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Mirakian, Laura. "A biblical response to individualism in America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Oligney, Kjersten. "'What God Hath Joined' : Theology and Marriage in Nineteeth-Centuary America." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508587.
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Hill, Matthew S. "God and Slavery in America: Francis Wayland and the Evangelical Conscience." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182008-095211/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Wendy Venet, committee chair; Glenn Eskew, Charles Steffen , committee members. Electronic text ( 284 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 9, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284).
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Howell, Erin. "Volunteer Tourism: Fulfilling the Needs for God and Medicine in Latin America." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6865.
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This study seeks to understand how short-term medical missions fulfill health needs for their recipients in Honduras, and how in turn, mission participants experience need fulfillment as well. By using the theoretical concept of co-construction of health to see how health needs are or are not met, I conducted a thematic analysis of the Baptist Medical and Dental Mission International (BMDMI) resulting in the following themes: 1.) Mission workers receive fulfillment from their experiences in the mission field. 2.) Mission recipients receive partial fulfillment of needs from the mission. 3). Through a calling, missions are a means to an end. Through these themes, this projects examines ethical stances on missions, communication about health in mission contexts, and whose needs are met, privileged, and silenced.
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Piper, Helen. "Constitution of religious liberty : God, Politics and the First Amendment in Trump's America." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364787.
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This thesis starts by describing the legal foundation of religious liberty in the United States and the evolvement of the religion clause jurisprudence. Then follows an outline of the main legal theories on religious liberty. It continues to describe a case study conducted on how Americans citizens perceive the protection of their religious liberty. Upon this there is a chapter where the detailed findings from the case study are described in juxtaposition to the relevant jurisprudence and how this can be applied to the overall legal framework protecting religious liberty. The final chapter is a discussion on what conclusions that can be drawn.
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Cooper, Sarah Elizabeth Mary. "Re-connecting the spirit : Jamaican women poets and writers' approaches to spirituality and God." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5427/.
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Chapter One asks whether Christianity and religion have been re-defined in the Jamaican context. The definitions of spirituality and mysticism, particularly as defined by Lartey are given and reasons for using these definitions. Chapter Two examines history and the Caribbean religious experience. It analyses theory and reflects on the Caribbean difference. The role that literary forefathers and foremothers have played in defining the writers about whom my research is concerned is examined in Chapter Three, as are some of their selected works. Chapter Four reflects on the work of Lorna Goodison, asks how she has defined God whether within a Christian or African framework. In contrast Olive Senior appears to view Christianity as oppressive and this is examined in Chapter Five. Chapter Six looks at the ways in which Erna Brodber re-connects the spirit. Chapter Seven regards the spiritually joyful God of Jean 'Binta' Breeze. Conclusions are then drawn as to whether writers have adapted a God to the Jamaican context, whether they have re-connected to the spirit and if it is true that Jamaica is a spiritual nation.
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Felix, Robert. "Finding God and gospel in the foundations of native American myths and beliefs." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Astore, William Joseph. "Observing God : Thomas Dick (1774-1857), evangelicalism and popular science in Victorian Britain and antebellum America." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296372.
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Kim, Stephanie B. "Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/659.
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This thesis delves into the postcolonial genre, examining the novel, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, and how it highlights the duality in gender roles, social class, and postcolonial society through the narrative style and language.
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Lightfoot, Dessa Elizabeth. "“God Sends Meat and the Devil Sends Cooks”: Meat Usage and Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century English Colonial America." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192810.
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American cuisines did not develop in isolation, but instead were influenced by a constant flow of information, individuals, and material culture between the colonies and the rest of the Atlantic world. These, in turn, interacted with the specific agricultural, social, and economic conditions and goals of residents in each colony. Food was a powerful symbol of identity in the English world in the eighteenth century, and printed English cookery books were widely available. What colonists ate, however, also reflected what was locally available, and resources could vary significantly between colonies. Meat usage is one aspect of cuisine that is directly observable in the archaeological record. This study employs a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the utility of printed eighteenth-century English cookery books to model and predict meat usage in the British American colonies, and to explore if or how meat usage and the larger cuisine varied from colony to colony. to do so, archaeologically-recovered faunal materials from sites in colonial Connecticut and colonial Virginia were compared against a model of meat usage constructed from a rigorous textual analysis of several popular printed cookery books and other texts available to colonists in the eighteenth century. The central aims of this research are to establish a baseline understanding of colonial American meat cuisine to allow for assessments of the ways the cuisine of the American colonists varied from their English peers, and to contextualize colonial British America cuisine in the ecological, political, and social worlds of eighteenth century Anglo-America.
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Quinn, Zarah Victoria. "Escaping through the Past, Haunted by the Future: Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639664.
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My Master’s Thesis is comprised of two essays that review two contemporary American texts. Through genres of the gothic and historical fiction, these texts confront America’s violence of the past and present. The first essay, “Desiring and Dispossessing: Whiteness in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God,” investigates the novel’s reliance on a gothic genre as an affective strategy to confront whiteness’ specter of self-destruction. The second essay, “Escaping Through The Underground Railroad,” reconsiders the movement of escape and theorizes the action as a miraculous but forever-incomplete movement toward alternative ways of being--a theorization that could be useful for the present day. Both essays approach fiction as a way to encounter and reconcile the histories and structures of violence of America.
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Hannah, Kathleen. "He was a Glance from God: Mythic Analogues for Tea Cake Woods in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." TopSCHOLAR®, 1992. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2420.
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The use of myth in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has been touched on by a few critics, but the wealth of Hurston's knowledge of different cultures offers readers a number of stories and tales from which to draw possible analogues to her characters. In fact, readers can trace Greek, Roman, Norse, Babylonian, Egyptian, African and African-American mythic elements in her character Tea Cake Woods. Hurston uses these analogues to enrich the characterization and to posit her theories of love and happiness in the modern age.
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Adrian, Carl, and Jonas Holm. "“Dead. He is Dead. God blesses America” : Den Amerikanska pressens gestaltning av kriget mot terrorism kring Usama bin Ladins död." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-30388.
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Almost 10 years after the attack on World Trade Center Sept. 11 2001, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed on May 2 2011 in Pakistan. How was this event framed by the media with regards to the global war on terror? This study compares two different American newspapers – the New York Times and the New York Daily News – and how they framed the war on terrorism in the Middle East from May 2 to May 15 2011. By analyzing the framing in a perspective of the four functions of framing theory: define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgments and suggest remedies, we found considerable differences in each papers frames. Through a qualitative text analysis of the opinion pages in these two newspapers, using three themes as a base, we found a number of differences. While the New York Times contained a form of open discussion about problems and remedies, New York Daily News takes an emotional and moral approach. These differences in content may affect the opinions of the readers. We speculate that the more open and suggestive nature of the New York Times, also opens the minds of the readers enabling them to form opinions in a liberated sense. Thus the more closed, emotional and moral nature of the New York Daily News may have greater impact on an individual’s ability to form its own opinions and moral values.
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Albarran, Louis. "The Face of God at the End of the Road: The Sacramentality of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, America, and Mexico." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375235381.
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Ngo, Chinh. "A Fire Stronger than God: Myth-making and the Novella Form in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1982.
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Using concepts of cognitive evolutionary theory, the author explores how narrative storytelling manifests itself in Denis Johnson's novella Train Dreams. The novella form is also discussed, focusing on its manipulation of linear time, its naturalization of supernatural elements, and its deconstruction of dichotomous relationships. Utilizing the novella's distinct structural and thematic elements, Johnson's text shows the myth of American expansionism and industrial progress and that of Kootenai holism in collision, resulting in a narrative renegotiation that seeks to affirm coexistence and complexity.
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Gooding, Ava E. "McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God as Works of Appalachian Gothic Fiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/79.
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In both Outer Dark and Child of God, McCarthy does a masterful job of blending the elements of Appalachian Gothic to present a novel that is darkly suspenseful and grimly thought-provoking. Outer Dark focuses on the complex incestuous relationship between a brother and sister and their interaction with others. The novel follows the two on a journey through the wilderness where they must cope with the unknown qualities of that wilderness, as well as the guilt stemming from their own behaviors. In Child of God, McCarthy explores the grotesque nature of a life lived in isolation and poverty in the mountains. This novel focuses more on an individual descent into the gruesome depths that illustrate the main character’s depravity. In these two novels McCarthy examines the darker side of life in Appalachia, and forces readers to question the purpose and meaning for the characters’ lives and actions.
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Thomas, Amber Robin. ""God has a plan for your life" : Personalized Life Providence (PLP) in postwar American evangelicalism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33208.
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Based largely upon popular periodicals, archival materials, conference addresses, and mass-market books, this thesis combines intellectual and cultural history to explore how the meaning behind the evangelical commonplace, "God has a plan for your life," changed in post-World War II America, ultimately exchanging an ethos of self-denial for self-fulfillment by the early 1980s. The term "Personalized Life Providence" (PLP) is proposed for the integration of three Reformation-rooted ideas-vocation, providence, and discernment-into the discussion of finding God's plan for one's life. Chapter one sketches the Anglo- American development of these concepts from the Puritan era to the early twentieth century, as they intersected with Common Sense philosophy, "Higher Life" teaching, the student-missionary movement, and inter-war fundamentalism. Chapter two begins the analysis of PLP's dissemination throughout Chicago-centered evangelical student-parachurch organizations in the 1940s. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Youth for Christ conflated PLP with personal holiness and, after the war, a resurgent American foreign-missionary movement, as displayed particularly in the texts of IVCF's Urbana conferences. Chapter three focuses on Henrietta Mears, Christian Education Director of First Presbyterian Church in Hollywood, California. Mears's Sunday-School publications and college ministry reveal PLP's embrace of irenic neo-evangelicalism in the 1950s, coupled with a revised discernment process. Chapter four identifies the emergence of the "gospel of God's plan" from Mears's protégés, specifically Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright, Presbyterian minister Richard Halverson, and evangelist Billy Graham. Epitomized by the phrase, "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life," the first of Bright's Four Spiritual Laws, this gospel resonated with the religious revival, anti-Communist rhetoric, and psychological emphasis on self-actualization pervading American culture from 1947 to 1965. Chapter five argues that anti-Western sentiments in the1960s eroded PLP's evocation of missionary sacrifice in neo-evangelical circles. YFC encouraged teenagers to pursue culturally influential professions rather than traditional evangelism, while IVCF promulgated inconsistent teaching on discerning a foreign-missionary call in revolutionary times. Chapter six explores PLP's relationship to the widespread cultural shift toward self-fulfillment in the 1970s, as reflected both in evolving teaching on women's roles, career choice, and missionary service, and in PLP books styled after mass-market, self-help literature.
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Hanson, Tammy S. "Overcoming Sin: Comparing Dante’s Inferno and the New Testament to Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2157.
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There are many textual and thematic similarities between Dante’s Inferno and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark. There are also significant textual similarities between the New Testament and McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God. Juxtaposing Outer Dark and Child of God to Inferno and the New Testament, respectively, suggests a common trope that redemption requires characters’ name and repent of sin.
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Freeman, Jeffrey B. "The Potential for religious conflict in the United States Military Jeffrey B. Freeman." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1793.
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The 2004 presidential election seemed to signal growing religious fervor across the political spectrum. Members of the media and pollsters alike were left wondering what went on inside the voting booth. Religion has long played a role in American politics, dating back to the Constitution of the United States of America. When components of government, the military, religion, and society converge, discussion and debate invariably follows. The United States military is a religiously pluralistic institution, with members belonging to an estimated 700 religions. The chaplaincy champions religious accommodation and the military itself supports over 245 faith groups. The chaplaincy is at the core of this religious accommodation since chaplains maintain a dual allegiance, as members of the clergy and as members of the officer corps. As religious diversity grows, the likelihood of controversy increases when, for instance, Indian members of the Native American Church take peyote, Wiccans observe pagan rites on military bases, and Muslim chaplains serve Muslim soldiers who find themselves at war within an Islamic country. This thesis explores some of the challenges inherent in ministering to so many diverse religions, and takes a critical look at areas of potential friction that might cause the Department of Defense to want to take a more attentive look at what such diversity means for the future.
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Jordão, José Cláudio. "Estudo do conceito Povo de Deus na Lumen Gentium." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18300.
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Previous issue date: 2012-02-01The Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium on the Church, elaborated in the Ecumenical Council Vatican II, recovers the concept "People of God" to qualify the group of the baptisms believers, be them, clergyman, religious, nuns or lay. It was promulgated by Pope Paulo VI on November 21, 1964, entering for the history of the Church. as a "divisor of waters" in the theological subjects in ecclesiastical. That study intends to deepen the understanding of that concept. In the itself text of the studied document, there is the acknowledgement: "was pleased, however, to God to sanctify and to save the men, no individually, excluding all the relationship among them, but forming actually with them a people, that knew him in the truth and served him in sanctity" (LG 09). Therefore, the concept People of God, it has biblical roots that are essential in its recital, though, this study is more turn over to the subjects ecclesiastical of the Council, the before, the during and the after, particularly in the Church of Latin America. The objective was to study the concept People of God starting from Lumen Gentium cooperating so that the understanding of that concept can be enlarged among the clergyman, religious persons and nons. It had as hypothesis to be proven that the concept People of God present in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church from Conclílio Vatican II still is not understood completely in its significanse for many baptisms believers. That study has used of the deductive method with bibliographical researches. It has had also as theoretical references the Scriptures, the key document in the discussions of the theme; a Lumen Gentum, as well as, other documents of the Teachership, besides works and periodic articles about the subject. With the development of that study it was verified that it is not still clearly understood that concept, because the hypothesis that it is not still completely understood the true meaning from the concept People of God, for many baptisms believers it was confirmed
A Constituição Dogmática Lumen Gentium sobre a Igreja, elaborada no Concílio Ecumênico Vaticano II, recupera o conceito Povo de Deus para qualificar o conjunto dos fiéis batizados, sejam eles, clérigos, religiosos (as) ou leigos (as). Foi promulgada pelo Papa Paulo VI no dia 21 de novembro de 1964, entrando para a história da Igreja, como um divisor de águas nas questões teológicas sobre eclesiologia. Esse estudo pretende aprofundar a compreensão desse conceito. No próprio texto do documento estudado, encontram-se a afirmação: Aprouve, no entanto, a Deus santificar e salvar os homens, não individualmente, excluindo toda a relação entre eles, mas formando com eles um povo, que o conhecesse na verdade e o servisse em santidade (LG 09). Portanto, o conceito Povo de Deus, tem suas raízes bíblicas que são essenciais na sua fundamentação, todavia, este estudo está mais voltado para as questões eclesiológicas do Concílio, o antes, o durante e o depois, particularmente na Igreja da América Latina. O objetivo foi estudar o conceito Povo de Deus, a partir da Lumen Gentium cooperando para que a compreensão desse conceito possa ser ampliada entre os clérigos, religiosos (as) e leigos (as). Teve como hipótese a ser comprovada a de que o conceito Povo de Deus presente na Constituição Dogmática sobre a Igreja do Concílio Vaticano II ainda não é totalmente compreendido no seu verdadeiro significado por muitos fiéis batizados. Esse estudo utilizou-se do método dedutivo com pesquisas bibliográficas. Teve também como referenciais teóricos as Sagradas Escrituras, o documento chave nas discussões do tema; a Lumen Gentium, bem como, outros documentos do Magistério, além de obras e artigos periódicos sobre o assunto. Com o desenvolvimento desse estudo verificou-se que ainda não é claramente compreendido esse conceito, pois a hipótese de que ainda não é totalmente compreendido o verdadeiro significado do conceito Povo de Deus, por muitos fiéis batizados foi confirmada
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Miguel, Adinael Carlos. "A importância do Reino de Deus na Cristologia da América Latina." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18362.
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Previous issue date: 2015-08-12In this research intends to focus on the importance of the Kingdom of God on Christology in Latin America, that is, we want to do work that discusses the context of Christology in Latin American reality, and the operation and structure of the Kingdom of God in Jesus, and the proposal presented by him, compared to the reality of our continent, however, to develop this research we report a Christology that reveals a historical Jesus, as from its history, we have knowledge of their mission, and analyze the situation of the poor of Latin America. Is portrayed the proposal of the Kingdom of God by Jesus, who were the recipients, so their preference for the excluded of his time. Conclude commenting on the Kingdom of God in view of Christology in Latin America, recalling the reality faced by this continent, and comparing to the situation of disadvantaged poor in Jesus' time
Nessa pesquisa pretende enfocar a importância do Reino de Deus na Cristologia da América Latina, ou seja, queremos realizar um trabalho que relata o contexto da Cristologia na realidade Latino-americana, e o funcionamento e estrutura do Reino de Deus na época de Jesus, e a proposta apresentada por Ele, comparando com a realidade do nosso continente atual. Entretanto, para desenvolver esta pesquisa iremos relatar uma Cristologia que revela um Jesus histórico, pois a partir da sua história, teremos conhecimento da sua missão, e analisar a situação dos pobres da América Latina. Será retratada a proposta de Reino de Deus apresentada por Jesus, quem eram seus destinatários, e por isso a sua preferência pelos excluídos da sua época. Concluiremos comentando sobre o Reino de Deus na perspectiva da Cristologia da América Latina, relembrando a realidade vivenciada por este continente, e comparando com a situação dos pobres desfavorecidos na época de Jesus
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Angeles, Marie. "On the Matter of God’s Goodness: An Examination of the Failure of Theodicies, Herman Melville, and an Alternative Approach to the Problem of Evil." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/475.
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Within Judeo-Christianity there is a belief in an all perfect God who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. However, in this world evil and suffering exists, so how is it possible that an all perfect God can exist? This is called the problem of evil. This thesis examines the problem of evil and how philosophers like Alvin Plantinga, John Hick, and Richard Swinburne attempt to solve the problem of evil through different theodicies. In this paper I argue that all three philosophers and their theodicies fail to solve the problem of evil. I then turn to the writings of Herman Melville, specifically Mardi: and a Voyage Thither and Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, and consider how he, as an author, struggled with the problem of evil and religion. While Melville may have struggled I argue that within his works we can find part of the solution to the problem of evil. Through these two novels Melville demonstrates that God is not good. My final chapter considers this fact that God is not good and also considers how God is not evil. In the end I argue that God is neither good nor evil which allows us to no longer have to face the problem of evil.
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James, Lisa. "“To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23673.
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This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. Understanding the relationship between physical or metaphorical space and thecontradictions of the societies they encompass is crucial to deciphering Butler’s near-futuredystopia; a world where the problems of real-life Los Angeles and Southern California aredistorted into a gross carnivalesque of gender stereotypes, sociopolitical tensions, and vigilante warfare. This paper places a special emphasis on the areas of social and political stagnation found in Butler’s vision of near-future L.A., and analyses the dangers of clinging to archaic, patriarchal systems that no longer resonate with contemporary audiences. Focus is also placed on potential methods of resistance against oppressive social institutions, particularly exploring the limitations met by protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, in her attempts to voice concerns in a society where language is so nuanced by “traditional” gendered qualities that the female voice carries no political value. This papers also questions theories which promote violent confrontation as a means to social reform, disregarding collateral damage and victims of war in favour of insurgency. By exploring the movement of the human body away from defined space, this paper supports Butler’s notion of alternative prosocial action which celebrates the margins of society, positing a nurturing, constructive means to resist political opposition.
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Cadavid, Yani Helwi Margarita. "A Colombian Nun and the Love of God and Neighbour : The Spiritual Path of María de Jesús (1690s-1776)." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Missionsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296111.
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María de Jesús (1690s-1776) was a white-veiled Discalced Carmelite nun of the San José convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá, founded in 1606. She professed in the year 1714, and her spiritual journal was printed in a chronicle about the convent in the 1940s. The aim of this study is to examine the love of God and of neighbour, as expressed in the spiritual journal of María de Jesús. In this study I will proceed from the understanding of love as charity. In Christian thought God Himself is love, and its source. Charity, the third, and greatest, of the theological virtues, is a state of being in and responding to God’s love and favour. This way of loving consists in loving God wholeheartedly and loving our neighbour as ourselves. Included in loving our neighbour are acts related to his or her spiritual benefit and salvation. These are all present themes in María de Jesús’ text, but my aim is to examine how she incorporates these themes in her spiritual testimony by analyzing the imagery she uses, and the affective language in her spiritual journal. I will also seek to understand her way of writing by analyzing her text against the background of the tradition of women’s spiritual writings. Being a Discalced Carmelite, it will also be interesting to discover the Teresian presence in María de Jesus’ text, i.e. the influence of her predecessor and the reformer of the order, Teresa of Ávila (1515- 1582). I suggest that this can be noticed in certain rhetorical techniques. I also aim to examine if there are any similarities and differences in their expressions of love of God and of neighbour.
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Tadvald, Batista Marcelo. "Adaptações da fé : análise antropológica da transnacionalização da Igreja Universal entre Brasil e Argentina." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/71939.
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Nas últimas décadas, a partir da nova ordem mundial constituída pela globalização, intensificaram-se os fluxos entre diferentes países de práticas, símbolos, capitais, pessoas, religiões e toda a sorte de bens culturais que transitam constantemente e em ritmo acelerado nesse contexto. No que se refere ao campo religioso, percebeu-se que o trânsito de religiões entre o seu contexto nacional e cultural originário e o contexto receptor perpassa diferentes estratégias de adaptação, que reconfiguram os campos religiosos em questão. Este trabalho se ocupa das formas de adaptação em um contexto exterior de religiões originadas no Brasil, mais especificamente das estratégias postas em prática, das ressemantizações produzidas e dos diálogos com a cultura local realizados pela Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no seu processo de transnacionalização para a Argentina. Desta forma, o trabalho examina a formação de comunidades religiosas transnacionais a partir das novas configurações que se observa atualmente no espaço transnacional formado entre o Brasil e a Argentina e de um diálogo entre as suas sociedades nacionais, aspectos históricos, políticos e culturais relacionados ao campo religioso que possibilitam os fluxos abordados. Tendo como objeto de análise a Igreja Universal na Argentina, avalio a sua presença no exterior a partir de diferentes instâncias, como a sua relação com as sociedades envolventes (de origem e de recepção) e a sua atuação nesses locais mediante uma etnografia das mídias e do cotidiano em templos e rituais da igreja no exterior e de sua relação com outras religiões, como o catolicismo e as religiões de matriz africana. Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida entre 2007 e 2012 no Brasil (Brasília e Porto Alegre) e na Argentina (Buenos Aires e conurbado).In recent decades, arising from the new world order, flows of practices, symbols, capital, people, religions and all sorts of cultural goods which move constantly at a fast pace between different countries were intensified. In regard to religion, the transit of religions between their national and original cultural context to a foreign context entails different adaptation strategies, which reshape these religious fields. This study focuses on the ways religions originated in Brazil adapt to a foreign context, more specifically on the strategies put into practice, on the resemantizations produced and on the dialogues with the local culture established by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in its process of transnationalization to Argentina. Thus, the thesis examines the formation of transnational religious communities from the new configurations that can be seen today in transnational space formed between Brazil and Argentina and the dialogue between their national societies, historical, political and cultural issues related to the religious field which enable the flows discussed. With the purpose of analyzing the Universal Church in Argentina, this thesis evaluates its presence abroad in such perspectives as, its relationship with the surrounding societies and its performance at these sites through an ethnography of media and of routine in temples and rituals as well as its relationship with other religions, such as catholicism and religions of African origin. This research was conducted between 2007 and 2012 in Brazil (Brasilia and Porto Alegre) and Argentina (Buenos Aires and metropolitan area).
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Avila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.
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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.
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Loomis, Van L. "Hope for today and tomorrow : G. C. Berkouwer's doctrines of providence and resurrection with regard to the current topics of the 9/11 terrorism attack on America and the rise of hyper-preterism." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3645.
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This dissertation argues for the hope that is found in G. C. Berkouwer’s
doctrines of providence and bodily resurrection in relation to the terrorist attack
on September 11, 2001, and the rising pervasiveness of the doctrine of hyperpreterism
among American Reformed circles.
In Part I of the dissertation, Berkouwer’s doctrine of providence is
explained and then evaluated and applied. By way of explanation and
exposition, Berkouwer’s knowledge of providence is examined, along with his
theology of providence in sustenance and government, in relation to miracles,
and the dilemma of the existence of God and evil. Following that is an
evaluation and application of the doctrine to the 9/11 terrorist attack on America.
In Part II, a theological/doctrinal study is undertaken concerning the
doctrine of resurrection. Hyper-preterism is examined, along with its leading
proponents, and placed into interaction with Berkouwer’s views of the doctrine
of the physical resurrection of the body at the eschaton.Theology
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Koranda, David. "Ateismus v Americe." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-267882.
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This diploma work analyzes the contemporary rise of the number of atheists in the United States of America, basing this presupposition on numerous nation-wide surveys, primarily conducted by Gallup Poll and Pew Research Center. It goes into depth on the definition of atheism and strictly delineates the meaning of this word and the use of its alternatives in the work. Given the fact that the thesis is written by a Czech author, it also provides necessary background covering the differences between Czech atheism and American atheism. Since the work is purposely not one of literary analysis but rather of socio-political and cultural nature, reasons for this decision are given in a separate subchapter analyzing Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood. History of atheism in America is touched upon in the beginning of Chapter 3, but since the fundamental focus of this work is on the contemporary state of affairs, the roots of modern atheism in America are sought after mainly in the twentieth century. In particular, the greatest causes of the weakening of church's power and the rise of secularism (or atheism, for that matter) are given as following: Madalyn Murray O'Hair's fights against church's influence in public schools and against its public funding; the argument about the non-scientific nature of belief...
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Khan, Khatija Bibi. "Post 9/11 constructions of Muslim identities in American black popular music." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3606.
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The aim of this study was to critically explore the constructions of Muslim identities in selected Black African American popular music composed before and after the 11th of September 2001. This study is interdisciplinary because it used popular culture theories developed by Hall, Strinati, Storey and Gilroy’s concept of the Black Atlantic. Postcolonial literary theories of Bhabha, Spivak and Fanon were also used. The study demonstrated that the content and style of the lyrics by Public Enemy, Talib Kweli, Paris, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Scarface, Miss Eliot, Missundastood, Erykah Badu and KRS-One have been influenced by Islam’s religious versions of the Nation of Islam, Five Percenters or Nation of Gods and Earths and Sunny Islam. Individual singers also manipulated the spiritual symbols and cultural resources made available to them in the Islam religion. Black African American singers more or less share common historical experiences, but they constructed and depicted Muslim identities differently because of their class, generational and gender backgrounds. Chapter one introduced the area of study, justified it and adopted an eclectic theoretical approach in order to account for the diverse constructions of Muslim identities in the songs composed by black African American hip hop singers. Chapter two provided an extended review of literature for the study. Chapter three explored the influence of the Nation of Islam on the singers and its creative manipulation by the black singers. Chapter four explored religious hybridity because the lyrics draw from Islam and Christian eschatological values. Chapter five used lyrics by three black female singers and revealed how they reconfigured differently, Black Muslim identities in a musical industry predominantly patronised by male singers. Chapter six explored the use of language in signifying different meanings of Muslim-ness in order to arrive at different definitions of pan Black Islamic musical consciousness. Chapter seven concluded the study by summarising the central argument of the study which was that black African American singers have referenced cultural symbols from Islam and in the process manipulated Islam’s religious metaphors to suggest different and alternative models for the black communities in the United States of America.English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil.
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Khan, Khatija Bibi. "Post 9/11 constructions of Muslims identities in the American black popular music." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3606.
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The aim of this study was to critically explore the constructions of Muslim identities in selected Black African American popular music composed before and after the 11th of September 2001. This study is interdisciplinary because it used popular culture theories developed by Hall, Strinati, Storey and Gilroy’s concept of the Black Atlantic. Postcolonial literary theories of Bhabha, Spivak and Fanon were also used. The study demonstrated that the content and style of the lyrics by Public Enemy, Talib Kweli, Paris, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Scarface, Miss Eliot, Missundastood, Erykah Badu and KRS-One have been influenced by Islam’s religious versions of the Nation of Islam, Five Percenters or Nation of Gods and Earths and Sunny Islam. Individual singers also manipulated the spiritual symbols and cultural resources made available to them in the Islam religion. Black African American singers more or less share common historical experiences, but they constructed and depicted Muslim identities differently because of their class, generational and gender backgrounds. Chapter one introduced the area of study, justified it and adopted an eclectic theoretical approach in order to account for the diverse constructions of Muslim identities in the songs composed by black African American hip hop singers. Chapter two provided an extended review of literature for the study. Chapter three explored the influence of the Nation of Islam on the singers and its creative manipulation by the black singers. Chapter four explored religious hybridity because the lyrics draw from Islam and Christian eschatological values. Chapter five used lyrics by three black female singers and revealed how they reconfigured differently, Black Muslim identities in a musical industry predominantly patronised by male singers. Chapter six explored the use of language in signifying different meanings of Muslim-ness in order to arrive at different definitions of pan Black Islamic musical consciousness. Chapter seven concluded the study by summarising the central argument of the study which was that black African American singers have referenced cultural symbols from Islam and in the process manipulated Islam’s religious metaphors to suggest different and alternative models for the black communities in the United States of America.English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil.
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Kuenzel, Karl Edwin. "The doctrine of the church and its ministry according to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the USA." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1608.
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Nothing has influenced and affected the Lutheran Church in the U.S.A. in the past century more than the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry. When the first Norwegian immigrants entered the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century, there were not enough Lutheran pastors to minister to the spiritual needs of the people. Some of these immigrants resorted to a practice that had been used in Norway, that of using lay-preachers. This created problems because of a lack of proper theological training. The result was the teaching of false doctrine. Some thought more highly of the lay-preachers than they did of the ordained clergy. Consequently clergy were often viewed with a discerning eye and even despised. This was one of the earliest struggles within the Norwegian Synod. Further controversies involved whether the local congregation is the only form in which the church exists. Another facet of the controversy involves whether or not the ministry includes only the pastoral office; whether or not only ordained clergy do the ministry; whether teachers in the Lutheran schools are involved in the ministry; and whether or not any Christian can participate in the public ministry. Is a missionary, who serves on behalf of the entire church body, a pastor? If only the local congregation can call a pastor, then a missionary cannot be a pastor because he serves the entire church body in establishing new congregations. Is a seminary professor, who trains future pastors, a pastor? If only the local congregation can call a pastor, a seminary professor cannot be a pastor because he is called by the seminary board of control and not one particular congregation. In seeking to develop a statement that clearly defines the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry, a controversy exists within the church body known as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), the successor synod to the Norwegian Synod. The reason for the controversy is that two different views of how to develop a doctrinal statement exist in the ELS. Some go directly to Scripture and set forth a position. Others follow an example found in C.F.W. Walther's theses on Church and Ministry. They misunderstand and misuse this approach that was developed only for use in a controversy against an erring Lutheran pastor, Johannes Grabau of the Buffalo Synod. Many of those who utilize this approach are former members of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), of which Walther was one of the founders. As a result of the two distinct approaches, there has been an inability to unanimously agree on the wording of the statements on the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry. It is the conclusion of the author that it is this reliance on statements made by individuals in previous centuries regarding particular situations that has caused the struggle to develop and serves to prolong it.Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics
D. Th. (Systematic Theology)