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Cheng, Ming-chun May. "Christianity fever : contagion and constraint of a religious movement in China /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17591211.
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Perry, Cindy L. "The history of the expansion of Protestant Christianity among the Nepali diaspora." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30643.
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The history of the Protestant Christian Church among Nepali people started while Nepal was still a 'closed' country, among a diaspora community across the eastern border in Darjeeling, then a part of British India. This thesis documents the history of the expansion of Christianity throughout the Nepali diaspora as it spread to disparate parts of India and beyond. In order to trace that history, it was also necessary to trace historically the dispersion itself and its contacts with Christianity. The first chapter deals with the basic question of 'Who is a Nepali' and the historico-sociological forces that led to widespread external migration out of Nepal. Then a two-tiered region by region historical analysis is made of the Nepali diaspora itself in the context of its receptor communities and the influence of Christianity among them, resulting in the establishment of Nepali Protestant Christian churches. This process is traced from its early beginnings in Darjeeling on through the Eastern Himalayan states of Sikkim and Bhutan and into the Duars, and along the relentless eastward migration trail into North East India and Burma. The analysis then looks at the regions to the south and east of Nepal in three broadly defined blocks: the North India plains of North Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the Western Himalayas with emphasis on the UP hills and Himachal Pradesh, and urban India. A separate chapter documents the spread of Christianity among Gurkha soldiers, particularly within the British Brigade of Gurkhas.
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鄭明眞 and Ming-chun May Cheng. "Christianity fever: contagion and constraint of a religious movement in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31235621.
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The Best MPhil Thesis in the Faculties of Architecture, Arts, Business & Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences (University of Hong Kong), Li Ka Shing Prize, 1995-1997.published_or_final_version
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Santoso, Arnila Hevena. "Protestant Christianity in the Indonesian context colonial missions, independent churches and indigenous faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p088-0147.
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Robinson, Carin. "Doctrine, discussion and disagreement Evangelical Protestant interaction with Catholics in American politics /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436288150/viewonline.
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Alafaci, Francesco History & Philosophy Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The extreme right in Australia with particular reference to protestant Christianity 1945 to 2001." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. History & Philosophy, 2010. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44915.
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This thesis aims to provide a detailed analysis of the postwar movements active on the far right fringes of Australian society between 1945 and 2001. It traces the distinctive features of ultra rightist groups and organizations and discusses the similarities and differences between these forms of non conventional, sectarian behaviour. The study emphasizes the longevity of right wing extremist discourses linked mainly to ideologies that drew upon fundamentalist Christian conceptions of history and politics. My task is to demonstrate that most ultra-rightist types of activities appealed to the historical background of militant conservative mobilization around the issues of Protestantism, white racial ethnicity and Anglo-Saxon national identity. The analysis examines the programs, interrelationships and modus operandi of such groups and organizations and the liberal-democratic reaction to their activities. It concludes with some generalizations about the extreme right as well as offering some insights into the phenomenon's prospects in the early twenty-first century.
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Fordham, Graham S. "Protestant Christianity and the transformation of northern Thai culture : ritual practice, belief and kinship /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf712.pdf.
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Huen, Yun-on. "A study of Zhao Zichen's (1888-1979) response to the Anti-Christian Movement in the 1920s Shu shi, miao shi, xiu dao yuan : Zhao Zichen dui er shi nian dai fei Jidu jiao yun dong de hui ying /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31951338.
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Gibson, Scott M. "Adoniram Judson Gordon, D.D. (1836-1895) : pastor, premillennialist, moderate Calvinist, and missionary statesman." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361839.
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Webster, Joseph. "Protestants and prawns : enchantment and 'The Word' in a Scottish fishing village." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6392.
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This thesis attempts to understand what it is like to live and work as a ‘sincere’ and ‘committed’ Christian in Gamrie, a small fishing village of 700 people and six conservative Protestant churches, whose staunch religiosity is itself on the cusp of dramatic economic, social and spiritual change. More than this, it is an attempt to show how the everyday religious experiences of Christians in Gamrie are animated by – but not reducible to – their social context. It seeks to do so by considering how local folk theologies relate to larger social processes occurring within Scotland and the north Atlantic. Arguing that these realms are necessarily (and simultaneously) ideational and material, my theoretical focus is upon the relationship between belief and experience – a relationship mediated, first and foremost, in and through the significance of ‘The Word’. Where beliefs have objects and where objects ‘have’ materiality, beliefs are held to be essentially material. Equally, where material happenings in the world are framed by theological (say, eschatological) ideas, objects and events are held to be unavoidably implicated in belief. Thus, my aim is to present an analytic of the relationship between the lived local experiences of belief and objects, materiality and language.
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Kehrli, James W. "The psychology of Dr. James Dobson and the principles of the Protestant Reformation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Becker, Shanae. "From import to export the Yoido Full Gospel Church as exemplar in South Korean Protestant Christianity /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1543.
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Martin, John Timothy. "A re-evaluation of Protestant missionary work in China prior to the Communist era." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1214.
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Lin, Ai. "Mencius of Confucianism and Jonathan Edwards of Protestant Christianity: Intellectuals' Self-Awareness and the People's Self-Understandings." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3158.
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Thesis advisor: Dennis HaleThesis advisor: Gerald Easter
Intellectuals' different self-understandings contribute to their development of different views on the people in society. And such different attitudes remarkably affect their ways of engaging their people in the specific cultural contexts. In the process of interactions, people's characters were established in their specific environments. Admittedly, intellectuals acted as intermediary between the core values/beliefs and the people. Fundamentally and ultimately it is our conceptions of God and our thinking of messages from Heaven that determines not only intellectual's self-awareness and their views on the people, but also people's actual self-understanding. I am trying to demonstrate that those lacking of sense of self-understanding were so tough to develop public awareness and take initiatives in civic participation, just like people in traditional Confucian society in ancient China. People of colonial New England were directed to cultivate their personal relationships with God and so also their sense of the self, which is compact with their active civic society
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
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Huen, Yun-on. "A study of Zhao Zichen's (1888-1979) response to theAnti-Christian Movement in the 1920s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951338.
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Warner, Gregory Dann. "A Comparative Content Analysis of the Editorial Positions of the Christian Century and Christianity Today on Selected Social and Moral Issues." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500585/.
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This study compared the editorial positions of two magazines, The Christian Century and Christianity Today, on seven social and moral issues, then compared each magazine's positions with the opinions of their intended audiences. A directional content analysis was conducted that determined the editorial positions. On all four issues for which comparison was possible, the magazines demonstrated a marked difference in direction. These positions were compared with the published opinions of those social groups identified as representative of each magazine's intended audience. There was marked disagreement between each magazine and its intended audience on three of the five issues for which comparison was possible.
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Vandi, Sheku Wango. "Christianity and culture in Sierra Leone : with special reference to the conflict between evangelical Protestant churches and traditional practices." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683307.
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Wittig, Mark E. "A cultural approach to evangelism in Latin America an analysis and proposal for the work of evangelism in Medellin, Colombia /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Vidal, Gilles. "Les théologies contextuelles dans le Pacifique Sud au XXe siècle. Analyse des conditions de production d'un discours religieux en situation." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30004/document.
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Cette thèse est une analyse descriptive de la théologie contextuelle protestante contemporaine dans le Pacifique Sud insulaire. Elle privilégie une approche interdisciplinaire faisant appel à l’histoire, la socio-anthropologie, la missiologie et la théologie. La première partie s’intéresse de manière diachronique à l’émergence de cette nouvelle théologie dans un contexte de décolonisation et de régionalisation du christianisme à travers le réseau œcuménique des Églises du Pacifique, des années 1970 aux années 2000. Trois figures de proue de la théologie océanienne contemporaine sont étudiées en détail : Sione ‘Amanaki Havea, Sevati Tuwere, Ama ‘amalele Tofaeono. La deuxième partie est une approche synchronique et typologique des thèmes abordés par la théologie contextuelle dans le Pacifique : le discours sur Dieu proprement dit, l’image du Christ se dégageant d’une christologie océanienne, la théologie « de la célébration » et « la théologie de l’identité ». L’utilisation théologique de symboles culturels tels que la terre ou le pays (fenua / vanua), le kava, la case, l’igname, etc. y est examinée ; de même que le rapport entre religion et culture ainsi que le recours à la tradition. La troisième et dernière partie porte sur la question théorique de la contextualisation de la théologie, l’origine du terme et du concept ainsi que ses limites dans une perspective œcuménique. Elle reprend également la question de l’articulation entre la culture et la théologie dans le contexte contemporain de la mondialisation du christianismeThis Ph. D. Thesis offers a description of contemporary contextual Pacific Islands’ theology. The methodological approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, missiology, and theology. The first part is a diachronic study of the origin of this new kind of theology in the context of decolonisation and regionalisation of Christianity through the Pacific Churches’ ecumenical network from the 1970’s to the 2000’s. The thoughts of three contemporary Pacific theologians are presented in detail: Sione ‘Amanaki Havea, Sevati Tuwere, Ama ‘Amalele Tofaeono. The second part is more synchronic, proposing a typology of specific theological themes in the Pacific: the different representations of God, Christology, “Theology of Celebration”, “Theology of Identity”. The purpose of this part is to work on cultural symbols like the land or homeland (fenua / vanua), kava, traditional hut, and yam, among others, and to study the link between religion and culture and the use of tradition. The third and last part deals with the theoretical issue of contextualisation in theology, the origin of the word and of the concept of contextualisation as well as its limits from an ecumenical point of view. This section also takes into account the problematic of the connection between culture and theology in the contemporary context of a globalised Christianity
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Syvrais-Gallant, Alexandre. "Evaluating the Protestant Community's Action Towards Democratization During the Period of Martial Law in Taiwan." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32076.
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This thesis examines the reasons why certain Protestant churches in Taiwan during the martial law period advocated democratization, while others did not. It uses an institutional and organizational theory to better understand the inner workings of these churches to understand their norms and values in terms of their overall group culture. This is set against previous English-language research that focused primarily on the ideals of essentialized or reified religions, broadly defined, without looking at the variations that exist between different churches. It argues that in order to understand the actions of these churches towards democratization, we must look at the whole of each organization. The norms and values, on their own, are insufficient to explain their motivations.
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Baab, Lynne M. "The future church : identity and persuasion on congregational Websites /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6208.
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Henderson, Gwen Deborah. "Evangelical women negotiating faith in contemporary Scotland." Thesis, Thesis restricted. Connect to e-thesis to view abstract, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/323/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Keum, Jooseop. "Remnants and renewal : a history of Protestant Christianity in North Korea, with special reference to issues of Church and State, 1945-1994." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30350.
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Santos, João Henrique dos. "Da conciliação possível à ruptura: uma análise dos documentos de 1520 de Martinho Lutero." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3822.
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A presente Tese de Doutorado tem seu foco nos principais tratados escritos por Martinho Lutero no ano de 1520, dos quais os mais importantes são: Sobre o cativeiro babilônico da Igreja; Sobre a liberdade do cristão e a Carta à Nobreza Cristã da Nação Alemã sobre a melhora do estamento cristão. Tais documentos podem ser considerados como o “programa da Reforma”, visto estabelecerem novas bases e postulados teológicos, assim como fundamentarem nova estrutura e ordenamento eclesiástico. Portanto, o que se pretende mostrar é que a Reforma efetivamente ocorreu em 1520, e não em 1517. Escritos antes de sua excomunhão, e sendo, no limite, as razões últimas desta, os documentos apontam para uma irreconciliável ruptura com Roma. Será apresentado também de que forma esses escritos foram lidos pela Igreja Romana e pela nobreza e povo alemães, mostrando as repercussões nesses estamentos. A Introdução apresentará as questões gerais que nortearam o trabalho, traçando o plano geral da Tese. O Capítulo I mostrará o percurso intelectual e humano de Martinho Lutero até a redação dos documentos estudados. O Capítulo II apresentará um panorama da Igreja Católica Romana e da Cristandade do Cisma do Ocidente (1378-1418) até o momento da eclosão da Reforma, focando especificamente na questão da crise de auctoritas e potestas, mostrando a crise do projeto hierocrático, e na questão das indulgências. Neste Capítulo, ainda, será apresentado o estado do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico quando da morte de Maximiliano I e da eleição de seu neto Carlos V, em 1519. O Capítulo III apresentará os tratados e sua repercussão nos diferentes estamentos da sociedade alemã e na Igreja Romana. A Conclusão retomará e aprofundará as questões apresentadas na introdução, à luz do exposto e desenvolvido nos três capítulos precedentes.
This Thesis focuses on the major treatises written by Martin Luther in 1520, of which the most important are: On the Babylonian captivity of the Church; On the freedom of the Christian and the Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation concerning the improvement of the Christian Estate. These documents may be taken as the “program of the Reformation”, as they established new theological basis and postulates, and founded a new ecclesiastical structure. Thus, what is intended to state is that the Reformation effectively happened in 1520, and not in 1517. Written shortly before his excommunication and being, at last, the ultimate reasons for it, such treatises point to an irreconcilable rupture with Rome. The work presents explanations on how these writings were read by the Roman Church and by the German nobility and people, pointing the repercussions in such estates. Introduction will present the general questions which guided the research, outdrawing the main plan of the Thesis. Chapter I will show Martin Luther’s human and intellectual path towards the writing of the studied treatises. Chapter II will describe the situation of the Roman Catholic Church and that of the Christendom from the West Schism (1378-1418) to the eve of the Reformation, focusing particularly on the crisis of auctoritas and potestas, showing the crisis of the hierocratic project, and the question of the indulgences. This Chapter will introduce the situation of the Holy Roman Empire at the moment of the death of Maximilian I and the election of his grandson Charles V, in 1519. Chapter III will present the treatises and their repercussions on the different estates of the German society and of the Roman Church. Conclusion will retake and deepen the questions presented in the Introduction, after all exposed in the three previous Chapters.
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Myers, S. P. "Mythology for Christians : an investigation and empirical test of C.G. Jung's proposal that protestant theologians and adherents should think of God as a mythologem." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20065/.
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This research tests C.G. Jung’s suggestion that if protestant Christians think of God as a mythologem then it advances consciousness. There is an implied benefit of greater religious tolerance. The research methodology is to investigate the theoretical concepts involved, operationalise them, and then conduct an empirical test of their relationship. There are multiple problems that have to be overcome, including Jung’s amorphous and protean use of terminology. His concept of myth, in this context, is clarified and positioned within his philosophy, the contemporary culture of materialism, and the primary beliefs of the target audience. The contemporary understanding of Jungian consciousness is also revisioned to incorporate Jung’s notion of advancement based on the transcendent function. There are no existing measures for ‘thinking mythologically’ nor ‘advancement’. The concepts do not lend themselves to established psychometric principles. Therefore, two new forms of questionnaire are devised to measure these concepts, alongside two new questionnaires of conventional design that collect information about demographics and religious tolerance. There is an Information Technology sub-project, using a bespoke database and set of programs, to develop, publish, and promote the questionnaires on the internet. There are then two stages of statistical analysis: one to develop reliable and valid measures for each concept; the other to measure the relationships between the concepts. The main result of the test is that the specific relationship Jung describes in the letter – between mythological thinking and advancement of consciousness – does not hold. However, the data does suggest there may be a direct relationship between mythological thinking and religious tolerance. Despite the failure of the main test, there are a number of useful lessons from the results and suggestions for future research. There are also several spin-offs from the thesis, in terms of both concepts and resources. These are reviewed in the final chapter.
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Janney, Rebecca Price. "A study of how the role of women in the American Protestant church and society through the centuries bears upon the faithfulness of contemporary evangelical women." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Hall, Katharine German. "Response to 1 Timothy 2:11-12 or its parallel, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 by three sixteenth-century Protestant women theologians: Argula von Grumbach, Marie Dentiére, and Anne Askew." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/141.
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The Protestant women who engaged in theology and biblical scholarship throughout the sixteenth century faced numerous barriers entering into and being heard within their Protestant movements. Because Protestants recognize Scripture as the primary authority on matters of faith, 1 Timothy 2:11-12, along with its parallel in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, provided a unique impediment to sixteenth-century Protestant women theologians. These women faced the burden of both affirming the authority of Scripture and simultaneously contravening the biblical prohibition against women teaching. Many women theologians of the time; including Argula von Grumbach, Marie Dentiére, and Anne Askew; addressed this issue in their writings. These writings offer a glimpse into how they each wrestled with the question of women’s roles in the religious movements of their times. In this thesis, I argue that von Grumbach, Dentiére, and Askew interpreted 1 Timothy 2:11-12 or its parallel 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 to their audiences in a variety of ways to argue that their involvement in the Reformation was exempted from the Pauline injunction against women teaching or holding authority over men.
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Tepera, Courtney. "“FAITH COMES BY HEARING”: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CHRISTIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND AURAL PIETY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/467763.
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Over the past fifty years, Christian contemporary music has joined hymnody and psalmody as a major form of evangelical liturgical and devotional song. While the production and content of this genre have been explored by scholars, few studies have attended to the devotional use of the genre and its role in shaping the religious lives of American evangelicals. This project draws from several sets of data to address this matter: analysis of church-created worship music albums, listener testimonials on Christian radio websites, and focus group interviews of laity and clergy at four South Carolina churches. The data revealed that music is significant to their religious lives outside of church as a means of encountering God, managing emotions, and displaying spiritual capital. Inside churches, the music is used to create a sense of corporate identity that reinforces social bonds within the community and attracts newcomers. Drawing on the methodological framework of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his work on social distinction, I argue that American evangelicals who listen to Christian contemporary music are engaged in aural piety, a set of practices, attitudes, and ideas invested in music that structure and evoke the experience of the sacred.
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Lenz, Darin Duane. "“Strengthening the faith of the children of God": Pietism, print, and prayer in the making of a world evangelical hero, George Müller of Bristol (1805-1898)." Diss., Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3880.
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Robert D. Linder
George Müller of Bristol (1805-1898) was widely celebrated in the nineteenth century as the founder of the Ashley Down Orphan Homes in Bristol, England. He was a German immigrant to Great Britain who was at the vanguard of evangelical philanthropic care of children. The object of his charitable work, orphans, influenced the establishment of Christian orphanages in Great Britain, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. However, what brought Müller widespread public acclaim was his assertion that he supported his orphan homes solely by relying on faith and prayer. According to Müller, he prayed to God for the material needs of the orphans and he believed, in faith, that those needs were supplied by God, without resort to direct solicitation, through donations given to him. He employed his method as a means to strengthen the faith of his fellow Christians and published an ongoing chronicle of his answered prayers that served as evidence. Müller’s method of financial support brought him to the forefront of public debate in the nineteenth century about the efficacy of prayer and the supernatural claims of Christianity. His use of prayer to provide for the orphans made his name a “household word the world round.” This dissertation is a study of Müller’s influence on evangelicals that analyzes Müller’s enduring legacy as a hero of the faith among evangelicals around the world. For evangelicals Müller was an exemplary Christian—a Protestant saint—who embodied a simple but pure form of biblical piety. To explore his influence from the nineteenth century through the twentieth century, this study, as a social biography, investigates how evangelicals remember individuals and how that memory, in this case Müller, influenced the practice of prayer in evangelical piety. The dissertation affirms a link between evangelicals and eighteenth-century German Pietism, while also showing that evangelicals used publications to celebrate and to informally canonize individuals esteemed for their piety. The dissertation, ultimately, is concerned with how evangelicals identified heroes of the faith and why these heroes were and are widely used as models for edification and for emulation in everyday life.
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Sanecki, Kim Caroline. "Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07062006-114644/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Ian Christopher Fletcher, committee chair; Duane J Corpis, committee member. Electronic text (180 p.). Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180).
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Mbano, Dunstan M. "Ecclesiological trends in the Catholic and Protestant Churches and their significance for the Church in Africa : a study of selected texts /." Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017990543&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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McClung, Tracy M. "An investigation of beliefs and practices of conservative Protestant parents and the cultural applicability of child parent relationship therapy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3642/.
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The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey to identify the beliefs and practices of conservative Protestant parents, which assisted in clarifying the assertions in the current literature regarding conservative Protestant parenting. Additionally, this researcher sought to determine the applicability of child parent relationship therapy (CPRT), a filial therapy model based upon the principles of child centered play therapy, for conservative Protestant parents by ascertaining the need for cultural modifications. Beliefs and practices of conservative Protestants were measured using the Protestant Parenting Inventory (PPI), an original instrument developed through a series of focus groups and pilot testings. The population comprised 148 mothers and fathers from 4 Southern Baptist churches in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to the data in order to increase internal consistency estimates and percent of explained variance. Criterion coding of demographic data allowed a multiple regression analysis to determine which demographic variables were significant predictors of participant responses on the PPI. Descriptive statistics allowed the researcher to investigate the compatibility of conservative Protestants and CPRT. Results of this study both confirm and refute past findings regarding conservative Protestants. Results also revealed the need for some cultural modifications to CPRT in order to make it an acceptable parenting resource for conservative Protestant parents.
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Wolfe, Marion A. "Constructing Modern Missionary Feminism: American Protestant Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies and the Rhetorical Positioning of Christian Women, 1901-1938." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525440511790395.
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Phillips, Dhinakaran Robert Jaba Prasad. "Evaluating contemporary Protestant missions to children at risk in South India : investigating foundations and principles for future Christian mission." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33269.
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The 2011 Indian Census indicates that children under the age of 18 constitute more than 400 million, and most of them are Children at Risk (CAR). This study suggests that the care and protection of children at risk is not a twentieth- or twenty-first-century secular enterprise but has precedents in Protestant missions in India from the late eighteenth century. In the first section, the study focuses on evaluating contemporary Protestant mission contexts in India and a brief historical survey of Protestant missions to CAR in India through case studies. The evaluation concentrates on the implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) for the predominant Protestant models of mission in contemporary India - which may be summarised as child evangelism, child compassion and child advocacy. The thesis argues that child care and protection is increasingly becoming secularised and professionalised. Moreover, with the emergence of new laws and with increasing, vigilance from international and national agencies, and from Hindu fundamentalists, Christian mission to CAR is itself at risk. Under these circumstances, the study also investigates whether there is a transition from ideas of 'saving' CAR to ideas of protecting the human rights of CAR. In the second section, this hypothesis is further substantiated by case studies of select Protestant churches and Christian NGOs engaging with CAR in the cities of Bangalore and Chennai. Using empirical data, it then claims that the predominant Protestant approaches of evangelism, compassion, and advocacy are still underdeveloped and inadequate primarily because the majority of caregivers working with children still perceive CAR as objects of their mission - an assumption that may be contrary to UNCRC (Articles 14 and 30). Further, it argues that the churches and agencies most active among CAR are from a 'conservative' background, who are often exclusively 'spiritual' and otherworldly in their concerns. The final and most constructive section, based on the evaluations of the empirical data, seeks to recommend a preliminary theology of mission in and through the idea of 'childness' based on Matthew 18: 2-5, an idea developed by Adrian Thatcher in the context of a theology of child participation. Based on these foundations, it suggests that UNCRC can be integrated as a set of principles for contemporary Christian missions with CAR in South India through a missiological process called 'dialogue,' emerging from a pluralistic Indian context. It further proposes that adults and children are to be perceived not as either independent (liberational) or dependent (paternalistic) agencies, but as interdependent agencies working together in God's mission. This thesis finally proposes basic principles for Christian mission to/for/with CAR - a multi-dimensional approach integrating CAR as subjects of God's mission and not just as objects.
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Uken, Charles D. "Planting blue-collar and service-sector churches lessons from Brazil /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Azevedo, Leandro Villela de. "As obras inglesas de John Wycliffe inseridas no contexto religioso de sua época: da suma teológica de Aquino ao concílio de Constança , dos espirituais fransciscanos a Guilherme de Ockham." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-14062011-135520/.
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O período presente entre o começo do século XIV e ano de 1418 é indispensável para a compreensão do cenário religioso-político medieval e para a compreensão das bases do mesmo pensamento na Idade Moderna. Neste período temos a mudança da sede da Igreja Católica de Roma pra Avignon, o retorno da mesma para Roma, a divisão da Igreja em dois grupos, cada um liderado por um papa, o Cisma do Ocidente, cisma esse que dura por décadas. Temos a ampliação do pensamento herético, a conversa entre grupos heterodoxos, e tentativas de conciliação que nem sempre eram absolutas e levavam até mesmo a renúncia do cargo pontifical. Neste período viveu John Wycliffe, professor de teologia em Oxford, tendo produzido uma série de obras em latim e outra ainda maior em inglês. Divulgando seus ideias para o povo e criando seu próprio grupo, os Lolardos. Esse pensador, dialogando com os grandes pensadores católicos e revendo pensamentos de outras heresias anteriores, cria a premissa da impossibilidade de uma igreja que fosse ao mesmo tempo autenticamente cristã e institucionalizada ou poderosa, em sua obra The Wicket. Através de uma argumentação racional e humanista, Wycliffe formulou, de certa forma, a base para a reforma protestante, ao mesmo tempo que precisou ser descartado pela mesma, após seu crescimento nos círculos de poder e institucionalização. A melhor compreensão deste peculiar autor e de sua obra permite não somente compreender melhor o mundo da baixa Idade Média, suas disputas religiosas e políticas, como também aprofundar o conhecimento sobre as bases do pensamento moderno. Além de lançar bases para a própria problematização da estrutura do poder religioso em si, seja ele católico ou não.The Late Middle Ages, specially the period between 1305 and 1418 is indispensable to understand the political an religious though not only of the medieval people, but for the comprehension of the modern ages. In this small period of time much religious turbulence took place in Western Europe. The capital of the Catholic Church moved to Avignon and then returned to Roma, the Church slipt in two different factions in the Great Western Schism and each group was leaded by a different pope, both of them considering themselves as the sumo pontifce and the only true connection between God and men in earth. The Schism lasts for decades and each pope define the other as the antichrist. In this period the heretical though grown up and the attempts of reconciliations of the groups not always become effective, in matter of fact once even a pope renounced his post. John Wycliffe, professor of Theology in Oxford University, lived in this time. He produced a great number of papers in Latin and a even more great number of papers in middle English. His ideas continued with his followers the Lollards. This great thinker created important dialogues with the other heretical thinkers, being one of the most important pre-reformist theologian and creating the bases of the protestant reform. But the also created the idea that the true Christian church would never be institutionalized neither it could be powerful. In his sermon The Wicket, using humanistic reason, he united the words of Jesus in the Gospels to prove that would be impossible to create a strong institutionalized church. So, this particular paper was also put aside because it was not interesting for the newly created institutionalized church of the 16th century Studding this thinker and his works, specially the Wicket is very important to better understand not only the medieval church, but the institutionalized church of all times.
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Smith, Stephanie. "Prolegomena to a theological theory of justice : a comparative study of Catholic and Protestant anthropological foundations for political-economic justice with special reference to Karol Wojtyla." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13540.
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This work proposes that the foundation for justice in society begins with an understanding of personhood that begins with Christian theology. While ethical stances such as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights are helpful in articulating the bounds of justice in society, such humanistic declarations and programs may reach an impasse if they do not incorporate the depth and complexity of human personhood revealed in Jesus Christ. I will make this argument by comparing the Christian anthropologies of two prominent advocates for social justice in the Catholic and Protestant traditions: Karol Wojytla/Pope John Paul II and Karl Barth. Parts One and Two of this thesis will examine the strong critique which both of these men offered within their own historical context toward systems which denied the vital connection between Christian theology and persons in society. These parts will outline the distinctly Christian anthropologies that each theologian proposed as a basis for social justice. The final part of this thesis will set these two anthropologies in critical interaction with one another in the key area of divergence: the ontology of human personhood and the methodological issues integral to it. While John Paul has raised critical issues which are central to social ethics and has articulated many of the complexities of human action, Karl Barth's Christological anthropology proposes an ontological construct of being which critically critiques human motivation and behaviour while also providing a social starting point for personal ethics.
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McLean, Patrica Rose. "Thai Protestant Christianity : a study of cultural and theological interactions between Western missionaries (the American Presbyterian Mission and the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) and indigenous Thai Churches (the Church of Christ in Thailand and the associated churches of Thailand-Central)." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30494.
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Elkins, Mark. "Religious directives of health, sickness and death : Church teachings on how to be well, how to be ill, and how to die in early modern England." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16396.
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In broad terms, this thesis is a study of what Protestant theologians in early modern England taught regarding the interdependence between physical health and spirituality. More precisely, it examines the specific and complex doctrines taught regarding health-related issues in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and evaluates the consistency of these messages over time. A component of the controversial Protestant-science hypothesis introduced in the early twentieth century is that advancements in science were driven by the Protestant ethic of needing to control nature and every aspect therein. This thesis challenges this notion. Within the context of health, sickness and death, the doctrine of providence evident in Protestant soteriology emphasised complete submission to God's sovereign will. Rather, this overriding doctrine negated the need to assume any control. Moreover, this thesis affirms that the directives theologians delivered governing physical health remained consistent across this span, despite radical changes taking place in medicine during the same period. This consistency shows the stability and strength of this message. Each chapter offers a comprehensive analysis on what Protestant theologians taught regarding the health of the body as well as the soul. The inclusion of more than one hundred seventy sermons and religious treatises by as many as one hundred twenty different authors spanning more than two hundred years laid a fertile groundwork for this study. The result of this work provides an extensive survey of theological teachings from these religious writers over a large span of time.
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Miller, Mark Sheldon. "The Impact of Conservative Protestantism upon The Time Fathers Spend with Their Children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2708/.
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This research was concerned with the possible effects that religion, especially conservative Protestantism, has upon the performance of fatherhood. The influence of religion was assessed using the religious beliefs reported by fathers. The performance of fatherhood focused on the amount of time fathers spent meeting the physical needs of their young children. This research hypothesized that conservative Protestant fathers would spend more time meeting their children's physical needs than other Protestant fathers. Also hypothesized was that the level of conservative Protestant beliefs held by fathers is positively related to the proportion of time they spent meeting the physical needs of their children out of the total time spent by fathers and mothers combined. Finally, it was hypothesized that the level of conservative Protestant beliefs held by fathers was positively related to their membership in conservative religious denominations. In order to test whether conservative Protestantism has an effect upon the amount of time that fathers spend meeting the physical needs of their young children, this study will used data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), completed in 1988. Regression analysis was used to test the first two hypotheses and crosstabulation analysis was used to test the third hypothesis. The first two hypotheses were not supported. However, interaction was detected between the variables of race and conservative Protestantism. Specifically, Black conservative Protestant fathers consistently did more childcare than Black non-conservative Protestant fathers, and all other Protestant fathers, whether conservative or not. The third hypothesis was accepted because an index of conservative beliefs was established using denominational labels. Like other recent studies, there was a lack of consensus about which variables predict how much time fathers will spend with their children. This study also points out the need for further research concerned with conservative Protestants and the impact of their beliefs on families.
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Bowen, Derek J. "Love Your Enemy Evangelical Opposition to Mormonism and Its Effect upon Mormon Identity." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3344.
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Evangelical Protestant Christians have been one of the primary groups opposing Mormons since the beginnings of Mormonism in the 1820s. This thesis is an examination of the historical basis for Evangelical opposition to Mormonism and the impact of that opposition on Mormon identity. This study is divided into three chronological chapters representing the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries in America. Evangelical animosity towards Mormonism was grounded in the Christian heretical tradition begun in the second century AD. Because of this tradition, Evangelicals were inherently afraid of heresy for two main reasons: temporal treason and eternal damnation. Due to the heterodox claims of a new prophet and new scripture, Mormonism was quickly labeled as dangerous, not only to Christianity, but to America as a whole. This perceived danger only grew as Mormonism continued to differentiate itself further with the practices of polygamy, communalism, and theocracy. In the nineteenth century, Mormon assimilation of Evangelicalism primarily affected the social structures of marriage, economics, and politics. In the twentieth century, Mormon assimilation of Evangelical identity would focus more on the incorporation of Evangelical ideology and theology. As Fundamentalism and Neo-Evangelicalism protested Mormonism as a cult, Mormonism became more Fundamentalist and Evangelical by nature, especially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recognized how such opposition negatively impacted American public perceptions. Such changes included the development of Mormon neo-orthodoxy with its emphasis on the sovereignty of God, the depravity of man, and salvation by grace. In the twenty-first century, a group of Mormon and Evangelical scholars engaged in the practice of interfaith dialogue developed by Liberal Protestants and Catholics. As part of their dialogue, Evangelicals retained the purposes of evangelism and apologetics thereby qualifying the dialogue as a new more subtle form of Evangelical opposition to Mormonism in the twenty first century. As Evangelicals continuously opposed Mormonism as a Christian heresy, such opposition effected changes within Mormonism, changes that have led to some degree of assimilation and even adoption of several elements of Evangelicalism. The most recent part of this assimilation process has been the development of Mormon progressive orthodoxy that emphasizes anti-sectarianism, anti-liberalism, and revised supernaturalism.
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Han, Ki Won. "A comparative analysis of the contemporary Protestants' beliefs and practices in Japan and Korea an ethnographic study from a missiological perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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McVicar, Michael Joseph. "Reconstructing America: Religion, American Conservatism, and the Political Theology of Rousas John Rushdoony." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284987530.
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Grayson, James Huntley. "Early Buddhism and Christianity in Korea : a study in the emplantation of religion /." Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb361469600.
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Shin, Jung Hak. "Diversity of prayer-forms and its value for a community embracing diversity." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0836.
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Bauer, Gisa. "Kulturprotestantismus und frühe bürgerliche Frauenbewegung in Deutschland : Agnes von Zahn-Harnack : (1884 - 1950)." Leipzig Evang. Verl.-Anst, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2763595&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Guimarães, Valtemir Ramos. "Fundamentalismo bíblico protestante: abordagem histórica e implicações sociorreligiosas." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1041.
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Esta Dissertação tem, como objetivo geral, analisar o fenômeno sociorreligioso do Fundamentalismo bíblico, desde sua origem, no seio do Protestantismo norte-americano do século XIX, até os nossos dias, em que se observa sua forte presença, sobretudo no seio do Protestantismo. Paradoxalmente, apesar de todo avanço científico e tecnológico que se observa nestes últimos anos, que deram início ao século XXI, o Fundamentalismo tem crescido em todas as culturas das chamadas Religiões do Livro: Judaísmo, Cristianismo e Islamismo. E não apenas nos meios religiosos, mas em outros setores da sociedade, inclusive nos meios políticos. No que tange ao Fundamentalismo Bíblico presente em comunidades protestantes, observam-se aspectos positivos e negativos, que serão devidamente analisados ao longo deste trabalho. Para tanto, procuramos investigar os pressupostos, desenvolvimento e difusão do Fundamentalismo, desde suas origens no seio do Protestantismo norte-americano no Século XIX, a fim de se compreender suas implicações sociorreligiosas para a atualidade. A metodologia aplicada consta de estudos e pesquisas em bibliografia especializada proveniente do ambiente acadêmico na área de História, Sociologia, Antropologia, Teologia, Exegese e Hermenêutica bíblica, de autores protestantes e católicos, que transitam no campo epistemológico das Ciências da Religião. Com informações pertinentes para a atualidade, reconhecemos que o Fundamentalismo Bíblico tem crescido e impactado no dia-a-dia no meio eclesial, onde é evidente a sua práxis no Brasil e no mundo.
Concluímos que o assunto estudado se reflete nas relações familiares, comunitárias e, sociais, em meio aos desafios da modernidade em crise.This paper aims, in general, at analyzing the Biblical Fundamentalism socioreligious phenomenon, since its origin, within the ninetieth century Northamerican Protestantism, until our days which we observe in its Fundamentalisms strong presence, overall in the Protestantisms inner life. Paradoxically, in spite of all scientific and technological advancement that is observed in these recent last years, which have given beginning to the twenty first century, Fundamentalism has grown up in all so-called Book Religions: Judaism, Christianism and Islamism. And this is not true only in the religious circles, but also in other society sectors, including the political ones. Regarding to the Biblical Fundamentalism, present in protestant communities, we can observe positive and negative aspects which will be properly analyzed throughout this work. In this perspective, we have tried researching the Fundamentalisms assumptions, development and dissemination, since its origin within American Protestantism in the late ninetieth century in order to understand its socioreligious implications for the present days. The applied methodology consists of studies and researches, departing from specialized bibliography, based on the academic environment in History, Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, Exegesis and Biblical Hermeneutics area, departathing from protestant and catholic authors who transit thoughout the Sciences concerning Religion epistemological field. Departing from pertinent informations regarding to the present time, we acknowledge that the Biblical Fundamentalism has grown and impacted, day after day, in the ecclesiastical environment which is evident in its praxis in Brazil and in the world. We may conclude that this studies subject reflectes in the relationships concerning family, the communities and society, amid the challenges regarding to the modernity in crises.
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Hong, Seung Min. "Protesting Korean Protestantism: media, resistance, and theology of critical insiders." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6436.
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This study focuses on “critical insiders” of Korean Protestantism in the twenty first century, namely those who are committed to their Protestant faiths yet are highly critical of the ways in which Protestant Christianity is taught, believed, and practiced in South Korea. Particular emphasis is given to the question of how they resist/challenge dominant institutions and popular beliefs – especially on religious authority and various moral and monetary implications of such beliefs – as well as alternative visions they offer, through media. Scholars today acknowledge the centrality of media in various religious practices. I show that the role of media is no less important for religious critical insiders, albeit in somewhat different ways; in the South Korean case, I argue that they resist dominant voices by multi-mediatizing theology. Simply put, multi-mediatizing theology is making religiously normative (i.e. theological) discourses available through multiple outlets and voices and rendering informed theological judgments dependent upon such plurality and diversity of mediated sources. I analyze Korean Protestant critical insiders’ various media movements to illustrate this point and also to explore some ramifications of this kind of resistance taking place in the South Korean context. I also incorporate into my analyses the interviews I conducted with key individuals involved in the production of two Protestant TV shows that attempted at consolidating critical insider voices. I conclude with a theoretical and theological reflection upon the media/communication aspect of the entire phenomenon of Korean Protestantism and critical insiders.
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Chaaya, Saïd. "Dialogues interreligieux, débats intellectuels et franc-maçonnerie dans la province ottomane de Syrie du milieu du XIXe siècle aux années 1920." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE5021.
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La franc-maçonnerie apparaît être, dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe, un élément essentiel du développement intellectuel et culturel du Bilâd al-Shâm. Ses membres sont impliqués dans le mouvement de renaissance intellectuelle Nahda, qui profite de l’ère politique nouvelle de l’Empire ottoman ouverte par les tanzimat. Dans ce contexte, les conflits religieux continuent d’agiter une société confessionnalisée, que les francs-maçons entraînent dans la voie du progrès, de la modernité et de la laïcité. Dans la 1e partie de la thèse, on présente la franc-maçonnerie dans sa réalité concrète à Beyrouth et au Mont Liban, prenant pour modèles deux loges, Palestine et Le Liban, mais aussi dans sa dimension spirituelle. Le processus d’intégration de la franc-maçonnerie et d’inculturation dans le milieu arabe est souligné, de même que le rôle que les francs-maçons font jouer à la Société Scientifique Syrienne. L’émir Muhammad Arslan, franc-maçon et réformateur, est présentée en tant qu’exemple d’une Aufklärung arabe. La 2e partie de la thèse montre le dialogue stérile entre francs-maçons et jésuites en Syrie ottomane. Le jugement sur l’entrée des croyants en franc-maçonnerie que porte un savant musulman, est présenté à partir de l’étude du premier manuscrit en arabe qui en traite. La thèse fait appel à divers témoignages publiés de contemporains, mais aussi à des manuscrits conservés dans des archives publiques et privées. Plusieurs d’entre eux sont utilisés pour la première fois, tel le plus ancien rituel maçonnique en langue arabe, le règlement intérieur de la première loge de Beyrouth ou les statuts inédits de la Société Scientifique Syrienne fondée par les francs-maçons. La recherche conduit ainsi à relever de quelle manière la franc-maçonnerie au cœur de débats, a proposé un modèle de société qui apparaît davantage méta-religieux qu’areligieux ou antireligieux. Cette société est celle où peut vivre désaliéné quiconque aspire au progrès et à la modernitéFreemasonry appears to be in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, an essential part of the cultural development of Bilâd al-Shâm. Its members were involved in the intellectual movement revival "Nahda", which itself has been able to take advantage of the new political era of the Ottoman Empire opened by the Tanzimat. Religious conflicts continued to wave a confessional society. The Freemasons led it in the path of progress, modernity and secularism. In the 1st part of the thesis, we present Freemasonry in its concrete reality in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, through two lodges, Palestine and Le Liban, but also in its spiritual dimension. The integration and the Arabization process is emphasized by Freemasonry through the use of the ritual, and in the role that Freemasons played in the constitution of the Syrian Scientific Society in Beirut. A personality of rare diplomacy and knowledge, Emir Muhammad Arslan, Freemason and reformer, is presented as an example of an Arab intellectual. The 2nd part shows the fruitless dialogue between the Freemasons and the Jesuits in Ottoman Syria. The case of the Wandering Jew is an emblematic episode in the struggle for secularism led by Freemasons. Also we present the 1st manuscript written in Arabic in the Ottoman Empire by a Muslim scholar. The thesis uses various published testimonies of contemporaries, but is also based on manuscripts kept in public and private archives. Some of them, which have never been used so far, such as the oldest Masonic ritual in Arabic, provide a new light on the beginning of Freemasonry in Beirut and on its impact in the history of Ottoman Syria. The research concludes how Freemasonry at the heart of debates, was able to propose a new model of society that seems more meta-religious than non-religious or anti-religious. This is the new society, in which every human being is able to yearn for freedom and aspire to progress and modernity
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Worley, Taylor. "Theology and contemporary visual art : making dialogue possible." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/940.
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Within the field of theological aesthetics, this project assesses the divide between theological accounts of art and the re-emergence of religious imagery in modern and contemporary art. More specifically, American Protestant theologians and their accounts of visual art will be taken up as a representative set of contemporary theological inquiry in the arts. Under this category, evaluation will be made of three diverse traditions in American Protestant thought: Paul Tillich and Liberal Protestantism, Francis Schaeffer and the Neo-Calvinists, and the open evangelical accounts of Nicholas Wolterstorff and William Dyrness. With respect to modern and contemporary visual art, this evaluation judges the degree to which theologians have understood the primary concepts and dominant narratives of various modernisms and postmodernisms of art since the end of the nineteenth century, recognised the watershed moments in the lineage of the twentieth century avant-garde, and acknowledged the influence of critical theory not only upon the contemporary discourse in aesthetics and art production but also in the social reception of art. In tracing the re-emergence of religious imagery in modern and contemporary art, this project takes up three diverse traditions: the Crucifixions of Francis Bacon and the memento mori art of Damien Hirst, the ‘re-enchantment’ of art in the work of Joseph Beuys, and the art of ‘False Blasphemy’ associated with lapsed Catholics like Rober Gober and Andres Serrano. By assessing what theologians have written concerning visual art and the surprising return of certain religious imagery in modern and contemporary art, this study will intimate a new way forward in a mutually beneficial dialogue for art and religious belief.