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Londoño-Vega, Patricia. "Religion, culture, and society in Colombia : Medellín and Antioquia, 1850 - 1930 /." Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/335816916.pdf.
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Cho, Young Hwan. "Religious conscientization and political socialization in modernizing Korean society." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Rohrer, James R. "The fields at home : Congregational evangelism, the Connecticut Missionary Society, and republican culture, 1774-1818 /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487757723996162.
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Fleming, Elizabeth Ann. "Exploring the influence of culture on diabetes self-management : perspectives of Gujarati Muslim men." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2005. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21828/.
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In this qualitative study I sought to explore the influence that culture has on diabetes (type 2) self-management for Gujarati Muslim men. In particular, I aimed to develop a theoretical understanding of this influence. I used an interpretive approach, which involved combining ethnographic and phenomenological methodologies. Interview and participant observation methods were used to capture data about the lived experiences of diabetes self-management, for a small number of Gujarati Muslim men. These accounts, along with further narrative data from significant others, were thematically analysed over several cycles. The cyclical nature of analysis enabled me to gain deeper and more meaningful insights into the influence that culture has on diabetes self-management. Also central to the research process and analysis, has been my journey and reflexive experiences as a researcher. The study has taught me much about myself, and I have changed and evolved as a response. Therefore the representations presented in this work are inseparable from me and my life, and I have endeavoured to reveal this within the thesis. The study was informed by a contemporary perspective on culture, in which culture is part of the self. A person's culture is in a constant state of flux, as the self continually recreates and negotiates the meaning of culture within the context of the present lived experience. Similarly, and in contrast to current health care policy, which frequently perceives self-management as a set of interjected behaviours, self-management was perceived as the ways in which the man chooses to incorporate his diabetes into the totality of his life. The synthesis of the literature with the findings, demonstrates that culture does not influence diabetes self-management in a rigid and prescriptive way, but instead culture and self-management are interwoven through the self. Since self-management is negotiated by the self and culture is part of the self, it is the self which connects and interweaves the two. The influence of cultural beliefs on diabetes self-management is negotiated by the self within a complex context of interacting factors. This complex context includes other aspects which are equally as important as culture in shaping self-management, such as material, structural and practical factors. Because culture exists within a shifting and fluid context, its influence on self-management is subject to change, negotiation and re-creation. The perspective I have fostered in this thesis, is a considerable move away from the essentialist perspective of culture, taken in much current health care policy and research. I present a challenge to the dominant perspective in which culture is often oversimplified and consequently blamed for deviant or noncompliant self-management behaviours. The subjective perspective of culture that I have adopted in this thesis, enables the realisation that culture influences self-management in neither homogenous nor deterministic ways.
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Turner, Matthew. "T.S. Eliot, mass culture, and the music hall : a study of urban ritual and modernist discourse." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285370.
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Niemczewski, Wojciech. "La culture comme religion : l'interpretation postmoderne de la relation entre la culture et la religion." Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00924192.
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La postmodernité influence le rapport entre la religion et la culture. Elle y introduit des notions comme : l'affaiblissement des notions, la fluidité du monde et la discontinuité du discours. Les définitions modifiées de la culture et de la religion justifient la question centrale de la thèse : est-il possible que la culture absorbe la religion et crée une religion de la culture ? Ces définitions permettent de comprendre comment la postmodernité rejette l'idée de la transcendance et réduit le religieux au culturel. La postmodernité crée ainsi une situation favorable au rejet de la pensée classique et provoque l'émergence de la religion de la culture dont le Nouvel Age, le nouveau paganisme, la spiritualité athée et les nouveaux pop-cultes sont les manifestations. La religion de la culture se base sur l'anthropologie modifiée par le mobilisme, le relativisme et les recherches spirituelles en dehors des institutions. Cette religion est donc une religion sans Dieu, sans révélation surnaturelle, sans ligne historique et sans institution. Elle propose une mystique nouvelle et devient un défi pour les grandes religions historiques auxquelles elle s'oppose.
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Cholee, Jin Sung. "Gender Analysis of Politics, Economics and Culture of Korean Reunification: Toward a Feminist Theological Foundation for Reunified Society." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/64.
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In this study, I have focused on the process for an eventual reunification of North and South Korea. In this process, Korean political, economic, cultural and religious issues are necessarily present. My study focuses on cultural and religious factors. I adopt the German reunification as a case study. The German reunification process provides Koreans with lessons about the negative changes in the status of German women since the German reunification caused extreme instances of the loss of status and economic opportunity for women. German reunification shows that the unequal situation and systems in society were not only due to political positions. Strong religious factors deeply influenced the German mentality.
A similar religion-factor is at work in North Korean society which is influenced by Confucianism and in South Korean society which is influenced by Confucianism and conservative Christianity. I argue that religion is one of the major factors in the political culture of Korea, and religion can either assist a fair and equal process for both women and men or it can in a biased way maintain a male-oriented form of reunification. Consequently, the cultural and religious factors in this process of reunification must include an equalization of women and men. This can only take place if Korean women are major participants in the entire reunification process. There is a serious need for a reunification theology which incorporate gender into Korean theology, thus providing a 'feminist reunification theology.' A 'feminist reunification theology' presents basic theological principles that will help build an egalitarian community. There are three important ways to include women's concern for true reunification: 1) The creation of an egalitarian community in work, family and society; 2) The restoration of humanity by healing love and forgiveness through the power of Cross; and 3) The need for religion to be reformed in which a women can be a co-leader in family, church and nation.
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Bueno, Rogeh Alves. "A EMPRESARIZAÇÃO COMO PROCESSO DE INSTITUCIONALIZAÇÃO RELIGIOSA NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2018. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3954.
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The present research deals with the process of institutionalization of the Pentecostal and Neo- Pentecostal churches and deals with their new configuration as religious entrepreneurship. Through a critical look at current society and culture, it was possible to examine the transformations that significantly alter the interaction and the relationship between individuals. In the context of social and cultural changes, religion is also affected. For Weber's classical theory, there is a process of institutionalization of religion that goes through three phases: religious experience, the sect is in turn the church, with the charismatic presence. However, today in a liquid, transparent and spectacular society, surrounded by the culture of consumption, the individual and marked by technological advances and the media, the religious field becomes dynamic and unstable. Different religious groups arise and disappear constantly. In this capitalist world, which has the value of competition, religions are given the option of adapting to this new reality; and for this, churches seek resources in business management. Churches are now using modern management techniques, such as: Planning, Management and Marketing. The guiding hypothesis of this research concerns the understanding that churches are born as such and evolve into a religious enterprise, that is, they are born as churches and become companies that manage other companies (Holding). Some neo-Pentecostal churches incorporate management techniques and assume, in all probability, a new format, entrepreneurship as a form of institutionalization of religion. To achieve the desired results, the research methods include theoretical elements and field research. The information serves as a basis for sustaining the object of study. For this, in addition to the bibliographic research from the available records, digital and printed documents, news, information contained in websites and social networks, among others, were.
A presente pesquisa aborda o processo de institucionalização das igrejas pentecostais e neopentecostais, e trata da sua nova configuração como empresarização religiosa. Através de um olhar crítico sobre a sociedade e cultura atual, foi possível examinar as transformações que alteram de forma significativa a interação e a relação entre os indivíduos. No contexto das mudanças sociais e culturais, a religião também é afetada. Para a teoria clássica de Weber, existe um processo de institucionalização da religião que percorre três fases: a experiência religiosa, a seita é por sua vez a igreja, com a presença marcante do carismático. No entanto, hoje em uma sociedade líquida, transparente e espetacularizada, envolvida pela cultura de consumo, do indivíduo e marcada pelos avanços tecnológicos e dos meios de comunicação, o campo religioso torna-se dinâmico e instável. Diferentes grupos religiosos surgem e desaparecem constantemente. Nesse mundo capitalista, que tem como valor a competição, é posto às religiões a opção de se adaptar a essa nova realidade; e para isso, as igrejas buscam recursos na gestão empresarial. As igrejas passam a fazer uso das técnicas modernas da administração, como: Planejamento, Gestão e Marketing. A hipótese orientadora dessa pesquisa diz respeito ao entendimento de que as igrejas nascem como tal e evoluem para um empreendimento religioso, ou seja, elas já nascem como igrejas e se tornam empresas que gerenciam outras empresas (Holding). Algumas igrejas neopentecostais incorporam as técnicas de administração e assumem, ao que tudo indica um novo formato, a empresarização como forma de institucionalização da religião. Para alcançar os resultados desejados, os métodos de pesquisa contemplam elementos teóricos e pesquisa de campo. As informações servem como base de sustentação do objeto de estudo. Para tanto, além da pesquisa bibliográfica a partir dos registros disponíveis, foram usados no decorrer da pesquisa documentos digitais e impressos, notícias, informações contidas em sites e redes sociais, entre outros.
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Rizgar, Shahyan. "The Crisis of Identity in a Multicultural Society : A Multicultural Reading of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30710.
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This essay, on Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, deals with the characters’ identities and the influences of multiculturalism on their complex identities. It also discusses the role of the characters roots and history in constructing their identities and how they have made life problematic for the characters in multicultural London. The roots and history of the first generation of immigrants make problematic identities for the second generation in the novel. The main aim of this essay is to demonstrate the instability of identity as depicted in the novel. The characters in the novel cannot ‘’plan’’ their identities because it is a process which continues in all stages of life. Though the first generation of immigrants want to ‘’plan’’ an identity for their children (the second generation of immigrants), they are not successful. Because identity is a process and it is changeable based on place and time. The second generation of immigrants, who live in London, tries to mix the dominant culture (English culture) with their familial culture in order to have a different identity. They also want to escape from their family’s roots and history but it is difficult, because leaving roots is not an easy process.
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Davidson, Gary Charles. "Where alone peace and justice embrace a confessional understanding of pluralist society in the thought of J.E. Lesslie Newbigin /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Stone, Peter J. "Ritual Dining, Drinking, and Dedication at Stymphalos: A Case Study in the Influence of “Popular” Culture on Religion." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1172850651.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 18, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: Greek sanctuaries; Ritual dining; Communal dining; Religion and society; Hellenistic ceramics; Stymphalos. Includes bibliographical references.
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Awass, Omer. "FATWA: THE EVOLUTION OF AN ISLAMIC LEGAL PRACTICE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MUSLIM SOCIETY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/259501.
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My dissertation examines the transformation of Islamic legal discourse and the impact of that discourse on Muslim society. More particularly, it analyzes fatwas (religious legal edicts) over the course of Muslim history so as to determine how this legal mechanism was instrumental in the making and remaking of Islamic law and society. Historically speaking, substantive aspects of Islamic law developed out of the material of fatwas. In the very early stages of Islamic history there were no codified laws to guide people in their religious and social concerns, but the manner in which Muslims received guidance with regards to their religious practice was that they posed their concerns to early proto-jurists in the form of religio-legal questions, which these jurists addressed in the form of fatwas. Out of the critical mass of these fatwas, Islamic legal manuals began to be compiled and a definitive corpus of Islamic law came into being. Essentially, my investigation looks at the development and continuing evolution of Islamic law through lens of a particular legal practice: issuance of fatwas. By examining fatwas in different periods of Islamic history from the beginning until today, I chart the transformations that take place in Islamic legal tradition(s) as a result of the encounter with changing socio-historical conditions. More particularly, my analysis draws attention to the way in which legal practices amongst jurists created discursive shifts to established norms within Islamic legal discourse on how these discursive shifts contributed to the evolution of Islamic law. Moreover, by analyzing fatwas issued from Muslim jurists from various regions and periods, I identify how fatwas were essential catalysts for historical change, which gives us a better appreciation of the interrelationship between law and society. This historical foundation provides a basis for a diachronic assessment of the transformations that take place in Islamic legal tradition as a result of the encounter with colonialism. In latter part of my investigation, I examine how the practice and rationalization of fatwa has changed due to the ramifications of colonialism on the Muslim world. In this era, the established practices and doctrines of Islamic law were critiqued through the lens of modern Western ideas. This spawned modern Muslim movements that sought to reform Islamic law and redefine its relationship to the state and society. After historically establishing the ideas which were advocated by reformers, my goal is to assess whether those calls for reform have actually affected the practice Islamic law at the substantive and procedural levels. I do this by subjecting fatwas issued in the postcolonial period to critical analysis, so as to determine whether the procedures or rationale of fatwas have changed in a fundamental way. The larger themes that I address in my latter analysis is whether this modern trend amongst some Muslim thinkers and jurists towards contextually oriented legal concepts represents a lasting shift away from the traditional textually oriented legal methodology to produce a new type of discourse that is revolutionizing Islamic law or is it a passing phenomenon that will not make a lasting impact on how Islamic law is derived in the future. Fatwas are the key starting points in addressing these question because they represent the most elemental dimensions of Islamic law and the new legal developments within it. So, they offer vistas on how Muslim religious and legal practice will undergo a transformation in the future.
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Costa, Renata Parpolov. "Uma história da Síria do século XXI para além do sectarismo religioso." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8159/tde-24082016-153949/.
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Esta pesquisa objetiva produzir uma narrativa histórica da Síria com ênfase no período de 2000 até 2011. O interesse é investigar como se formou a oposição política ao regime de Bar al-Asad durante a primeira década do século XXI e quais as relações dessa oposição política com a atual insurreição síria, que se iniciou em 2011, verificando as origens dessa oposição nos anos anteriores à ascensão de Bar al-Asad à presidência. A primeira parte conta como se organizaram grupos políticos na Síria desde o final do século XIX até o final do século XX. A segunda parte narra a ascensão de Bar al-Asad ao poder no ano 2000 e sua relação com os grupos oposicionistas durante toda a década de 2000 a 2010, e constitui o cerne da investigação. A terceira parte narra como a insurreição síria tomou forma ao longo do ano de 2011, iniciando-se de forma pacífica e evoluindo para o confronto armado. Para a composição da narrativa, a maior variedade possível de fontes de informação foi analisada com a finalidade de trazer informações atualizadas e de diversos pontos de vista: buscamos organizar os fatos, narrá-los de maneira concisa e indicar suas fontes. Apresentamos como resultado de nossa investigação uma história social, combinando narrativas acadêmicas, historiográficas, políticas e artísticas para produzir um texto informativo e respeitoso que contribua com o debate acerca da história da Síria, sua cultura e sua sociedade.This research aims to produce a narrative history of Syria, with emphasis on the period from 2000 to 2011. Our main interest is to investigate how the political opposition to the regime of Bar al-Asad was formed during the first decade of this century; and the relations of that political opposition to the current Syrian uprising, which began in 2011, verifying the origins of the opposition in the years before the rise of Bar al-Asad to the presidency. In the first part, we explain how political groups in Syria organized themselves since the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. In the second part, which constitutes the core part of this research, we present the rise of Bar al-Asad to power in 2000 and its relationship with the opposition groups throughout the decade. The third part shows the Syrian uprising taking shape along the year 2011, beginning peacefully and evolving into armed confrontation. For the composition of the narrative, the widest variety of sources of information was analyzed in order to bring up to date information and different points of view: we sought to organize the facts, narrate them concisely and indicate their sources. We present as a result of our investigation a social history, combining academic, historiographical, political and artistic narratives to produce an informative and respectful text to contribute to the debate about the history of Syria and its culture and society.
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Landou, Firdaus. "Gaming, Friend or Foe: An Analysis of Religion in Video Games." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/721.
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This thesis seeks to explore the commonalities between religion and video games, ultimately making the argument that video games employ religion as a tool to make some deeper commentary on (in this case) American society and culture. This will be done through a detailed analysis of the game play, narrative, and religious elements at work in three different video games, as seen through the lenses of Queer Theory and Civil Religion. Furthermore, it will attempt to show that, just as gamers are struggling with their previously insular community opening up to the outside world, America has also not yet figured out what role video games can fulfill in society. This thesis seeks to provide one possible answer: the potential for video games to become tools of inquiry, sites of disruption, and, like film and books, provide commentary on our values as a society.
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Jeppson, Karolina. "Gender, religion and society : a study of women and convent life in coptic orthodox Egypt." Thesis, Uppsala University, Cultural Anthropology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3641.
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Ramos, Miguel. "Lucumí (Yoruba) Culture in Cuba: A Reevaluation (1830S -1940s)." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/966.
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The status, roles, and interactions of three dominant African ethnic groups and their descendants in Cuba significantly influenced the island’s cubanidad (national identity): the Lucumís (Yoruba), the Congos (Bantú speakers from Central West Africa), and the Carabalís (from the region of Calabar). These three groups, enslaved on the island, coexisted, each group confronting obstacles that threatened their way of life and cultural identities. Through covert resistance, cultural appropriation, and accommodation, all three, but especially the Lucumís, laid deep roots in the nineteenth century that came to fruition in the twentieth.
During the early 1900s, Cuba confronted numerous pressures, internal and external. Under the pretense of a quest for national identity and modernity, Afro-Cubans and African cultures and religion came under political, social, and intellectual attack. Race was an undeniable element in these conflicts. While all three groups were oppressed equally, only the Lucumís fought back, contesting accusations of backwardness, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and brujería (witchcraft), exaggerated by the sensationalistic media, often with the police’s and legal system’s complicity. Unlike the covert character of earlier epochs’ responses to oppression, in the twentieth century Lucumí resistance was overt and outspoken, publically refuting the accusations levied against African religions.
Although these struggles had unintended consequences for the Lucumís, they gave birth to cubanidad’s African component. With the help of Fernando Ortiz, the Lucumí were situated at the pinnacle of a hierarchical pyramid, stratifying African religious complexes based on civilizational advancement, but at a costly price. Social ascent denigrated Lucumí religion to the status of folklore, depriving it of its status as a bona fide religious complex. To the present, Lucumí religious descendants, in Cuba and, after 1959, in many other areas of the world, are still contesting this contradiction in terms: an elevated downgrade.
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Bueno, Paulo Alves. "DISCURSOS SOBRE O USO RELIGIOSO DO PSICOATIVO AYAHUASCA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2013. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/263.
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The theme "Discourses on the religious use of psychoactive Ayahuasca" was researched in accordance with the method of discourse analysis, with the data collection methodology in the research literature and documents. The purpose of the present dissertation is to show the different discourses that are expressions of different languages that has been practiced in the social sectors that deal with Ayahuasca. All questions of life have on your surroundings discourses of various types, shapes and sections; discourses are just like rivers that run courses on and many times are interconnected. When we observe the various discourses and dialogues, involving the ayahuasca, we can perceive the immense variance of ideas and social groups involved in the discussion of issues related to the theme. By analyzing the taxonomic discourse, we realize the complexity the elements that compose the two vegetables that are used in the making of tea. Observed in historical and anthropological language a huge melting pot of cultures and concepts that intertwine forming a mosaic of relationships that are connected. Paying attention into the scientific interdiscourse we have listed the different groups that are studying the ayahuasca and their themes. In discourse and language mediatic we find headlines, which mark the years of existence of the different groups and their respective conflicts which contain the language police officer, and which deal with the issues involving the ayahuasca historically and contemporaneously. We also come across with the legal discourse and state regulator, which has the documents and devices legalizing about the use of ayahuasca. Finally the language and discourse of the sciences of religion which seeks to obtain social responses to the birth of religiosity within the cultures, these themes which are full of symbols, rituals and imaginaries, they can only be explored and understood within your own contexts when utilizing the tools of anthropology, of sociology and the psychology of religion.
O tema Discursos sobre o uso religioso do psicoativo Ayahuasca , foi pesquisado de acordo com o método da análise do discurso, tendo como metodologia a coleta de dados na pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. O objetivo da presente dissertação é apresentar os diferentes discursos que são expressões das linguagens diversas que tem sido praticadas nos setores sociais que tratam do tema Ayahuasca. Todas as questões da vida tem em seu entorno discursos dos mais variados tipos, perfis e vertentes; discursos são como cursos de rios que correm e muitas vezes se interligam. Quando observamos os diferentes discursos e diálogos, que envolvem a ayahuasca, podemos perceber a imensa variação de ideias e grupos sociais envolvidos na discussão dos problemas pertinentes ao tema. Ao analisar o discurso taxonômico, percebemos a complexidade dos elementos que compõem os dois vegetais que são utilizados na confecção do chá. Observamos na linguagem histórico-antropológica um imenso caldeirão de culturas e conceitos, que se entrelaçam formando um mosaico de relações que se conectam. Atentando para o interdiscurso acadêmico científico listamos os diferentes grupos que estão estudando a ayahuasca e seus temas. No discurso e linguagem midiática encontramos as manchetes, que marcam os anos de existência dos diferentes grupos e seus respectivos conflitos, que contêm a linguagem policial, e que versam sobre os temas que envolvem a ayahuasca historicamente e contemporaneamente. Nos deparamos também com o discurso jurídico e regulador do Estado, que possui a documentação e os dispositivos de legalização sobre o uso da ayahuasca. Finalmente a linguagem e discurso das ciências da religião, que procura obter respostas sociais ao nascimento de religiosidade nas culturas, temas esses que estão cheios de símbolos, rituais e imaginários, que só podem ser explorados e entendidos dentro de seus próprios contextos quando utilizando das ferramentas da antropologia, da sociologia e da psicologia da religião.
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Troh, Christian. "Violation of women's rights : Female Genital Mutilation FGM." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96445.
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This study intends to analyze the causes of the high prevalence of the practice of female genital mutilations (FGM) in Sudan, Nigeria, and Iraq. For the attainment of this objective, the researcher had used the secondary data collection and the qualitative data analysis method. The results of the study indicate that the factors of culture, religion and society are the three most important ones which had directly contributed towards the high prevalence of FGM in the different developing nations like Sudan, Nigeria and Iraq among others. More importantly, the results also indicate that the practice of is an attempt on the part of the male dominated society of these nations to not only control the sexuality of the women but of almost all the aspects of their life. Furthermore, this ritual while adversely affecting the wellbeing as well as the health of the women and the girls is a gross violation of the human rights or the basic fundamental rights of the girls and the women. In addition to these, it had been seen that although the different nations of the world like Sudan and Iraq in the recent years had taken the help of various measures, legislations and others but they have failed to help these nations to effectively reduce the high prevalence of FGM. However, in the relation mention needs to be made of the nation of Nigeria which in the recent years had been able to reduce the prevalence of FGM by more than half through the usage of adequate implementation and monitoring strategies for the effective usage of the different legislations, regulations and others related to FGM. This as a matter of fact has important implications for the nations like Iraq and Sudan since they also have the option to reduce the high prevalence of FGM in their territory through the usage of similar measures. Lastly, the study recommends the usage of adequate implementation, monitoring and evaluation strategies for the legislations, regulations and others related to FGM, empowerment of women and the spread of required awareness regarding the harmful effects of FGM on the health and the wellbeing of the women for reducing the high prevalence of the same.Due to Convid 19 the presentation was virtual.
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Pierre, Josué. "Esprit d'entreprise et croyances chrétiennes des afro-descendants en Haïti : développement socioéconomique et facteurs religieux, éducatif et politique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB069.
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Les liens vénérables qui ont été observés par Weber entre éthique protestante et esprit du capitalisme ne semblent pas fonctionner dans les milieux afro-descendants. En Haïti, les croyances chrétiennes ne débouchent pas sur un développement économique, comme chez les occidentaux. De ce fait, je me suis interrogé sur les raisons d'un tel blocage, à partir d'une enquête de terrain qui porte sur la création entrepreneuriale. Il s'agit de relier mentalités, éducation, politique pour reconstituer autant de facteurs de croissance ou d'inertie dans la société haïtienne. Un recul plus historique permet de voir que, du temps de l'esclavage à nos jours, l'individu afrodescendant s'est vu exclure des possibilités sociales d'inscrire son développement personnel dans une dynamique de créativité par l'éducation et d'influence positive de croyances religieuses. Cela fait émerger les interrogations suivantes : est-ce que les facteurs de développement sont trop fragiles ? Est-ce que les obstacles religieux, politique, et éducatif sont trop nombreux ? Une chose est certaine, les entrepreneurs et les experts rencontrés décrivent un chemin semé d'embûches. Mais identifier des faiblesses et des menaces, c'est déjà pouvoir bâtir des stratégies de changement et de progrèsThe links of affinity with the economy which were observed by Weber between the protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism do not seem to be working in the middle of african descents as among westerners on economic level. Therefore, I suggested questioning this problem from observations and from a survey (investigation) of the field focusing on the object of new business start-up. It emerges several issues from it, among which indicators of mentality, issue of education and policy applied in haitian society. It follows that on historic plan, from the time of slavery until our days, social individual has been excluded and deprived of all opportunities of registering his development with prospect of creativity through education and inner influence of his religious belief. This object brings to the foreground at least the following questions: is this link too fragile to be culturally universal? Either, are religious, political and educational obstacles too numerous? Indeed, one thing is for sure, entrepreneurs and met experts have been describing a pathway full of pitfalls. But to identify weaknesses and threats, this is already power to build strategies of change and progress
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Dalcourt, Isabelle. "Société québécoise et religion entre 1999 et 2009 : réflexion critique sur les sciences des religions et plaidoyer pour une éducation de type patrimonial." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/22483.
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La thèse propose une réflexion critique et «contextualisée» sur le rôle et la contribution des sciences humaines des religions au Québec. Nous examinons les modalités du renouveau de la mise en discours du thème religieux dans le débat public québécois de la dernière décennie (1999-2009). Dans une perspective de sociologie historique puisant aux travaux de Pierre Bourdieu, nous analysons les rapports au religieux se construisant chez les individus et réfléchissons aux enjeux sociaux et éducatifs qui y sont impliqués. Trois volets sont prévus. Nous démontrons d'abord l'existence sociale de rapports réactifs au religieux de type «sécuritaire» et «identitaire». Nous décortiquons la logique par laquelle ceux-ci se constituent après le 11 septembre 2001 et en viennent à se cristalliser, notamment avec le débat de 2007 sur les «accommodements raisonnables». Nous démontrons d'abord en quoi la prise en compte de ces rapports au religieux déplace la pratique des sciences religieuses jusque dans leur éthique puis démontrons la pertinence d'une approche éducative affirmative du religieux qui en favorise l'appropriation sur un horizon culturel et sécularisé. Nous appelons «patrimoniale» cette approche en réservant toutefois le terme aux oeuvres religieuses immatérielles (récits et discours religieux). Un deuxième volet démontre et explore un désir de «transmission» du religieux se manifestant dans la société québécoise. L'analyse porte alors sur le débat de 1999 sur la place de la religion à l'école, sur ses enjeux historiques officiels et moins officiels, et sur le type de participation qu'il suscite chez les acteurs. Ce phénomène apporte un nouvel argument en faveur d'une approche «patrimoniale». Pour autant que celle-ci s'appuie sur une pratique interprétative mise au service d'une radicale redécouverte de l'oeuvre religieuse, cette approche contribue à la continuation pratique d'un «désir de transmission» laissé en suspens après le 11 septembre. Un dernier volet définit théoriquement le projet de patrimonialisation. L'enjeu éthique de la relance du motif «patrimonial» dans le discours des SR repose sur une pratique interprétative issue des théories en sémiotique énonciative. Cette pratique interprétative redéfinit la «patrimonialisation», ce qui ouvre des volets d'expérimentation. Finalement, nous fournissons en guise de conclusion un essai de contribution patrimoniale.
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Sunderland, Sophie Monica May. "Representations of the secular : neutrality, spirituality and mourning in Australia and Canadian cultural politics." University of Western Australia. English and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0177.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis explores the ways in which 'the secular' is represented in contemporary Australian participatory art, screen, and print cultures. Secularisms are currently the subject of analysis in a broad range of disciplines within the humanities, and this thesis intervenes upon the field by focusing on the cultural politics of representations of embodied, spatialized secularisms. The secular is commonly defined in opposition to the 'religious,' and can also be extrapolated to the division of public and private spaces. Thus, by considering the occlusions and violences inherent in the ways bodies negotiate and are constructed through space, this thesis argues for the fluidity and porosity of these oppositions. By drawing from Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini's notion of secularisms, understood as specific, situated narratives of the secular, as well as Talal Asad's and William E. Connolly's conceptions of the secular, this thesis identifies 'neutrality' and 'spirituality' as two key narratives of the secular around which questions of language, embodiment, affect, and subjectivity are set in motion. Here, a regime of representation that constructs 'religious' subjects as outsiders to an imagined Australian national identity is critiqued and reconsidered in terms of anxieties about remembering and living with difference and loss. Rather than defining 'the secular,' this thesis seeks to maintain focus on the context and contingencies of enunciation. Thus, firstly the conflation of secularism with 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' is explored through a discussion of 'defining' secularisms, alongside critique of representations of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). By identifying the ways in which this 'everyday' text signals exclusions through the privileging of British Protestant Christianity in its contents, colonial history and usage, I consider how 'neutrality' is made contextually and contingently. ... . Here, secular mourning is a suggestive concept that foregrounds 'affective economies' of loss, grief, and mourning alongside openness to the ways in which identity is made and lived relationally, and differently. Given that the representations of Australian secularisms I identify are made by locating 'the religious' elsewhere, this thesis reflects upon this process by including a contingent comparative study of representations of Canadian secularisms. Participatory art including the Secular Confession Booth (2007) in Toronto and The Booth (2008) in Perth, news media debates about secularism in Ontario and
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Farrelly, Paul James. "Spiritual Revolutions: A History of New Age Religion in Taiwan." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/136199.
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My thesis is a cultural history of New Age religion in Taiwan. I focus on C.C. Wang (1941-) and Terry Hu (1953-), the two earliest and most prolific sinophone proponents of a ‘Xinshidai [New Age]’. I consider their lives (as New Agers) and written works (as New Age figures), concentrating on the period to 2000. In this thesis I explore how Wang and Hu introduced New Age religion to Taiwan through analysis of their publicly available writings and translations. In chronologically examining their life experiences and the various ideologies that they gradually wove into their work, I demonstrate the agency of these two women as New Age innovators and show how they represented their own lives as evidence of the transformational efficacy of New Age religion for modern Taiwanese women. Raised in a family who escaped from China and then converted to Catholicism, Wang’s most important contributions are her translations of Jane Roberts’s Seth books (beginning in 1982). These continue to be popular with readers and have inspired a new generation of teachers and students. She also translated internationally popular texts such as Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (1970) and Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God (1998). Viewing this work alongside her efforts in beginning the Fine Press’ New Age Series (1989-) and establishing the Chinese New Age Society (1992), her publisher described her as “the mother of the New Age in Taiwan” (2012). Wang began developing expertise on American culture when raising a family there in the mid 1960s and again for much of the 1970s. She used these domestic experiences as the basis of her burgeoning literary career. An important part of Wang’s oeuvre are the monthly columns she published pseudonymously in The Woman and China Ladies between 1969 and 1981. In these columns Wang not only established herself as a trans-Pacific expert of everyday life techniques (especially regarding relationships and parenting), she also articulated the psychological unease that she would later seek to remedy through spiritual exploration and, ultimately, in translating New Age books. Her early work is notable for both illustrating a particular type of modernity available to young urban females and for establishing the nurturing and inquisitive spirituality she would later disseminate widely. Already interested in the type of ideas discussed in the New Age, it was only after a life-altering encounter with a Seth book in a California library in 1976 that Wang began exploring the New Age more deeply. She eventually discovered Shirley MacLaine’s Out on a Limb (and later wrote the preface to the 1986 Mandarin translation), which she described as inspiring and “a book of enlightenment.” Hu was born to a politician father who also escaped from China. She learnt English as a child and developed a fascination with American culture. After a short stint in New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, she soon became a film star in Taiwan. She featured in several dozen movies and was briefly married to the author Li Ao (b.1935). She retired from acting in 1988 and devoted her energy to translating New Age texts, especially the work of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) who she depicted as a “New Age Buddhist.” Throughout her careers as an actor and author Hu appeared as an archetype of the global, modern and, ultimately, spiritually sophisticated woman. Hu’s individual identity was strongly grounded in the social context of Taiwan’s elite, and she increasingly blended martial law-era Chineseness and her celebrity status with American post-hippie spiritual trends. Her multifaceted and evolving identity augments dominant identity and gender discourses in Taiwan and binds her into the New Age’s transnational web of religious innovation and personal transformation.
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Tao, Yu. "Enemies of the state or friends of the harmonious society? : religious groups, varieties of social capital, and collective contention in contemporary rural China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711796.
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Alcântara, Dalmi Alves. "O CATECISMO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA E A CONSTRUÇÃO SÓCIO-CULTURAL DA CONCEPÇÃO DE MULHER." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2002. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/902.
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Previous issue date: 2002-12-31This dissertation is the result of the research, in which is presented the role of the Catecism of the Catholic Church in the social-cultural construction of the conception of woman. To produce it, it was appealed you arrive in port it theoretical of philosophy, of history, of linguistics, but, mainly, of anthropology and sociology, generating a theoretical and methodologic interdisciplinary basement. The construction of the social-cultural conception of woman, in the catecism, occurs for the dialetic process of construction of the reality (externalization, objectivation and internalization), that reproduces the patriarcal, dualist and hierarchic substratum of the occidental Jewish-Christian culture and society. As the culture consists on the totality of the material and not-materials products of the humanity, the society and the religion are among these products of the human activity that has reached the status of objective reality guiding, sanctioning, to control and punish the individual behavior. Therefore, the construction of the social-cultural conception of woman happens because of the internalization for the individuals of a set of institutions and roles endowed with objective reality legitimated for the religion, through the sacralization. Key-words: Culture, Society, Social-Cultural, Religion, Catholic Church, Catecism of the Catholic Church, Gender and Woman.
Esta dissertação é o resultado da pesquisa, em que é apresentado o papel do Catecismo da Igreja Católica na construção sócio-cultural da concepção de mulher. Para traçá-lo, recorreu-se a aportes teóricos da filosofia, da história, da lingüística, mas, principalmente, da antropologia e da sociologia, gerando um embasamento teórico e metodológico interdisciplinar. Sustenta-se que a construção da concepção sócio-cultural de mulher, no catecismo, se dá pelo processo dialético de construção da realidade (exteriorização, objetivação e interiorização), que reproduz o substrato patriarcal, dualista e hierárquico da cultura e sociedade judaico-cristã ocidental. Como a cultura consiste na totalidade dos produtos materiais e não-materiais da humanidade, a sociedade e a religião estão entre esses produtos da atividade humana que atingiu o status de realidade objetiva a ponto de dirigir, sancionar, controlar e punir a conduta individual. Portanto, a construção da concepção sócio-cultural de mulher se dá a partir da interiorização pelos indivíduos de um conjunto de instituições e papéis dotados de realidade objetiva legitimada pela religião, através da sacralização.
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Djoumbé, Thoueïbat. "Un autre aspect de la francophonie, la littérature comorienne : société, histoire, culture et création." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030039.
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Cette thèse interroge les origines, les interférences et la production de la littérature comorienne d’expression française. Au confluent entre critique littéraire, historiographie anthropologique des sources et analyse des thématiques dans la création, elle questionne aussi la notion de réception dans un contexte éditorial minimaliste et où langue d’écriture et langue vernaculaire s’interfèrent. En près de 30 ans, les quelques 160 ouvrages publiés de 1985 à nos jours, laissent percer des débuts lents et difficiles. Une réalité qui sera contredite à la fin des années 90 où des maisons d’éditions, même éphémères, naissent avec pour mot d’ordre, promouvoir la littérature comorienne. Va alors s’amorcer une dynamique nouvelle inscrite par le nombre et la variété des genres édités, la multiplicité des thématiques abordées et par l’orientation des revendications littéraires d’ordre esthétique en écho à des revendications identitaires. Parallèlement, transparaît une forme de tâtonnement textuel qui laisse apparaître une dualité narrative sous-tendue dans l’organisation fictionnelle et narratologique des œuvres et mettant en place un type de personnage-pensée à l’origine d’une hybridité textuelle. Par conséquent, cette thèse procède à une forme de bilan de ces trente années d’écriture suivant deux axes d’analyse. Un axe chronologique qui fait coïncider des éléments liés à l’histoire du peuplement avec l’établissement d’une écriture pour les îles afin d’appréhender le contexte originel de production ; un axe analytique et herméneutique recoupant faits historiques et sociaux en rapport avec les objets ou motifs de production et révélant la source des interrogations des écrivains comoriens francophonesThis thesis questions the origins, interferences and the production of French-speaking Comorian literature. At the junction of literary criticism, anthropologic historiography of the source documents and thematic analysis within the creation, it also investigates the notion of reception in a minimalist editorial context where the written and the vernacular languages interfere with each other. For the past 30 years, the 160 publications that have been published, since 1985 to date, have shown slow and difficult beginnings. A trend that would be reversed from the late 1990s, where many publishing houses have emerged, even if it was quite briefly for some of them, with a shared goal: to promote Comorian literature. A new trend will then begin as proven by the number and variety of genres being published, the diversity of the themes discussed, and the direction of the literary assertions of an aesthetic angle in response to identity assertions. At the same time, a form of textual hesitation transpired, shedding a light on a narrative duality, from a narratologic and fictional organisation of the publications, highlighting a type of character-thought creating a form of literal hybridity. Therefore, As a consequence, this thesis proceeds a kind of statement from thirty years of writing according to two axis of analysis. A chronological axis matches elements which are linked to the peopling History with the establishment of a writing for the islands in order to grasp the original context of production; an analytic and hermeneutic axis matching historical and social facts related to subjects or sources of production and revealing the sources of French-speaking Comorian writers’ questionings
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Carrasco, Raphaël. "Etat, societes et religion en espagne au siecle d'or. Recherches sur les mecanismes du pouvoir." Montpellier 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986MON30017.
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Les quatorze travaux constituant le dossier presente en soutenance ont pour objet l'etude de l'activite des tribunaux du saint-office espagnols aux seizieme et dix-septieme siecles. Nous avons choisi d'analyser deux formes de repression: la repression des cultures minoritaires mal integrees a la culture dominante le judaisme et le mahometismeet le repression des deviants sexuels -la sodomie. La persecution des descendants des juifs demeures fideles a la foi de leurs ancetres a ete etudiee pour seul tribunal de district, celui de cuenca, a partir d'une importante affaire s'etant deroulee entre 1590 et 1600. Le chatiment de la sodomie a ete envisage dans la longue duree (1565-1785), pour un seul tribunal egalement, celui de valence, offrant les sources les plus abondantes et de meilleurs qualite. Pour la repression du mahometisme, enfin, nous avons opte pour un cadre plus large, incluant sept tribunaux, dont celui de saragosse et celui de valence, lesquels furent apres 1570 les plus concernes par la minorite morisque. Pour l'etude de chacune de ces persecutions, nous avons procede d'abord a la quantification du phenomene selon une chronologie fine etablie pour chaque tribunal et incluant le delit choisi dans l'activite d'ensemble des offices. Nous avons ensuite fixe la geographie des repressions, ainsi que le tableau des sentences et des peines. .The fourteen works of which the present thesis is composed are devoted to the study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century activities of the spanish holy office inquisition courts. We have chosen to consider two forms of repression: the repression of ill-integrated minority cultures i-e judaism and mohammedanism and the repression of sexual deviations namely sodomy. The study of the persecution of jewish offspring remained faithful to their ancesters'creed, carried on the single court of cuenca focuses on an important case brought from 1590 to 1600. The punishment of sodomy has been considered on a longer span (1565-1785). Again reliable sources. With regard to the repression of mohammedanism, and reliable sources. With regard to the repressionof mohammedanism, we have taken a wider scope ranging seven courts among which those of zaragoza and valencia which after 1570 were first to be confronted to the moriscos'minority. For each persecution our first attempt was at quantifying the phenomenon following court after court, a detailed chronology and inserting each offence in the wider activities of the above. So doing, we have been able to draw a map of repression and a diagram of sentences and penalities. .
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Okhotnikov, Ilya A. "PATHWAYS FROM RELIGIOSITY TO COUPLE’S SATISFACTION THROUGH RELATIONAL VIRTUES AND EQUALITY IN TWO CULTURES." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/67.
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To explore relational processes of couple’s satisfaction this study drew on the relational spirituality framework (Mahoney, 2010) in order to test a relational religiosity model to evaluate the effects of public, private, ideological, intellectual, and experiential religiosity that were mediated by relational virtues of commitment, sacrifice, forgiveness, and sanctification and relational equality on couple’s satisfaction in two cultures. Data for this component used convenience samples of English-speaking respondents (hereafter American sample; n = 1,529) and Russian-speaking respondents (hereafter Russian sample; n = 529). Results provided evidence to partially support relational religiosity model; specifically commitment, while a statistically significant intervening element, worked alongside other relational virtues such as (a) sanctification, as hypothesized, to positively mediate the indirect effect of ideological religiosity on couple’s satisfaction for the American men, (β = .17, 95% BCa CI [.11, .24], p < .001); (b) sanctification, as hypothesized, to positively mediate the indirect effect of experiential religiosity for the Russian men (β = .39, 95% BCa CI [.12, .65], p = .002); and (c) sacrifice and forgiveness, contrary to the hypotheses, to negatively mediate the indirect (β = -.20, 95% BCa CI [-.35, -.06], p = .005) and total (β = -.27, 95% BCa CI [-.43, -.12], p = .001) effects of ideological religiosity on couple’s satisfaction among Russian women.
The second approach to this topic followed the family systems perspective, to examine the effect of religiosity on respondents’ own and their partners’ satisfaction with the relationship via the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006). This dyadic approach used samples of 435 American couples (n = 870) and 129 Russian couples (n = 258). The results provided evidence to support an actor effect of husbands’ religiosity on their own couple’s satisfaction for the American (t = 2.00, p = .046, β = .15, 95% CI [.01, .29]) and Russian (t = 3.65, p < .001, β = .45, 95% CI [.21, .70]) husbands. Moreover, APIM testing provided sufficient evidence to support a positive partner effect in that husband’s religiosity predicted their wives’ satisfaction with the relationship in the American (t = 2.06, p = .041, β = .17, 95% CI [.01, .33]) and Russian (t = 2.77, p = .006, β = .37, 95% CI [.11, .64]) couples. The parallels between the cultures strongly resembled existing cross-cultural dyadic scholarship providing compelling evidence to support cultural similarities rather than differences and suggesting that cross-cultural relational dissimilarities might not exist in the ways religiosity is linked to couple’s satisfaction; however, the differences between male and female respondents in each culture might be worth studying further. Additionally, this dissertation’s results and scholarship mentioned above reveal that religiosity and couple’s satisfaction may be indifferent to cultural variations suggesting these phenomena may be universal rather than culture-specific. Outcomes of this dissertation may benefit researchers, educators, policy makers, and practitioners who are interested in relationship virtues and religiosity's effect on couple’s satisfaction, which is known to provide a positive connection to the psychological, social, physical, and spiritual well-being of couples.
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Farwell, Rose-Marie. "Le Néo-paganisme en Angleterre à l’époque contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040228.
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Cette thèse examine l’essor récent du néo-paganisme en Angleterre, en tenant compte des particularités du contexte anglais, et en montrant la convergence d’influences historiques, culturelles et littéraires qui ont favorisé son émergence et son développement. Le néo-paganisme se décline en des branches ou traditions distinctes mais toutes issues d’un terreau commun. Cependant, on peut souligner l’émergence d’un néo-paganisme éclectique et syncrétique à part entière, portant sur le « bricolage » identitaire des individus qui composent leur propre spiritualité. Nous examinons la création d’une communauté et d’une identité néo-païennes, difficiles à cerner, mais qui reposent sur un socle commun de croyances et pratiques. Nous examinons les enjeux d’une quête identitaire véhiculée par une mystique de la terre d’Angleterre qui se veut inclusive, s’inscrivant dans une logique multiculturelle de la diversité et du pluralisme. Le néo-paganisme a pu profiter également d’un contexte politique, intellectuel et socioculturel favorable aux religions minoritaires, mais a dû faire des concessions pour se constituer en tant que religion afin d’être reconnu par les autorités publiques. Inversement, celles-ci ont été amenées à élargir et assouplir leur conception et leur définition de la religion afin d’inclure cette religiosité alternative. L’étude examine la plus grande visibilité des néo-paganismes et leur médiatisation, ainsi que les interfaces et zones de porosité entre ceux-ci et la culture dominante pour montrer une diffusion des thématiques néo-païennes dans la culture environnante, même si des problèmes persistent concernant l’acceptation et l’interprétation des noms pagan et surtout witch, et surtout des ambiguïtés en ce qui concerne les notions d’occulte et de magieThis study examines the emergence and growth of paganism over recent decades in a specifically English context, taking into account the various historical, cultural and literary influences and the way paganism has developed as a ‘natural’ product of these. Although the term paganism covers a loose association of distinct branches and traditions, these inspire, influence and feed into each other to a greater or lesser extent, creating a generic paganism that has emerged as the dominant trend, within which individuals concoct and compose their own spirituality. Within a spectrum of practices and beliefs, enough common ground exists for the movement to be recognizable as such, but this contrasts greatly with more traditional ideas of religion. If the growth of paganism is partly explained by the greater availability of information and the use of Internet, it is also seemingly in resonance with various aspects of the contemporary, post-modern western psyche. Furthermore, it has benefited from the official climate concerning positive recognition of minority religions in a multicultural society, although difficulties have arisen in its being accepted as a religion, whether by the authorities, or due to internal factors. This has led to a higher media profile for paganism, sometimes in its favour, but sometimes leading to its scapegoating by newspapers seeking to denounce the perceived excesses of multiculturalism and the “politically correct”. If the name ‘pagan’ seems inappropriate, acting as a barrier in some quarters, no alternative, less controversial term has been found as a replacement. However, it can be noticed that pagan themes and attitudes are being more generally diffused within mainstream culture, with or without the pagan ‘label’
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El, Hamri Jamel. ""L'idée religieuse" dans l'œuvre de l'intellectuel algérien Malek Bennabi (1905-1973) : une injonction pour la société musulmane de faire l'Histoire." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC013.
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Assez peu reconnu à son époque et encore largement méconnu aujourd'hui, l'intellectuel algérien Malek Bennabi (1905-1973) a pourtant fait une entrée remarquée dans la vie intellectuelle en Algérie avec sa notion de "colonisabilité " en 1949. Il se fera connaitre ensuite dans le monde musulman notamment avec ses définitions fonctionnelles de la culture et de la civilisation. Néanmoins, sa conception réformiste de la religion, nommée " idée religieuse " et ayant une fonction sociale, a été très peu analysée. Or, elle est la clé de voûte de la compréhension de la pensée de Bennabi. Pour lui, " l'idée religieuse " doit être une idée vécue comme une " vérité travaillante ", authentique avec l'islam et efficace dans le monde moderne. Il mélange des savoirs issus à la fois de la Tradition musulmane et des sciences humaines et propose de connecter l'islam authentique avec l'esprit technique cartésien. Ainsi, dans un contexte de décolonisation, Bennabi veut réaliser, par le déploiement moral et social de " l'idée religieuse " un projet de société pérenne, prospère et ouvert sur la civilisation humaine. Par le biais de cette notion " d'idée religieuse ", nous proposons, tout d'abord, de situer Bennabi dans l'histoire de l'Algérie mais aussi de l'islam contemporain. Nous voulons ensuite comprendre les fondements et les finalités de sa pensée qui est singulière au sein du réformisme musulman. Ce qui permettra enfin de mesurer l'impact de " l'idée religieuse " dans son projet de société sur trois niveaux de réflexion ; l'homme, la société, l'humanitéAlthough he is not really recognized by his contemporaries and still largely unknown today, the Algerian intellectual Malek Bennabi (1905-1973) nevertheless made a remarkable entry into the intellectual life in Algeria with his notion of "colonisabilité ". Then, he will be known in the Muslim world with its functional definitions of culture and civilization. Thus, his reformist conception of religion, having a social function, which he called "religious idea", was ignored. It is, however, the keystone of the understanding of Bennabi's thinking. For him, "The religious idea" must be an idea lived as a "working truth", being authentic with Islam and effective in the modern world. He mixes the knowledge of the Muslim Tradition with the human sciences and proposes to connect his vision of an authentic Islam with the Cartesian technical spirit. Moreover, in a context of decolonization, Bennabi wants to realize, by the moral and social deployment of the "religious idea", a project of sustainable society, which he sees as being prosperous and open to human civilization. Through this concept of "religious idea" we propose, first of all, to question the place of Bennabi in the history of Algeria but also of contemporary Islam. Then, we want to question the foundations and the purposes of his thought which is singular in Muslim reformism. Finally, this will allow us to measure the impact of the "religious idea" in its project of society on three levels of reflection: man, society, humanity
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Alkarni, Saad. "Twitter Response to Vision 2030: A Case Study on Current Perceptions of Normative Disorder within Saudi Social Media." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38041.
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There has been a mixed public response on social media toward Saudi Vision 2030, which could threaten public support of its implementation. This research investigated local tensions between social, religious, political, and economic values concerning the Saudi Vision 2030 plan, with a view to understanding the opportunities and challenges of social and cultural change within an evolving Saudi society. In this study, Twitter activity is treated as a societal mirror that reflects some of the perceptions regarding the transformations taking place within Saudi society. Both a case study informed by tweets sampled from Saudi Arabia and Vision 2030 related documentation explored how the current public social media discourse reflects existing social, religious, and cultural tensions concerning the government-proposed Vision 2030. This study drew on theoretical framework informed by Durkheim’s and Ibn Khaldun’s theory of social change, Merton’s strain theory, and Luhmann’s Social System Theory, to explore social, political, economic, and religious tensions found within the interactions of Twitter users around projects and events implemented or inspired by Vision 2030. An application programming interface (API) was used to retrieve Twitter posts, while a thematic analysis was applied to published documents related to Vision 2030 to identify Saudi society’s challenges to the implementation of the Vision. The study found that within Saudi society, Vision 2030 had an impact upon the normative disorder already taking place due to the rapid changes brought about by the Vision. Specifically, the study highlighted the link between ambiguous, clear, or absent norms, and a person’s pre-existing background knowledge. Social and religious group norms were more ambitious than clear, whereas economic group norms tended to be clearer. Finally, the study found that over time, through public debates, norms moved from an ambiguous and absent stage and became increasingly well-defined. The study showed that Saudi society, as a result of Vision 2030, is experiencing a normative disorder.
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al-Šarīf, Īhāb. "L'islamisme militant en Egypte, ses origines, son évolution et sa radicalisation (1970-1980)." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040230.
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Vu son influence culturelle, sa situation géopolitique centrale, et son poids démographique, l'Egypte est le pays arabo-musulman le plus important, dont le sort aura certainement un impact direct sur ce monde d'où l'importance d'étudier le phénomène islamiste actuel dans son ensemble pour mieux comprendre le sérieux du défi qui pèse sur le présent et l'avenir proche de ce pays. L'étude analyse dans sa première partie, les origines anciennes et contemporaines de l'islamisme militant, de Ibn-Hanbal aux frères musulmans et aux néo-frères musulmans, en passant par Ibn-Taymiyya et les autres. Une deuxième partie est consacrée aux groupes islamistes militants, ayant fait leur apparition à partir des années 70, tels le Takfir, le Jihad et les Jama At Islamiyya. Les facteurs politiques, économiques, culturels, psychologiques et autres ayant contribué à la montée de l'islamisme sont aussi analyses ainsi que les points autour desquels divergent les islamistes avec les autres. La conclusion, tout en démontrant les risques de dérapage de la démocratie vers une dictature religieuse, tente de donner certaines orientations permettant l'instauration d'une véritable démocratie et l'élaboration d'une version modérée de l'islamDue to its cultural radiation, geopolitical centrality and demographic weight, Egypt is the foremost arabo-islamic country. The fate of this country reverburate in the entire Arab and Islamic world, hence the importance to analyze the current phenomenon of fundamentalist Islam in its entirety to come to grips with the serious challenge which influences both its present and its near future. This study analyses in the first part ancient and contemporary roots of moslem fundamentalism, since the days of Ibn-Handal, through Ibn-Taymiyya until we finally reach moslem brotherhood in its past and more recent versions. The second part emphasyzes the fundamentalists groups that appeared since 1970's eg. Takf ir, jihad and jama'at islamiyya. The political, economic, cultural, psychological and other factors that have lead to the resurgence of this phenomenon. It also handles themes concerning which islamists differ with others. The conclusion attempts to offer certain suggestions that might usher in a possible leeway out of the present impass. At present there is a risk that a rise of power of the islamists through democratic
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Östensson, Sofia. ""...allt som händer i samhället speglas av i skolan" : En studie om undervisning inom religionskunskap i relation till ett mångkulturellt samhälle." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29056.
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The aim of this study is to investigate how a multicultural society can be reflected in the religious education. This essay will compare how teachers in grade 3 reflects about their religious education in relation to the society’s cultural diversity and it will also analyze how the teachers’ pupils think about religion. I have used the following questions: Do the teachers believe that the cultural diversity affects their religious education and if so, how and in what way? How do the teachers describe teaching religion in relation to the multicultural society? What are the pupils’ perceptions of religion in a context of cultural diversity? The investigation is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with four different teachers and a questionnaire study with 62 pupils that generates both quantitative and qualitative data. The theoretical approach of the study is grounded on different definitions of religion and on a theory called frame factor theory which was produced by Urban Dahllöf. The result of the study shows that the teachers believe that it is important to adapt their religious education to the cultural diversity. When comparing the teachers’ descriptions about their religious education it shows that all of the teachers describe factors that can influence their teaching of religion in a multicultural society. The questionnaire study shows similarities and differences in the way pupils think about religion but the most common thing is that most of the pupils associate God with religion.
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Diawara, Moise. "Contribution des organisations non gouvernementales au développement social et économique du Mali : période 1960-2012." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2084.
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On ne peut combattre sérieusement les difficultés économiques que connaît le Mali sans une prise en compte des paramètres socioculturels des bénéficiaires des différents projets de développement car ceux-ci ont en eux des acquis qui peuvent être des facteurs déclencheurs ou des freins à tout processus de développement local. L’humanitaire est à la croisée de la générosité de ses membres et de l’insuffisance de l’action politique dans un pays. Le Mali ne saurait être à la marge et se trouver dans une situation socioéconomique et politique qui requiert des appuis extérieurs pour résoudre ses différents problèmes existentiels et conjoncturels. Dans ce contexte, les ONG sont devenues les opérateurs du développement, quasiment à la place de l’Etat au Mali. Les résultats de cette situation paraissent mitigés ; d’où le sentiment d’une grande dépense d'énergie pour des maigres résultats ? Pourquoi, nous Maliens avons du mal à nous approprier la notion de développement (économique et social) ?Dans la situation actuelle, nous sommes face à des difficultés pour comprendre les questions de développement, pendant que les ONG et leurs partenaires étrangers agissent, et définissent leurs actions à partir de points de vue stéréotypés. Le Mali a subi des influences extérieures depuis la colonisation (colonialisme sous influence française, socialisme sous influence chinoise, libéralisme sous influence de la Banque mondiale et des institutions internationales comme le FMI) qui l’ont empêché de concevoir un modèle de développement propre à lui, adapté à son cadre de références culturelles. Ces facteurs évoqués ci-dessus ajoutés à ceux environnemental et climatique entretiennent les populations dans un état de pauvreté et classe le Mali selon l’indice de développement humain des nations unies 2012 au 175ème rang sur 182, au niveau mondial, malgré les ressources dont il dispose. Les données de la banque mondiale indiquent que le revenu brut national par habitant est de 649 us $ soit 616 euros. La pauvreté se mesure par deux dimensions : pauvreté matérielle et pauvreté en termes de relations sociales. Autrefois comme aujourd’hui (cf. rapport du PNUD du 3 au 4 juin 1999) tous les observateurs extérieurs sont frappés par la richesse des relations sociales entre personnes au Mali. Cette situation favorise l’intervention des ONG et leur permet de réaliser des actions concrètes (infrastructures, appui conseil) qui manquent cruellement aux populations. Cependant, dans leur intervention, elles ne prennent pas assez en compte la complexité des schémas socioculturels, leur incidence et surtout la question de l’appropriation des réalisations par les habitants et de leur cadre social ; elles finissent souvent par être rejetées car étant en contradiction avec ce cadre. Ainsi, le processus de développement au Mali peut être freiné par le poids important de la culture. Au Mali, la socialisation des enfants se déroule en 3 étapes de 0 à 16 ans. Son contenu réfère à une vision de l’homme dans la culture malienne qui diffère en partie selon les spécificités des différents groupes d’appartenance. Elle tend à produire in fine un individu en partie libre, en partie inscrit dans un corps social où il doit jouer le rôle qui lui a été assigné. Devenir adulte, c’est prendre sa place dans la famille rapprochée, dans sa famille élargie, dans son village, son peuple d’appartenance, selon des critères culturels complexes et précis. Ces paramètres constituent des cadres qui s’imposent à l’individu malien lorsqu’il participe à des initiatives de développement. S’il tente d’élever son niveau scolaire, d’améliorer sa situation économique, c’est pour mieux jouer son rôle dans un cadre « traditionnel », entre contrainte et liberté. Or souvent, quand les ONG interviennent dans le champ de l’éducation ou du développement local, elles n’ont pas en tête les subtilités de la socialisation des enfants et ses interactions possibles avec le parcours scolaireThe economic difficulties faced by Mali can't be seriously combatted without taking into account socio-cultural parameters of beneficiaries of development projects because they have achievements that can be triggering factors or obstacles to any process of local development.Humanitarian aid is at the crossroads of the generosity of its members and the lack of political action in a country. Mali can't be at the margin and find itself in a socio-economic and political situation that requires outside support to resolve its various existential and economic issues.In this context, NGOs have become the operators of development, almost instead of the State in Mali.The results of this situation seem mixed; hence the feeling of a great deal of energy for poor results? Why do Malians have difficulties in taking over the concept of development (economic and social)?In the current situation, we are facing difficulties to understand development issues, while NGOs and their foreign partners act and define their actions from stereotyped views.Mali has been influenced externally since colonialism (colonialism under French influence, socialism under Chinese influence, liberalism under the influence of the World Bank and international institutions such as the IMF), which prevented it from conceiving a specific development model according to its cultural references.These factors, combined with environmental and climatic factors, keep populations in a state of poverty and classify Mali according to the United Nations Human Development Index 2012 to 175th out of 182 world levels, despite the available resources. According to the same source, data from the World Bank indicate that the national gross income per capita is US $ 649 or 616 euros. Poverty is defined by two dimensions: material poverty and poverty in terms of social relations. Formerly as today (see UNDP report from 3 to 4 June 1999), all external observers are struck by the rich social relationships between people in Mali.This fertile ground encourages the intervention of NGOs and allows them to carry out concrete actions (infrastructures, advisory support) badly needed by the populations. However, in their intervention, they do not often take into account the complexity of socio-cultural models, their impact and, above all, the appropriation of achievements by the inhabitants which are often rejected because they don't stick with their social context.Thus, the development process in Mali may be hampered by the heavy weight of the culture.The socialization of children takes place in 3 steps from 0 to 16 years. Its content refers to the vision of a human in the Malian culture, but differs in part according to the specificities of the group of belonging. It ultimately produces an individual who is partly free, partly enrolled in a social body in which he must play the role assigned to him. Becoming an adult means taking his place in the close family, in his extended family, in his village, his people of belonging, according to complex and precise cultural criteria.These are the parameters that make up the models imposed on the Malian individual while participating in development initiatives. If he tries to improve his educational level, to improve his economic situation, the goal is to play a better role in a "traditional" setting, between determinism and freedom.But often, when NGOs intervene in education or local development, they do not have in mind the subtleties of socialization of children and the possible interactions with the school course.In other words, when they promote economic projects, they remain unrelated to the questions regarding who is locally in charge of these projects (depending on the place of each other in the social and family order).The Malian individual himself is not in a position to overcome this context, to stand back to analyze it and modify it
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Watkins, Daniel J. "Enlightenment, Catholicism, Conservatism: The Isaac-Joseph Berruyer Affair and the Culture of Orthodoxy in France, ca. 1700-1830." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393237720.
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Jovanov, Dejan. "Serbian Orthodoxy on crossroads-between tradition(alism) and civic society : imaginaries of Serbian nation, West and 'Universal' Values in Orthodoxy (Pravoslavlje) Journal, published by the Serbian Orthodox Church in the period 1991-2010." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAG052.
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Dans cette thèse je démontre comment les imaginaires de la nation serbe, de l’Occident et des valeurs universelles (démocratie, droits de l’homme et tolérance) véhiculées au sein de la revue ‘Orthodoxie’ (publiée par l’Eglise Orthodoxe Serbe) ont pour but final la préservation de la position sociale de l’Eglise et de ses intérêts en tant qu’une institution religieuse au sein de la société serbe. Cette ‘résistance’ aux changements construit des imaginaires sociaux qui nous appréhendons comme des représentations sociales et ont tendance à (re)devenir la vision dominante de la société serbe. J’étudie le discours de la revue ‘Orthodoxie’ et des acteurs qui y contribuent afin de montrer le processus des créations des imaginaires sociaux et leurs tentatives de se présenter au public et dans la sphère publique comme les courants de pensée dominants concernant la nation serbe, l’Occident et les valeurs ‘universelles’. J’ai répondu aux questions suivantes : - comment la tradition nationale « se traditionalise », la culture nationale s’idéalise et l’identité nationale se sacralise ? - comment l’imaginaire de l’Europe et de la culture européenne/occidentale (‘EUX’) se construisent en opposition à l’imaginaire de la nation serbe (‘NOUS’) ? - comment les valeurs de la démocratie, des droits de l’homme et de la tolérance sont imaginées à travers une telle construction opposée (‘EUX’ versus ‘NOUS’) ?In this thesis I demonstrate how do the imaginaries of Serbian nation, of Occident and of ‘universal’ Values (democracy, human rights, tolerance), constructed in the journal published by the SOC serve as factors of conservation and protection of the social position of the Church, its social and political interests in the sense of national religious institution in the Serbian society. The ‘resistance’ to change allows the construction of social imaginaries that we comprehend as social representations with a tendency to become (again) or to impose them as a dominant vision of the Serbian society. I studied the discourse in the ‘Orthodoxy’ journal and the social actors that published their articles in order to demonstrate the process of the creation of social imaginaries and the tentative to present them publicly/in the public sphere as dominant currents of social thoughts on Serbian nation, Occident and ‘universal’ values. I answered to the following questions:- The way national tradition is “traditionalized”, national culture is idealized and national identity is sacralized.- How the imaginary of Europe and European/western culture (‘THEM) are constructed in an opposition to the imaginary of a Serbian nation (‘US’)?- How the values of democracy, human rights and tolerance are imagined through this opposed imaginary construction (‘US’ vs ‘THEM’)?
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Weber, Edgard. "Aspects de l'imaginaire arabe." Paris 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA030031.
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Aspects de l'imaginaire arabe est une these presentee sur travaux analysant le discours de la loi dans la notion de resurrection dans le coran et croisades d'hier et djihad d'aujourd'hui, ainsi que le discours du desir dans le secret des mille et une nuits, violences dans le secret du dire et l'imaginaire arabe et contes erotiques une approche symbolique et psychanalytique permet de saisir la specificite de l'imaginaire arabe ainsi etudie. L'approche interculturelle de ces deux versants d'une culture : la loi et le desir fait ressortir la specificite et l'originalite de l'imaginaire arabo-musulman. Dans cet ordre, les notions de personnes, de corps, de sujet, d'espace et de temps apparaissent comme des notions fondamentales dans la comprehension de deux cultures differentes. L'etude de l'imaginaire arabe nous convie ainsi a prendre conscience des mecanismes qui permettent une veritable comprehension, a juger l'autre selon des criteres degages de tout ethnocentrismeAspects of the arabic imaginary is a collection of studies submitted in equivalence of a thesis, which analyse the speech of the law in the notion of resurection in the koran and crusades of yesterday and djihad of to-day, as well as the speech of desire studied in the secret of the thousand and one nights, violence in the secret of speech and the arabic imaginary and erotic tales. A symbolic and psycho-analytical approch explains the specific side of the arabic imaginary. The intercultural approach of these two faces of the same culture : the law and desire, highlights the originality of the arabo-muslim imaginary. In this order, such notions as the person, the body, the subject, space and time appear as fundamental to understand two different cultures. The study of the arabic imaginary invites the reader to become conscious of the mecanisms leading ato a deeper comprehension, to a finer understanding of a foreign civilisation according to criteria void of any ethnocentrism
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Middlebrooks, Justin M. Mr. "The Intersection Between Politics, Culture, and Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Performance Art Activism and Contemporary Societal Problems." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1333397676.
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Dulaey, Martine. "Victorin de poetovio, premier exegete latin." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040285.
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Victorin, eveque de poetovio (ptuj, en yougoslavie) dans la seconde moitie du 3eme siecle est le premier latin a consacrer des traites entiers a l'exegese de la bible : jerome, en une liste dont il precise qu'elle n'est pas exhaustive, enumere sept opuscules. La presente these passe en revue tous les temoignages anciens sur l'oeuvre et procede a une analyse detaillee des deux ouvrages parvenus jusqu'a nous (un commentaire sur l'apocalypse et le petit traite sur la construction du monde), ainsi que de quelques fragments imputables a l'auteur. On met ainsi en lumiere d'une part la vaste culture chretienne de l'exegete, nourri surtout des grecs (notamment irenee, hippolyte et origene), mais aussi des latins (tertullien, cyprien. . . ), et d'autre part, la large audience dont a beneficie son oeuvre aux quatrieme et cinquieme siecles avant d'etre eclipsee par celle des peres de l'age d'or qui s'en sont approprie la substance. Victorinus, the bishof of poetovio (ptuj, yugoslavia) in the iind half of the third century, was the first latin who wrote biblical commentaries. St jerome gives the titles of seven treatises, the list not being exhaustive. The present thesis examines all the ancient testimonies concerning the works of victorinus, and gives a detailed analysis of the two surviving ones (a commentary on revelation and a short treatise on the creation), as well as a few fragments we can attribute to the author. From this study, we can emphasise the exeget's vast christian culture, for he drew principally on greek writers (such as irenaeus, hippolyt and origene), but also on the latin writers (tertullian, cyprian. . . ) and on the other hand the large influence of his work during the fourth and fifth centuries, before being eclipsed by that of the fathers of the golden age, who assimilated most of his matter.
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Leroy, Michel. "Le mythe jesuite en france sous la monarchie constitutionnelle." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040069.
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L'image des jesuistes et de la compagnie de jesus en france, de 1814 a 1848 : contexte historique, expression litteraire, fonctions et significations du mythe. Contribution a l'etude de l'imaginaire politiqueImage of jesuits and of jesus between 1814 and 1848 : historical context, literary language. Functions and meanings of the myth. Contribution to the study of political imagery
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Nuñez-, Bargueño Natalia. "Religión, espacio y política en la España del siglo XX : el Congreso Eucarístico Internacional." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL160.
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Le Congrès Eucharistique International est l’un des événements de masse les plus significatifs du catholicisme contemporain. À mi-chemin entre la modernité et la tradition, il s’agit d’un phénomène de mobilisation des fidèles comparable à des événements de masse laïcs, tels que l´Exposition Universelle, les congrès scientifiques et politiques, et même les Jeux Olympiques. Notre travail fait une étude comparative de deux des trois Congrès Internationaux qui ont eu lieu en Espagne (Madrid 1911 et Barcelone 1952). Ces assemblées catholiques sont un vaste et riche champ pour la recherche du point de vue des études transdisciplinaires, et en particulier de la perspective de l’histoire culturelle, car chaque célébration implique une convergence particulière d’intérêts multiples (religieux, politiques, économiques, spatiaux, symboliques, etc.). Tandis que pour la première partie de la thèse nous avons fait une contextualisation historique approfondie de chaque congrès (locale, nationale et internationale), pour la deuxième partie, nous avons opté pour une perspective comparative et diachronique autour de deux thématiques essentielles pour l´étude des faits religieux contemporains : catholicisme espagnol et modernité (chapitre 5), et catholicisme espagnol et espace urbain (chapitre 6). La perspective spatiale de notre sixième chapitre est très importante, car, dans le cadre espagnol, il n’existe à ce jour que très peu d’études approfondies sur la religion comme un facteur de transformation de la ville, et inversement, de la ville comme un élément de modernisation du catholicisme contemporainThe International Eucharistic Congress is one of the most striking mega events organized by the Catholic Church in late modernity. Its hybrid nature (both traditional and modern, secular and spiritual), the fact that it has been celebrated since the end of the XIXth century in all five continents, and the imposing multitudes it gathers, make it an extraordinary object of study for the field of Religion and History. Despite its being mainly conservative in nature, its celebration has also allowed for restricted, but fundamental, religious innovation, gradually allowing the Church to creatively face the challenges of an increasingly less observant modern society. Spain has celebrated the IEC on three occasions: Madrid 1911, Barcelona 1952 and Seville 1993. Our work wishes to establish a rich comparison between the first two. We will first situate the 1911 and 1952 celebrations in their local, national and international historical contexts. Then, in the second part of our work, we will study both celebrations from a diachronic and thematic perspective, namely, the relation of Spanish Catholicism both to Modernity (to the emergence of mass culture and society) and to Urban Space. Taking a postsecular point of view, we will emphasize the fact that the place, role, meaning, and identity of religion in Spain have changed in tandem with modernity’s social, economic, political and cultural transformations. Ultimately, inspired by both by S. Juliá´s revision of the historical metanarrative that considered Spain as Modernity´s failure/“anomaly”, and by F. Montero´s call to develop a Cultural History of Spanish Catholicism, our study wishes to critically reevaluate the role that History has traditionally ascribed to Catholicism in Contemporary Spain
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Shuqair, Noura Abdulhameed H. "Living Between Two Worlds: Conflict, Investigation And The Change." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5702.
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Beginning with my exploration of art as an aesthetic object, this paper shows the growth of my work and concept. Through my practice, I have been able to understand the contradictions in my traditional society and western modernity. It has helped me grapple with my own beliefs, and begin to confront those I don't agree with.M.F.A.
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Sjögren, Erik. "Liberal teologi – liberal samhällssyn? : En studie av svenska liberalteologers samhällssyn genom tre nedslag i tidskriften Kristendomen och vår tid 1908–1928." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180817.
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This thesis examines the view on society in an early 20th century Swedish periodical journal of liberal theology, Kristendomen och vår tid (Christianity and our time). During the late 19th century, a new school of liberal theology gained influence among various protestant theological faculties in Germany. In emphasising the ethical teachings of the historical Jesus of Nazareth as the basis for Christianity and a worldly kingdom of God, liberal theologians advocated social and political reform, becoming influential in German society at the turn of the century. As this liberal theology was adapted in Sweden, a group of priests and theologians founded the journal KVT as a medium for spreading liberal theology to their peers, but also, this thesis suggests, to advocate a particular view on society and role for the church and the priesthood in a way similar to the development in Germany. The analysis of the view on society in KVT suggests a shift over time regarding the expressed purpose and role of church in society, which can be understood within the context of contemporary development of political life in Sweden. In the early 1900s, an ideal of a church highly active in social welfare practices in society is apparent in the journal, whereas in the 1920s the role and main purpose of the church is understood rather as a sort of societal moral consciousness.
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Nellist, Christine. "Towards an animal theology in Eastern Orthodox Christianity." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2017. http://repository.winchester.ac.uk/682/.
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My thesis advances the overarching hypothesis that the Eastern Orthodox Church has sufficient teachings to develop a theology which tackles the difficult subject of animal suffering. However, during the review of theological academic literature I identified a gap between what might be termed Orthodox theory and its practice. In essence the overarching hypothesis is broken down into three component parts: i) That Eastern Orthodox teachings allow for the formulation of an ‘Animal Theology’ of the Eastern Orthodox Church; ii) That there is a gap between Orthodox theory and practice on this theme both at academic and pastoral level; iii) That the abuse and exploitation of animals has negative soteriological consequences for those who indulge in such practices; those who know but are indifferent to animal suffering and those who know and are concerned but fail to act in order to reduce or prevent that suffering. Different methodologies were used for the different areas of research which range from biblical exegesis and neo-patristic synthesis, to the formulation of new empirical research collected via questionnaires to animal protectionists in Cyprus and interviews with Orthodox theologians in Cyprus and the UK. In the final two chapters contemporary Eastern Orthodox voices are brought into play in order to advance theological reflection on the sin and evil inherent in animal suffering and the soteriological implications for those who abuse and exploit the non-human creation. Academic theology can often be abstract in nature and viewed by many as irrelevant to contemporary life. I do not believe this is the case and throughout this thesis I have provided examples of how Orthodox teachings can be applied to contemporary animal suffering issues. In addition I have provided an outline for a seminary project which focuses on a) the spiritual and ontological interconnectedness of God’s Creation; b) the seminarian’s role as Icon of Christ and c) how these two elements should dictate the priest’s treatment and relationship with animals and the environment. I have also provided frameworks for a Master’s Dissertation on the theme and an Eastern Orthodox Animal Protection group. Finally, it is worth noting the impact of this research thus far, which has resulted in the first Master’s Dissertation on the theme by an Eastern Orthodox priest; a public statement by the Holy Synod of Cyprus; the establishment of an Eastern Orthodox Animal Protection group in Cyprus and an academic paper presented at an international conference on Religion and Animal Protection by one of Orthodoxy’s leading theologians, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Leading Orthodox theologians are aware of this thesis and are supportive of its vision; as a result I believe the previously identified gap between the theory and the practice will reduce in the foreseeable future.
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McKeon, Michael. "The value of religious commitments in a pluralistic society." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Kline, Douglas Aaron. "Quakerly conflict : The cultural logic of conflict in the Religious Society of Friends." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535507.
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Nichols, Tommy B. "Religion in American culture." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26212.
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Léoni, Sylviane. "Le poison et le remède : discours sur la légitimité du théatre en France et en Italie (1694-1758)." Université Stendhal (Grenoble ; 1970-2015), 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993GRE39025.
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A partir de la fin du xviie siecle, la condamnation du theatre ne fut plus seulement, comme par le passe, l'expression d'une vision idealiste de l'existence et d'une conception platonicienne de la mimesis mais elle se confondit avec une autre histoire : celle du principe d'autorite puisque les premiers anathemes contre les spectacles avaient ete enonces par ces garants de la verite qu'etaient les peres de l'eglise. Tant que l'autorite de ces peres ne fut pas remise en cause explicitement, la hierarchie ecclesiastique se limita a condamner les comediens et a faire preuve d'une indulgence certaine a l'egard des spectateurs. Par contre, comme le soulignent les nombreux documents analyses (traites, rituels, mandements, preches, manuels pour confesseurs, etc. ) la plus grande intransigeance fut toujours opposee a ceux qui, dans leurs ecrits, voulaient prouver que, contrairement a ce qu'affirmait la tradition chretienne, la frequentation des spectacles etait compatible avec le salut. "querelle de mots", la querelle sur la legitimite du theatre nous renseigne donc sur l'evolution des idees et du savoir qui eut lieu en france et en italie pendant la premiere moitie du xviiie siecle, c'est-a-dire a une epoque ou l'auteur remplace peu a peu l'auctoritas et les valeurs des hommes de lettres (raison, experience, etc. ) s'affirment incontestablement aux depens de celles des hommes d'eglise. A travers ces reclassements, c'est aussi un nouveau discours argumentatif qui commence a voir le jour et a supplanter l'ancien art de dire et de raisonner fonde sur la rhetorique et sur la logique aristoteliciennesFrom the end of the xviith century, condemnation of the theatre was made not only, as earlier, the expression of an idealistic vision of life and a platonistic conception of mimicry but was confused with another history ; that of the principle of authority seeing that the first anathemas against plays had been expressed by the guarantors of truth, the fathers of the church. So that the authority of these fathers was not explicity called into question, the ecclesiastical hierarchy limited itself to condemn the actors and to display a certain leniency with regard to the spectators. On the contrary, as emphasise numerous analysed documents (treaties, sermons, manuals for confessors, etc. . ) the greatest intransigence was always opposed to those who, in their writings, wanted to prove that, contrary to those who affirm the christian tradition, theatre attendance was compatible with salvation. "battle of words", the dispute over the legitimacy of the theatre gives us an insight, therefore, on the evolution of ideas and of learning which had taken place in france and italy during the first half of the xviiith century, that is to say, at an epoch where little by little the author replaces the auctoritas and the values of the men of letters (reason, experience, etc. . ) undeniably assert themselves at the expense of the elders of the church. Through this restructuring a new argumentative expression begins to see the light of day supplanting the ancient art of saying and reasoning founded on aristotelian logic and rhetoric
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Seeb, Sami Kay. "The seafaring society of Rome: sub-culture or independent culture?" Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27763.
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White, A. "Religion, politics and society in Aberdeen, 1543-1593." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372978.
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Graveling, Elizabeth. "Negotiating the powers : everyday religion in Ghanaian society." Thesis, University of Bath, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492248.
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Engagement with religion has recently become an important issue to development theoreticians, donors and practitioners. It is recognised that religion plays a key role in shaping moral frameworks and social identities, but little attention is paid to how this is played out in everyday life: the focus remains on ‘faith communities’ and ‘faith-based organisations’ as unified bodies. This thesis uses ethnographic methods to examine how members of two churches in rural Ghana are influenced by and engage with religion. Rather than viewing religion simply as (potentially) instrumental to development, it seeks to approach it in its own right. It challenges the rigidity of categories such as ‘physical/spiritual’ and ‘religious/non-religious’, and the notion of ‘faith communities’ as discrete, unified entities with coherent religious cosmologies. Insights from witchcraft studies and medical anthropology indicate that spiritual discourses are drawn on to negotiate hybrid and continuously changing modernities, and people tend to act pragmatically, combining and moving between discourses rather than fully espousing a particular ideology. Residents of the village studied appear to inhabit a world of different but interconnecting powers, which they are both, to some extent, subject to and able to marshal. These include God, secondary deities, juju, witchcraft, family authorities, traditional leaders, biomedicine and churches. Relationships with both spirits and humans are ambivalent and each of these powers can bring both blessings and harm. Religious experience is fluid, eclectic and pragmatic as people continually enter and exit groups and marshal different powers simultaneously to protect themselves from harm and procure blessings. Approaches by the development world seeking to engage with religion and to take seriously local people’s interests and viewpoints should thus be wary of oversimplification according to traditional Western social science categories, and be underpinned by an understanding of how religious discourses are interpreted and enacted in people’s everyday lives.