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Hayat, Cyrus. "Billy Sunday and the masculinization of American Protestantism : 1896-1935 /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1860.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Kevin C. Robbins. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).
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Ginn, Craig Warryn Clifford. "Theological authority in the hymns and spirituals of American Protestantism, 1830-1930." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12735/.
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This dissertation examines theological authority in the hymns and spirituals of American Protestantism within the period 1830-1930. It investigates the deuterocanonical status of hymns in hymnic-theological commentary, and demonstrates the functional canonicity of hymns in three case studies (children's hymnody, African American spirituals, and hymns of marginalized groups), and two representative areas of praxis (conversion and missions). This dissertation consults a variety of primary source materials, both elite and popular, including journals, biographies, conference minutes, academic addresses, theological works, hymn prefaces, domestic novels, newspapers, and poetry. These sources are used to situate the hymnal in the cultural context of American Protestantism and determine the status and role of hymnody. As the Bible is acclaimed the exclusive canonical text of Protestantism, consideration of the hymnal's theological authority in canonical terms is at odds with Protestant biblicism. As such, this dissertation's claim that the hymnal shared, to a significant degree, the Bible's place as a textual source of theological authority, is intellectually innovative. In identifying didactic and doctrinal themes in hymnals, primarily through systematic theology, this dissertation shows the role of hymns and spirituals in regulative theology and audible faith. Thus defended in this dissertation, is the hymnal's capacity to adjudicate on matters of faith and praxis. Of additional importance to this dissertation is its contribution toward hymnic theology, as well as demonstrating the hymnal's influence upon historical theology, liturgical theology, cultural theology, and evangelistic theology. This dissertation yields various insights for theology, especially the soteriological efficacy· of hymnody, the role of hymns in regulative theology, and the discussion of antiSemitism and black-liberation theology in African American spirituals. In applied theology and congregational studies the ramifications are critical, with the analysis of hymnic authority, the intersection of singing and doctrine (lex cantandi lex credendi), and the Bible and hymnal as mutually constitutive, all of paramount importance.
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Piedra, Solano Arturo. "Latin American Protestantism from the neglected continent to the continent of opportunity : an assessment of the justification for Protestant expansion in Latin America, 1894-1960." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30649.
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In this thesis, we explore the reasons that led North American Protestant missionary societies to consider Latin America as a mission field. During the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century the Protestant mission among the Spanish-speaking poplation in Latin America was largely conducted by individual Europeans and Latin Americans. The zeal of these individuals, however, was not sufficient to inspire the main demoninations to invest significant human and financial resources there. Realising that Protestant missionary societies were not prepared to place Latin America on the same footing as Asia and Africa, these individuals became discouraged and began to refer to Latin America as 'the neglected continent'. Interest in the expansion of Protestantism in Latin America was intrinsically linked with the consolidation of the political and military interests of the United States in the region. The Spanish-American War (1988) was one of the major events that brought about the conditions for Protestant expansion on a larger scale. However, it was not until the creation of the Committee of Cooperation in Latin America (CCLA) in 1914 that Latin America began to be advocated as a major field for Protestant work. The Panama Congress, called and organised by the CCLA in 1916, was the symbol of the transition from the 'neglected continent' to the 'continent of opportunity'. If the expression 'the neglected continent' became a symbol of the frustration of nineteenth-century Protestants interested in Latin America, the expression the 'continent of opportunity' became the signal for a new North American outlook on Latin America. In the twentieth century Latin America offered an opportunity not only for business or political interests but for religious interests as well.
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Chad, Bretton. "Compounding the Sacred and the Profane: How Economic Theory Brings New Insight to the Growth and Decline of American Protestantism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1263.
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In this thesis, economic theory and models will be used to analyze trends of religious growth and decline within the United States. These theories and models, such as Rational Choice Theory, will be applied in order to better understand and gain new insight into shifts and changes within the religious landscape of the United States. Recent trends of growth and decline within Protestantism, the most prominent Christian tradition in America, will be the focus of the investigation. As its main focus, this thesis will ultimately demonstrate that the trends of decline in the mainline Protestant tradition opposed to the trends of growth in the evangelical Protestant tradition can be best understood by focusing on the unique relationship between a religious organization’s degree of tension with society and that organization’s congregational attendance.
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Biggs, Austin R. "The Southern Baptist Convention “Crisis” in Context: Southern Baptist Conservatism and the Rise of the Religious Right." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1967.
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From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a minority conservative faction took over the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This project seeks to answer the questions of how a fringe minority within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination could undertake such a feat and why they chose to do so. The framework through which this work analyzes these questions is one of competing worldviews that emerged within the SBC in response to decades of societal shifts and denominational transformations in the post-World War II era. To place the events of the Southern Baptist “crisis” within this framework, this study seeks to refute the prevailing notion put forth in earlier works that the takeover was an in-house event, driven purely by doctrinal disputes between conservative Southern Baptists and SBC leadership. Illustrating the differences between rhetoric and action on both sides of this intra-denominational conflict, this work seeks to provide perspective to the narrative of the Southern Baptist “crisis” by asserting that the worldviews guiding the opposing factions diverged not only on doctrine, but culture and politics as well. Placing the events of the “crisis” within the context of broader worldviews, this project highlights and examines the intertwined nature of religion, culture, and politics in modern American society.
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Dias, Filho Ailton Gonçalves. "A imigração norte-americana e a implantação do protestantismo em Americana e Santa Bárbara d Oeste, SP." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2659.
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The only moviment of North-American immigration happened between the years 1866 and 1890 to Brazil. After the civil war, a great number of families from the north of the US headed to Brazil looking for a new home. Some regions took those immigrants, creating the immigrant colonies. The colony that has succeeded and has developed the most was the once which has established itself in the region of Campinas, in the cities of Americana and Santa Bárbara d‟Oeste in the state of São Paulo. Those immigrants were mostly protestants. Their arrival has contributed to the development of the region in several aspects. Nobody can deny the fact that the presence of the American colony in the region has contributed abundantly with the introduction of machines and agricultural equipments to the racional and productive development of the existent crops. This presence has also contributed to the implantation and expansion of the Protestantism in the region.
O único movimento de imigração de norte-americanos aconteceu entre os anos de 1866 a 1890 para o Brasil. Após o fim da guerra da secessão, inúmeras famílias do sul dos Estados Unidos rumaram para o Brasil procurando um novo lar. Algumas regiões acolheram esses imigrantes, formando colônias de imigrantes. Contudo, a que logrou êxito e se desenvolveu foi a que se estabeleceu na região de Campinas, mas precisamente nas cidades de Americana e Santa Bárbara d‟Oeste, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. Estes imigrantes eram quase todos de origem protestante. Sua chegada na região contribuiu para o desenvolvimento da região em vários aspectos. É fato incontestável que a presença da colônia americana na região contribuiu em muito com a introdução de máquinas e equipamentos agrícolas no desenvolvimento racional e produtivo das lavouras existentes. Esta presença contribuiu também com a implantação e expansão do protestantismo na região. Assim, a educação, a agricultura, o comércio, a indústria e a religião, vão receber a influência desta presença norte-americana.
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Silva, Ivan Dias da. "Opção fundamentalista ou opção liberal? controvérsias teológico-políticas e cisão na Convenção Batista do Sul dos EUA." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1899.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo geral apresentar as controvérsias entre as perspectivas teológicas liberal e fundamentalista ocorridas no âmbito da Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), nos EUA, iniciadas na década de 60, com seu ápice na década de 80 e desdobramentos que resultaram na cisão da referida Convenção no final do século XX. A SBC é a maior denominação do cristianismo protestante do mundo, com cerca de 16 milhões de membros e poderosa influência nos ambientes religioso e político norte-americano. Os conflitos intra-denominacionais tiveram como alvo o controle dos recursos e direção ideológica da SBC. De um lado estavam os fundamentalistas, que defendiam a Bíblia como inerrante e entendiam que a tendência modernista presente na denominação era um grande mal a ser extirpado. Do outro se encontravam os liberais, que valorizavam a abordagem histórico-crítica às Escrituras, a teoria da evolução, a filosofia existencialista e o estudo das religiões comparadas. A diferença entre estas perspectivas teológicas tornou a convivência no mesmo ambiente denominacional inviável, gerando um conflito que veio a culminar com a emergência fundamentalista ao poder na SBC, destituindo os outrora solidamente estabelecidos liberais de suas funções de comando na Convenção.
This Master’s thesis’ general goal is to present the controversies between the liberal and fundamentalist theological perspectives which have occurred within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), that have been initiated in the beginning of the 1960’s, with its apex in the 1980’s and developments that led to a split in the Convention at the end of the 20th century. The SBC is the largest world’s Christian protestant denomination, whith approximately 16 million members and powerful religious and politics influence in the USA. These denominational conflicts targeted to control the resources and the ideological direction of the Southern Baptist Convention. On the one hand were the fundamentalists, upholding the Bible as an inerrant book and believing that the modernist tendency was the great evil to be purged from the denomination. On the other were the liberals that appreciated the historical-critical approach to the Bible, the theory of evolution, the existentialist philosophy, and the study of comparative religions. For these different theological perspectives their coexistence at the same denominational scope became unfeasible, giving rise to a conflict that resulted in the fundamentalist’s emergence to the Conventions’ leadership, removing the liberals that once was well-established in charge in the SBC.
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Schlaupitz, Sheila M. "Race, Religion, And Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment: A Test Of Attribution Theory." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000228.
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Gilmore-Clough, Gregory Kipp. "The Social is Personal: Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Riverside Church, and the Social Gospel in the Great Depression." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/243237.
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This project follows recent scholarship that challenges an older paradigm of the social gospel tradition's demise after World War I. It undertakes a multifaceted analysis of Harry Emerson Fosdick, his local and national audiences, and his context of The Riverside Church--as building and as congregation--as a means of tracing the contours of the social gospel through the Great Depression. Fosdick was an internationally known liberal Protestant minister who was prominent in efforts to rearticulate the social gospel and maintain its relevance in the postwar period. He grounded his interpretation of the social gospel in personalist philosophy, which asserted individual personality as irreducible, yet also shaped within social networks. Personalism manifested liberal Protestantism's emphasis on experience, pairing well with the interest in psychology that burgeoned in the early twentieth century, and which was prominent in Fosdick's preaching and writing. I refer to this threefold convergence of liberal theology, social gospel critique and activism, and personalist philosophy as social gospel personalism. While social gospel personalism promoted activity to bring about social change, I find within it a rhetorical tendency to prioritize attention to the psychological development of personality as the primary means through which the aim of transforming society would be met. In this dissertation, I attend to the ways in which social gospel personalism as articulated by Fosdick and embodied in The Riverside Church was particularly classed, with attendant blind spots and limitations, while simultaneously serving to provide its white, middle class adherents with a religious grounding that helped them weather a period of acute social and economic upheaval. Recent scholarship on American religious liberalism seeks to move beyond the narratives of Protestantism, but I argue that Fosdick and Riverside, by virtue of their cultural prominence, represent an important attempt to find personal grounding amidst depersonalizing social currents, and a religious vocabulary for critiquing those social forces that diminished the person. To make this argument, I engage social gospel personalism from multiple angles. I begin with an analysis of Fosdick's preaching and writing, situating him within the social gospel tradition and tracing the presence of personalist thought throughout his message. I then consider Fosdick as a mediated phenomenon, allowing an examination of the ways in which his message was received and utilized by his multiple audiences, suggesting that the dynamics of mediation tended to heighten the individual, existential elements of Fosdick's message. In turning to the Riverside Church itself, I interpret the building as a site within which social gospel personalism was embodied and enabled, attending to the utilization of space as both reflective of and formative of religious practice. Finally, I analyze two of Riverside's programmatic responses to the vast unemployment engendered by the Great Depression as a means of illuminating the ways in which social gospel personalism was and was not prepared to meet the crisis.
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Scott-Coe, Justin M. "Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/45.
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The argument of this dissertation is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, showing how the covenant theology of colonial New England dispersed into more "secular" forms of what may be called an American political theology. The first chapter provides an overview of recent attempts to integrate theology and theory, specifically comparing Jacques Derrida and Zizek to better understand the latter's theology of materialism which relies on as well as informs the Reformed Protestant covenantal dichotomy of grace and works. The second chapter establishes the complicated architecture of the covenant concept within seventeenth-century New England Reformed Protestantism, and uses church membership transcripts along with Ann Hutchinson court trial documents to demonstrate how this inherently unstable theology created unintended slippage between God's grace and mankind's works, resulting in a theological formulation remarkably open to Zizek's analysis of political ideology. The third chapter demonstrates how Jonathan Edwards, through his ingenious counter-argument in Freedom of Will, provides a theoretical foundation for an uneasy but necessary alignment of the covenants of works and grace, releasing the subjunctive potential of grace to operate through history as a predeterminer of meaning and, potentially, freedom. In the last chapter, I argue that Emerson finally converts the covenant from a politically conceptualized theological framework for radical grace into a personal institutionalization of grace itself. Stanley Cavell's exploration of Emerson's "constitution" in light of the covenant motif demonstrates the political (im)possibilities inherent in America's self-conceptions of personal liberty and civic equality. In the end, complexities inherent in the concept of the covenant, especially its creative failure to control the radical nature of "grace," are determinative factors in our contradictory American egalitarian ideals.
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Black, Andrew D. "A 'Vast Practical Embarrassment': John W. Nevin, the Mercersburg Theology, and the Church Question." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366910985.
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Clark, Jorge Uilson. "A imigração norte-americana para a região de Campinas : analise da educação liberal no contexto historico e educacional brasileiro." [s.n.], 1998. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252085.
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Orientador: Jose Claudinei LombardiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Kime, Bradley. "Religious Outsiders and the Catholic Critique of Protestantism in America." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4463.
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, widespread Catholic commentary cast a congeries of prophets, millenarians, freethinkers, metaphysicians, and other (ir)religious outsiders as an indictment of Protestantism in America. To Catholics, Mormons and Millerites, atheists and agnostics, Spiritualists and Christian Scientists were the exegetical and educational products of Protestantism. And mainstream Protestant reactions to these groups exposed the contradictions of Protestant power and anti-Catholic discourse in America. Catholics argued that proliferating religious radicals ultimately belied Protestants’ portrayals of their own exegetical, intellectual, and politico-religious freedom from Catholic oppression. Recovering Catholic commentary on religious outsiders and Protestantism in America helps correct the historiographical neglect of Catholic responses to anti-Catholicism, present oft-obscured historical Catholic perspectives on American religious history, recover a polemical dialogue where historians have offered a Protestant monologue, and qualify the historical cogency of anti-Catholic discourse in America. Most importantly, this study reveals a rare instance in which one marginalized religious group used other marginalized religious groups to interrogate and critique, rather than appeal to and deflect criticism from, a religious mainstream.
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Lima, Ricardo Barros. "ORLANDO COSTAS: ENSAIOS NO CAMINHO PARA UMA PASTORAL EVANGÉLICA LATINO-AMERICANA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2008. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/487.
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This research proposes an analysis of the Latin American evangelic pastoral proposed by Orlando Costas. An expert in missions and pastoral theology from Puerto Rico, Costas elaborated a pastoral method and methodology based on his evangelical, religious confession in ecumenical dialogue and in critical consonance with the political, economical, social and religious circumstances of Puerto Rico and Latin America. Costas, together with Emilio Castro, were the first theologians to offer the basis for an evangelic pastoral vision based on the experiences of Latin American people. He criticized North-Atlantic pastoral theology as a pastoral action centered on the pastor, which was professionally and ecclesiastically centered. The research is presented in three chapters. The first chapter presents the religious, social, economic and political context of the experience of Orlando Costas in Puerto Rico; the second deals with his conversion experience in the context of his religious tradition, and; the third presents his pastoral proposal, and analyses its theological and historical development, emphasizing the conferences, movements, institutions, and theologians who influenced Costas thought. It also demonstrates the vision of mission and theological basis for his evangelic pastoral. It demonstrates that Costas pastoral is missiological and pastoral, because it assumes the missi Dei as an architectonic principle and the pastoral as a hermeneutic principle for pastoral and mission action. The research concludes that Costas pastoral proposal is evangelic and ecumenical, contextual and autochthonous, both within and beyond the church.(AU)
Nesta pesquisa se propõe analisar a pastoral evangélica latino-americana elaborada por Orlando Costas. Teólogo pastoralista, missiólogo e de origem porto-riquenha, Costas elaborou método e metodologia de pastoral a partir de sua confissão religiosa evangelical em diálogo ecumênico e em consonância crítica com a situação política, econômica, social e religiosa de Porto Rico e da América Latina. Costas, juntamente com Emilio Castro, foi um dos primeiros a lançar as bases para uma pastoral evangélica visando ao homem latino-americano. Criticou o modelo da teologia pastoral norte-atlântica centrada no pastor com sujeito da ação pastoral da igreja alegando ser; repetitiva, profissional e eclesiocêntrica. A pesquisa foi realizada em três passos, que se realizam nos capítulos um, dois e três, respectivamente, compreender o contexto político, econômico, social e religioso da vida de Orlando Costas a partir de Porto Rico, suas experiências de conversão-ruptura dentro da sua tradição religiosa e a nova percepção pastoral; analisar o desenvolvimento histórico teológico da pastoral evangélica, ou seja, os movimentos, conferências, instituições e teólogos que influenciaram o pensamento de Costas; e, apresentar os fundamentos missiológicos e teológicos da pastoral evangélica, em que se demonstra que a pastoral de Costas é missiológico-pastoral, pois assume a missio Dei como princípio arquitetônico e a pastoral como princípio hermenêutico para a ação missional e pastoral. Conclui-se que a proposta de Costas é de uma pastoral evangélica e ecumênica, contextual e autóctone, dentro e fora da igreja.(AU)
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Lewis-Williams, Jeniece T. Park Jerry Z. "Race, religion, and homosexuality : Black Protestants and homosexual acceptance /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4843.
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Ladeia, Donizeti Rodrigues. "Thomas Reid: o senso comum como matriz filosófica do presbiterianismo." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2006. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2485.
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This research introduces the Thomas Reid philosophy, as a philosophical matrix, through the north american presbyterianism, represented by the North American Presbyterian Church, and how the Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, received the influencies of that philosophy through foreign mission. The environment of this analysis was the crisis period, that the Scotish Philosophy appeared. The analysed factors in that environment was, the crisis that influenced the philosophical thinking, specialy in knowledge field in a time starts from Middle Age English School inquiring up to epistemologics crisis context of Reid s thinking. After that, the Reid s formulation of thinking was studied, the common sense. At this point we have the study about how Reid faced the ceticism based in David Hume s conception. The final part shows how the common sense philosophy became de philosophical matrix of protestanism through North American Presbyterian Church, and subsequently by the Princeton missionaries actions in Brazil.
Esta pesquisa introduz o estudo da filosofia de Thomas Reid, como matriz filosófica, através do presbiterianismo norte americano, representado pela denominação da Igreja, Presbiteriana Norte Americana, e de como a Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil recebeu as influências desta filosofia, através das missões estrangeiras. Analisou-se o período de crise, no qual eclodiu a filosofia escocesa. Os fatores analisados neste ambiente foram a crise que atinge o pensamento filosófico principalmente na área do conhecimento em um período que vai dos questionamentos da Escola Inglesa na Idade Média até o contexto epistemológico do período vivido por Thomas Reid. Posteriormente, estudou-se a formulação do pensamento de Reid, o senso comum. Nesta parte temos o estudo sobre como Reid enfrentou o ceticismo formulado nas concepções de David Hume. A parte final mostra como a filosofia do senso comum se tornou a matriz filosófica do protestantismo através da Igreja Presbiteriana da América do Norte, e depois pela atuação dos missionários formados em Princeton no Brasil.
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Enns, James Cornelius. "Saving Germany : North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610651.
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Susman, Benjamin A. "A Social Gospel Vision of Health: Washington Gladden's Sermons on Nature, Science and Social Harmony, 1869-1910." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1596238474385133.
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Forsell, Gustaf. "Vita protestanter, brinnande kors : Ku Klux Klan, pan-protestantism och myten om Amerika." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-386596.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse how and to what extent Ku Klux Klan constructed a pan-Protestant interpretation of Christianity based on its “myth of America” (Americanism) during the years 1915–30. Using hermeneutic content analysis and a theoretical approach based on Gramscian “cultural hegemony” and historian of religions Bruce Lincoln’s theory of myth, I examine the construction through three analytical themes: the Klan and the myth of America, the Klan’s pan-Protestantism, the Klan and religious patriotism. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s advocated a theological position where race and religious confession are intimately entwined, and its members hence believed that the white race is God’s chosen people and Unites States a God-ordained nation. Opposing the idea of multiculturalism, Klan members stressed the notion of America as a nation imagined to be threatened by Jews, Catholics, and blacks. Therefore, every white Protestant American had to unite in order to combat these alleged national and racial menaces. This worldview was permeated by aspects of love. It was mostly because of love to God, race and nation – not primarily due to hate – the Klan constructed its interpretation of Protestant Christianity. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s truly imagined themselves as guard-ians, or Knights, of an endangered culture.
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Goldberg, Adam M. "Jewish culture and the American military." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2581.
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This study explores the Jewish experience within the American military. Information sources include a review of literature, interviews with nineteen Jewish service members, and data files of officers and enlisted personnel who were on active duty as of October 2005. Data files were provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center in Monterey, California. The history of military service by persons of the Jewish faith corresponds roughly to that of persons from many other ethnic or religious groups: military service has been a patriotic calling, especially in periods of war, as well as a path during earlier times toward full assimilation into American society. This study concludes that Jewish military personnel, overall, have consistently performed well in service, given current measures of success; and, this trend is likely to continue. Further research should seek to examine additional measures of success in the military for Jewish personnel. More generally, research should examine the possible relationship between military performance and a person's religious faith, since religion is such an important part of individual identity. This information would add to existing knowledge of the various background and demographic factors of military members that help to shape a diverse and highly effective force.
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Matthews, Ronald Eric. "Charitable choice and faith-based organizations welfare, policy and religion in American politics /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1164121218.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 16 January, 2007). Advisor: Erin O'Brien. Keywords: charitable choice, faith-based organizations, welfare, poverty, evangelicals. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-176).
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Marinho, Kleber Maia. "In The President We Trust: uma análise da concepção religiosa na esfera política dos EUA presente nos discursos de George W. Bush." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1988.
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As a whole, the present dissertation lies at the intersection between religion and politics. Religion was embedded in the political scenario of the US at the onset of the nation and, since then, religion and politics have been intertwined into a complex system of coexistence that has strongly influenced the country s destiny. Although the debate regarding the amalgam between religion and politics in the US has been ongoing among the most diverse sectors of information and research, both locally and internationally, it was after the inauguration of George W. Bush and the attacks on 9/11, that such issue gained global repercussion, at a level never before seen in history. In this regard, the present work intends to analyze the relation of historical-cultural, sociological and psychological facts on the political-religious events, particularly those related to the international political scenario, which is hereby represented by the US. Thus, the subject of this investigation focuses on analyzing the presence of religious concepts as found in the speeches of President George W. Bush, during his two terms in office. More specifically, this dissertation examines the phenomena that are deeply rooted in the culture of the United States and have played a key role in supporting Bush s political actions. In this way, it evaluates the degree to which the events on 9/11 served as a bulwark for the religious rhetoric in Bush s discourse and became a tool to legitimate the war against Iraq, his political modus operandi and, ultimately, lead him to reelection. It is therefore concluded that, the ethical, moral and religious factors, deeply set in the culture of the United States throughout its history, together with the trauma caused by the events on 9/11, contributed to the acceptance of Bush s political decisions. The theoretical basis for the work is the hermeneutic methodology, built on a theoretical and bibliographic tripartite design that is sociological, philosophical-linguistic as well as psychological. The first line of investigation is based on the concept of Civil Religion, first developed by Robert Bellah and later expanded by other theoreticians; the second one follows Chaïm Perelman s theory of the New Rhetoric, and the third rests on C. G. Jung s Archetype.
Em termos gerais, a presente dissertação localiza-se na confluência da religião com a política. A inserção da religião na esfera política dos EUA fez-se presente desde o início de sua fundação e desde então, ambas permaneceram imbricadas constituindo um complexo sistema de convívio, cuja influência foi determinante nos desígnios da nação. Embora o debate acerca do amálgama entre religião e política nos EUA nunca ter cessado entre os mais diferentes setores de informação e pesquisa na sociedade nacional e internacional, foi, todavia, a partir da posse de George W. Bush e, após os atentados de 11 de setembro, que tal assunto ganhou repercussão mundial como talvez jamais antes na história. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho tem como propósito analisar os fatos histórico-culturais, sociológicos e psicológicos na análise de eventos político-religiosos, mais precisamente, relativos à política internacional representada aqui pelos EUA. Por essa via, o objeto de investigação em questão refere-se à análise da presença da concepção religiosa encontrada nos discursos do presidente George W. Bush durante o período de seus dois mandatos de governo. Em termos específicos, esta dissertação debruçou-se sobre o estudo de fenômenos arraigados na cultura estadunidense que foram preponderantes na sustentação da política de Bush. Assim, buscou-se avaliar até que ponto o 11 de setembro serviu de ênfase na retórica religiosa do discurso de Bush, servindo de meio instrumentário para legitimar a guerra no Iraque, seu modus operandi político e, eventualmente, ajudá-lo na reeleição. Concluímos que fatores ético-morais e religiosos profundamente incutidos na cultura estadunidense ao longo do processo histórico, aliados ao trauma do 11 de setembro, foram facilitadores para a adesão à política de Bush. Para tanto, valemo-nos, como procedimento teórico, da metodologia hermenêutica, construída em cima de uma linha teórico-bibliográfica ancorada por três frentes: sociológica, filosófico-lingüística e psicológica. A primeira embasa-se no conceito de Religião Civil inicialmente desenvolvida por Robert Bellah e, depois, ampliada por outros teóricos; a segunda pauta-se na teoria da Nova Retórica de Chaïm Perelman e a última, no conceito de Arquétipo de C. G. Jung.
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Aach, Inge Luise M. "The contextuality and unity of the theology of Hans-Joachim Iwand, an introduction for North American Protestants." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq29864.pdf.
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Age, Daniel W. "Beyond fixity and freedom : mainstream Protestantism's relationship to society in North America : from identification to differentiation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13710.
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The Thesis argues the following: (1) Mainstream Protestant constituencies in the USA in this century have been problematically identified with the modem socio-cultural world organized around liberal values. (2) This has been manifested by (A) attempts to integrate Christianity into modem society on terms fundamentally in harmony with the principles of modernity; (B) attempts to employ Christian values to regulate society - attempts which are in tension with the underlying principles of ethos of modernity. (3) The thesis discovers the theological and historical roots of these patterns and points out the flaws in two movements that emerged in reaction to these patterns. (4) In a final chapter, the thesis accesses select theoretical resources which demonstrate the importance and basis of Christianity sustaining a differentiated relationship to society. In the conclusion, the gains derived from this theoretical inquiry are returned to the historical problem analyzed in the body of the dissertation.
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Davis, Aaron K. "American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35407.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of History
Robert D. Linder
This dissertation considers American Protestant perceptions of U.S. foreign policy directed toward Soviet Union during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency (1953-1961). The question of what a culture dominated by Protestant denominations thought of its global adversary has not yet been sufficiently explored by scholars of either American religious history or diplomatic history. Most scholars who deal with the intersection of religion and foreign policy during the Eisenhower Administration tend to accentuate the close relationship that existed between government policy and general religious attitudes. That is to say, a general, widespread Protestant support of foreign policy objectives stands as the prevailing interpretation. Most historians conclude that America’s Protestant church leaders—preachers, pastors, and bishops—either actively supported government foreign policy objectives or sought to insert their own stances into existing policy. More recently, historians have published monographs that further explore Protestant Christianity with regard to foreign policy in the 1950s. By acknowledging the different strands of Protestant Christianity, scholars have raised significant questions that have heretofore gone unanswered. The primary question is the one that this dissertation seeks to answer—how widespread was American Protestant denunciation of communism and, simultaneously, how broad was American Protestant support for foreign policy objectives? Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Garfield Bromley Oxnam represent the three most prominent representatives of Protestant Christianity’s three major strands. These three acknowledged opinion makers that serve as the focus of this dissertation were not uniform in their perspectives of U.S. foreign policy, yet they all denounced communism and—to a degree—supported America’s efforts to combat the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence throughout the course of the Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961). This conclusion helps explain the tremendous perseverance of containment as a strategy by attributing its success, in part, to the large, Protestant body of supporters that continued to sustain and encourage Washington’s policies directed toward the Soviet Union.
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Adams, Richmond Brookshire. "Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/363.
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The present dissertation argues that more fully than any other fictional work in the latter third of the nineteenth century, Harold Frederic's _The Damnation of Theron Ware_ illuminates the cultural controversies within fin de siecle America. Given the inconsistent nature of its subsequent critical examination, Theron Ware lends itself to a type of new as well as traditional forms of historicist inquiry. While recent efforts by Lisa MacFarlane and Donna Campbell have broadened earlier perspectives to include the gender and theological controversies of the post bellum era, Theron Ware remains unexplored by still another vehicle that Frederic provides (127-143; 80-81). Within a complex and repeated series of episodes, Frederic uses standards of personal etiquette enunciated through a century-long series of published manuals to ponder both the inevitability and the likely consequences that will result from these "compendium of intellectual currents" (Campbell 80).
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Rabner, Joëlle. "Les protestants évangéliques et leurs alliés aux Etats-Unis : quelle influence sur la politique étrangère américaine ?" Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014IEPP0038.
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Quelle est l’influence du protestantisme évangélique américain, acteur non étatique -Et transnational en pleine expansion- sur la politique étrangère américaine? La constitution des protestants évangéliques en force de pression politique, à l’initiative de certains pasteurs évangéliques, remonte au début des années 70, peu après le passage du Civil Rights Act. Les protestants évangéliques traditionnellement acquis à la cause démocrate, ont alors choisi d’accorder leurs voix au camp républicain. Si R Reagan, proche des néo-Conservateurs, leur a entre-Ouvert les portes de la Maison Blanche, George W. Bush sera le président qui gouvernera en tenant compte de considérations morales et religieuses chères aux protestants évangéliques. Le vote évangélique est ainsi très disputé lors des échéances électorales. En quelques décennies, les protestants évangéliques ont acquis une place de choix dans la politique américaine nouant des alliances fructueuses avec les néo- conservateurs ainsi qu’avec le lobby pro-Israélien, tous les deux à la manœuvre en ce qui concerne la définition des politiques. Au niveau international, les protestants évangéliques ainsi que leurs alliés néo-Conservateurs défendent d’une même voix Israël. Si les néo-Conservateurs et le lobby pro-Israélien définissent une politique commune, les protestants évangéliques mobilisent leur électorat. L’alliance est ainsi très efficace ce dont atteste entre autres l’adoption de la loi International Religious Freedom Act ( Irfa)How influent is the evangelical protestantism over american foreign policy? Evangelicals have established a lobby, in behalf of some well known evangelical pastors, not long after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act at the beginning of the seventies. Evangelicals traditionally more supportive of the democrats, chose therefore to give their votes to the republican party. Ronald Reagan, in close partnership with the neoconservatives, opened a space to the evangelicals while G.W. Bush while ruling the country, took into account their moral and religious considerations. Evangelical vote is a real issue for both parties in an election time. In the last decades, evangelicals have acquired an influent position in American politics along with their close allies, the neo-Conservatives and the Israël lobby, both of them defining a shared policy. On an international level, evangelicals along with neo-Conservatives are harsh defenders of Israel. Their partnership proved to be efficient, particularly concerning the enactment of the law International Religious Freedom Act ( Irfa) concerning religious freedom worldwide
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Kearns, Kevin M. "Scripture for America: Scriptural Interpretation in John Locke's Paraphrase." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862806/.
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Is John Locke a philosopher or theologian? When considering Locke's religious thought, scholars seldom point to his Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul. This is puzzling since the Paraphrase is his most extensive treatment of Christian theology. Since this is the final work of his life, did Locke undergo a deathbed conversion? The scholarship that has considered the Paraphrase often finds Locke contradicting himself on various theological doctrines. In this dissertation, I find that Locke not only remains consistent with his other writings, but provides his subtlest interpretation of Scripture. He is intentionally subtle in order to persuade a Protestant audience to modern liberalism. This is intended to make Protestantism, and specifically Calvinism, the vehicle for modern liberalism. This is seen clearly in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Though Weber concludes that Protestant support for capitalism in the late 19th Century is due to its theological foundation, I find that Weber is actually examining Lockean Protestantism. Locke's success in transforming Protestantism is also useful today in showing how a modern liberal can converse with someone who actively opposes, and may even wish to harm, modern liberalism. The dissertation analyzes four important Protestant doctrines: Faith Alone, Scripture Alone, the church and family, and Christian political life.
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Smith, Richard Maurice. "Validating Beliefs: Liberal And Conservative Protestant Views of Sexual Morality in America." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/38960.
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While many debates about sexual morality seem to be dominated by conservative, right wing Protestants, there are differing worldviews within Protestantism as there are in the larger American culture. In Protestantism, disparate beliefs about sexual morality have caused division between groups. Concurrently, these differing perspectives have bled into the larger discourse about sexual morality in the United States. Each group has spokespeople who attempt to validate what individuals should believe about issues like the family, sexuality, and how Protestants, and Americans in general, should think and act regarding these issues. Prior research provided a limited analysis about the views and conversations of these spokespeople and their arguments to validate their positions on sexual morality issues. To better understand how Protestants attempt to validate their beliefs, I focus on what liberals and conservatives say about sexual morality issues. In particular, what do those in influential positions (i.e., authors and pastors) tell others? To answer this question, I conduct a content analysis of 30 Protestant sex advice manuals and 20 in-depth pastoral interviews. The results indicate not only the differences and similarities of beliefs, but also that many spokespeople use various forms of validation besides, or in addition to, biblical texts. The influential are influenced greatly by their own personal biases and views of gender, maybe even more than their particular religious beliefs. Future research should explore whether there is a definitive correlation between spokespersons' messages and listeners' adherence.
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Gaskill, Stephanie Rebekah. "Karl Barth, Missions to the Jews, and the American Response." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269265271.
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Cajka, Peter S. "The Rights of Conscience: The Rise of Tradition in America's Age of Fracture, 1940-1990." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107310.
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Thesis advisor: James M. O'TooleIn the 1960s and 1970s American Catholics invoked conscience inordinately. They claimed to possess “sacred rights of conscience.” Catholics produced a thick psychological literature on the “formation of conscience.” They also made clear that conscience could never be handed over to an authority figure, whether in the church or state. The term conscience then became a keyword in the rights discourse of late twentieth century America. This dissertation seeks to explain why Catholics invoked conscience so frequently in the 1960s and 1970s, and it aims to chart how conscience became important to the rights vernacular of the late twentieth century. Catholics invoked conscience frequently in an effort to remain in and expand tradition. The theology of conscience had roots in the thirteenth century work of Thomas Aquinas -- a tradition American Catholics studied in the 1940s and 1950s. This study also shows how the human rights advocates of Amnesty International and a community of mainline Protestants appropriated the Catholic theology of conscience and used it for their own purposes. The 1960s and 1970s, rather than witnessing the end of tradition, facilitated its growth
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Petersen, David. "SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN CONSERVATIVES AND ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISION: THE FORMATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, 1926-1973." UKnowledge, 2009. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/80.
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Beginning with the fundamentalist controversy of the 1920’s, the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS) was consistently divided by numerous disagreements over reunion with the Northern Presbyterian Church, racial policies, changing theological views, and resolutions on current social controversies. Led by groups such as the Southern Presbyterian Journal, Concerned Presbyterians, Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship, and Presbyterian Churchmen United, conservatives attempted to redirect the direction of the PCUS; however, their efforts failed. Disgruntled by a liberal-moderate coalition that held power, many conservatives withdrew and created the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in 1973, the first major division of a Southern denomination. The PCA was not solely founded because of racial disagreements or any single cultural debate; rather decades’ long theological disagreements regarding the church’s role in society fueled separation along with several sharp social controversies. This departure also expedited reunion (1983) between the Northern and Southern Presbyterian denominations that formed the present Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PC(USA)). Like many other historic Protestant denominations, the PC(USA) has seen a decline in membership, but the PCA and other small Presbyterian denominations have been growing numerically thereby guaranteeing the continued presence of Presbyterianism in America.
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Neff, Richard Alexander. "Evangéliques en réseau : trajectoires identitaires entre la France et les Etats-Unis." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAK001.
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L’essor du protestantisme évangélique en France est un laboratoire d’analyse des effets de la mondialisation sur les identités religieuses. Alors que leurs origines remontent souvent à la Réforme protestante en Europe elle-même, les évangéliques français font partie aujourd’hui d’un mouvement à dimensions mondiales où les Américains jouent un rôle de premier rang. Quelle influence ces derniers exercent-ils réellement en France? Pour les évangéliques français, quels sont les enjeux de l’association avec leurs coreligionnaires aux États-Unis? Nous cherchons à fournir des réponses en nous appuyant sur une étude de terrain des églises évangéliques dans l’est de la France. Il en ressort que les États-Unis exercent effectivement une certaine influence, mais que celle-ci n’est ni prépondérante ni uniforme. Le plus souvent, lorsque les églises françaises établissent des liens avec des Américains, elles le font en fonction de leurs propres besoins dans le champ social français. Ainsi les évangéliques français ne sont pas de simples récepteurs d’influence, mais des acteurs sociaux à part entièreThe growth of evangelical Protestantism in France is a laboratory for analyzing the effects of globalization on religious identities. Even though their origins can often be traced to the Protestant Reformation in Europe itself, French evangelicals are today part of a world-wide movement where Americans play a leading role. What influence do American evangelicals really exert in France? What is at stake for French evangelicals who associate with their American coreligionists? Our study of evangelical churches in the east of France shows that the United States does indeed exert a certain influence, but it is neither preponderant nor uniform in nature. Most of the time, when French churches develop ties to Americans, they do so in function of their own needs within the French social field. French evangelicals are thus more than just receptors of influence, but social actors in the fullest sense
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Sanders, E. Randall. "Determining duty the fate of Anglo-Protestant Indian missions after the Great Awakening /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p088-0185.
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Chavinier, Sabine. "La genèse du basket français : conditions de possibilités de la diffusion du basket-ball des Etats-unis vers la France : balles perdues, interceptions et passes décisives des protestants américains aux catholiques français (1893-1933)." Paris 11, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA113008.
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Cette recherche a pour objet l’étude de la première phase de l’histoire du basket-ball français. A partir d’un travail empirique mené en France, aux Etats-Unis et en Suisse, les archives des mouvements de jeunesse protestants (UCJG : Unions Chrétiennes de Jeunes Gens) et catholiques (patronages), des fédérations nationales (FFA – Fédération Française d’Athlétisme, FGSPF – Fédération Gymnastique et Culturelle de France) et internationales (FIBA – Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur, IAAF – International Athletic Amateur Federation) ainsi que des données issues des fonds de l’Eglise et de l’Armée ont permis d’une part de fournir un éclairage complémentaire des rapports entre sport et religion, d’autre part d’apporter des éléments de compréhension des relations culturelles franco-américaines. Cette étude met en évidence l’émergence d’un phénomène qui prendra toute son ampleur après la seconde guerre mondiale. Entre 1893 et 1933, deux tentatives d’américanisation par le biais essentiel des YMCA (Young Men Christian Association) se succèdent d’abord à l’échelle d’une association parisienne, l’UCJG de Paris, puis au niveau national durant la Grande Guerre. Elles correspondent à deux conjonctures distinctes, la première relevant de l’exportation d’une innovation sportive culturelle (1886-1917), la seconde de l’appropriation française d’une pratique physique étrangère (1917-1933). Chacune éclaire différents ressorts du phénomène : ses échecs, ses réussites mais également les résistances qui peuvent lui être opposée et les enjeux qu’elle recouvre. Elles mettent en évidence l’impact du changement de perception d’une puissance sur la diffusion de ses innovations culturellesThe aim of this research is to study the first stage of French basketball history. Based on an empirical work done in France, in the United States of America and in Switzerland, different archives – UCJG (young Protestants movement), young Catholics clubs, national federations (FFA and FGSPF), international federations (FIBA, IAAF) and also some data stem from both the Church and the Army archives – allowed to supply a supplementary perspective about the links between sport and religion on the one hand, and to bring some intelligibility factors on cultural relationships between the USA and France on the other. This study gives prominence to the emergence of a phenomenon that will be on the rise after the Second World War. Between 1893 and 1933, one attempt of Americanization followed another by means of different YMCAs, firstly at a Parisian association scale, UCJG of Paris, and then at a national level during the Great War. They match with two well-marked circumstances: the first being the concern of the export of a cultural and sporting innovation (1886-1917), the second of the French suitability for a foreign physical practice (1917-1933). Each of them sheds light on the different responsibilities of the phenomenon: its failures and its successes, but also the resistances that it could face and the stakes it covers. Those circumstances underline the impact of the changing of perception of a power on the spreading of its cultural innovations
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Mourier, Eliott. "Les Partenariats Public-Religieux. Action sociale religieuse et reconfiguration du rapport entre État et Églises dans le Brésil du XXIe siècle." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00935250.
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Ce travail prétend contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des mutations contemporaines durapport entre politique et religion dans la modernité, à travers le prisme de l'action sociale entreprise par lesacteurs religieux et sa croissante prise en compte par les États avec la mise en oeuvre de " partenariatspublic-religieux ". À l'heure où la crise des États-providence impose à ces derniers de repenser leursmodèles et leur pratique du social, les entités religieuses, toujours plus diverses et engagées, non seulementdans l'objectif du salut des âmes, mais également dans leur bien-être et leur sécurité physique et matérielle,offrent une alternative crédible à des États de plus en plus " superviseurs " et non plus " fournisseurs " debiens et services sociaux. Le Brésil contemporain, qui retiendra ici notre attention, où la souplesse de laséparation entre l'État et les Églises permet l'instauration d'une véritable collaboration de type " gagnantgagnant", voit aujourd'hui l'émergence et la multiplication du recours à ces " partenariats public-religieux "dont ce travail proposera une définition et une typologie. Des formes de coopération entre un État et desentités religieuses catholiques certes, mais de plus en plus évangéliques, spirites-kardécistes, mormones,chamanistes ou encore afro-brésiliennes, qui offrent un prisme d'analyse original des transformations del'action publique de l'État et des évolutions du champ religieux aujourd'hui à l'oeuvre. Plus encore, les" partenariats public-religieux " reflètent de manière symptomatique la reconfiguration des relations entreles sphères politique et religieuse et, de façon plus générale, du rapport entre modernité et religion à l'èreglobale, dont ce travail, centré sur le Brésil mais empreint de comparatisme, cherchera à rendre compte.
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Hayat, A. Cyrus. "Billy Sunday and the Masculinization of American Protestantism: 1896-1935." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1860.
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Hamblin, David Wayne. "A social history of Protestantism in Colombia: 1930–2000." 2003. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3078691.
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After providing a survey of related literature and of Protestant antecedents in Colombia during the colonial and early national periods, the dissertation examines the expansion of foreign missions in Colombia during the early twentieth century. The main body of the work describes various aspects of Protestant life after 1930, including life stages, self-image, construction of community, and societal responses. Although many Colombians reacted adversely to Protestants, a general atmosphere of tolerance is evident. Protestants suffered greatly during the mid-century Violence, but not to an unusual extent in comparison to Colombians in general. However, the Protestants' oppositional religious identity and their sense of vulnerability during that period made their psychological experience of the Violence somewhat unusual. Through the end of the twentieth century, Protestantism provided an oppositional space in which many Colombians found a sense of security, empowerment and optimism in the face of tremendous challenges in a violent land.
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"A history of Protestantism in Guatemala (Rios Montt, church, religion)." Tulane University, 1986.
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This study examines the history of Protestant work in Guatemala, from the efforts of foreign Bible vendors, in the early nineteenth century through 1983, when the nation's first evangelical president, General Efra(')in R(')ios Montt, was ousted from office This work seeks to answer two central questions. (1) Why did the efforts of American missionaries between 1890 and 1960 have such poor results? (2) What kinds of changes took place after 1960 that allowed Protestants to account for twenty-five percent of Guatemala's population in 1980? This work suggests that the foreign missionaries offered a formula for salvation that was culturally inappropriate for most Guatemalans. The missionaries emphasized the ideals complemented the political goals of the Liberal governments who sponsored the missionaries. They had little appeal, however, for the average Guatemalan, who continued to adhere to Catholic, organic values Following the overthrow of the revolutionary government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, however, Guatemalan Protestantism changed dramatically, as nationalistic native Protestants began to leave the missions to form their own congregations. These new sects were indigenous in form and Pentecostal in theology. Simultaneously, a new breed of American missionaries began to flow into the country, calling for an end to sectarianism and offering Protestantism as a spiritual alternative to communism. The new missionaries launched an evangelical revival in the early 1960s which gave new impetus to the indigenous Protestant churches. Buffered by the association of evangelicalism and anti-communism, the native evangelicals could redirect the frustrated nationalism of the Arbenz period into a religious forum Guatemala's 1976 earthquake spurred Protestant growth in two ways. (1) Protestant relief workers exposed large numbers of Guatemalans to their message. (2) the earthquake signaled the beginning of a downward spiral of national chaos marked by warfare, terror, and economic decline. In the midst of this trauma, the indigenous Protestant churches offered spiritual solace, and a political stance which absolved the believer from the dangerous demands of Catholic Liberation Theology. Indigenous Protestantism has become the new religion of the helpless and the hopeless in Guatemala, and for that reason, it continues to thrive. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)acase@tulane.edu
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Polainas, Raquel de Abreu Freire Vargues. "A reforma protestante e o pensamento democrático americano : a individualização da fé e a emancipação do individuo na viabilização da democracia." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/548.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade AbertaResumo - Este estudo pretende mostrar a influência da teologia protestante, praticada pelos colonos na América, na construção da democracia americana O postulado defendido pela Reforma de Lutero - o sacerdócio universal - e os princípios que ele congrega em si, sola fides e sola scriptura, conducentes à individualização da fé, conferem um sentido de dignidade ao Homem e promovem a consciência individual, autonomia de pensamento e juízo crítico independente, elementos essenciais à viabilização do sistema democrático e que se encontram cristalizados no Man Thinking do pensamento de Emerson, o filósofo da democracia americana. A sua estrutura desenha-se do seguinte modo: Partimos da abordagem do conceito de democracia, desde os modelos da Antiguidade Clássica até aos teóricos Iluministas para, depois, nos debruçarmos sobre a teologia da Reforma Protestante. Seguidamente, fazemos uma análise à organização social e política e ao modus vivendi das primeiras colónias no Novo Mundo; analisamos alguns documentos e textos, enquanto testemunhos daqueles pressupostos. Fazemos, depois, uma breve dissecação do sistema político americano, identificando as sementes da herança protestante e os frutos produzidos na construção da singularidade da democracia americana. Finalmente, procedemos à análise de dois textos de Emerson - Self-Reliance e The American Scholar - que reflectem o modo como a Reforma de Lutero moldou o pensamento filosófico e político desta nação e que, ainda hoje, pode contribuir para a viabilização das democracias contemporâneas
Abstract - This dissertation examines the protestant settlers’ theological beliefs in America and the influence they had on shaping the present-day American democracy. Luther’s Reformation with its emphasis on the priesthood of the believers and sola fides, sola scriptura stated that each individual is equal before God and made him the center of his own spiritual decisions. Allowing for the freedom of the inner self and rejecting temporal authority, it promoted the need to follow the individual conscience and a sense of independent and critical thought. This individual can be found in Emerson’s philosophical thought and he is the ‘Man Thinking’ who can build workable democratic systems nowadays. As for the structure, firstly we consider the concept of democracy throughout history, from the Greek polis and Roman republic to the Enlightenment, focussing on the political ideas that had further influence on the making of the American democratic system. Then we will study the theology of the Protestant Reformation, stressing those doctrines that led to the individual emancipation. After that we focus on the settlers’ modus vivendi in America, giving special attention to some documents and their own writings and recordings that show the protestant doctrines that helped shape their political ideas and build their republic. We also take a brief approach to their political system to find out the seeds of the protestant legacy in making it unique. Finally we analyze Emerson’s writings – Self-Reliance and The American Scholar - to see the influence that Luther’s Reformation had in shaping American ideas on democracy and how it can still give its contribution to making the western democracies work
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Jordan, Frederick W. "Between heaven and Harvard Protestant faith and the American boarding school experience, 1778-1940 /." 2004. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04132004-102551/.
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Coates, Andrew. "The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/13394.
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism offers a new historical narrative about the rise of fundamentalism. I argue that sensing bodies laid the foundation of fundamentalism. New kinds of Christian sensory practices around the turn of the twentieth century established the shared frames of reference that allowed a broad fundamentalist coalition to emerge. Fundamentalists felt their faith in their guts.
Each chapter of this work explores the role of one of the senses in fundamentalist life: sight, hearing, touch, and the spiritual senses. Using visual and material evidence, I explore how fundamentalists trained their eyes to see truth from dispensationalist charts, how they taught their ears to hear the voice of God on radios and phonograph records, how they regulated and controlled contact between gendered bodies through clothing, and how they honed their bodies to sense spiritual presences.
Using the methods of visual and material culture studies of religion, I examine the how specific sensory practices structured the everyday realities of fundamentalist life. I examine the specifics of how sensation operated in fundamentalist religious practice. Current studies of fundamentalism tend to treat the movement as primarily concerned with intellectual matters. My material and visual history of fundamentalism intervenes in the historiography to show that efforts to describe fundamentalism as an intellectual movement have excluded important bodies of data. By studying ideas and doctrines, scholars have too long presumed that fundamentalists forbade material forms of religious devotion or disregarded bodies altogether. My work materializes the study of early fundamentalism, exploring how material objects and sensory practices undergird traditional concepts like “belief,” “theology,” or “literalism.” This project recovers sensing bodies as the cornerstone of fundamentalism.
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Wallace, Peter J. ""The Bond of Union" the Old School Presbyterian Church and the American nation, 1837-1861 /." 2004. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04132004-141952/.
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"Competing Christianities: Social Dynamics of Religious Change in the Upper South." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50102.
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abstract: This study analyzes competing forms of Protestant Christianity within the Bible Belt of the Upper South (Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina). On one hand, a conservative “culture war” version of Christianity has dominated the South, and deeply influenced national politics, for almost fifty years. This form of Christianity is predicated on white supremacy and heteropatriarchy and regulates religious, as well as sexual, gender, and racial norms. On the other hand, an emerging movement of those once socialized in the culture war version of Protestantism is now reconfiguring the regional traditions. Through ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews, and historical analysis, this study explores the ways these post-culture war Christians are navigating and negotiating relations with family, church, and politics and society more broadly. This work argues that Protestantism in the Upper South is being re-landscaped from the inside by individuals staying within the tradition who seek to reorient regional, national and religious identities. This study goes beyond generalizations about changes in American religion to shed light on the specific motivations, conflicts and dynamics inherent in shifts in lived religion in this particular region. In so doing it also contributes to deeper understanding of processes of religious change more generally.Dissertation/Thesis
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Oliveira, Rosely Pereira pontes de. "A influência do protestantismo na educação do colégio Americano Batista em Pernambuco." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/4384.
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Orientação: Paulo Mendes Pinto ; co-orientação: Inácio Reinaldo StriederEm início do século XX, no ano de 1905, no momento que se afigurou promissor, foi fundado o Colégio Americano Batista-C.A.B. Já predominava no Brasil o ensino religioso ministrado pelos Jesuítas vindos de Portugal. Fora um trabalho evangelístico-educacional, numa concepção de reeligere, numa cosmovisão unirreligiosa. Os conteúdos dessa disciplina ficavam sob a responsabilidade da igreja, visto ser ela considerada à única com habilidades plausíveis. José Eduardo Franco, (2006, p.311), em seu artigo O mito dos Jesuítas em Portugal - século XVI-XX menciona que “Portugal não teve, no seu território, nenhuma origem religiosa que tivesse obtido em tão elevado grau, o prestígio e o renome, que a partir de 1540, os Jesuítas conquistaram. Mas também nenhuma outra instituição religiosa foi julgada de forma tão dupla contraditória”. A despeito das possíveis qualidades do trabalho efetuado pelos Jesuítas, ou porventura, o aflorar de suas limitações, não é o que neste trabalho de pesquisa pretendemos analisar particularmente. Propomos investigar como o ensino religioso protestante tem influenciado a educação do Colégio Americano Batista desde as suas origens à atualidade sem excluir a promulgação da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional-9.394/96 e com a estrutura do ensino religioso mediante a produção dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais-PCNs. Utilizamos como material empírico os depoimentos de docentes, discentes, e de toda a equipe técnica e pedagógica desta instituição. Pretendemos com tal metodologia assegurar a dimensão da influência do Ensino Religioso na educação como agente transformador na sociedade. Compreendemos a relevância desta pesquisa, à medida que observamos a interação do diálogo interreligioso e o avanço obtido quanto à concepção catequética numa passagem para uma nova concepção de ensino religioso, na concepção do sentido para a vida.
In the early twentieth century, in 1905, when it seemed promising, was founded the Colégio Americano Batista - CAB. In Brazil has prevailed in religious education taught by the Jesuits from Portugal. Outside an evangelistic and educational work, a concept of reeligere, unirreligiosa worldview. The contents of this discipline were under the responsibility of the church, as it is considered the only plausible with skills. José Eduardo Franco (2006, p.311), in his article O mito dos Jesuítas em Portugal - século XVI-XX mentions that "Portugal didn’t have in its territory, and no religious background who had achieved at such a high degree, the prestige and reputation, that from 1540, Jesuits won. But no other religious institution was deemed so contradictory double. "Despite the possible qualities of the work done by the Jesuits, or perhaps the flourishing of its limitations, is not what this research work we intend to analyze in detail. We propose to investigate how teaching influences the Protestant religious education of the Colégio Americano Batista today without deleting the promulgation of the Law of Directives and Bases of Education National - 9.394/96 and the structure of religious education through the production of the National Curriculum parameter - PCNs. We use as empirical testimony from teachers, students, and all the technical and pedagogical staff of this institution. We intend to ensure that such methodology influences the size of the teaching of religion in education as a transformative agent in society. We understand the importance of this research, as we observe the interaction of interreligious dialogue and the progress made on the design catechetical a passage to a new conception of religious education.
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Bademan, R. Bryan. "Contesting the evangelical age Protestant challenges to religious subjectivity in antebellum America /." 2004. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11012004-120127/.
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Lin, Mei-ju, and 林美儒. "A Research on the Political Mobilization of American Evangelical Protestants in 1980's." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12928247607339588889.
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Based on the Theory of "Myth of Origin" of Paul Tillich, an American theologian, the mobilization of American Evangelical Protestants in political affairs in 80's is the main theme of the thesis. As the largest and the most conservative denomination in the U.S., American Evangelical Protestants had hardly had motives and chances to get involved in political affairs until late 70's. There were many unexpected political movements held by several evangelical organization, which attracted the attention of the White House, the legislative organs, and the press. In this thesis, the unexpected rise of the conservative religious denomination is going to be analyzed from the basic measure of American culture. From Calvinism, which American culture inherited, we can realize the alternating of conservatism and liberalism in American History. Applying the Theory of "Myth of Origin" on the Calvinism originated culture, the author tries to analyze the following items: 1.The distinction of American religions. 2.the room for American religions in political affairs under "the Wall of Separation". 3.the resurgence of "myth of origin" in early 80's -- the significant background of the Evangelical mobilization. 4.the analysis of the actions, the theories, and the results of the mobilization. 5.the influences caused by the mobilization on the society, the culture, and the individuals. According to the theory of "Myth of Origin", religions in the U.S. do have enough room for developing. But examining from the two aspects of American Calvinism, we can see the association of church and state is still limited. If the religious political organizations want to enhance their influence on politics, flexible ideology and skillful mobilization are both needed.
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Dove, Stephen Carter. "Local believers, foreign missionaries, and the creation of Guatemalan Protestantism, 1882-1944." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5233.
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This dissertation examines how Guatemalan converts transformed missionary Protestantism into a locally contextualized religion in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Using archival materials from local religious groups and public archives in Guatemala alongside missionary documents from the United States, this research identifies how converts adopted certain missionary teachings but reinterpreted or rejected others. This selective application not only altered the definition of Protestantism in Guatemala but also affected the early growth of the movement by creating contextualized forms of Protestantism that attracted more interest than foreign versions.
The first section of the dissertation analyzes the theologies and goals that early missionaries brought to Guatemala and explains the intramural conflicts that created the first Protestant communities in the country. Between 1882 and 1921, five North American Protestant denominations and several independent missionaries entered Guatemala, each with particular ideas about how to improve the country both spiritually and materially. This internal diversity provided new converts with the ability to choose between multiple versions of Protestantism, but more importantly it also taught them how to carve out their own space between imported religious ideologies.
The second section of the dissertation analyzes how local believers reinterpreted Protestantism within those spaces by pursuing four important areas of innovation: theological primitivism, Pentecostalism, political involvement, and nationalism. Despite protests from many foreign missionaries, between 1920 and 1944 numerous Guatemalan Protestants adopted variations of these four themes in attempts to create a culturally and socially relevant religious product. As new converts opted for these new local communities over missionary-led options, these four themes became defining hallmarks of Guatemalan Protestantism, which by the twenty-first century was practiced by one-third of the country’s population. This dissertation argues that these contextualized challenges to missionary ideas in the early twentieth-century made Protestantism an attractive local product in Guatemala and sparked the movement’s growth. It also demonstrates how poor and working class Guatemalans in the early twentieth century used Protestantism as a tool to participate in national conversations about race, gender, and class.text
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Mathews, Ned Lee 1934. "An examination of the decline and demise of evangelical protestantism in America's institutions of higher education." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18164.
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This study is comprised of four chapters and an Epilogue. Chapter 1 treats, by way of historical description, the founding of America's institutions of higher learning as defacto centers of evangelical Protestant indoctrination and ethos. Chapter 2 is a record of the rejection of
evangelical Protestantism in the interest of making the colleges and universities nonsectarian. This
was accomplished first by a gradual "broadening'' of the curricula. Later, the schools became altogether secularist in disposition. Chapter 3 recounts the factors leading to the changes in the institutions. Chapter 4 is an evaluation of competing truth claims in the aftermath of the demise of Protestantism and a review of the gains and losses that came with the change. Finally, the Epilogue is a case study of one institution that reversed the trend.Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
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Widder, Keith R. "Together as family métis children's response to evangelical Protestants at the Mackinaw Mission, 1823-1837 /." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21456378.html.
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