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The Creation of a Worldview.
… influenced the development of Adolf Hitler’s worldview.</p> <p>The works of many authors were consulted in conjunction with newspapers and memoirs of the period in order to gain a better understanding of what the environment of the Austrian capital was like in the fin-de-siècle period.</p> …
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Effects of globalization on culture and worldview
… the impact of globalization on culture and worldview. Chapter 1 defines globalization and traces its history. Chapter 2 observes the human agents who affect change on a global scale. Chapter 3 shows how globalization modifies culture and worldview, considering the impact on identities and …
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
… The present work is an ethnographic study of the worldview and ritual practices of the Irish neo-pagan community. It is an enquiry into (a) what characterises the neo-pagan worldview and (b) how this worldview is expressed through ritual behaviour. In order to collect data, the methodology of …
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Evangelical worldview analysis: A critical assessment and proposal
… assesses two prominent evangelical models of worldview analysis and, in light of the findings, offers a constructive proposal. Chapter 1 describes evangelicalism's implementation of the worldview concept. It argues that apologetics must be carried out on the worldview level. Hence, there is a …
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Conservative Mind: A Focus on Introspection and Worldview
… are the result of a dangerous and authoritarian worldview, where individuals are essentially hedonistic and need rules and regulations in order to behave morally. Empirical research has also indicated that conservatives are generally higher in authoritarianism, intolerance for ambiguity, …
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Preaching a Christian worldview in a post-Christian culture
abstract Preaching a christian worldview in a post-christian culture Robert Craig Thompson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This dissertation examines worldview preaching in a post-Christian culture. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of worldview …
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Worldview of Janina Degutytė: Poetry, Letters, and Autobiographic Texts /
… of study of the present Dissertation is the worldview of Janina Degutytė, a poet who left an indelible mark on the Lithuanian literature of the second half of the twentieth century. The study aims to portray the multi-layered structure of formation of the world awareness in the poet’s texts. …
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A study in religious worldview and subjective well-being
… examined the relationship between religious worldview and multiple measures of subjective well-being, including: the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (Chamberlain & Haaga, 2001a), the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005), the Subjective …
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Honoring Indigenous Worldview: Cultural (Un)Responsiveness in Gifted Education
… toward examining the intersection of Indigenous worldview, giftedness as a cultural phenomenon, and culturally responsive gifted education.</p>
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As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview
… partially reconstruct the shared, generally held worldview of the Neo-Babylonian people using the transdisciplinary approach of worldview analysis. Worldviews are what we use to think with, not what we think about. Underlying surficial cultural behaviors are deeper levels of cognition regarding …
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Caregiving and Schizophrenia: Understanding the Worldview of Asian Indian Families
"This qualitative study with six Asian Indian families focussed on understanding the caregiving processes involved when one of their members is afflicted with schizophrenia. It looked at the beliefs, values, and meanings associated with schizophrenia within the context of Asian Indian cultural and …
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A test of TMT: Mortality salience and avoidance of worldview threats
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Worldview education: a possibility for autonomy-facilitating education in Islamic schools
… I describe how this curriculum, called Worldview Education, can contribute to an autonomy-facilitating education in Islamic schools by engaging students with a variety of worldviews, as Brighouse proposes, while removing the element of critique that Islamic schools could find troubling.
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The Effects of Storytelling on Worldview and Attitudes toward Sustainable Agriculture
… and to society and is unsustainable, yet the worldview of a substantial percentage of the population conflicts with this assessment. A significant number of researchers, non-governmental organizations, and government entities assert that the detrimental effects of industrial agriculture must …
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Who we are in the world: an investigation into psychology and worldview
… of our lives serve as a reference for our worldviews. In part 1, I take a theory-driven approach to address the questions “What is a worldview?”, and “How is worldview studied psychologically?” In part 2, I introduce a new measure of worldview — The Philosophical Worldview Questionnaire …
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Does Health Anxiety Moderate the Effects of Mortality Salience On Worldview Defense?
… death increases self-esteem striving and worldview defense (Pyszczynski, Greenberg, Solomon, Arndt, & Schimel, 2004). The hypothesis in the present study was that health anxiety would moderate this effect, based on the premise that health-anxious individuals are chronically more aware of …
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COVID-19’s Effects on Mortality Salience, Death Anxiety, and Worldview Defense
… anxiety from COVID-19 reminders also increase worldview defense. The results have provided evidence that thinking about COVID-19 does not prime death anxiety reducing behaviors.</p>
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Enduring Wisdom for Leaders: Bringing a Biblical Worldview to Leadership and Management
… are key insights for leaders from a biblical worldview? How do those insights align with current scholarship? How do they add to our understanding to help current leaders? Key points were drawn from all 66 books of the Bible. Using inductive research methods, 310 key points were comparatively …
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