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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"sects"”.
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Panopticonned: The control methodology of fundamental Christian sects regarding members and their view of secular society
Markmið þessarar ritgerðar er að bera stjórnunaraðferðir sem liggja til grundvallar kristnum samtökum við stjórnunaraðferðir sértrúarsafnaða. Með því að nota hugtök Michel Foucault verða hugmyndir um stjórnunartækni skilgreind og borin saman við notkun atferlisfræði trúarbragða, ásamt stjórnun …
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Training of observers in risk rituals of the Manasa sect of Hinduism and serpent handling sects of Appalachia
This study proposes to examine observer attitudes. Any ritual action that has the potential for injury or death, will be coined a religious risk ritual (RR). Observers will examine examples of video from the Manasa Hindu tradition in India and the Pentecostal and Holiness Serpent Handling …
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Minority Christian groups in the third reich: their strategies for survival: a comparative study
… relationship between the Nazis and the Christian sects. This work takes five of the largest and most representative sects in Gennany and examines what happened to them during the Third Reich. Two introductory chapters set the scene. Chapter One examines the complex and often contradictory views of …
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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
… possibility of King Oliver I were monarchists, sects, and republicans. Monarchists sought to illustrate the advantages of kingship, the sects wrote of the consequences of kingly rule, and the republicans were divided on the question. An analysis of the language and arguments in both the …
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Lost and Found
… present the varied efforts of different social sects, as well as the efforts of an individual. These works address the differences of import between self and society, examine the drastic impulse of motivation and reveal cultural sects unafraid of criticism and implication.
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Ibn Hazm on the doctrine of Taḥrīf
… of World Religious Communities, Ideologies and Sects) as the primary source of reference. It consists of an introduction of four chapters and a conclusion.
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Women in Early Pythagoreanism
… with ancient Greek political clubs and religious sects. Compared to mainland Greece, South Italian women enjoyed higher legal and socio-political status. Similarly, religious groups included female initiates, assigning them authoritative roles. Consequently, the fact that the Pythagoreans founded …
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The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Historiographical Interpretations of the Battle of Siffin
… (36/657) is the flash point in the emergence of sects within the Islamic religion. This dissertation traces the presentation of the story Ṣiffīn in a specific line of Arabic universal histories, starting with the establishment of the ―vulgate‖ text, Naṣr ibn Muzāḥim al-Minqarī‘s Waqʿat Ṣiffīn, …
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昙阳子信仰的建立兼论晚明文人宗教的特点 = BUILDING THE CULT OF TANYANGZI: A DISCUSSION OF LITERATI RELIGION IN LATE MING DYNASTY
… ON MAINSTREAM RELIGIONS AND SOME RELIGIOUS SECTS. THE LACK OF ATTENTION GIVEN TO CULTS OF THE LITERATI MAY HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF THE DISPERSION OF MATERIALS. THE CASE OF THE CULT OF TANYANGZI IS AN EXAMPLE. ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE MING LITERATI, THE CULT OF TANYANGZI SPREAD AND DEVELOPED …
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Urban Fervor: Los Angeles Literature and Alternative Religion
… that the specific social phenomena of abundant sects in this urban space can provide keys to understanding the region's culture. While religion plays a part in the history of Los Angeles from the city's inception, its role becomes more complex, fragmentary, and pervasive in the twentieth century …
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Essays on networks and social interaction
… social network search patterns employed by both sects. Using smartphone and self-reported data, the paper shows that differing search strategies result in differential access to public services in Baghdad. The third paper presents a new model for measuring rhetorical style and other modes of …
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Kompilasi fatwa ulama tentang iddah wanita hamil karena zina dan kebolehan menikahinya: Studi komparatif madzhab Syafi'iyyah dan madzhab Hanabilah
… are encouraged to perform a study of how view sects of syafi’iiyah, and Hanabilah against pregnant women because of adultery, how the ability to marry the woman, and what is the basis of the opinion of each of the following sects of different factors affecting each schools. To find a way out of …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… by German Idealism and the radical Protestant sects of the early nineteenth century. The poet's works are invested with a private mythology and a symbolic significance. The writer started as a poet of supreme individualism and aestheticism. His views of Christianity are aesthetic and moral. He …
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From sect to cult to sect: the Christian Catholic Church in Zion
… following Troeltsch;Recent research on cults and sects follows Stark and Bainbridge's definitions. Both cult and sect are deviant religious movements. The sect revitalizes an established religion and the cult begins a new religion. The Stark and Bainbridge definition proves inadequate in its …
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Bradford's Muslim communities and the reproduction and representation of Islam
… character of Islam, which is shared by different sects, is studied unselfconsciously at work in the establishment of Muslim communities in Bradford, generating separate residential zones and a network of businesses and institutions, religious and cultural, developed to service their specific …
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Impact of religion and religious differences on political and economic cooperation between countries
… to over 200 countries, 8 religions, 17 religious sects and factors utilizing 15 different data sets for the 1950-2009 period as data allows. The evidence shows that common religion between countries is an important factor for their economic income level equalization (convergence). However, …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
… attitudes toward Quakerism and Shakerism, minor sects to which Hawthorne responded in a few of his writings. Quite late in life Hawthorne came into close contact with Catholicism, and thus his attitudes toward it are treated in the final chapter of this study. Hawthorne's reactions to all five of …
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An Urban Koliwada: Redevelopment of a Fishing Village in Mumbai, India
… city develops, it does not seem to cater to all sects of people. In fact, there seems to be a parallel relationship between the size of the city and its level of socio-economic disparity: the larger the city the less equal it tends to be. More often than not, the true soul of the city lies within …
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A Baptist student center for Charlottesville, Virginia
… beliefs and different types of people within sects or denominations. The type of person with whom this thesis is concerned is a college student who has had indoctrination and training in a home church. In college he is being exposed to a new type of environment and learning that, for the most …
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Syria and Saudi Arabia in post-Ta'if Lebanon
… balance divided between the Christian and Muslim sects has been one of the most detrimental elements to government stability and socioeconomic development. Underneath these sectarian affiliations, however, lie numerous patronage systems all vying for power and control over the Lebanese system. …
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