers from throughout the American colonies, England and Scotland. These ministers believed that the Holy Spirit was being poured out upon the land in a shower of grace, causing unprecedented numbers of …
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The Dialectics of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi
… by the analysis of Said Nursi's discourse of revivalism before and after the establishment of the Turkish Republic with respect to these three areas and by the exploration of the discourse and mobilization strategies of the Nur Movement (established by Said Nursi) vis-à-vis the mobilization …
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Just As I Was: The Presence of Sacramentalism in the Methods of Southern Baptist Revivalism
… at two of the major figures in the development revivalism. The first, who many consider the father of revivalism, Charles Finney, and the second, Billy Graham. Chapter three and four will mark a shift in the book as it will compare the ideas of sacramentalism in the Roman Catholic Church to the …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
John Hartwell Cocke was a Virginia planter and amateur architect whose style evolved from Jeffersonian Classicism to a revival of English Tudor-Stuart or Jacobethan architecture. This dissertation discusses the Cocke family's Elizabethan roots and advances four theses. The first of these theses is …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
This thesis is an investigation of three exemplary ‘faith ministries’ that are or have been<br/>recently active in the South-East of England. These ministries have embraced principles<br/>from the American Health Wealth and Prosperity Movement (HWPM).<br/><br/>The author seeks to demonstrate that …
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
This Master's thesis focuses on modem Iranian national/revival architecture under the Pahlavi royal dynasty, in particular the reigning period of Mohammad-Reza Shah. I analyze and interpret three specific monuments: the mausoleum of Reza Shah built in 1950, the Shahyad Aryamehr Monument built in …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
This thesis examines revivalism and reform movements in rural areas of western New York. The bulk of literature on this region in the Second Great Awakening concentrates on middle class, urban people. This thesis argues that revivalism and evangelical fervor was carried to rural portions of the …
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The impact of revivalism upon Baptist faith and practice in the American South prior to the Civil War.
In the mid-seventeenth century, revivalism first appeared as a phenomenon in American religious life, and few religious groups were more influenced by revivalism than Baptists in the American South. When Baptists had first appeared in the South, as a group they were small, highly Calvinistic and …
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
… importance and precise roles of both religious revivalism and the New England heritage in antebellum reform. A new approach thus seems to be needed if historians ever are to fully understand these social reform movements.</p> <p>This dissertation attempts to provide such a new approach by …
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Moved by the Spirit: Evangelical Presbyterian Woman in the Early Modern Atlantic World
<p>Revivalism existed as a cultural feature within Scottish Presbyterian society decades before the famous transatlantic revivals of the eighteenth-century. Although many aspects of those revivals have been examined, such as the Holy Fairs, historians and scholars have largely overlooked the …
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Fabulous Khoisan:the politics of apoliticality in the indigenous Khoisan revivalism movement in South Africa; an exploration of sincerity,stickiness and fabulation in the emergence of a missing people
… resistance. Focusing on the Indigenous “Khoisan Revivalism” movement in South Africa, it examines how young, urban, and working-class individuals claiming Khoisan identity navigate intersections of cultural sincerity, political disengagement, and social justice. The work highlights the emergence …
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A system of aggression: motives, methods and margins of Methodist growth with special reference to the growth of Methodism on Cannock Chase 1776-1893
… for them. Tracing the development of Methodist revivalism shows how the pastoral task prevailed over the evangelical one to the extent that revivalism became the province of specialised, revivalists. The study of the growth of Methodism on Cannock Chase shows how the trend towards professional …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in post-Mao China. Over 10,000 nuns make up the vast majority of the permanent residents in this community (approximately 2,000 monks live there as well), but few scholarly discussions have taken place regarding the lives and practices of …
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SEEKERS NO MORE: HISTORICAL SOURCES OF AMERICAN VOLUNTARYISM
… is simply another form of institutionalized revivalism as voluntaryism became normative within elements of American Evangelicalism. This particular thesis explores the nature of religious voluntaryism as evident in certain sixteenth and seventeenth-century historical tributaries. These trends …
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The Politics of Medical Syncretism in the Ghanaian National Healthcare System
… factors associated with Ghanaian medical revivalism were the role of cultural nationalism in creating a policy platform in the early post-independence period concerned primarily with redeveloping indigenous Ghanaian arts and sciences and the role of individual leadership -- personified by …
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