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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"unity-in-diversity"”.
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Unity in diversity : a design projection for a participatory housing in Kuala Lumpur
… an alternative design approach for a public housing in Malaysia. It stems from a conviction that the design of public housing should be based on the lifestyles and ways of living of the people it is intended for. Since the Malaysian people are composed of three diverse cultures: Malay, Chinese, …
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Making sense of religion and religions : the value and limitation of religious unity in diversity
Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism have become common terms for sorting out different responses to religious diversity that have appeared within the Christian tradition. In this study, I argue that each of these responses is a different form of what could be called "unity in diversity." …
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Unity in Diversity: The Scholarly Community of the Ḥaramayn in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This doctoral thesis illuminates the intellectual life of the Hijaz during the early modern period. The research considers the Ḥaramayn as a region, studying the intellectual trends through reconstructing the scholarly networks that existed in the Hijaz during the seventeenth and eighteenth …
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Unity in diversity : an exploration of the suports concept as a design approach to housing in multi-ethnic Malaysia
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Negotiating community amongst spatial and identity boundaries : the case of "unity in diversity" in the transmigration settlement of Mopugad, Indonesia
In the 1970s, the Indonesian government undertook a massive national development program which involved the relocation of 1.5 million people throughout the islands of the archipelago. Known as transmigration, the program resettled people from Java and Bali, two islands experiencing overpopulation, …
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The Loss of Integration Vs. Unity in Diversity: American Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s and the Founding of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
This dissertation explores historically the founding of the SCA by investigating the intellectual, political, institutional, social, and financial factors that shaped the form it came to take. It emphasizes the historical contingency through which academic institutions come into existence, …
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Augustine's Analogy between the Spirit in the Church and the Soul in the Body and Its Implications for Communion Ecclesiology
In the Spirit's own age, it is ironically ascribed a secondary role in the Church. Conversely, I have opted to study Augustine's Spirit - Soul analogy and its implications in order to identify the Spirit as the Church's principle of communion. Analogies are generally open to interpretations and …
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An Architurecture of Absence, A study on silence in architecture
This thesis documents an inquiry into the architecture of contemplative spaces and the process and evolution of the design of such a place. Man has often sought a place of solitude, a shelter, where the diversities diminish and differences become insignificant. In the recent decades many …
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The European Heritage Label: a critical review of a new EU policy
… policy, the European Heritage Label (EHL), introduced in 2011 to designate sites located in EU member states that have significance and symbolic value for European history and integration. I examine how the concepts of European cultural identity and common cultural heritage are used and …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
Summary of Commanding texts: Knowledge-ordering, identity construction and ethics in 'military manuals’ of the Roman Empire By Daniel Alexandru Chiritoiu This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far …
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Promoting and monitoring Low German: education policies and ideologies of language in the northern German Bundesländer
… of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), an international treaty of the Council of Europe, in the 1990s represented a revolutionary step in the protection and promotion of endangered regional or minority languages in Europe. Its aim, which is to strengthen the …
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Liberating the repressed form of self in post-traditional Ru-influenced Chinese: a theoretical study of the responses of Tu Weiming and Jürgen Moltmann
… that is caused by repressive social impositions in its different degrees is prevalent in post-traditional Ru-influenced Chinese (PTRIC) societies. Certain non-Confucianist (non-Ruist) scholars identify it as a significant factor causing a variety of emotional, psychological, interpersonal and …
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
In this dissertation, I ask whether the possibility of experiencing a work of literary art as literature is conditioned by concept of literature or whether we can just get on with reading literature without such a concept. I begin with the question: is a concept of literary art necessary? I explore …
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The international township of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India: the routinization of charisma in a context of an inner-worldly mystical orientation
Sponsored by UNESCO and the Government of India, Auroville was established in 1968 as an experiment in human unity. This thesis is an attempt to illuminate the cultural orientation of Auroville and. the consequences for routinization of charisma. Drawing on material collected during an exploratory …
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Ethical decision making in the National Health Service: A theoretical analysis of clinical negligence with reference to the existential writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
… does not vary is the necessity for him to exist in the world, to be at work there, to be there in the midst of other people, and to be mortal there. The limits are neither subjective nor objective, or rather, they have an objective and a subjective side. Objective because they are to be found …
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Bringing Europe Down to Earth
Why is it considered more European to vote in the affirmative of the Euro than it is to vote against it? Why is not possible to be a populist and a ?Good European? at the same time? What makes an illegal immigrant different from a tourist? These questions all concern the limits of what it means to …