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Wilkinson, Gregory E. "The next Aum: religious violence and new religious movements in twenty-first century Japan." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/272.

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The violence of Aum Shinrikyo has had four observable consequences for new religious movements in Japan: a change in posture by the Japanese government toward new religious movements, stricter laws and regulations regarding new religious movements and tighter enforcement of those laws, a growing skepticism by the media and scholars towards new religious movements, and increasing skepticism about new religions movements among community groups and the public at large. This study will show that the crimes of Aum Shinrikyo have created a shift in Japan's society resulting in a contraction of opera

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Taylor, David M., and Kristopher W. Struve. "Triggers of violence in new religious movements." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27912.

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The research for this study has aimed at determining whether New Religious Movements (NRM) shared certain attributes (i.e., characteristics) that might help determine their propensity for violence. The goal was a model that a government or civil authority could use to compare a budding religious movement to determine whether it might become violent. This study only included post-World War II NRMs to limit the scope of research, and religious sects were excluded. A review of relevant literature in the study of NRMs and religious violence highlighted ten attributes that seemed to be prevalent in

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Mitchell, Michelle. "Surviving and Thriving in a Hostile Religious Culture." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1639.

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The present study explored a minority oppositional religious culture, which continued practicing despite overt hostilities to their practices. The qualitative research project utilized interviews and observations of the Gardnerian Wiccans in Broward County, Florida. The narrative data were transcribed, coded, and categorized into three themes related to the following research questions: Why would individuals create a secretive religion? Given they had to practice in secret, what about this religion had people seeking out information and joining Covens? What would keep this group together despi

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Zhang, Hansong. "New Religious Movements, Mental Health, and Well-Being." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538749/.

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Recent years have observed significant change in the landscape of American religious/spiritual environment and religious/spiritual groups called new religious movements (NRMs) have developed as an alternative for many individuals to engage in religious/spiritual beliefs and practices outside the traditional religions. It was unclear if participation in NRMs provide adherents with similar mental health benefits as participation in traditional religious groups, or whether there might be important differences. The current study examined the link between participation in NRMs and relevant social a

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Griffin, Lonnie F. "An analysis of print media reporting of established religions and new religious movements." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000276.

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Griffin, Lonnie F. III. "An Analysis of Print Media Reporting of Established Religions and New Religious Movements." Scholar Commons, 2004. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1057.

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This thesis reports findings from a content analysis of 720 newspaper articles and 3,052 newspaper article cases focused on the issue of print media bias. Sunday editions of three major newspapers were drawn from the six-year period 1998-2003 for analysis. Prior research has uncovered print media bias in reporting of religious groups, and this thesis examines the substance of those claims pertaining to both established religions and new religious movements. Research findings show that established religions and their members are typically described in favorable or neutral terms, while new relig

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Kingsbury, Kate. "New Mouride movements in Dakar and the diaspora." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669764.

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Tweddell, Ian. "The use of the Internet by Japanese new religious movements." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ53420.pdf.

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Silva, José Antunes da. "The development of new religious movements in an African context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Rose, Dale Joseph. "Our Master’s Legacy: Belief and Ritual in Mission De L’esprit Saint." TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1526.

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This thesis is a folkloristic examination of the religious beliefs and rituals associated with members of a religious movement known as Mission De L’Ésprit Saint. Mission De L’Ésprit Saint is a Quebecois religious denomination which believes that their founder was the physical incarnation of the Holy Spirit, and the movement strives to continue the teachings which were laid down during his lifetime. The major components of Mission theology and history, as well as an introductory consideration of their cosmology and worldview will be the major focus of this document, as well as a consideration

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Zeller, Benjamin E. Ariel Yaakov S. "Storming the gates of the Temple of Science religion and science in three new religious movements /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,733.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Department of Religious Studies." Discipline: Religious Studies; Department/School: Religious Studies.

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Villalonga, Patrick J. "From the Fall to the Flood and Beyond: Navigating Identity in Contemporary Noahidism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3127.

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This thesis investigates artifacts and concepts present in the Noahide world and how they affect Noahide identity. Five factors are analyzed, namely Noahide law, religious pluralism, ritual, sectarianism, and conversion. I consult the Hebrew Scriptures as well as early, medieval, and modern rabbinic sources to set the conceptual background of the Noahide movement before moving into the primary, contemporary sources written by Orthodox Jews, Orthodox rabbis, and Noahides. To supplement my literary analysis, I have conducted a survey of self-identifying Noahide practitioners. This survey collect

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Scott, Kenneth David. "Privileged Peru : the Israelites of the New Universal Covenant." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257478.

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The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant are a New Religious Movement founded in 1968. A presentation of the Inca Empire, the Spanish Conquest of Peru, the subsequent colonial period and post-independence era acts as background to a global understanding of the Israelites. Israelite membership is drawn from Andean Indians who came to be open to religious change in the twentieth century. Ideas on indigenism coupled with social reforms, urbanization, and migrations led to a greater Andean self-identity and preparation for membership in the newly formed religion. An idealized view of the Inca

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Cheeseman, Colin. "Globalization, postmodernity, culture shift and the Church of England." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327441.

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Skrumedi, Craig. "The Question of Violence in New Religious Movements: A Meta-Analysis of Aggregates." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36517.

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This thesis provides a systematic comparison and analysis on violent and non-violent new religious movements. The purpose of using a meta-analysis as the methodological tool for this research project is that it offers a systematic presentation and synthesis of the characteristics and findings from academic studies that exist on each new religious movement. Of importance is that each study, from the fields of sociology, social psychology and religious studies offers differing truths about each of the NRMs as they each only examine certain characteristics. As these disciplines have a high level

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Chakanza, J. C. "Continuity and change : A study of new religious movements in Malawi, 1900 - 1981." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371611.

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Healy, John Paul Social Sciences &amp International Studies Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "Attraction, affiliation and disenchantment in a new religious movement: a study of individuals?? experiences in a Siddha Yoga practice." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41342.

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This thesis explores thirty-two individuals?? experiences of involvement in Siddha Yoga. Such groups have often been labelled as cults and accused of ??brainwashing?? their followers. The conceptualisation of affiliation as brainwashing has been influential within the helping professions, including psychology, counselling and social work. However, this conceptualisation is not supported by empirical research on cults, or what have become known as New Religious Movements (NRMs). The research problem which this thesis addresses therefore is: ??If a brainwashing model of affiliation does not give

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Ahadi, Ali. "New religious and spiritual movements in the West : reflexive modernity, alienation and embodied charisma." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429628.

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Arweck, Elisabeth. "Responses to new religious movements in Britain and Germany : with special reference to the anti-cult movement and the churches." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394281.

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Machado, Carly Barboza. "Imagine se tudo isso for verdade: O movimento Raeliano entre verdades, ficções e religiões da modernidade." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2006. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1460.

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Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro<br>O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o Movimento Rae liano, grupo religioso criado por Claude Vourilhon que se auto denomina o Profeta Raël. Atribuindo a criação da vida humana na Terra a seres extraterrestres, o Movimento Raeliano teve origem na França e desde seu surgimento em 1973 expande sua atuação para diversos países, inclusive o Brasil, contando atualmente em seus números oficiais com sessenta mil adeptos em todo o mundo. Com perfil transnacional, este movimento difunde suas idéias através dos m

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Kazakina-Tisdall, Katerina Toskova. "Legal, societal and ecclesiastical responses to the challenges new religious movements have brought to Bulgarian society." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507421.

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Coleman, Naomi. "How do members of New Religious Movements manage beliefs others might find unusual? : a grounded theory." Thesis, University of East London, 2009. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3731/.

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Most research focusing on unusual beliefs investigates people in psychiatric services who have been labelled delusional. We know relatively little about how people outside of services manage beliefs that others may find unusual. Considering research demonstrating that delusional ideation in the general population is common, this study sought to explore how people manage these beliefs. Individuals from New Religious Movements (NRMs) were selected as previous research indicated they may score highly on measures of delusional ideation yet show low levels of distress in relation to their beliefs.

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Alldén, Häll Emmilie, and Johanna Saukko. "Nyreligiösa rörelser i dagens gymnasieskolor." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-29538.

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The purpose of this paper is to study how some upper secondary teachers define and understand the terms New Religious Movement, New Religiosity and cult. We also look at what the teachers teach about and why they pick those specific parts of the course. Firstly, to get a wider view of this subject we looked at previous research about the teaching of New Religious Movements. In addition to the previous research we did our own research where we interviewed upper secondary teachers from two different schools. Secondly, for our results we analysed the transcripts by using two different theoretical

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Mbon, Friday M. "Brotherhood of the cross and star a sociological case study of new religious movements in contemporary Nigeria." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4997.

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Löfstrand, Louise. "Helande och gudomlig eller djurisk och blodig? : En innehållsanalys av värderande adjektiv som används om nya religiösa rörelser och kristendom i läroböcker." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323853.

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The purpose with this study is to research how new religious movements are depicted, in textbooks used for upper secondary school in religious education, in contrast to how Christianity is depicted, and if there is a more negative depiction around new religious movements. The content analysis uses/investigates three chosen textbooks, all written for Swedish upper secondary education. The content analysis uses quantitatively research whereas the depiction of Christianity and new religious movements are investigated by counting as well as analyzing adjectives used to describe, furthermore what e

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Paulina, Mercik. "“Gud är Gul” : Hur nya religiösa rörelser och sekter framställs i läroböcker i gymnasieskolan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446290.

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This essay is a qualitative study meant to highlight new religious movements and cults are portrayed in textbooks used to teach the subject of religion in upper secondary school, as well as how they correlate to the syllabi and course objectives set by Skolverket. The object for my analysis contains three textbooks by different authors, all from different publishers, in order to enable an accurate and representative interpretation of said portraying. Three questions lead the study as they demand the answer to which parts of new religious movements that are most frequently presented, whether th

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Biggs, Austin R. "The Southern Baptist Convention “Crisis” in Context: Southern Baptist Conservatism and the Rise of the Religious Right." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1967.

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From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a minority conservative faction took over the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This project seeks to answer the questions of how a fringe minority within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination could undertake such a feat and why they chose to do so. The framework through which this work analyzes these questions is one of competing worldviews that emerged within the SBC in response to decades of societal shifts and denominational transformations in the post-World War II era. To place the events of the Southern Baptist “crisis” within this fra

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Lockwood, Renee. "The commercial ethic and corporate religion." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11630.

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The relationship between religion and economics has been explored by scholars since Max Weber’s seminal work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905). In the late twentieth century, theorists began to focus particularly on the impact of consumerism on Western religiosity, demonstrating the manner in which traditional religious beliefs and practices are making way for a broader ‘spiritual marketplace’ in which consumers are able to ‘pick and mix’ those elements of religion which they find most appealing. The New Age movement is most commonly the subject of these discussions, tho

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Ndyabahika, James N. "The attitude of the Anglican church of Uganda to the new religious movements and in particular to the Bacwezi-Bashomi in South Western Uganda 1960-1995." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17547.

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Bibliography: pages 272-292.<br>The central theme of this doctoral thesis is the Attitude of the Anglican Church of Uganda to the New Religious Movements and in particular to the Bacwezi-Bashomi in south-western Uganda, 1960-1995. Since the 1960's Uganda has been witnessing a wave of new religious movements stressing healing and exorcism and to date are attracting a large following. Although the literature on these movements is still scanty with no attempt having been made in the area of academics, the researcher investigated this topic at some considerable length (assisted by six research ass

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Smith, Kenneth Paul. "Mythmaking from the Fringe to the Center: The Appropriation of Barack Obama in an Emergent UFO- Based Religious Movement and in Mainstream American Culture." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/22.

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In this essay, I examine the ways in which new myths were made of Barack Obama in the months leading up to, and immediately following, the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election at three sites of cultural production: a UFO-based religious movement historically grounded in the black Israelite religious tradition, TIME magazine’s 2008 “Person of the Year” edition, and Sean Hannity’s “The Real Barack Obama” airing on the FOX News network. I argue that, while the content of these three Obama-myths varies considerable, the ways in which these myths are constructed, and function, are in fact rather similar

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Currie, Sean E. "Sacred Selves: An Ethnographic Study of Narratives and Community Practices at a Spiritual Center." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002799.

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ARAÚJO, Márcia Assunção. "Itinerância no Ashram: alimentando corpo e alma na Brahma Kumaris." www.teses.ufc.br, 2012. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/17706.

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ARAÚJO, Márcia Assunção. Itinerância no Ashram: alimentando corpo e alma na Brahma Kumaris. 2012. 285f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2012.<br>Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-15T14:03:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_tese_maaraujo.pdf: 3318636 bytes, checksum: dc2e21ad4f7ac15aeac50ed200024ea2 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-15T14:11:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_tese_maaraujo.pdf: 3318636 bytes, checksum: dc

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Thayne, Stanley J. "The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3275.pdf.

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Koleva, Zhivka. "Satanic Battle for Social Change : A Discourse-Analytical Study of The Satanic Temple's Activism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412421.

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Kawakami, Tsuneo. "Stories of Conversion and Commitment in Japanese New Religious Movements The Cases of Toho no Hikari, World Mate, and Kofuku no Kagaku." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524735.

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Svensson, Joakim. ""Livet bakom de manipulativa profetiorna" : En kvalitativ textanalys som skildrar maltutövandet i två amerikanskgrundade nyreligiösa rörelser." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49130.

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Just a few years after the end of WWII, the American author Lafayette Ronald Hubbard developed the new religious movement Scientology, which has evolved over the years into one of the largest new religious movements in the world. Two decades later, an American pastor’s son named David Berg, received a revelation from God, which led to the founding of the new religious movement The Family International, formerly known as God’s Children. Over the years there have been a number of defectors that wanted to change and turn their life around. But only a few managed to gather confidence to tell the r

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Lefor, Maarten K. "The Religion of Sport." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1064.

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Around the world, religion takes many forms that vary greatly in practices, beliefs, and doctrine. In fact, defining the term "religion" is a difficult task in encompassing a multitude of faiths. In America, various cultural practices emulate the religious nature of various classic religions. Sport is a peculiar example that hold the interests of millions. However, the way sport is experienced as a fan differs greatly from the way sport is experienced as an athlete. I argue that to an athlete, sport functions as a placeholder for religion in modern-day America. By exploring various functions o

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AraÃjo, MÃrcia AssunÃÃo. "ItinerÃncia no Ashram: alimentando corpo e alma na Brahma Kumaris." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17114.

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coordenadoria de aperfeiÃoamento de pessoal de ensino superior<br>O presente estudo investigou as percepÃÃes cognitivas e simbÃlicas de indivÃduos que adotam prÃticas alimentares vegetarianas por motivaÃÃes religiosas, na cidade de Fortaleza, pertencentes a uma linha de yoga no Ãmbito dos novos movimentos religiosos. Este estudo teve como cenÃrio a Universidade Espiritual Mundial Brahma Kumaris â BKWSU, na referida cidade, entre os anos de 2007 e 2011, e utilizou como recursos metodolÃgicos a observaÃÃo participante e entrevistas semiestruturadas com alunos e professores deste movimento espiri

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Stevens, Rachael. "Red Tara : lineages of literature and practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:27381b38-c580-4d0b-b7d5-f87abcc50afd.

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Tārā is arguably the most popular goddess of the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. She is well known in her Green, White, and Twenty-one forms. However, the numerous red aspects of the divinity have long been overlooked in both popular and academic literature on the goddess. This thesis aims to redress this balance. This thesis presents the various manifestations of Red Tārā in the form of a survey of the literary and practice lineages of this goddess throughout Tibetan Buddhist history. The intention of the thesis is to examine individual forms of Red Tārā, excluding Kurukullā (who has receiv

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Blythe, Christopher James. "Recreating Religion: The Response to Joseph Smith’s Innovations in the Second Prophetic Generation of Mormonism." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/916.

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On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints, was assassinated. In the wake of his death, a number of would-besuccessors emerged. Each of these leaders - part of what I call the second propheticgeneration - established a unique vision of Mormonism. In 1844, Mormonism was in the middle of a major shift in its character. JosephSmith’s death left numerous theological and practical questions unresolved. This thesis argues that, rather than merely a succession struggle of competition and power, a principal function of the second prophetic generation

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Inaba, Keishin. "A comparative study of altruism in new religious movements with special reference to the Jesus Army and the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-comparative-study-of-altruism-in-new-religious-movements-with-special-reference-to-the-jesus-army-and-the-friends-of-the-western-buddhist-order(247c18d7-9bfc-47e7-a444-6065eedeaebc).html.

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Forsström, Fredrik. "Att undervisa om nyreligiositet : En studie om högstadielärares urval, metoder och definitionsproblem." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36268.

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Fyra stycken lärares beskrivningar om hur de undervisar och definierar nyreligiositet och nya religiösa rörelser har studerats i föreliggande uppsats. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad verksamma religionskunskapslärare på högstadiet säger att de undervisar om i undervisningen kring nyreligiositet och nyreligiösa rörelser. En kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för att få fram data till studien. Teorier om didaktiskt innehåll och undervisning som meningserbjudande har använts vid analysen av resultatet. Uppsatsen utgår från tre stycken frågeställningar om hur d

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Raivio, Magdalena. "Gudinnefeminister : Monica Sjöös och Starhawks berättande - subjektskonstruktion, idéinnehåll och feministiska affiniteter." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-30649.

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This thesis examines the discursive position of 'goddess feminism', in relation to some of the difference- and eco feminist positions from the1960s and until today. In focus are the texts of the two goddess feminists, Monica Sjöö and Starhawk. The thesis contributes to a historiographical (re)situating of their political and religious narratives. It also contributes to an elaborated understanding of these goddess feminists and the goddess feminist discourse they are part of. The tentative feminist figuration 'the goddess identified feminist’ is articulated as a tool to discuss the religious an

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McIlwain, Doris J. F. "Impatient for paradise : a rites of passage model of the role of the psychological predispositions in determining differential openness to involvement in new religious movements." University of Sydney, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2546.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>This study considers the adequacy of explanatory accounts of recruitment to New Religious Movements [NRMs], defined by their doctrinal innovation or importation from another culture, and formed around a charismatic leader. It considers the coercive persuasion paradigm [brainwashing] which assumes no predisposing features of those who become involved in NRMs and a sociological account by Snow Zurcher and Ekland-Olsen (1980) which seeks to redress overly exclusive attention to psychological variables by emphasising the importance of structural variables such as the existe

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McIlwain, Doris J. F. "Impatient for paradise : a rites of passage model of the role of the psychological predispositions in determining differential openness to involvement in new religious movements." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2546.

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This study considers the adequacy of explanatory accounts of recruitment to New Religious Movements [NRMs], defined by their doctrinal innovation or importation from another culture, and formed around a charismatic leader. It considers the coercive persuasion paradigm [brainwashing] which assumes no predisposing features of those who become involved in NRMs and a sociological account by Snow Zurcher and Ekland-Olsen (1980) which seeks to redress overly exclusive attention to psychological variables by emphasising the importance of structural variables such as the existence of 'discretionary ti

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Hilliard, Lyra. "Desert Solecisms: The Revitalization of Self and Community through Edward Abbey, the Cold War, and the Sacred Fire Circle." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/481.

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This creative thesis is a braided narrative in which I explore the promised lands of Utah through my travels in the summer of 2008, the Cold War defense industry, and the early career of writer Edward Abbey. America's domestic and foreign policy shifts in the first decade of the Cold War contributed to the rise of modern environmentalism and to the creation of countless new religious movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To illustrate the cataclysmic upheavals of this era, each chapter of this thesis has been organized according to anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace's schema of revit

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Ashok, Kumar Komal. "The Transformations and Challenges of a Jain Religious Aspirant from Layperson to Ascetic: An Anthropological Study of Shvetambar Terapanthi Female Mumukshus." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2481.

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This thesis explores the challenges that Shvetambar Terapanthi Jain female mumukshus (religious aspirants) face during their training at the Parmarthik Shikshan Sanstha, an institute unique to this sect dedicated to training young females to become nuns. The educational requirements, secluded social environment, disciplined rules, and monastic hierarchies train aspirants to understand the demands of nunhood. Based on interviews and observations, aspirants express their struggle to balance the personal desire to progress spiritually toward liberation (moksha) that motivated them to renounce wit

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Hamrin-Dahl, Tina. "Tenshō-kōtai-jingū-kyō och karmakampen : En dōjō i Honolulu med besatthetsandar, häxeriföreställningar och transdans." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156640.

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In 1952 a pro-Japanese group in Hawai'i became the religious movement Tenshō-Kōtai-Jingū-kyō, after the arrival of Sayo Kitamura, a charismatic woman from Japan called Ōgamisama. Her teaching was filled with traditional elements, and Japanese imperialism acquired a new form, and became a spiritual world – a world filled with spirits in need of redemption. To dance in an ego-free state and redeem the evil spirits was a goal for her followers, who learnt how to perform the ecstasy dance and to achieve an altered state of consciousness. Some families, though, were suspected of being carriers of e

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Carle, Gordon A. "Alexandria in the Shadow of the Hill Cumorah: A Comparative Historical Theology of the Early Christian and Mormon Doctrines of God." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/95.

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This work is a comparative study of the theological and historical development of the early Christian (pre-Nicene) and Mormon doctrines of God. For the Christian tradition, I follow a detailed study of the apostolic period, followed by the apologetical period, and then conclude with the pre-Nicene up to around 250 C.E. For the Mormon tradition, I cover the period beginning with the establishment of the Mormon Church in 1830 and conclude with its official doctrinal formulation in 1916. I begin this work with a chronological examination of the development of the Mormon doctrine of God, commencin

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Peterson, Douglas W. L. "Liberation Pop Theology: An Exploration Of The Different Ways Pop Musicians Have Led Individuals To Greater Salvation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/949.

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God never died as scholars of secularization theory from the 1960s and 1970s proposed that he eventually would, but He rather reappeared within the context of Pop music. This work analyzes the lives and music of Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens, Kanye West, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison in order to see how their inner quest for peace brought upon by religious conversion affected their supreme message. Once the artists realized the phenomenal peace found in experiencing personal relationships with the Divine, their music changed so as to inspire others to seek the same greater freedoms from whic

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