Dissertations / Theses: 'Lutheran church, united states'

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Rast, Lawrence R. "Nineteenth-century Lutheranism in the American South and West ministry and mission /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Fuchs, John G. "New measures an analysis of an argument among Lutherans in the United States during the fourth and fifth decades of the nineteenth century /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Yoak, Russel T. "Discovery Project of How Lutheran Churches Effectively Foster a Sense of Belonging Among Millennials." Ashland Theological Seminary / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=atssem1619435848235114.

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Jancarz, Janusz. "Use of Psalms in the funeral rites of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Episcopal churches in the United States of America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Smith, Ryan Kendall. "A Church Fire and Reconstruction: St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Petersburg, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626187.

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Johnston, Michelle R. "The sustainability of the seven two-year United Methodist colleges in the United States." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04152006-224213.

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McNamara, Roger N. "The role of demography in church planting within the United states of America." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1987. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Anderson, Michael Ellis. "Understanding the subjectivities of pastors and beliefs about the current American church culture." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4838.

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This study investigates the spiritual subjectivities of pastors in the Mainstream White Middle Class Evangelical Church in the context of American capitalism. The Evangelical church carries extreme amounts of power and influence in shaping the beliefs of individuals in American society. However, very little pointed research of pastors' spiritual subjectivities that guide their teachings and views in this sub-sect of church culture is present in academia. Anthropology, along with other disciplines, often focuses on dominant churches from an etic perspective of politics and power relations without fully considering the spiritual beliefs of pastors. This etic perspective can miss the deeply interwoven factors, including understanding of the Scriptures and pastors' roles in their congregations, challenges associated with religious consumerist competition, and conceptualizations of church "success" that shape pastors subjectivities, and in turn help shape American Christian culture. Pastors navigate the tension between the broader capitalistic social forces and their spiritual and Biblical beliefs as many pastors of the church aim to change the unquestioned adherence to these ideals. Building on my seven years of experience as a pastor in the Orlando area and drawing on current research with a group of Evangelical pastors, I demonstrate in this study that although capitalistic social forces shape many ideals of individuals in the American Evangelical church culture, understanding pastors' spiritual subjectivities is crucial when investigating the influence of the church in America.
ID: 029809209; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149).
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San, Luis Carlos R. "Filipino church planting in Canada and the United States of America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (M. Min.)--Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988.
Title on thesis approval sheet: Ethnic church planting in the Canadian context. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-149).

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Yarnelle, Edward Joseph. "Pipe and electronic church organ acquisitions since 1975 in selected Roman Catholic parishes in the United States." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722778.

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A survey was conducted to determine current conditions pertaining to church organ acquisitions and renovations in selected Roman Catholic parishes in the United States. A need exists to ascertain what problems are occurring with the process of organ acquisition, what solutions are possible, and how trends in organ acquisition are measuring up with the principles outlined by Vatican II.Addresses of organ companies were obtained from the current National Association of Pastoral Musician's Organ Builders Directory_ (1988). The 105 organ companies queried sent the researcher the addresses of 711 past and current Roman Catholic customers; each customer was sent a questionnaire. Fifty-eight percent of the contacts responded, supplying significant information from 362 parishes in the forty-eight contiguous United States. Information was obtained regarding: organ installation/renovation, selection, organ companies considered, console placement, parish size, age of church building, fund-raising, greatest difficulties experienced, points of advice based on experience, diocesan organ acquisition policies, acoustical concerns, and reasons for choosing a pipe or an electronic instrument.Reviews of related research and discussions of current publications, Roman Catholic church music legislation, new technologies used for accompanying church music, and differing opinions of church leaders supplement the survey research.Parishes reported their most difficult problems encountered during organ acquistion and offered their best points of advice for avoiding problems. The data include opinions regarding pipe and electronic instruments; organ companies frequently utilized; examples of sucessful organ console placement; the status and examples of diocesan written policies concerning keyboard accompaniment instruments; the benefits of combining fund-raising with parish education and communication; and the need for greater concern and education regarding acoustics.Case studies describe Roman parishes that achieved quality worship services after thorough preparations for their organ acquisition. Beginning parishes need the greatest amount of help for organ planning. Conclusions call for national-level attention and education about the organ acquisition process, and encourage dioceses to facilitate this goal with well-written policies.
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Mooney, Mary. "Challenge to authority : Catholic laity in Chile and the United States, 1966-1987." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28858.

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This dissertation analyzes the nature and degree of attitudinal change that has taken place within a key sector of the Catholic Church, i.e, lay leaders, in the period between 1966 and 1987 in two different national contexts, Chile and the United States. It builds on an unfinished study by Ivan Vallier, who attempted to clarify the ambiguous position of the laity in the Church and in society, in implementing the reforms of Vatican II. The author interviewed 96 middle-class lay leaders, plus dozens of informants. The analysis examines continuity and change on three issues. Some key findings include: a significant change in concepts of Church and God, toward more intimate/maternal images that encompass an active social dimension; much greater salience and complexity of the 'democratization' issue, particularly concerning the role of women, in the American Church; and the continuing imperative of the socio-political issue for the Chileans and their demands for more, not less, political involvement by the hierarchy. The results reflect the persistent tensions between 'progressive' and 'conservative' models of change, and help to explain the continuing importance of religion in modern society.

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Loftis, Michael Grayson. "A historical survey of evangelical youth ministry in the United States, 1935-1985." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Hartzler, Joseph A. "We beg to differ, the Roman Catholic church in the United States as a public church." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ54048.pdf.

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Moriarty, Michael. "The next great awakening? revivals, great awakenings and the future of the church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Harvey, Robert A. "The church's role in caring for the aged in 20th century United States." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Kabala, James Stanley. "A Christian nation? : church-state relations in the early American republic, 1787--1846." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318336.

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Anderson, Ronald M. "Basic training a discipleship manual for Christians in the military /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Wells, Samuel Spencer. "Heathen Men and Publicans': Excommunicates, Church Discipline and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, 1730-1840." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153808.

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"Heathen Men and Publicans" looks at the ways in which freedom of conscience and association intertwined in from the early colonial through the early national eras of American history, by examining the arguments which excommunicated Protestants leveled in an effort to protest the church discipline with which they were faced, as well as the reforms they endeavored to enact within the church bodies they joined and created following their excisions from religious societies. Likewise, the dissertation asks how conceptions of church discipline bled over into the civil sphere to influence politics and political culture in the years following the American Revolution. From 1730-1840, alternative conceptions of liberty of conscience and association dueled for preeminence in the chapels and meetinghouses of American Protestants. Where ecclesiastical leaders and many laymen described the liberties in question in corporate terms--as the property of religious bodies duly established--those faced with church discipline increasingly argued that individual conceptions of freedom of conscience and association deserved to be protected within associated societies. to this end, excommunicates following the Revolution embarked on a number of novel experiments in church government, minimizing the importance of church ordinances, disputing the existence of heresy, arguing for the liberty of excommunicates to employ the property of the religious meetings to which they had once belonged, and insisting that members, not church bodies, held the right to decide if and when they would exit a religious association. Even as many excommunicates sought to subject themselves to new religious communities following their excisions, they nonetheless contributed to the rise of an increasingly atomized sense of individual conscience in the early American Republic.

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MacNeill, Molly. "Church and state : public education and the American religious right." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21237.

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In the late 1970's and 1980's, education issues formed a pivotal part of the American religious conservative agenda. The issues of school prayer, textbook content and the teaching of evolution in particular inspired lively debate and committed activism on the part of conservative Protestant leaders and activists. Confronting the behemoth of secular humanism, these leaders sought to win converts and to foment action in the converted through two separate modes of rhetoric: the emotional, which used impassioned arguments, and the intellectual, a more phlegmatic approach used to achieve political ends. Finding their roots in the 1920's, conservative Protestants have placed paramount importance on education issues throughout American history, believing that the United States is a fundamentally Christian nation, founded on a normative Protestant world view, and that American children should be taught according to these principles.

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Williams, James Homer. "The Influence of the Church in Seventeenth-Century Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625420.

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Schlaepfer, René C. "An analysis of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue group's consensus paper, "Justification by faith"." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Sutherland, Philip. "Christ and Culture in America: Civil Religion and the American Catholic Church." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107479.

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Thesis advisor: Mark Massa
Thesis advisor: Dominic Doyle
Civil religion is a necessary unifying force in a religiously plural society such as the United States, but it can also usurp the place of Christianity in the believer’s life. This is always a danger for Christianity which can only be the “good news” if it is inculturated by drawing upon a society’s own symbols. But it must also transcend the culture if it is to speak a prophetic word to it
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Ballard, Christa. "Experience, story, and mission exploring the emerging church conversation in the United States /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1498.

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Divino, Cláudio. "Proposed models for cross-cultural church planting in the United States of America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Rodriguez-Flores, Jose Angel. "Religious, psychological, and cultural factors in church worship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p064-0135.

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Witzig, Fred. "The Great Anti-Awakening anti-revivalism in Philadelphia and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1739-1745 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319836.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 13, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3292. Adviser: Stephen J. Stein.

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Lam, Minh Van. "A strategy for understanding and ministering to troubled Vietnamese families in the United States." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1998. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Yap, Victor Fook-Seng. "Developing lay preaching teams for Chinese churches in the United States." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Page, Bobby Vincent. "Small groups a strategy for ministry with young single adults in the United States Air Force /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Mahoney, John J. "The canonical regulation of the restored catechumenate in the National Statutes of the United States." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Graham, Preston Don. "The True Presbyterian a case study of border state dissent during the American Civil War /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Schwartz, Kaila Knight. "Giles Corey as Man, Myth, and Memory / Identity, Family, and Tradition in the Lives of George Robert Twelves Hewes, Robert Twelves, and Boston’s Old South Church." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639675.

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Giles Corey as Man, Myth, and Memory Giles Corey is remembered today as the man who suffered the singular fate of being pressed to death during the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Corey was neither the first, nor the only, man killed during the trials, yet has captured the public imagination where others have not. His refusal to stand before the court is depicted as a testament to his principled moral commitment, idealizing him as a hero ahead of his time. An examination of seventeenth-century records, however, reveal Corey engaging in illegal behavior, heckling his neighbors, alienating members of his own family, and generally inspiring dislike. How, then, did the glorified popular image of him originate, and why? Surveying the earliest works focused on Corey reveals him as a mythic construction of late nineteenth century. Authors recast his story out of shame for the 1692 executions and a general nostalgia for the agrarian past as a foil for the turmoil and corruption they saw in the present. Through these revisions, Corey entered American cultural memory as a symbolic caricature of preindustrial virtue and small-town values. Family, and Tradition in the Lives of George Robert Twelves Hewes, Robert Twelves, and Boston’s Old South Church George Robert Twelves Hewes, familiar to scholars of the American Revolution as the central figure of Alfred Young’s The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, had an unusually long name. Middle names were rare at the time of his birth, and multiple middle names rarer still. Why did Hewes’ parents bestow such an unwieldy name on him? Although Hewes shared his name with his father and uncle, another namesake, Robert Twelves (a distant relative, who built the original Old South Church), provided valuable social capital. However, the ties commemorated by the name did not remain transparent, and its meaning evolved over time. Just as Robert Twelves faded from memory in the Hewes family during the late nineteenth century, the caretakers of the Old South Meetinghouse revived his name to serve a new purpose. In saving the church from the threat of demolition, they reimagined its role in the nation’s founding and attached it to a version of the past that celebrated great men, including its purported builder. Exploring the intertwined histories of Hewes, his namesakes, and the church where his family worshipped illuminates both the varied purposes a name could serve and the role of memory in reconstructing the past.

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Sanders, Alvin Edward. "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak understanding racial diversity on a Christian college campus /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1154527051.

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Bolejack, E. Arlin. "A survey of church growth methods used by Christian Churches in the southeastern United States." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Brand, Jonathan David. "Preserving a Pure Gathering of Saints: A Study of a Seventeenth-Century New England Church." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625998.

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Lafferty, David M. "Constructing priests' spiritualities fashioning spiritual practices and integrating spirituality in the lives of Roman Catholic diocesan priests in the United States /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Perkin, David Rundle. "A comparative analysis of the 1971 and 1984 editions of Permanent deacons in the United States, guidelines on their formation and ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Lamborn, Richard D. "The first Mormon women." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Roy, John J. "Catholic identity of primary and secondary schools in the United States in light of canon 803." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Aukerman, John H. "Competencies needed for effective ministry by beginning pastors in Church of God congregations in the United States." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/762974.

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Competency based adult education and theological education are synthesized to identify a core of minimal competencies needed by beginning pastors of congregations of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) in the United States. Research methods are qualitative and descriptive, using triangulation to increase dependability. Triangulation involves multiple methods (literature review, interviews, and surveys) and multiple populations (ancient authorities, contemporary authorities, pastors, lay people, and seminary professors). The most dependable conclusions reached are those suggested by all methods and populations.The theory and practice of competency based adult education are presented. Theological education is reviewed through history, across denominations, and in the church of God. Examples of competency based theological education are presented.The most important competencies identified for beginning pastors are attitudinal (affective domain): honesty, integrity, love for God and people, personal belief in the gospel, being filled with the Holy Spirit, commitment to Christian standards, a sense of being called to ministry, and a strong commitment to ministry.Other important competencies are knowledge (cognitive domain): the nature and content of biblical literature, techniques of exegesis and interpretation, pastoral methods, and knowledge of people in their social setting. Important skill competencies (psychomotor domain) are also identified: leadership, communication and human relationships, biblical exegesis and interpretation, and personal devotional skills.
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Ratini, Meagan M. "Final rest at the hilltop sanctuary| The community of Mount Gilead AME Church." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1566553.

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The Mount Gilead AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, perched on a mountain in Buckingham, Pennsylvania, has been a focal point of African American heritage in the area for over a hundred and seventy-five years. Though the second church building, dated to 1852, is still standing with its cemetery beside it, very little about its history has been thoroughly explored. Oral histories link the church with the Underground Railroad, a highly clandestine operation—yet the church itself was built of stone and advertized its location during the height of the movement of self-emancipated people out of the South. While it is said that this rural church community was made up of a hundred families who settled across the hillside, the cemetery itself only has 243 currently marked graves. The antebellum church hosted hundreds of people, black and white, at events held within walking distance of the rumored hideouts of those on the run from slavery. In order to determine the extent of this seemingly paradoxical relationship between secrecy and prominence, and to achieve a fuller understanding of the community during the 19^th century, the church's history is approached from several angles simultaneously. The cemetery itself is identified as a critical location where much can be learned about the composition, achievements, and struggles of the community. Combining archival research (primarily in the US Census, newspapers, and farm account books) with geographic information systems (GIS) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), a sense of the size, occupations, and personal histories of the community are achieved, yielding a composite view of the general church population and its history between the 1820s and 1900.

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Atwood, Scott Edward. ""An Instrument for Awakening": The Moravian Church and the White River Indian Mission." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625693.

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Price, David M. "An historical interpretation of the establishment clause." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Gilbert, Ashley. "Political Entities: Churches and Taverns in Revolutionary Virginia, 1765-1780." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4209.

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This thesis examines how churches and taverns became sites for political discussion and organizing during the Revolutionary era, 1765-1780. Taverns had long served a role in Virginians’ lives by providing places where news was exchanged and discussed, but with the political upheaval between the colonies and Great Britain many of the activities and discussions that took place there became far more politically charged. Analyzing churches and their role within the revolutionary era demonstrates that Virginia’s revolutionary leaders used an institution deeply rooted in their society to further political activism by Virginians and Virginia’s provisional government. But in several ways the Revolution also wrought profound changes with regard to religious liberty and social hierarchy. Through the study of both churches and taverns this study reveals new insights about how these institutions served overlapping and sometimes parallel roles by providing spaces for meetings, discussions, and the exchange of information—as well as new sources of political debate.

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Grimes, Edward. "The teaching of canon law and the pastoral formation of future priests, with special reference to the United States." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Babb, Trevor R. "The Christian church as a prophetic voice challenging 21st century American culture /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Lightner, Leslie Lynn. "A descriptive study of religious education teacher training practices in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117655.

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The study collected information about training practices in local churches of the United Brethren in Christ. A mailed questionnaire was used to collect data from 230 churches nationwide. The instrument contained 22 questions, divided into three sections: (a) teacher involvement in religious education, (b) teacher training, and (c) demographic information. The return rate was 65.7% (151 surveys). Frequency counts and percentages were obtained. Data were summarized in table and narrative form. Cross-tabulations were completed between selected demographic variables and the provision for teacher training.Selected findings included: (a) among 15 possible religious education activities, at least two-thirds of the churches reported using teachers in five of them; (b) over half of the churches (51%) provided some form of training; (c) among those providing some form of training the scope was limited; (d) difficulty in scheduling and lack of fiscal resources were identified as the greatest obstacles to training; (e) training was more common in churches with larger attendance figures for worship and Sunday school.The following conclusions were formulated: (a) the extent to which teachers were used in religious education activities was affected by the scope of programs offered; (b) in the absence of a mandate for training, scheduling and scarce resources were negative factors; (c) even in churches conducting training, the activity was not a high priority; (d) reliance on consultants and conferences reflected the fact that churches did not conduct theirfor pastors to require training; and, (f) training occurred more often in larger churches where adequate resources and formal approaches to programming were common.Six recommendations were presented: (a) the denomination should develop and disseminate a position on teacher training; (b) pastors should be exposed to educational programs stressing the importance of training teachers; (c) the denomination should formulate and make available more programs and materials to support training; (d) the issue of effectiveness of training programs should be examined; (e) research on the selection, supervision, retention, and evaluation of teachers should be conducted.own training; (e) using volunteers made it more difficult
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Bell, Nathan T. "An analysis of religious faith in NCAA Division III student-athletes and non student-athletes." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371684.

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The purpose of this study was to assess the strength of religious faith in student-athletes and non student-athletes attending a religiously-practicing and a non religiously-practicing NCAA Division III institution. Participants were recruited from two NCAA Division III institutions in the Midwest (N = 375). Specifically, participants attended either Institution A (n = 201), a religiously-practicing, or Institution B (n = 174), a non religiously-practicing, NCAA Division III institution. Each participant completed a demographic assessment and the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire.A 2 X 2 X 2 (Gender X Current Athletic Participation X Institution Attended) ANOVA was employed to determine if significant differences existed in strength of religious faith between students at the two aforementioned institutions. Students attending Institution A displayed higher strength of religious faith than students attending Institution B. Also, a significant interaction indicated non student-athletes attending Institution A reported higher strength of religious faith than students-athletes attending Institution A. In addition, student-athletes attending Institution B were not significantly different in respect to strength of religious faith when compared to non student-athletes attending Institution B. Finally, females indicated higher strength of religious faith than males. This study has provided additional evidence for the impact of religion in the lives of intercollegiate student-athletes and non student-athletes.
School of Physical Education, Sport, and Exercise Science

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Kesler, Leslie Michelle. ""For Thus His Neglect": Grand Jury Presentments for Failure to Attend Church, York County, Virginia, 1750-1775." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625761.

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Lanier, Ryan David. "The Catholic Church's approach to restoring its image in the face of the sexual abuse crisis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2076.

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The public relations response of the church to the sexual abuse malady is the focus of this project. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the discourse and actions of the church according to image restoration theory.

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