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Bosch, Mélanie. "L'urbanisation et la gouvernance du littoral : l'illustration de l'obsolescence d'un modèle d'aménagement : politiques et croissances urbaines du littoral occitan, 60 ans après la mission "racine"." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Perpignan, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024PERP0008.
Анотація:
Propulsée et plongée dans les débats autour de la légifération du recul du trait de côte engagés par l'Etat en 2018 au même moment que le début de notre projet de recherche, nous avons vu comment cette émulation réglementaire représentait un moment de bascule dans la façon d'appréhender l'aménagement futur du littoral. En effet, auparavant restituée comme une simple directive, désormais l'ordonnance « recomposition spatiale » inscrit juridiquement la relocalisation stratégique des populations et des activités économiques vers le rétro littoral au sein des outils de planification urbaine. À l'échelle de la Région Occitanie cette prescription constitue en soi une interrogation sur la pérennité du modèle de production urbaine de l'espace littoral car ce changement de paradigme vient en réalité percuter les fondements d'un modèle qui soixante plus tôt, est venu changer la physionomie de ce territoire régional et qui aujourd'hui est tout aussi structurant et influençant quand on observe sa trajectoire. Construit selon une logique de croissance, le grand projet interministériel, la mission « Racine » de 1963 a inscrit l'espace littoral occitan dans un régime de croissance capitaliste de la ville qui a su se maintenir, se renouveler et s'ancrer dans un contexte de néo libéralisation des politiques urbaines. Issu d'un régime centralisé, le modèle d'aménagement du littoral donne lieu à un processus d'accumulation caractérisé par un régime de rente trouvant dans la décentralisation un nouveau champ d'expansion. Les multiples processus qui lui sont associés (politiques, économiques, sociaux mais aussi spatiaux), recoupent aux grandes dynamiques urbaines contemporaines de l'espace littoral : prolongation de la mission « Racine » par l'affirmation et la revalorisation de ce patrimoine politique et économique, volonté politique de monter en gamme du parc immobilier des années soixante, un marché immobilier dynamique et saisi par la promotion immobilière, un espace littoral saisi par des tendances rentières mise en œuvre par un public de particuliers. Ces phénomènes révèlent un marché urbain du littoral, inscrivant ce dernier dans une forme de marchéisation de la fabrique de la ville. Cette thèse interroge donc la place et le rôle des régimes politiques et économiques face à la volonté de rupture suggérer par une légifération de la restauration naturelle de l'espace littoral. Elle met en œuvre des mesures, à l'échelle des stations racines et particulièrement celle de Saint-Cyprien, par 2 immersion en tant que chargée de mission et chercheuse, et par une enquête qualitative s'appuyant sur un recueil de données de terrain varié, un travail d'archiviste intense, la construction et la production de bases de données cartographiques originales avec une spatialisation de la fabrique de la ville littorale mobilisant les produits de la fiscalité résidentielle et immobilière, et une géohistoire inédite ; qui permettent de dresser un portrait des différents régimes politico-économique de régulation qui ont transformé et recomposé l'espace littoral occitan et sa trajectoire. Une approche à la croisée des géographies sociale, radicale et économique permet de construire une grille d'interprétation originale pour explorer ce champ. La montée des enjeux politiques urbaines du littoral au sein des agendas politiques se lit au travers de la construction, la structuration et le maintien d'un régime urbain du littoral pro-croissance portant les politiques de reterritorialisation par marchandisation de l'espace littoral. L'immersion durant quatre années au sein des arènes politiques dans le cadre de la production de la politique publique du futur aménagement du littoral, nous a permis d'être au coeur des forces d'inerties et des voies de contournement qui s'engagent et s'opèrent face à la privatisation de la ressource « espace littoral »Propelled and immersed in the debates surrounding the legislation of coastline retreat initiated by the government in 2018 at the same time as the start of our research project, we saw how this regulatory emulation represented a turning point in the way we apprehended future coastal development. Previously regarded as a mere directive, the "spatial recomposition" ordinance now legally enshrines the strategic relocation of populations and economic activities to the retro-coastal zone within urban planning tools. On the scale of the Occitanie region, this prescription in itself raises questions about the durability of the urban production model for the coastal area, as this paradigm shift actually shatters the foundations of a model which, sixty years ago, changed the face of this regional territory, and which today is just as structuring and influential when we look at its trajectory. Built on a logic of growth, the great interministerial project, the 1963 "Racine" mission, placed the Occitan coastal area within a regime of capitalist urban growth, which was able to maintain, renew and anchor itself in a context of neo-liberalization of urban policies. Stemming from a centralized system, the coastal development model has given rise to a process of accumulation characterized by a return system that has found a new field of expansion in decentralization. The many processes associated with this model (political, economic, social and spatial) overlap with the major contemporary urban dynamics of coastal areas: the extension of the "Racine" mission through the affirmation and revaluation of this political and economic heritage, the political desire to upgrade the real estate stock of the 1960s, a dynamic real estate market seized by property development, and a coastal area seized by landlord trends implemented by a group of private individuals. These phenomena reveal an urban market for the coastline, making it part of a form of marketization in the making of the city. This thesis therefore examines the place and role of political and economic regimes in the face of the desire for change suggested by legislation for the natural restoration of coastal areas. It implements measures, on the scale of root resorts and particularly that of Saint-Cyprien, by immersion as a project manager and researcher, and through a qualitative investigation based on a varied collection of field data, intense archival work, the construction and production of original cartographic databases with a spatialization of the making of the coastal city mobilizing the products of residential and real estate taxation, and an unprecedented geohistory ; which provide a portrait of the different political-economic regulatory regimes that have transformed and recomposed the Occitan coastal space and its trajectory. An approach at the crossroads of social, radical, and economic geographies provides an original interpretation grid for exploring this field. The rise of coastal urban policies on political agendas can be seen in the construction, structuring and maintenance of a pro-growth coastal urban regime, underpinned by policies of reterritorialization through the commodification of coastal space. Our four-year immersion in the political arenas involved in the production of public policy for the future development of the coastline enabled us to be at the heart of the forces of inertia and the ways of circumventing that operate in the face of the privatization of the "coastal space" resource
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Péclard, Didier. "Etat colonial, missions chrétiennes et nationalisme en Angola, 1920-1975 : aux racines sociales de l'UNITA." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005IEPP0037.
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Ce travail vise à comprendre les interactions complexes entre Etat colonial, missions chrétiennes et nationalisme en Angola, de 1920 environ à l'indépendance de cette ancienne colonie portugaise en 1975. Loin des nombreux déterminismes d'ordre ethnique, culturel ou religieux qui ont phagocyté la recherche sur ce pays au 20e siècle, il se penche sur l'histoire sociale d'une région particulière, le planalto central. Le rôle social et politique des missions chrétiennes figure au centre de l'analyse. Dans le contexte du colonialisme portugais, elles ont en effet représenté les seules voies d'ascension sociale pour la très faible proportion d'Angolais qui sont parvenus à sortir des marges politiques, sociales et économiques dans lesquelles le système colonial les avait confinés. A ce titre, elles ont joué un rôle important dans la manière dont les sociétés angolaises ont négocié leur articulation à l'Etat colonial, ainsi que dans l'émergence du nationalisme angolais. C'est ce rôle que la thèse met en lumière, en montrant que le nationalisme, loin d'être l'issue "naturelle" de ces interactions, n'est qu'une réponse parmi d'autres aux défis que pose le colonialisme en fin de règneThe thesis aims at understanding the complex interactions that took place between the colonial State, Christian Missions and nationalism in Angola, between c. 1920 and the country's independence in 1975. It runs counter to many deterministic approaches which have given much weight to ethnic, cultural and religious factors in most of Angola's historiography. It focuses of the central planalto region, and looks in particular at the social and political role of Christian missions. In the context of Portuguese colonialism they represented one of the very few alleys of upward social mobility for the vast majority of Angolans who were left at the political, social and economic margins of the colonial system. In that sense, they were key actors in the manner in which Angolan societies negociated their articulation to the colonial State, as well as in the development of nationalism. It is on this role that the thesis concentrates. It shows that nationalism, far from being the "natural" outcome of such interactions, was only one possible response between others to the challenge posed by the late colonialism
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Baker, Graham. "Eugenics and Christian mission : charitable welfare in transition : London and New York, c. 1865-1940." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0aa85bak704-ded0-4913-8cda-7d8ae575357a.
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In this thesis it is argued that a full and complete understanding of the eugenics movement may only be gained by examining those who were implicated in its criticisms. Using the example of three Christian missionary organisations that worked amongst largely poor and immigrant communities in London and New York, it is demonstrated that eugenics was a pervasive ideology outside its 'official' societies. Moving away from an understanding grounded in ideas of conflict and concession, it will be demonstrated that those whose work was challenged by eugenic claims were able to interpret the ideology according to their existing reformist agendas. Hereditarian ideas did not sound the death knell for reformers, and these organisations demonstrated both the willingness and capacity to shape eugenic ideas within and outside their organisations. From these examples it is argued there is a need to move beyond definitions of eugenics that limit the movement to a small subset of its methods. Far from being a peripheral aspect to the history of eugenics, it will be seen that these missionary agencies occupied a position at the centre of eugenicists' concerns. As prominent providers of charity, a work charged by eugenicists with unnaturally hindering the natural laws of selection, religious communities were, in part, one of the reasons that eugenics was deemed necessary in the first place. This picture is confirmed by an examination of two eugenics societies, one on each side of the Atlantic, where the impact of religious sentiment and ideas exerted a dramatic effect upon policies and propaganda work. There was no one-way flow of ideology from eugenicists towards reformers, but rather a two-way dialogue which created a marked impression on both groups.
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Taymuree, Zainab(Zainab Feroza). "The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129064.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-112).
Design precedents are often de-historicized, de-politicized, and de-raced. By starting at the margins, what lineages can designers uncover for seemingly apolitical design tactics? Intervening in the genealogy of race and design, this thesis locates design creativity within Black resistance movements and complicates the narrative of who is credited with transforming and repurposing the built environment. As critics of the status quo, Black activists did more than just fight and dismantle. They designed and created alternatives to the systems that aimed to diminish them. Two case studies offer a closer look at design interventions for self-determination by Black communities in the late 1960s. In Chapter One, I consider the Black Panthers as tactical urbanists who reshaped the environment in low-cost, temporary, and participatory ways. In Chapter Two, I examine the New Communities land trust and their design charrettes as a democratic intervention in an often professionalized planning process. Chapter Three considers how Critical Race Theory decodes images in these cases that seem natural, inevitable, and race neutral.
by Zainab Taymuree.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Twells, Alison A. "The heathen at home and overseas : the middle class and the civilising mission, Sheffield 1790-1843." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2539/.
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Gude, George J. "The home mission work of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference a description and evaluation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1991. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0068.
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Sanecki, Kim Caroline. "Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07062006-114644/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Ian Christopher Fletcher, committee chair; Duane J Corpis, committee member. Electronic text (180 p.). Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180).
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Taylor, Kris Allison. "Leadership Practices that Affect Student Achievement: The Role of Mission and Vision in Achieving Equity." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107955.
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Thesis advisor: Diana PullinIt is widely accepted that school leadership has both a direct and indirect impact on student achievement. Hitt and Tucker’s (2016) unified leadership framework summarized a decade of work by numerous researchers identifying the five most effective leadership domains that influence student learning. Using that work as a conceptual framework, this qualitative case study analyzed one of the five interdependent leadership domains in an urban elementary school that succeeded in educating traditionally marginalized students and outperformed other schools with similar demographics in the district. Scholars Hitt and Tucker (2016) state that effective leadership practice includes conveying, communicating and implementing a shared vision. This study focused on the mission-driven leadership practices at the district level and the school level that could have influenced the improved academic outcomes for urban students of color. Another focus of this study was achieving equity for marginalized student populations and whether the district designed policies or programs specifically for students of color in order to eliminate achievement gaps. This study found aligned practices and beliefs at both the district and school level. Findings included a shared understanding of goals and daily practices to achieve the goal. There were expectations in place to observe implementation as well as reliable structures to communicate about goals to maintain a focus on priorities. This project also aimed to learn whether these same practices were engaged if there were initiatives in place to attain equitable outcomes when working with specific marginalized populations. This study found consistency throughout the organization of a resistance to focusing on race. This resistance materialized in the form of taking a color-blind approach to instruction. This approach is in direct contrast to practices called for in the literature for meeting the needs of all students, especially students of color. Recommendations include taking courageous steps as a district by engaging transformational and social justice leadership practices to create an organization that is responsive to the needs of students of color
Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education
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Labbé, Philippe. "Trente années de compagnonnage pour l'insertion professionnelle et sociale des jeunes : du pari de Schwartz à celui de la métamorphose de Morin : de la naissance à l'adultéité des missions locales. Racines et rameaux." Brest, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BRES1012.
Анотація:
“Trente années de compagnonnage pour l'insertion professionnelle et sociale des jeunes” est une thèse sur travaux constituée d'un document de trois cents pages et de cinq ouvrages de Philippe Labbé publiés aux éditions Apogée, dans la collection « Les panseurs sociaux » dont il est le directeur. Ce document - retrace la construction progressive de la posture sociologique du chercheur ; - spécifie l’appareillage conceptuel mobilisé, principalement la théorie de la complexité ; - présente plusieurs travaux d'ordre conceptuel, philosophique ou méthodologique. L'objet convergent de ces recherches, ainsi que de la centaine de publications recensées, « l’insertion professionnelle et sociale des jeunes », inscrit ces travaux à la confluence de sociologies… des jeunesses ; des organisations (les missions locales) ; des politiques publiques de l’emploi et de la formation ; des professions (conseiller en insertion professionnelle) ; enfin du développement des territoires“Thirty years of companionship for the professional and social integration of young people” is a thesis work consists of a three-hundred pages and five books published by Philippe Labbé at Editions Apogee in the collection "The social dressers" referred to the Director. This document - traces the gradual development of the sociological position of the researcher; - specifies the concepts required mobilized, mainly the theory of complexity; - presents several conceptual works, philosophical or methodological. The purpose of this research converge, and the hundreds of publications identified, "the professional and social integration of young people," writes the work at the confluence of. . . Sociologies of youth, organizations (local missions), policies public employment and training, professional (advisor employability) and finally the development of territories
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Masuku, M. T. (Mnyalaza Tobias). "The ministry of Dr Beyers Naude : towards developing a comprehensive mission (communication) strategy towards the victims of oppression." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25384.
Анотація:
This thesis proposes that the ministry of Dr Beyers Naudé to the victims of oppression during the apartheid rule in South Africa had a missionary dimension. It argues that the credibility of the Christian faith was challenged by the victims of oppression, as a result of the way in which it was used as a supportive tool for oppression. Through his ministry, Beyers Naudé succeeded in communicating the Christian faith in a special way to the victims of oppression. This led to a change of mind for the victims of oppression with regard to their negative attitude to the Christian faith. This study further resulted in the development of a comprehensive mission (communication) strategy to the victims of oppression. The argument is that there is another form of post-1994 victims of oppression in South Africa made out of those who feel left out by government poverty alleviation, economic development and service delivery programmes. The inability of government to strike a balance between the rich and the poor as well as corruption will always yield the ‘disadvantaged’ section of society who may feel ‘oppressed’, neglected and left out in favour of the few who have ‘connections’ at higher levels of government. These victims’ response will be characterized by anger which results into protest actions similar to those seen during the time of the ministry of Beyers Naudé. The question posed in this study is ‘how to minister to angry people who feel left out by government?’ In order to respond to this challenge and to equip ministers of religion and other interested people, a comprehensive mission (communication) strategy to victims of oppression was therefore developed based on the example of Beyers Naudé. The main question posed in this study around the reason for the success of Beyers Naudé’s ministry is “what ‘muthi’ did he use to win the hearts, love and support of the victims of oppression?” In order to answer this question, there is a three step approach that has been followed. Firstly I looked at factors that made him or influenced his making i.e. his life from his birth to his ‘conversion’, South African political landscape divided into two periods (1940-1963 and 1963-1994) as well as Faith Based Organisations’ response to apartheid. Secondly, I looked at his actual ministry to the victims of oppression from 1963 to 1994. I divided his ministry between the categories of centripetal and centrifugal patterns of mission. Thirdly a comprehensive mission (communication) strategy to the victims of oppression was developed, based on his contribution to a positive Christian witness. In the concluding chapter, I made some proposals for a way-forward in terms of areas for further study which were triggered by this research. The best statement for concluding this study, indicating the commitment of Beyers Naudé for God’s mission and how this was misunderstood by his church (the DRC) was taken from Mokgoebo (2009) who states: Beyers Naudé was a prophet of his time. As the saying goes, ‘the prophet is never respected at his own home’. His witness will remain long after we have gone, as a White man who was grasped by the powerful message of the Kingdom of God, of justice and reconciliation.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Science of Religion and Missiology
unrestricted
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Conroy-Krutz, Emily. "The Conversion of the World in the Early Republic: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in the Early American Foreign Mission Movement." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10108.
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This is a transnational history of the early republic that focuses on religious actors. The early American foreign mission movement was an outward-looking expression of the benevolent network of the early republic. Building on transatlantic connections that predated the American Revolution, it represented American evangelicals’ attempt to transform the “heathen world” into part of God’s kingdom. Using ABCFM missions to in India, the Cherokee Nation, and Liberia as case studies, this dissertation examines the relationship between the church and imperial politics. In the 1800s, Americans, who had focused their evangelism on Native Americans, joined British evangelicals in the work of world mission. In the first decades of their work, they saw the potential of imperial expansion as a conduit for evangelization. In practice, evangelicals found great faults with imperial governments. Everywhere, missionaries struggled to determine how linked the projects of Christianizing and “civilizing” ought to be. With regard to gender norms in particular, missionaries found the introduction of “civilization” to be an essential part of their work. The question of slavery ultimately led to a shift in mission policy. By the mid-1840s, the Board insisted that it was a single-issue organization whose sole purpose was the conversion of the world. In so doing, the Board shifted away from the early 19th century model of foreign missions as bearers of “civilization” to a mid-19th century model of a separation between missions and politics.History
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Olsson, Lina. "ANTIRASISM I GYMNASIESKOLAN : En intervjustudie om samhällskunskapslärares uppfattningar och implementeringar av ett antirasistiskt uppdrag." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-180297.
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The school has an anti-racist mission where teachers, especially social studies teachers, have a central role. Previous research shows, however, that the school often lacks in counteracting racism, which raises questions about how teachers see racism as a phenomenon and school as an anti-racist place. There is a lack of knowledge about how social studies teachers perceive the anti-racist work and whether and, in such cases, how they implement anti-racism within the framework of social science teaching. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate social studies teachers' perceptions of and implementation of an anti-racist mission in upper secondary school. This was done through five semi-structured interviews which were analyzed with Michael Lipsky's (2010) theory of grassroots bureaucracy which is supplemented by Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson's (2015) theory of cultural and structural factors, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill & Brian Turners (2006) definitions of individual and structural racism and Emma Arnebacks (2012) identified courses of action against racism. The results show that no teacher has an explicit anti-racist attitude, but they perceive the task as aimed at counteracting students 'tendencies to express "problematic" thoughts or opinions, which is a description of purpose that is influenced by teachers' understanding of racism as an individual phenomenon. The attitude to the assignment is positive, but it is perceived to be fraught with challenges that arise partly because of a perceived limited scope for action, and partly because of the teachers believing that there is a measure of anti-racism in the teaching. The teachers also perceive the social studies teacher's special role in an anti-racist assignment partly negatively as it is described as becoming a workload. Criticism is directed at a deficient teacher education that structurally limits the anti-racist work as they feel that it has to a low degree equipped them with competence in racism despite the subject's special relevance, and partly because the entire teacher education was not characterized by this which could even the workload. The teachers believe that they implement the anti-racist mission, and the courses of action are mediating, democratizing, and partly relationally characterized where concrete strategies in social studies are to provide knowledge and practice critical reflection in the students. Important knowledge is mainly about democracy and human rights, and an important skill is critical thinking. The study's conclusions are that social studies teachers do not perceive the school as an explicit anti-racist place, but rather in an implicit way. The fact that the mission is not explicitly carried out can mean that anti-racism is lacking when knowledge of racism is limited, especially when a structural reflexivity is lacking. Although teachers may neglect different expressions of racism in school, the implementation is still often consistent with the curricula's formulations of the anti-racist mission.
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Booyse, Adonis Carolus. "The relationship between the congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Piketberg, 1903-1972." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This thesis investigated the factors contributing to the tense relationship between the congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Piketberg during 1903-1972. It investigated the reasons why two congregations of colour in a small town as Piketberg were established. The problem that was investigated was a social, historical and religious one of determining which factors contributed to such tension.
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Leondar-Wright, Betsy. "Missing Class: How Understanding Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3697.
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Thesis advisor: Willaim A. GamsonWhat are the class culture differences among US progressive social movement groups? This mixed-methods study finds that activists speak and act differently depending on their class background, current class and upward, downward or steady class trajectory, confirming previous research on cultural capital and conditioned class predispositions. In 2007-8, 34 meetings of 25 groups in four movement traditions were observed in five states; 364 demographic surveys were collected; and 61 interviews were conducted. I compared activists' approaches to six frequently mentioned group problems. * Lifelong-working-class activists, usually drawn in through preexisting affiliations, relied on recruitment incentives such as food and one-on-one relationships. Both disempowered neophytes and experienced powerhouses believed in strength in numbers, had positive attitudes towards trustworthy leaders, and stressed loyalty and unity. * Lifelong-professional-middle-class (PMC) activists, usually individually committed to a cause prior to joining, relied on shared ideas to recruit. They focused more on internal organizational development and had negative attitudes towards leadership. Subsets of PMC activists behaved differently: lower professionals communicated tentatively and avoided conflict, while upper-middle-class people were more assertive and polished. * Upwardly mobile straddlers tended to promote their moral certainties within groups. A subset, uprooted from their working-class backgrounds but not assimilated into professional circles, sometimes pushed self-righteously and brought discord into groups. * Voluntarily downwardly mobile activists, mostly young white anarchists, drew the strongest ideological boundaries and had the most distinct movement culture. Mistrustful of new people and sometimes seeing persuasion as coercive, they had the weakest recruitment and group cohesion methods. Analysis of class speech differences found that working-class activists spoke more often but more briefly in meetings, preferred more concrete speech, and used more teasing and self-deprecating humor. The professional-middle-class (in background and/or current class) spoke longer but less often, preferred more abstract vocabulary, and used less negative humor. Group styles were formed by the interplay of members' predominant class trajectories and groups' movement traditions. Better understanding these class culture differences would enable activists to strengthen cross-class alliances to build more powerful social movements
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
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Brammer, Birgit. "Adele Steinwender : observations of a German woman living on a Berlin mission station as recorded in her diary." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08202008-173954/.
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McEnroe, Sean F. "Oregon soldiers and the Portland press in the Philippine wars of 1898 and 1899 : how Oregonians defined the race of Filipinos and the mission of America." PDXScholar, 2001. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4028.
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Oregon volunteer soldiers fought two wars in the Philippines from 1898 to 1899, one against the Spanish colonial government (from May to August 1898), and one against the Philippine insurgency (beginning in February of 1899). This thesis examines the connections between Oregonians' racial characterization of Filipinos and their beliefs about the wars' purposes and moral characteristics. The source material is drawn from the personal papers of Oregon volunteer soldiers and from the Portland Oregonian.
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Stuart, Doug. "'Of savages and heroes' : discourses of race, nation and gender in the evangelical missions to southern Africa in the early nineteenth century." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8299.
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Montoya, Jared A. "Measuring Prejudiced Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Latter-Day Saint Missionaries During Missionary Service in the American Southwest." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4953.
Анотація:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the foundations of prejudiced attitudes toward Mexicans held by White Americans and to investigate a means of reducing it, paying specific attention to prejudice found within a subpopulation of White Americans. The origins of American prejudice toward Mexicans are outlined using both historical and psychological explanations. An understanding of these origins leads to the notion that increased favorable contact is the best method for reducing prejudice. A field study focusing on prejudice toward Mexicans among ecclesiastical volunteers demonstrated that missionary service can be considered a means of favorable contact. Eighty-one White American Latter-day Saints were measured on their levels of prejudice toward Mexicans and the amount of favorable contact with Mexicans before and during their service assignments in the American Southwest. Results indicated that individuals reported significantly more favorable contact after six months of service and significantly less prejudice. There were no significant differences in the amount of favorable contact or levels of prejudice between individuals who were assigned to Spanish-speaking or English-speaking service assignments.
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Nowak, Steve. "On Historical Missions and Modern Phenomena: A Comparison of Germany and the USA on their Way towards the Second World War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1708.
Анотація:
There are surprisingly detailed similarities between Germany and the USA on their way towards the Second World War. In this paper, I have compared the nations' expansionist philosophies, their encounter with racism, and the internal conflicts between authoritarian leadership and democracy.
I began with an overview of Manifest Destiny and the German myth of the East. Next, I summed up the deep changes that the First World War caused for both societies and how they went into the Great Depression. I examined the rise of scientific racism as part of the international eugenics movement and the emergence of populist leaders during the economic crisis.
It became clear that neither expansionism nor racism were genuine German ideologies. In fact, the American Manifest Destiny served as a role-model for German plans in the East. Even the racist concepts of the Third Reich were strongly influenced by American scientists. The main difference seems to be the experience with the First World War and the diversity of American protest during the crisis.
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Wilson, John. "The religious contribution of C.H. Mason and the Church of God in Christ toward racial unity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Jennings, Joshua Kerby. "On Making a Difference: How Photography and Narrative Produce the Short-Term Missions Experience." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cld_etds/32.
Анотація:
Short-term missions participants encounter difference in purportedly captivating ways. Current research, however, indicates the practice does not lead to long-lasting, positive change. Brian M. Howell (2012) argues the short-term missions experience is confined to the limitations of the short-term missions narrative. People who engage in short-term missions build assumptions, seek experiences, understand difference, and convey meaning, as a result of this narrative. The process of telling and retelling travel stories is integral to the short-term missions experience. Drawing upon literature on tourism, narrative, development, and photography, this study intends to evaluate the inefficacy of short-term missions through the stories which produce and are produced by photography. Through storytelling and photography from 21 short-term missions participants who have served in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, this project deconstructs the short-term missions narrative to understand, what is the relationship between the use of photography and the short-term missions experience? The results indicate a unique relationship between people, photography, and experiences within the framework of short-term missions.
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Chen, Lip-Siong. "A leadership manual for the indigenous Bumiputra church in Sabah." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Hanson, Monahseetah Le. "Violence in the heartland: A Southern California tribe's view of Native American victimization." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1652.
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Dewan, Jay P. "How will the Indian MIlitary's upgrade and modernization of its ISR, precision strike, and missile defense affect the stability in South Asia /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Mar%5FDewan.pdf.
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Hagström, Christoffer. "Anledningar till staters anskaffande och behållande av kärnvapen och faktorer som påverkar staters kärnvapenpolitik." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-4831.
Анотація:
The purpose of this thesis is to explain why states obtain nuclear weapons and the role various
actors and interests play in the making of states´ nuclear policies. The main questions are as
follows: (1) What big theories exist concerning states obtaining nuclear weapon and nuclear
armament in International Relations and what relevance do they have of the post cold-war period?,
(2) What is the meaning of the perspective of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC)?, and (3)Are
there empirical studies which supports the existence of a MIC in the United States?
The focus lies on actors and driving forces that are internal to states and it is also important to
investigate if the theories have relevance for the post 9/11-era. The study uses the method of
qualitative literature-study with some quantitative segments. It is claimed that states might be
interested in justifying their behaviour in a morally appealing way and that real reasons may be
hidden. There are many reasons for states to obtain and keep nuclear weapons and related
technology (which includes many of the most lucrative elements of the arms industry´s sales).
Among this reasons are that arms and related technology may be used to influence other states and
nuclear weapons-construction and modernisation might be used to protect the state from external
threats, stop unwanted interference from other actors, secure job and gain recognition and prestige
in world politics. For security reasons states might hold onto their own nuclear weapons and try to
hinder other actors from getting access to them. The internal actors and driving forces we look at
are bureaucratic, economical and political, and the MIC-perspective. The military can be said to
have interests in as much resources and capabilities as possible, which includes advanced
weaponary such as nuclear weapons and related technologies, at its disposal because of the goal to
defend the state from all possible threats and for officers career reasons. Much of its influence is
said to come from its expert knowledge and position and it is said to be especially influential in
matters of foreign policy, military spending and foreign policy. The major economical actors
mentioned are big corporations involved in military spending and these have interests in
maximizing profits. Nuclear weapons making and maintenance and the related areas of missile
defense and delivering methods for nuclear weapons seem to be areas with high changes of being
profitable for the involved major companies. The actors wield influence for example through
lobbying and campaign contributions. An economic driving force claim is that state spending is
necessary for stimulating the economy and defense spending is easily justified in other ways.
Political actors and driving forces concerns politicians interest in promoting the interests of
supporting groups, there are indications that the weapon industry is such a group. Research have
shown various results about the extent politicians tend to further the interests of supporting groups.
The MIC-perspective talks about groups with interest in high levels of military spending. Most
researchers seem to agree that the complex exists but there are different opinions about what actors
belongs to it and its power on various issues. There is some mention of the core of the complex
consisting of such internal actors as mentioned above. MIC-related empirical research has been
conducted and this author finds that the MIC is a relevant analytical tool for the post cold war – and
9/11 era.
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Brasher, Michael C. "Blessed are the Peacemakers: Transnational Alliance, Protective Accompaniment and the Presbyterian Church of Colombia." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/885.
Анотація:
The purpose of this thesis was to explore how Christian networks enable strategies of transnational alliance, whereby groups in different nations strive to strengthen one another’s leverage and credibility in order to resolve conflicts and elaborate new possibilities. This research does so by analyzing the case of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (IPC). The project examines the historical development of the IPC from the initial missionary period of the 1850s until the present. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to consider how the historical struggle to articulate autonomy and equality vis-à-vis the U.S. Presbyterians (PCUSA) and paternalist models of ecclesial relations has affected recent political strategies pursued by the IPC.
Despite the paternalism of the early missionary model, changing conceptions of social transformation during the 60s contributed to a shift in relations. Over time the IPC and PCUSA negotiated relationships in which groups both acknowledge a problematic history and insist upon an ethnic of partnership and respect. Today, PCUSA groups, in concert with the IPC, collaborate on a range of transnational political strategies aimed at strengthening the IPC’s leverage in local struggles for justice and peace.
A review of this case suggests that long-established Christian networks may have an advantage over other civil society groups such as NGOs in facilitating strategies of transnational alliance. Although civil society organizations often have better access to important resources needed for international advocacy initiatives, Christian networks, such as the one established between the IPC and U.S. Presbyterian communities, rely on a history of negotiating power-disparity in order to elaborate relationships based on listening and partnership. Such findings prove important not only to how we conceptualize transnational alliance but also to the ways that we think about the history and future of Christian networks.
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Collins, Dane Andrew. "The Christian theology of religions reconsidered : Alan Race's theology of religions, Hans Frei's theological typology and 20th century ecumenical movements on Christian engagement with other faiths." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278698.
Анотація:
The contemporary debate concerning the Christian theology of religions has been profoundly shaped by Alan Race’s three-fold typology of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism. Although the insufficiency of this typology’s descriptive and critical capacity has become increasingly acknowledged within the field, widespread agreement about its replacement remains elusive. This thesis argues that a replacement can be found in Hans Frei’s five-fold typology of Christian theology, which differentiates between a range of approaches to theology, from theology as philosophical discourse (Type 1) to theology as quarantined, Christian self-description (Type 5). It is suggested that the more basic question posed by Frei’s typology of how Christian theology is understood in relation to philosophy and other external discourses, provides a better means of accounting for the different positions in the Christian theology of religions within 20th century ecumenical movements. It is shown how Frei’s typology emerges from his emphasis on both the limitations and the significance of external discourses for Christian theology, an emphasis which results from his construal of the mystery of Christ’s universal presence as a function of the particular incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth. Chapter one considers the philosophical foundations upon which Race’s typology is constructed, with particular emphasis on Troeltsch’s historicism, Hick’s epistemology of religious experience and WC Smith’s phenomenological hermeneutic, concluding that they determine the typology’s apologetic approach. It is shown how these commitments lead Race’s typology to differentiate between types of Christian theology primarily in relation to the philosophical viability, as Race understands it, of their Christology. Chapter two focuses first on the theology of Hans Frei and his analysis of the relationship between Christology and historicism, epistemology, and hermeneutics. It is suggested that Frei’s focus on the ordering of the relationship between Christian theology and external discourses, while undermining Race’s approach, affirms the possibility of a theologically valuable relationship between Christian theology and external discourses. Moreover, unlike Race, Frei’s emphasis on the significance of external discourses for Christian theology is derived in light of, and not in spite of, a faith in the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Chapter three looks at Frei’s fivefold typology as a better means of accounting for the differences Race posits between exclusivists, inclusivists and pluralists. It is argued that in following Frei’s typological logic and the historical, epistemological and hermeneutical considerations characteristic of a Christian theology between types three and four, an approach to the theology of religions emerges which addresses the question of the universality of divine revelation – the central concern of Race’s typology – while also showing the inadequacy of Race’s typology and its prioritisation of philosophy. This will be shown by applying Frei’s typology to 20th century ecumenical movements and the positions on the theological significance of non-Christian religions that have emerged therein. Though Frei did not directly take up the issue of the Christian theology of religions, chapter three will demonstrate how his typology of Christian theology is of particular importance for this discussion. For his typology highlights the central question driving the theology of religions – how the ‘internal’ discourse of Christian self-description in reference to the gospels’ history-like witness to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ relates to the historically contingent, public world outside the church. The conclusion will point toward a constructive proposal for a theology of evangelism and interfaith dialogue in pluralist societies of the 21st century, drawing on the ecumenical discussion viewed in relation to the theological and typological insights of Hans Frei.
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"An understanding of classical pentecostal mission: Azusa Street mission as transcendence of race and class, inculturation and detraditionalization." 2001. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890819.
Анотація:
Chan Chiu-yuen Lawrence.Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-65).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Introduction
Chapter Chapter One
Chapter A. --- Root of Pentecostalism: the Black Heritage
Chapter B. --- Transcending Race & Class
Chapter a. --- History of the Marginalized Black Slave in America
Chapter i. --- Social Context in America: Slavery & Racism
Chapter ii. --- Formation of Black church
Chapter b. --- The Outpouring of the Spirit: Transcending Race and Class
Chapter Chapter Two --- Transforming Christianity: Inculturation
Chapter a. --- The Concept of Inculturation
Chapter b. --- Worship in the Azusa Street Revival
Chapter c. --- African Heritage
Chapter d. --- Worship
Chapter e. --- Spirit Possession
Chapter Chapter Three --- Yielding Detraditionalization
Chapter a. --- Marginalization of Women in Mission
Chapter i. --- Masculine Domination of Missionary Societies
Chapter ii. --- Traditional Roles of Women
Chapter iii. --- Opposition of a Single Woman as a Missionary
Chapter iv. --- Resistance of Setting-up of Women's Board
Chapter v. --- Unjust Criticisms from Masculine Organizations
Chapter vii. --- Widow Case
Chapter b. --- Patriarchal Christian Tradition
Chapter c. --- Pentecostal Women in Mission
Chapter d. --- The Power of Holy Spirit: Detraditionalization
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Mapani, Paul Simandala. "Dungeon memories: Black African's experience of racism in Berlin today." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19846.
Анотація:
This study explores black African migrants' experience of racism in Berlin, today. Its vantage point
is that of a missiological discipline. Since racism is a very complex phenomenon, both in the church
and society; the study therefore, adopted a multidisciplinary approach. This helps us to better
understand the different theoretical nuances, which inform racism as an ideology and, as a social
construct. Against this backdrop, the study engaged the “pastoral cycle” (cycle of missionary
praxis) by Holland and Henriot and developed by Cochrane et al as its theological framework.
The research methodology consisted of data collection, interpreting and analyzing (comparing and
contrasting primary sources in light of data collected). Personal narratives of research participants'
experience of racism in a semi-structured format, formed part of the methodology, in establishing
ecclesiastical, political, social and structural climate on how they contribute to the way that black
African migrants experience racism in Berlin, today. Two forms of data collection were employed:
Qualitative interview and observation instruments.Biblical and Ancient Studies
M.A. (Theology)
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Brown, Anne Gilmour. "Marriages, microscopes and missions: three women in postwar Australia." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33033.
Анотація:
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This doctoral thesis is called “Marriages, Microscopes and Missions: Three Women in Postwar Australia.” It takes the form of three stories and a research essay. The stories examine the lives of three Australian women in the decades following the Second World War, while the research essay discusses those lives and the influences that guided and informed the creative writing process. The stories are set in times that encompassed the White Australia Policy, fear of Communism, the Vietnam War, the feminist movement, the sexual revolution and the recent Northern Territory “Intervention.” After the war, women were expected to fit back into the roles prescribed for them before the war. “Populate or Perish” was the catchcry. A single woman was expected, because of her biology, to marry and start a family at a time when marriage often meant losing her job. But the war had changed women. Those who had had wartime jobs or joined the armed forces remembered the freedom, the pay packet and the realisation that they could do the job as well as a man. The old stereotype of women as handmaidens to men seemed out of step with the way women now saw themselves. But with men still in charge there was bound to be conflict ahead. The first story, “The Doctor’s Wife,” looks at a married woman in coastal New South Wales living the prescribed “dream.” The second, “The Drug Analyst,” shows a Sydney-based career woman attempting to live on her own terms. The third, “The Minister’s Maid,” explores the changing role of an Aboriginal woman in a remote semitraditional Northern Territory community. As each story unfolds within its own culture, physical landscape and carrying its history of conflict, the pressures placed on each woman to conform to her society’s expectations, become apparent. In one way or another, the women in these stories are part of my family. While they sometimes find their identities and self esteem under threat, each is sustained by her strong connection to family and community. At this time in our history, finding a sense of belonging is sometimes a difficult task for young people, both white and black Australians. Perhaps that is why family stories are important. They establish our identity and give us a place in history, a sense of belonging to an ongoing, unfolding narrative.
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Brown, Anne Gilmour. "Marriages, microscopes and missions: three women in postwar Australia." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33033.
Анотація:
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This doctoral thesis is called “Marriages, Microscopes and Missions: Three Women in Postwar Australia.” It takes the form of three stories and a research essay. The stories examine the lives of three Australian women in the decades following the Second World War, while the research essay discusses those lives and the influences that guided and informed the creative writing process. The stories are set in times that encompassed the White Australia Policy, fear of Communism, the Vietnam War, the feminist movement, the sexual revolution and the recent Northern Territory “Intervention.” After the war, women were expected to fit back into the roles prescribed for them before the war. “Populate or Perish” was the catchcry. A single woman was expected, because of her biology, to marry and start a family at a time when marriage often meant losing her job. But the war had changed women. Those who had had wartime jobs or joined the armed forces remembered the freedom, the pay packet and the realisation that they could do the job as well as a man. The old stereotype of women as handmaidens to men seemed out of step with the way women now saw themselves. But with men still in charge there was bound to be conflict ahead. The first story, “The Doctor’s Wife,” looks at a married woman in coastal New South Wales living the prescribed “dream.” The second, “The Drug Analyst,” shows a Sydney-based career woman attempting to live on her own terms. The third, “The Minister’s Maid,” explores the changing role of an Aboriginal woman in a remote semitraditional Northern Territory community. As each story unfolds within its own culture, physical landscape and carrying its history of conflict, the pressures placed on each woman to conform to her society’s expectations, become apparent. In one way or another, the women in these stories are part of my family. While they sometimes find their identities and self esteem under threat, each is sustained by her strong connection to family and community. At this time in our history, finding a sense of belonging is sometimes a difficult task for young people, both white and black Australians. Perhaps that is why family stories are important. They establish our identity and give us a place in history, a sense of belonging to an ongoing, unfolding narrative.
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Weir, Christine Helen. "The work of mission : race, labour and Christian humanitarianism in the south-west Pacific, 1870-1930." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9921.
Анотація:
This thesis centres on the varying representations in missionary and other contemporary writings of Pacific Islanders by Anglophone Protestant missionaries, particularly Methodists, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I examine the attitudes of missionaries, focussing on their roles in training, education and employment, and recognising that all such attitudes were vitally influenced by prevalent assumptions and debates about racial hierarchies and differential racial abilities. Alongside racially-based social evolutionism developed by metropolitan anthropologists, often
with the aid of observations from missionary-ethnographers, missionaries also held a profound belief, grounded in Christian theology, in human similitude. Many Protestant writers believed 'their' Islanders to be low on the evolutionary ladder and feared that observed or assumed depopulation was the result of contact with 'more advanced' cultures, but this view was tempered by the assumption that Christianity could reverse the dismal trend through education, both spiritual and practical. The thesis examines missionary attitudes to Islanders through the prism of work: the role of work in creating new Christians and in bring modernity to the islands; its benefits and hazards, especially those of indenture; and Islanders' suitability for particular employment, in particular on the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji. In both cases the prevailing secular attitudes towards 'race' and the demands of a Christian ethic were held in tension. In Queensland, the protective arguments of
Christian humanitarians against Melanesian indenture became entangled with those of union activists for a White Australia policy and controversies over the climatic suitability of tropical Queensland for white labour, debates in which religious figures were involved on both sides. In Fiji, Methodist objections to the importation of Melanesian indentured labour were complicated by varying attitudes towards chiefly labour exactions from commoners. The initial acceptance on legalistic grounds of Indian girmitya labour was superceded in the 1910s when humanitarian objections to indenture were extended to Indians. Many missionaries believed that manual work was instrumental in the formation of a desired Christian 'character'. In this context, I examine two areas of practical concern: the establishment of 'industrial missions' and the employment of Islanders as teachers, catechists and ordained leaders. 'Industrial missions', based on evolutionist assumptions about the virtues of manual training in forming Christian 'character', developed in the Pacific Islands with varying conformity to overseas models and were received unenthusiastically by most Islanders. Islanders favoured academic education thus, ironically, conforming to mission aims to develop an indigenous leadership for the growing Christian communities. Europeans represented the resulting Islander Christian leaders variously as heroic fellow evangelists or less competent junior partners; less flattering representations could lead to conflict with Islander leaders who had internalised a Christian hierarchy at variance with more racially-based ones.
The public debates in the 1920s over Australia's role in New Guinea suggest a degree of resolution to the tensions investigated throughout the thesis, as religious figures rejected racialised claims of difference and countered them by employing the discourse of international relations.
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Weir, Christine Helen. "The work of mission race, labour and Christian humanitarianism in the south-west Pacific, 1870-1930 /." 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/228504594.html.
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Lloyd, Stephen James. "Justifying and unraveling apartheid: mission thought and the public theologies of David Bosch, Nico Smith, and Carel Boshoff, 1948-1994." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38996.
Анотація:
This dissertation analyzes the careers of three Afrikaner missionaries, David Bosch, Carel Boshoff, and Nico Smith, who gained international reputations for pioneering alternatives to the South African Nation Party’s (NP) policy of apartheid over the second half of the 20th century. Afrikaners looked to missionaries to be moral leaders on questions of race relations, and missionaries’ public theologies carried significant moral weight. While numerous historians have argued that from the 1930s through the 1950s Afrikaner missionaries played a key role in developing and promoting the moral basis of apartheid in South Africa, they have not, however, addressed how Afrikaner missionaries responded to the political, social, and moral failure of apartheid.
By the 1970s, the dissonance between the ideal and the actual implementation of apartheid led Bosch, Smith, and Boshoff—by that time leading public theologians—to a crisis of confidence in the NP, and they began to endorse divergent moral visions for the country’s future. David Bosch and Nico Smith embraced racial unity while Carel Boshoff pursued ethnic separatism. By the mid-1970s, Bosch became a leading proponent of “reconciliation,” which gave Afrikaners new moral language for thinking about themselves as part of a non-racial society. By the mid-1980s, both Bosch and Smith were key leaders in ecumenical and interracial organizations that endorsed a negotiated end to apartheid. They helped to form a growing interracial solidarity of Christians that encouraged and facilitated the democratic transition of 1990/1994. Conservative theologians, like Boshoff, attempted to stem the popularity of reconciliation in Afrikaner political and civil organizations. He was unable to successfully coordinate efforts with other conservatives, and he was increasingly marginalized. Ultimately, Boshoff opted for negotiated ethnic separatism with the African National Congress.
This study demonstrates that far from being monolithic, Afrikaner religiosity and racial morality were dynamic and contested. Secondly, it shows that a number of Afrikaner public theologians and moral leaders were actively involved in ending white minority rule in South Africa. Conversely, it also shows that conservative religious leaders were able to transform Afrikaner nationalism, thereby prolonging its influence into the 21st century.
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Sullivan, Martha Nell. "Missing persons: Race and aphanisis in the twentieth-century American novel." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16888.
Анотація:
Through images of disintegration and disappearance, American narratives reveal the black subject's problematic relationship to the (white) Other's desire and the language of that desire. Jacques Lacan's theories of subjectivity--especially the mirror stage and aphanisis, the subject's disappearance behind the signifier--illuminate the impact of racist signification on black bodies in twentieth-century American novels, where epithets like "nigger" invoke the mutilation and disappearance of African American subjects.
Images of corporal disintegration reveal the reversal of the mirror-stage identification inaugurated by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, lynching, and scientific and literary manifestations of Negrophobia. Post-Plessy novels often feature Jim Crow segregation and the "black" body's destruction by the "white" voice. The Negrophobe rape plot infects James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) after the anonymous narrator is called "nigger." He chooses to "pass" for white after failing to project his disintegration onto his uncanny doubles. In Nella Larsen's Passing (1929), Irene reenacts Lacan's mirror stage by assuming Clare as her idealized image. But "Nig"--the signifier Clare's white husband supplies--invokes Clare's death and undoes Irene, whose final fainting is aphanisis. In William Faulkner's Light in August (1932), Joe Christmas' homicidal violence and suicidal "shattering" represent capitulations to Yoknapatawpha's insistence that he is a "nigger."
Exemplary of the literary responses to racist signification since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Toni Morrison's progression from The Bluest Eye (1970) to Beloved (1987) charts the restoration of voice and body to historically "missing persons" effaced by cultural institutions designed to "teach" them their place. Schooled in the white standards of worth symbolized by the primer motif, characters in The Bluest Eye cannot resist aphanisis; in Beloved, however, characters combat aphanisis by refusing the masters' prerogative to define them. This triumph over aphanisis also emerges in the reappropriation of the black body-in-pieces inspired by Jet magazine's 1955 photographs of Emmett Till's mutilated corpse. Till symbolizes African American integrity in works by Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Madison Jones and others.
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Greenwell, Kim. "Teaching civilization : gender, sexuality, race and class in two late nineteenth-century British Columbia missions." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11294.
Анотація:
Despite the recent proliferation of work around the subject of residential schools, few
analyses have deconstructed the concept of "civilizing the Indian" which animated the
schools' agendas. This thesis examines the discourse of "civilization" as it was expressed
and enacted in two missions in late nineteenth-century British Columbia. Archival primary
sources and published secondary sources are drawn on to provide an understanding of what
"civilization" meant to Euro-Canadians, specifically missionaries, and how it was to be
"taught" to the indigenous peoples they encountered. Colonial images and photographs, in
particular, reveal how missionaries constructed a vivid and compelling contrast between
"civilization" and "savagery." An intersectional framework is employed to highlight the
ways in which ideas about "race," class, gender and sexuality were essential elements of the
"civilizing" project. The goal of the thesis is to show how "civilizing the Indian" was
premised not only on a specifically hierarchical construction of Whites versus Natives, but
also intersecting binaries of men versus women, normal productive heterosexuality versus
deviant degenerate sexuality, bourgeois domesticity versus lower class depravity, and others.
Ultimately, it is argued, the discourse of "civilization" regulated both the "colonized" and the
"colonizers" as it secured the hierarchical foundations of empire and nation.
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Denyer, Taylor W. "Decolonizing mission partnerships: evolving collaboration between United Merthodists in North Katanga and the United States of America." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25996.
Анотація:
This thesis asks “What would a decolonized partnership look like between North Katangan and American United Methodists?” Guided by the 7-point mission praxis matrix developed in the missiology department at the University of South Africa, it explores a series of subquestions. First, the terms “mission,” “partnership,” and “decolonize” are defined, and literature applicable to these concepts is discussed. In Chapter 3, the historical relational power structures and culture of the Luba and Lunda Kingdoms are summarized. Chapter 4 provides a historical overview of American and North Katangan United Methodist (UM) collaborations and describes the dominant relational dynamics and mission models of each time period. This chapter draws heavily from memoirs, reports, and articles published by United Methodist agencies. Chapter 5 explores the psycho-affective dimension of these interactions, focusing on identifying issues of guilt, shame, grief, trauma, and racial biases at play. Chapter 6 documents the responses to in-depth interviews with North Katangan UMs and American collaborators about their memories and beliefs about a twenty-year period (approx. 1994-2014), during which a shift took place in the how North Katangan (DR Congo) church leaders viewed their own capacities relative to those of the American United Methodists they encountered. The final section compares the theological reflections of interview participants, explores the ways in which Methodist doctrine and praxis can be used in furthering the decolonization and healing process through the partnerships, and explores pathways forward. The interviews conducted reveal areas of tension in the partnership, differing missiologies (e.g. mission as outreach vs. mission as relationship), and visions of the future of the partnership. The responses show that the partnership is currently on a trajectory towards decolonization, but that more needs to be done in the areas of healing and self-awareness--both on the individual and collective level.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)
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"Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cognitive Trajectories among the Oldest Old: The Role of Vascular and Functional Health." Doctoral diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9295.
Анотація:
abstract: Identifying modifiable causes of chronic disease is essential to prepare for the needs of an aging population. Cognitive decline is a precursor to the development of Alzheimer's and other dementing diseases, representing some of the most prevalent and least understood sources of morbidity and mortality associated with aging. To contribute to the literature on cognitive aging, this work focuses on the role of vascular and physical health in the development of cognitive trajectories while accounting for the socioeconomic context where health disparities are developed. The Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest-Old study provided a nationally-representative sample of non-institutionalized adults age 65 and over in 1998, with biennial follow-up continuing until 2008. Latent growth models with adjustment for non-random missing data were used to assess vascular, physical, and social predictors of cognitive change. A core aim of this project was examining socioeconomic and racial/ethnic variation in vascular predictors of cognitive trajectories. Results indicated that diabetes and heart problems were directly related to an increased rate of memory decline in whites, where these risk factors were only associated with baseline word-recall for blacks when conditioned on gender and household assets. These results support the vascular hypotheses of cognitive aging and attest to the significance of socioeconomic and racial/ethnic variation in vascular influences on cognitive health. The second substantive portion of this dissertation used parallel process latent growth models to examine the co-development of cognitive and functional health. Initial word-recall scores were consistently associated with later functional limitations, but baseline functional limitations were not consistently associated with later word-recall scores. Gender and household income moderated this relationship, and indicators of lifecourse SES were better equipped to explain variation in initial cognitive and functional status than change in these measures over time. Overall, this work suggests that research examining associations between cognitive decline, chronic disease, and disability must account for the social context where individuals and their health develop. Also, these findings advocate that reducing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in cognitive health among the aging requires interventions early in the lifecourse, as disparities in cognitive trajectories were solidified prior to late old age.Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Sociology 2011
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Vossen, Terrence John. "The proliferation of aerospace weapons technology ballistic missiles and the case of Brazil /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33088689.html.
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Deschênes-Boutin, Jérémie. "Entre genre, race et nation : vers une nationalité hybridée : le cas des métis franco-vietnamiens «abandonnés» en Indochine française lors de l’entre-deux-guerres." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20146.
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Prill, Thorsten. "Mission at the exit ramps of the refugee highway in an age of globalisation: integrating refugees and asylum seekers into the Christian community in the United Kingdom." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2031.
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In the face of globalisation, one of the challenges for Christians ministering to asylum seekers
and refugees in the United Kingdom is the question of integrating Christian asylum seekers
and refugees into the Christian community. British churches and para-church organisations
that are involved in refugee ministry have to decide whether they want to support the
formation of independent refugee churches or the integration of refugees and asylum seekers
into local indigenous churches. This thesis examines these options from a missiological
perspective. Two social research projects form the heart of this study. One compares the life
and ministry of two mature minority ethnic churches, the other investigates the integration
process at a British church that has been involved in refugee ministry for almost a decade.
Contrary to the widespread view that the establishment of homogeneous churches is
crucial for the mission of the church in postmodern British society, the findings of this
research suggest that the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into indigenous British
churches is the better option. They further demonstrate that it is not the mono-ethnic refugee
church but the multi-ethnic church which makes the greater contribution to the integration of
Christian asylum seekers and refugees and to the missio Dei in Britain. In a multi-ethnic
church, asylum seekers and refugees serve as role models to British Christians and especially
as effective agents of mission. These research findings also show that the integration of asylum
seekers and refugees is promoted through the congregation within the congregation model and
an incarnational approach to mission. However, they equally indicate that various stumbling
blocks can hinder the integration process. These include a low ecclesiology, a conversionist
approach to mission, a lack of awareness of globalisation, and a reactive leadership style and
church culture.Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th ((Missiology)Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology)
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Kelly, Raymond. "Dreaming the Keepara: New South Wales indigenous cultural perspectives, 1808-2007." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309534.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This interdisciplinary study investigates the Aboriginal intellectual heritage of the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, through a combination of family history, oral tradition, and audio-recorded songs, stories, interviews, discussions, and linguistic material. This research has uncovered an unsuspected wealth of cultural knowledge, cultural memory, and language heritage that has been kept alive and passed down within Aboriginal families and communities, despite the disruptions and dislocations endured over the past seven generations. This study's findings are presented in three interrelated forms: a dance performance that incorporates traditional and contemporary songs, stories, and lived experiences of an Aboriginal extended family; an oral presentation within the framework of Aboriginal oral transmission of knowledge and this written exegesis, which is itself an experiment in finding pathways for the expression and progression of Aboriginal knowledge within the context of academic discourse. The theoretical framework of this work is grounded in my personal experience of Aboriginal traditions of knowledge production and transmission, maintained through everyday cultural activities, family memories of traditional education, and our traditional and present-day language forms and communicative practices. The performance, oral and written components connect this intellectual and cultural heritage with historical and photographic documentation, linguistic analyses, and audio recordings from my grandfathers' and great-grandfathers' generations. The written component establishes the background to the study, and reviews relevant literature with a prioritisation of Aboriginal voices and sources of knowledge, both oral and written. It explores aspects of my family history from the early 1800s to the present, including my childhood and early educational experiences and leads on to a detailed look at the work of my late father, Raymond Shoonkley Kelly in documenting and maintaining out intellectual and cultural heritage through the NSW Survey of Aboriginal Sites. The final part of this study focuses on language, which is central to all of the preceding investigation. This work demonstrates how operating from an Aboriginal knowledge base allows us to see beyond surface differences in spelling and pronunciation, to reach a deeper understanding of the cultural meanings and ways of speaking that have allowed us to preserve and maintain out cultural integrity. This knowledge base also enables the linguistic unpacking of previously unanalysable song material from the audio recordings. Indigenous people in New South Wales are continuing to engage in a cultural and political struggle to maintain and protect our identity in the face of an ever-present threat of assimilation by the mainstream Australian society. The success of our struggle will depend significantly on our ability to keep our language and our intellectual heritage alive.
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Madhiba, Simon. "Methodism and public life in Zimbabwe : an analysis of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe's impact on politics from 1891-1980." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30207.
Анотація:
This study is a historical analytical investigation and theological interpretation of Wesleyan Methodists' political teaching and practice in Zimbabwe from 1891 to 1980. In an attempt to come up with an informed interpretation of the political teaching and activities, the study traced Wesleyan Methodist political praxis John Wesley, the founder of Methodism and interpreted his teaching and practice from a third world perspective. That perspective was used as a basis for evaluating the contextualisation of his teaching by Wesleyan Methodists in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean Wesleyan Methodists' political teaching and practice during the colonial era were explored using four themes: politics of land, race relationships, Federation and war. Two hypothetical statements were tested in this study: Wesleyan Methodism outlines a framework for constructive participation in politics, and the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe provided and supported positions of political leadership in Zimbabwe. The objectives of this study are to: unveil successes and failures of Wesleyan Methodists in Zimbabwean political arena, expose the historical significance of Wesleyan Methodist influence in politics for Zimbabwean history and present a historical account of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe. The methodology preferred in this study included oral history and a combination of the ecumenical and southern approaches to Church history. The study utilised archival and oral data as primary sources, the translation model of contextual theology, holistic framework for analysing history, the principle of the overriding right and the conflict transformation model as part of the methodology. Through the use of the translation model of contextual theology, the study revealed how John Wesley used principles from the Christian message and Church tradition in addressing his political context. The study exposed that John Wesley was obsessed with accountability to God and constituency, respect for every person, respect for political structures as well as authorities and relationships among people as fundamental pillars in political activities. He based these on his understanding of God's free grace, people's liberty to accept or reject that grace and the validity of popular religious expression. The study revealed that Wesleyan Methodists in Zimbabwe had a special relationship with the colonial government due to an invitation by Cecil John Rhodes for the church to participate in the Pioneer Column. The relationship determined how retrogressive or progressive ministers responded to government requirements and made demands on government until the country's independence in 1980. The study also exposed how retrogressive Wesleyan Methodists moved from acceptance and collaboration to acceptance and selective rejection of colonial policies and how both retrogressive and progressive ministers employed the concept of non-contestation of participation in armed conflict and throwing one’s lot on the expected side. It also showed how progressive ministers contributed to the political emancipation of Africans and the role played by the mission-educated elite in Zimbabwe. The study ended with pointing out that Zimbabwean Wesleyan Methodist political teaching and practice had very bright future prospects at the independence of the country in 1980.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Church History and Church Policy
Unrestricted
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Larochelle, Catherine. "L'apprentissage des Autres : la construction rhétorique et les usages pédagogiques de l'altérité à l'école québécoise (1830-1915)." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20762.
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Chetty, Dilipraj. "From reductionism to contextualization : towards a relevant Pentecostal missiology in South Africa." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/597.
Анотація:
In the first part of this dissertation I investigate whether the Pentecostal Churches in
South Africa has a reductionist understanding of crucial missiological issues. Issues such
as the definition of mission, motivation for missions, the role of the Holy Spirit in
mission, mission as a quest for social justice, mission as anti-racism, mission as a quest
for gender equality and mission as inter-religious encounter. In the second part of the
dissertation I present a more contextual approach to these missiological issues,
challenging the Pentecostal churches to move: towards the formation of a more relevant
missiology. l finally present the 'cycle of missionary praxis' or 'the Pastoral cycle' as a
tool that can be used to formulate a contextual missiologyChristian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
M.Th.
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(12607034), Jeremy Hodes. "Darkness and light: Yarrabah and Cairns, 1891-1910." Thesis, 1997. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Darkness_and_light_Yarrabah_and_Cairns_1891-1910/19835557.
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This dissertation explores race relations between Cairns and the Yarrabah Anglican Mission between 1891 and 1910. Yarrabah is situated south of Cairns and is about 40 kilometres distant by road. Before the road was built in the 1930s the only access was by boat; which took about two hours from Cairns. It was founded in 1892 by the Anglican Church in spite of trenchant opposition by the citizens of Cairns. As it struggled through its formative years, this criticism became increasingly muted. By 1910 there was a general acceptance by Cairns residents of the mission and its role in looking after Aborigines.
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Spohn, Elmar 1967. "Zwischen Anpassung, Affinität und Resistenz : eine historische Studie zu evangelischen Glaubens- und Gemeinschaftsmissionen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18533.
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German textGegenstand dieser Studie ist die historische Erforschung der deutschen Glaubens- und Gemeinschaftsmissionen, modern ausgedrückt der evangelikalen Missionen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Die bisherige Forschung hatte diesen Themenkomplex vernachlässigt. Diese Studie beschreibt, wie sich diese Missionsgesellschaften im Umfeld des nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsregimes verhielten. Da die Quellenlage problematisch ist, wird anhand der Missionsblätter aufgezeigt, wie die Glaubens- und Gemeinschaftsmissionen zur Machtergreifung Hitlers standen. Dabei kristallisierte sich heraus, dass man sich überwiegend abseits von Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus positionierte. Allerdings blieb man in den Missionsblättern zur Bekennenden Kirche distanziert. Im Hauptteil dieser Studie kommt ein aus dem Quellenmaterial eruiertes Positionenspektrum zum Vorschein, welches von NS-Affinität bis Verfolgung reicht. Dieses ist an acht biographischen Einzelstudien nachgezeichnet. Schließlich hat sich gezeigt, dass die Schuldfrage in der Nachkriegzeit kaum eine Rolle spielte. Als Ergebnis kann konstatiert werden, dass die politische Ethik der Glaubens- und Gemeinschaftsmissionen nur rudimentär vorhanden war und sich lediglich in Obrigkeitsgehorsam und apolitischer Grundhaltung zeigt.
The subject of this study is a historical examination of the German faith-missions (in contemporary terms: evangelical missions) during the period of National Socialism. This topic has been neglected in scholarly research to date. This study describes how these mission agencies acted in the context of the unlawful regime of National Socialism. Due to a problematic source basis, the attitude the faith missions took towards the ursupation of power by Hitler is demonstrated based on their own periodical publications. It emerges that they largely positioned themselves at a distance to National Socialism, racism and anti-semitism. However these publications also demonstrate a distance to the “Confessing Church”. In the main body the examination of eight exemplary biographies based on detailed sources portrays an array of different positions which range from affinity to the NS-system to persecution. Furthermore the study shows that the issue of failure or guilt hardly played any role in the postwar period. This study leads to the conclusion the political ethics of the German faith missions were only rudimentarily developed, and only evinced themselves in an obedience to the powers that be and in a basically apolitical attitude.
Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)
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Bruiners, Henrico Ferdinand Oswald. "Missiologiese evaluering van die ontstaan van die Pinkster Protestante Kerk." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16091.
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Summaries in Afrikaans and EnglishDie Pinkster Protestante Kerk (PPK) is deel van die wereldwye Pinksterbeweging en het op I 0 Oktober 1958 ontstaan uit die Apostoliese Geloofsending (AGS), die grootste Pinksterkerk in Suid-Afrika. Verskeie redes kan toegedig word vir die ontstaan. Eerstens was daar die doelbewuste poging van die AGS om die struikelblokke uit die weg te ruim ten einde as kerk deur die Nederduitse Gereformeerde kerk erken te word. 'n Tweede hoofrede was die party-politieke bedrywighede van pastoor Gerrie Wessels, 'n lid van die Uitvoerende Raad van die AGS. Die skrywer toon aan hoedat rassisme en Apartheid beslag gekry het in die ekklesiologie en missiologie van die PPK. Daar is tans vier aparte outonome rassekerke. Rassisme is die hoof oorsaak vir 'n onverenigde kerk. Deur die loop van die kerk se geskiedenis was daar vyf konstitusionele opsette ten einde eenheid te laat realiseer, maar sender veel sukses. 'n Sesde konstitusionele opset, een PPK, word tans beding.
The Pentecostal Protestant Church (PPC) is part of the worldwide Pentecostal Movement and originated from the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM), the largest Pentecostal Church in South Afiica, on October 10, 1958. There are various reasons that contributed to the birth of the church. Firstly, the AFM removed on purpose the obstacles that stood in the way in order to be acknowledge as a church by the Dutch Reformed Church. The party-political involvement of pastor Gerrie Wessels, an Executive Council member of the AFM, was the second main reason. The writer indicates how racism and Apartheid took root in the ecclesiology and missiology of the PPC. At the moment there are four separate outonomous race churches. The main reason for a not united church is racism. The church had five different constitutions in the course of her history in an attempt to bring forth unity, but without success. A six constitutional design for one PPC is currently being negotiated.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
M. Th. (Sendingwetenskap)
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Kwok, Natalie. "'Owning' a marginal identity : shame and resistance in an Aboriginal community." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147079.
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Van, der Merwe Anna Susanna Petronella. "Die perspektief van die vroulike outeur op die Vlaamse koloniale era." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16262.
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Text in AfrikaansIn hierdie verhandeling word die tekste van onderskeidelik Mireille Cottenje (Dagboek van Carla - 1968), Daisy Ver Boven (Mayana - I974 ), Henriette Claessens (Afscheid van Rumangabo - 1983) en Lieve Joris (Terug naar Kongo - 1987) bespreek as verteenwoordigend van die koloniale literatuur deur die vroulike outeur. Die doel is om vas te stel hoe daar deur die vroue outeur in die Vlaamse letterkunde aan die Afrika-ervaring gestalte gegee is. Eerstens word 'n oorsig van die begrip koloniale literatuur gegee en daama word literer-histories op die Vlaamse Afrika-literatuur vanaf die prekoloniale- tot die postkoloniale era gefokus. Nadat 'n analise van die tekste gedoen is om die individuele perspektiewe te evalueer, blyk dit dat die vroue outeurs in 'n groot mate gemeenskaplike visies in hul siening van die koloniale era openbaar. 'n Beeld van die koloniale Kongo soos dit in die ervaringswereld van die vroue outeurs bly voortleefhet, kan so verkry word
In this thesis, the texts of Mireille Cottenje (Dagboek van Carla - 1968), Daisy Ver Boven (Mayana - 1974), Henriette Claessens (Afscheid van Rumangabo - 1983) and Lieve Joris (Terug naar Kongo - 1987) were respectively studied as representative of the colonial literature written by female authors. The aim is to establish how stature is given in the literature to the Africa experience by the female author. In the first instance the concept colonial literature is discussed followed by a historical review of the Flemish African literature from the pre-colonial to the postcolonial era. After an analysis has been completed to evaluate the individual perspectives of the different authors, it appears that the female authors reveal shared perspectives in their views on the colonial era. Through knowledge of the work of these authors, an image of the colonial Congo can be found, as it lives on in the world of the female literator
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)