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Journal articles on the topic "Contemporary Christian communities"

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Cadorette, Curt. "Basic Christian Communities: Their Social Role and Missiological Promise." Missiology: An International Review 15, no. 2 (1987): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968701500202.

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This article discusses the social dynamics of basic Christian communities using insights derived from the social sciences. Drawing from critical social theory, the author first analyzes the ideological forces at play among marginalized people. He then discusses how these oppressive forces can be and are overcome by the community of committed Christians. Underlying the discussion is the assumption that contemporary social analysis has much to offer our understanding of ecclesial communities and that the lived faith of poor Christians provides a dynamic model of resistance to oppression which mu
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Womack, Deanna Ferree. "Christian Communities in the Contemporary Middle East: An Introduction." Exchange 49, no. 3-4 (2020): 189–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341566.

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Gee Lim, Francis Khek. "Mediating Christianity in Contemporary Asia." Studies in World Christianity 18, no. 2 (2012): 189–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2012.0015.

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This article aims to provide a broad survey of the intimate relations between media and Christianity in contemporary Asia by taking into account two overlapping strands of scholarship, one of technology and society, the other of religion and the media. Particular attention is given to how the invention of new media technologies causes important shifts in the ways people practice their faith and how Christian communities are formed in Asia. With the trend towards media convergence resulting in the blurring of the distinction between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ media and with people's differential acces
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Wildes, Kevin Wm. "Bioethics and Reason in a Secular Society: Reclaiming Christian Bioethics." Conatus 3, no. 2 (2018): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/conatus.19373.

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Bioethics evolved from traditional physician ethics and theological ethics. It has become important in contemporary discussions of Medicine and ethics. But in contemporary secular societies the foundations of bioethics are minimal in their content and often rely on procedural ethics. The bioethics of particular communities, particularly religious communities, are richer than the procedural ethics of a secular society. Religious bioethics, situated within religious communities, are richer in content in general and in the lived reality.
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Bradley, C. Randall. "Congregational Song as Shaper of Theology: A Contemporary Assessment." Review & Expositor 100, no. 3 (2003): 351–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463730310000304.

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The faith and identity of Christian communities are formed and defined in large degree by musical forms and patterns. Music shapes and conveys theology, and is a point of engagement with broader culture. This is especially true in Free Church evangelicalism, where musical styles have nearly replaced denominational distinctives as the demarcating lines among various groups. This essay argues that music and worship are “active theology.” Worship and its music should over time express the full range of Christian truth and form worshipers truthfully. The essay explores and catalogues principal inf
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Farhadian, Charles E. "Book Review: Engaging the World: Christian Communities in Contemporary Global Societies." International Bulletin of Mission Research 39, no. 3 (2015): 158–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693931503900317.

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Steenbrink, Karel. "Christianity and Islam: civilizations or religions? Contemporary indonesian discussions." Exchange 33, no. 3 (2004): 223–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254304774249899.

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AbstractThis article wants to look at the problem of the relation between Islam and Christianity and their definitions of civilization or religion, from the angles of the Indonesian Muslims and Christians. In the colonial past both Islam and Christianity behaved like complete communities or civilizations. Therefore religious affiliation had always social and political impact and it was and is often not possible to change religion, like people cannot change their ethnic or gender status. During the pastfifty years there has been a tendency towards a pluralist society, not taking religious ident
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LIU, YA-CHUN. "The Language of a Faithful Translator: On Canonising the Mandarin Union Version and Translating The Shack, a Contemporary Bestseller." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 1 (2019): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186319000166.

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AbstractThis article explores the continuing linguistic impact of the Mandarin Union Version by investigating and contrasting two Chinese translations of William Paul Young's global bestseller The Shack (2007): the Traditional Chinese version Xiaowu (《小屋》, 2009) and the Simplified Chinese version Pengwu (《棚屋》, 2010). Ever since its publication, the Mandarin Union Version has served as the predominant Bible within Mandarin-speaking Protestant communities across the world. This has brought about the standardisation of terminology in Chinese Protestantism. The Shack, though widely marked as a Chr
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Downey, Michael. "Status Inconsistency and the Politics of Worship." Horizons 15, no. 1 (1988): 64–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900038445.

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AbstractAfter an explanation of salient points of Wayne Meeks's construction of a social history of Pauline Christianity, this essay explores his concept of ritual efficacy with attention to what it might lend to a fuller understanding of ritual/sacramental efficacy in the contemporary churches. Because the communities of l'Arche of Jean Vanier are constituted by a great diversity of persons who are vastly unequal, at least in terms of intelligence, they provide a contemporary reference for investigating Meeks's claim that the function of Christian ritual is to socialize persons of various str
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VanDrunen, David. "LEGAL POLYCENTRISM: A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL AND JURISPRUDENTIAL EVALUATION." Journal of Law and Religion 32, no. 3 (2017): 383–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2017.37.

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AbstractLegal theorists have long debated whether law originates from a single source (the actions of state officials) or from multiple sources (including the innumerable communities and associations that constitute broader civil society). In recent years, proponents have defended polycentrism—and its critics have tried to refute it—from various moral, economic, and historical angles. But no contemporary writer has examined polycentrism from a Christian perspective. In the absence of such a study heretofore, this article attempts to evaluate legal polycentrism from a Christian theological and
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Contemporary Christian communities"

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Amadi, Mark. "British-African Pentecostal megachurches and postmodern worship : comparative and contemporary influence and impact." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7039/.

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To what extent is British African Pentecostal Megachurch (BAPMC) a postmodern phenomenon, and has APMC influenced the western Pentecostal worship style in any way? The plethora of literature on Megachurches reveals a gap in knowledge about African Pentecostal Megachurch (APMC) worship and its influences, especially within the UK. Consequently, there is a need to research if the APMC worship concept is a postmodern phenomenon. This study seeks to investigate and determine if there is any influence and to what extent the African Pentecostal Megachurch is a postmodern phenomenon. To determine thi
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Vempeny, Sebastian Joseph. "Minorities in contemporary India -A comparative study of the muslim and christian communities." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1063.

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Cashmore, Simon John Mark. "The value of the spirituality of John Cassian (c365-435) for contemporary Christian communities." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14223.

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Most recent studies of Cassian and his writings have examined the monk’s historical contexts, the theology expressed in his texts or his role in the development of monasticism. This dissertation examines the spirituality of Cassian and assesses its value to contemporary Christian communities. By applying a hermeneutical approach to the study of Cassian’s texts, the investigation distinguishes between the spirituality of Cassian, the historical person; the spirituality Cassian conveys in his writings; and Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience. The dissertation argues that Cassian’s spiritu
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Shao, Huei-Jhe, and 邵徽哲. "The Practice and Implication of Contemporary Christian Utopian Communities: The Case of Mount Zion of New Testament Church in Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6ujqn3.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>人類學研究所<br>104<br>This research focuses on the study of the autonomous community “Mount Zion” (Mt. Zion), established by the New Testament Church (NTC) in Taiwan. The aim of the research is to examine the contemporary features, present its development and practice of social life, and connect with some previous studies on Utopia. In my study, it is believed that the “thought” of Utopia may exit in various cultures, if Utopia is to be generalized as an idealism of living in a wonderful society in the mortal world. Throughout the world history, it seems that most of the few communi
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Campbell, Andrew Raymond. "Bound together : being-with gay and lesbian leather communities and visual cultures, 1966-1984." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29699.

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Bound Together elucidates how gay and lesbian leather communities, in the years between 1966 and 1984, contested and expanded fungible notions of sex, community, and history, mostly through material and visual cultural systems: dress codes such as the hanky code, architectural spaces (bars, bathhouses, private clubs), garments, posters, advertisements, newsletters, films, and performances. In examining visual and material cultures, procedures of archival research, as well as the physical states of key archives associated with historic gay and lesbian leather communities, this dissertation open
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Books on the topic "Contemporary Christian communities"

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In visible fellowship: A contemporary view of Bonhoeffer's classic work Life together. Leafwood Publishers, 2011.

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Ralston, Helen. Christian ashrams: A new religious movement in contemporary India. Edwin Mellen Press, 1987.

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Currell, Sophie Eloise. Popular perceptions of the Christian ascetic from 300 AD to 600 AD: An analysis of the relationship betweenSyrian and Egyptian ascetics and their local communities as revealed by hagiography and contemporary documents. typescript, 1995.

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Ralston, Helen. Christian Ashrams: A New Religious Movement in Contemporary India (Studies in Religion and Society, Vol 20). Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

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Joshi, Khyati. South Asian Religions in Contemporary America. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.11.

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Although South Asian American histories stretch back centuries, South Asian immigration to the United States has been increasing particularly rapidly over the past three decades. Made up predominantly of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, the immigrant cohorts represented in this group are both racial and religious minorities in the United States—neither white nor Christian. This chapter locates contemporary South Asian immigration in its historical context, illustrating the complexities of how racial status and religious background have impacted the perception of immigrants in the United States from
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Bauman, Chad M. Anti-Christian Violence in India. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750687.001.0001.

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Does religion cause violent conflict, this book asks, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian–Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007–2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, this book examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is “religious” conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergroup conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious violence over the last twenty to thirty years? Integ
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Fromm, Charles. Textual communities and new song in the multimedia age: The routinization of charisma in the Jesus movement. 2006.

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Kimball, Charles. Religion and Violence from Christian Theological Perspectives. Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0030.

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This chapter reviews the movement from pacifism to Just War and Crusade. It also tries to demonstrate the ways prominent Catholic and Protestant leaders have harshly used violent measures within their communities, and determines contemporary manifestations of these three approaches among twenty-first-century Christians. The Crusades constitute the third type of response to war and peace among Christians, joining the ongoing Just War and pacifist traditions. The Inquisition within the Catholic Church and the city-state of Geneva under John Calvin's leadership within the emerging Protestant move
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Bennett, Jana Marguerite. Singleness and the Church. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190462628.001.0001.

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Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggests—but they do not. Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often-overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. This book examines a variety of forgotten ways of being single: never-married, casual uncommitted relationships, committed unmarried relationships, same-sex attracted singleness, widowhood, divorce, and single parenting. Each chapter focuses on a different way of being single that draws together cultural commentary
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Shaner, Katherine A. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190275068.003.0006.

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Power struggles involving the ambiguous status of enslaved persons in leadership roles were endemic to first- and second-century religious practices within Ephesian groups, including early Christian groups. Indeed, these power struggles illustrate a fundamental problem in the study of slavery both ancient and contemporary: stable definitions of slavery are often declared in service to reifying kyriarchal leadership and power. Early Christian communities, like communities today, are not immune to this problem despite declarations of equality within them. Future scholarship as well as the contem
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Ngomedje, Adèle Djomo. "Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts:." In Edinburgh Centenary Series Compendium. Fortress Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcmbw.30.

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Ngomedje, Adèle Djomo. "Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts:." In A Learning Missional Church. Fortress Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcpsk.11.

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"Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts." In Edinburgh 2010 Witnessing to Christ Today. Fortress Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcqtk.12.

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"Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts." In Edinburgh 2010 Mission Today and Tomorrow. Fortress Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcqhx.27.

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Ham, Carlos. "Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts:." In Edinburgh 2010 Mission Today and Tomorrow. Fortress Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcqhx.38.

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Williams, D. H. "The Construction of Christian Self-Definition." In Defending and Defining the Faith. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190620509.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses the fact that the producers of apologetic literature were also the major architects of the Christian system of thought and belief. It accounts for the work that was done to ensure internal cohesiveness, as well as the efforts that Christian communities made to form in opposition to both Greco-Roman social and political elements, and Jewish authority. Apologetic writings reflected an existing contemporary situation in which the borders between Christians, Jews, and Greeks were clearly discernible. They were engaged in the very discursive practice that was also endeavoring to bring these borders into existence. Both apologetic writers and their opponents sought to produce and police the borders between Christians, Jews, and Greeks.
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Whelan, Robin. "Christianity, Ethnicity, and Society." In Being Christian in Vandal Africa. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295957.003.0007.

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This chapter tackles the interaction of ethnic and Christian identities in Vandal Africa. Its premise is that the dominant paradigm of dual ethnic and Christian affiliations—rooted in Victor of Vita’s fundamental dichotomy between Vandal Arians and Roman Catholics—does justice neither to the variety and subtlety of contemporary perspectives nor to the insights of recent critical work on group identities in late antiquity. Each form of identity was, at most, intermittently important for the inhabitants of post-imperial Africa. Ethnic affiliation does not seem to have mattered all that much to the kings and clerics who sought to police their orthodox communities, whether Homoian or Nicene: if any group was singled out, it was the service aristocracy of the kingdom, whatever their ethnicity. Beyond Victor of Vita, when ethnic-group formation and ethnographic perspectives shaped contemporary ideas of Christian community, it was in surprisingly subtle, varied, and even sympathetic ways.
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"From Jesus To The Early Christian Communities: Modes Of Sectarianism In The Light Of The Dead Sea Scrolls." In The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004185937.i-770.125.

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Kurien, Prema A. "Syrian Christian Encounters with Colonial Missionaries and Indian Nationalism." In Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479804757.003.0002.

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This chapter presents the complex history of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian denomination, which is essential to understanding many of the contemporary features of the church. Early Syrian Christians in Kerala considered themselves to be “Hindu in culture, Christian in religion, and Oriental in worship.” The chapter draws on archival and secondary research to examine how Syrian Christians were viewed and treated very differently by Portuguese Catholic and British Protestant missionaries during the colonial period and how their self-understanding, practices, and communities were fundamentally transformed by these encounters. It discusses the factors that led the leaders of the church to initiate a reformation of the liturgy and practices of the church and break away from Syrian Orthodox leadership and control to form a separate and autonomous Indian denomination in 1889. It also examines the influence of Indian nationalism and the Indian independence struggle on the church.
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Pregill, Michael E. "The Syrian–Palestinian Milieu in Late Antiquity." In The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852421.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on a unique corpus of early Christian literature in Syriac that reflects a synthesis of older patristic views of the Calf episode with specific themes that seem to have circulated widely in the Eastern Christian milieu, shared in common between communities of Jewish and Christian exegetes in this period. While continuing the tradition of anti-Jewish arguments predicated on the abiding impact of Israel’s sin with the Calf, authors such as Ephrem, Aphrahat, and Jacob of Serugh also developed a unique view of Aaron that dictated a more apologetic position regarding his culpability; this precisely paralleled the development of similar views of Aaron in Jewish tradition. This material provides us with a lens through which to examine the phenomenon of exegetical approaches that are held in common by different communities, yet deployed for opposite purposes. The chapter concludes by considering a possible historical context to Syrian Christian polemic against Jews based on the Calf narrative: the revival of priestly leadership, or at least interest in the priesthood and its role, among contemporary Jewish communities, especially in late antique Palestine.
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