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Walker, Ruth Marianne Donovan. "The religious mind: An evolutionary argument for theological non-realism." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3135504.

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The debate between theological realists and non-realists has so far resisted resolution. In this thesis I apply the insights of current best theory in evolutionary psychology to the problem of deciding between theological realism, which holds that religious beliefs are about some aspect of mind-independent reality, and theological non-realism, which holds that religious beliefs are mind-dependent only. The most well-known exponent of theological non-realism is Don Cupitt who bases his approach to the problem on a combination of biological naturalism and culturalism. In the first part of this t

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Whitehead, Christiania. "Castles of mind : an interpretative history of medieval religious architectural allegory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282014.

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Warzycha, Anna K. "Inlargednesse of mind and activity of spirit : gender identities in the religious writings of mid-seventeenth-century England." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10229.

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In dominant seventeenth-century thinking women's bodies, minds, and spirits were not only inferior to men's, but also more prone to evil. This study explores the ways in which the women writers attempted to redefine these assumptions. Through an analysis organised along various spiritual transformations the writers claim to go through, the study presents an insight into seventeenth-century women's construction and redefinition of femininity. The symbolic process of women's spiritual transfiguration results in them identifying with the metaphorical figure of Zion and in positioning women as god

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Benson, Martin L. "Beginner's Mind." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2365.

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My art distills my relationship to spirituality, digital culture, and the practices and side-effects therein, into a simplified visual language. The work manifests in the form of paintings, drawings, and light sculptures. Meditation and mindfulness training are a large part of my influence and interests. I often wonder how mindfulness practice can be mirrored in my artwork, not only in my process for creating the work, but also with what the resulting imagery does for the viewer. My intention is to provide an art form that invites one to look and experience one’s own capacity to observe, witho

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Tian, Qirui. "Mind perception in two different cultural contexts : religious targets and food animals as examples." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20116/document.

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Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur l’étude de la perception dans le domaine de la religion et de l'alimentation dans deux contextes culturels différents: chinois et français. Dans deux chapitres indépendants, nous avons étudié l'effet de la croyance religieuse sur la perception des cibles religieuses et l'effet du comportement de la consommation de viande sur la perception des animaux. Le chapitre 1 présente une brève introduction à propos de la perception, et le chapitre 2 explore les différences culturelles sur la religiosité et la perception, notamment, la façon dont la croyance religieuse a

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Alexander, Kimberly A. "Emotional Health, Well-Being, And Religion as Quest." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2587/.

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This study examined the relationship between the religious orientation quest and well-being using the 1998 General Social Survey. In addition to the religious orientation quest the extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations were also investigated. Analysis of the data indicated that there was a slight negative association between quest and general well-being, while also demonstrating a strong positive association between quest and inner peace. These results underscore the supposition that quest is an orientation that is complex and ultimately deserves further attention.

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Mallett, Simone Jill. "A qualitative study of the experiences of former Bible-based cult members." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21083/.

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The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of cult membership, by examining the "before, during, and after" experiences of former members. Five male and five female former long-term members of bible-based religious cults were interviewed. The transcripts of these interviews were then analysed using procedures based on Strauss and Corbin's (1990) Grounded Theory methodology. Three models were constructed from the data analysed, which was explored using a variety of psychological and sociological conceptualisations. The study found that experiences of cult membership were too c

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Cropper, Elisabeth Joan. "Heirs of the Body and Heirs of the Mind: Greek Education and Religious Agency in the English Reformation." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7613.

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This thesis studies elite men and women’s uses of Greek classical and early Christian texts in order to provide a more nuanced view of the relationship between knowledge of Greek language and the religious controversy between Catholics and Protestants in the English Reformation from 1516 to 1558. It addresses some of the misconceptions of Greek and its connection to Protestant heresy during the Reformation, while also explaining the ways that men and women used Greek in developing and maintaining individual religious identities in sixteenth century England. This research illuminates the ways t

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Haywood, B. T. ""Meant to be" : How Religious Beliefs, Cultural Religiosity, and Impaired Theory of mind affect the Implicit Bias to think teleologically." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527814.

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Nielsen, Varg. "Varför och hur konstruerar människor transcendentala entiteter : Står sig den kognitionsvetenskapliga religionsforskningens förklaring i en kognitivt neurovetenskaplig kontext?" Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12589.

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Why is it that we humans have a tendency to construct transcendental entities? That is one of the big questions the scientific discipline Cognitive Science of Religion is trying to answer. In order to gain validation for the concepts used by this discipline neural correlates are needed. The aim of the present work is to investigate the concepts Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device ((H)ADD) and Theory of Mind (ToM) both in psychological, cognitive and neural aspects to see if those concepts are enough to explain the human tendencies to construct transcendental entities. This work is developed

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Göransson, Maria. "Mina tankar eller dina? : psykiskt välbefinnande hos avhoppare från sekter i relation till psykiska övergrepp i rörelsen." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-12377.

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Syftet med studien var att se om psykiskt välbefinnande hos avhoppare från sekter är relaterat till förekomsten av psykiska övergrepp i den rörelse som lämnats samt att undersöka hur avhoppares psykiska välbefinnande ser ut. Deltagare var 57 avhoppare från åtta olika religiösa rörelser i Sverige. De rekryterades huvudsakligen genom hjälporganisationer för avhoppare och deltog genom att svara på frågor via ett nätformulär. Resultaten visade att högre förekomst av psykiska övergrepp, mätt med GPA-skalan, var relaterat till sämre psykiskt välbefinnande, mätt med CORE-OM, vilket var enligt hypotes

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Gupta, Gopal Krishna. "Illusion and identity : Māyā in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711695.

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Lewis, James R. "SPIRITUAL FITNESS AND RESILIENCE FORMATION THROUGH ARMY CHAPLAINS AND RELIGIOUS SUPPORT." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447863288.

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Karna, Bishal Karna. "Skillful Ways: Sōtō Zen Buddhism in the American Midwest." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531270511483504.

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Knutsson, Bråkenhielm Lotta. "Religion – evolutionens missfoster eller kärleksbarn? : Kognitionsvetenskaplig religionsforskning och dess relevans för religiösa trosföreställningars rationalitet." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionsfilosofi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304723.

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This thesis is on Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) and its relevance for the rationality of religious beliefs. An epistemical model for rationality is developed according to which: a person (or group of persons) is rational to hold a certain belief a) if this belief can be assumed to have been generated by one or more reliable cognitive mechanisms, b) applies whether or not she is aware of what these mechanisms are, but c) only as long as it does not exist or arise some reasons (defeaters) to question the belief; if they occur, she must d) reflect on it and find other reasons or grounds to

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North, Sandra E. "The place of religion : the historical geography of religious dissent in mid-nineteenth-century Derby, England." Connect to online version, 2005. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/mhc/2005/117.pdf.

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Mills, Kenneth Reynold. "The religious encounter in mid-colonial Peru." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240278.

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Green, Morgan. "Religion, health and psychological well-being." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1460758.

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Geary, Frank K. "Characteristics of religious diversity in mid-nineteenth century Warwickshire : a study of the 1851 religious census." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0a368528-0203-4bdc-a648-dbc23455ce7b.

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The Census of Religious Worship of 1851 was a unique attempt to collect information about the nation's religious practice in the middle of a century of great social, economic and political upheaval. By 1851, a period of intense urbanisation had resulted in the country's urban population exceeding that in rural areas. Warwickshire can be considered as a microcosm of England as a whole, with its mixture of rural and urban landscapes and agricultural and industrial employment. This study attempts to investigate how far the Religious Census helps to illustrate the nature and extent of religious di

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Zambrana-Sutton, Grace. "Fostering a True Conversion of Heart and Mind." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/174.

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This thesis examines the steps which should be taken to foster a true conversion of heart and mind for those in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The area of focus is on the individual who is looking to join the faith and then be married in the Catholic Church. Attrition within this group is observed at an early stage which leads to the pastoral issue of whether there is a true conversion to the Catholic faith, or whether this journey is seen by the convert as a means to be married in the church. Understanding the importance of adult faith formation and its impact on a person’s journ

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Humphries, David. "Peace and Mind: Religion, Race, and Gender among Progressive Intellectuals and Activists." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08062007-121143/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Ian Fletcher, committee chair; Jared Poley, Hugh Hudson, committee members. Electronic text (110 [i.e. 105] p.) : digital, PDF file. Pages 18, 45, 76, 77 and 95 blank. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 16, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-110).

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Smith, Kevin Scott. "Mind, might, and mastery human potential in metaphysical religion and E.W. Kenyon /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Leslie, Carl Alexander. "Zen body, zen mind: Dogen and the question of licensed evil." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18696.

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Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253) lived and taught at a time of when certain people understood the teachings of “original enlightenment” as license to ignore Buddhist moral constraints. In response, rather than rejecting original enlightenment teachings altogether, Dogen rejects this antinomian “licensed evil” interpretation by teaching the oneness of practice and original enlightenment. For Dogen, there can be no enlightenment outside practice because practice and original enlightenment are inseparable; moreover, practice must be wholehearted and without seeking in order to be the realization of e

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Jones, Harry A. IV. "The Transition from the Psychical to the Psychological: An Examination of William James’ Influence on Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw”." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4218.

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This thesis will show that, in its original form, “The Turn of the Screw” acted as a monument to the intellectual unity shared between Henry James and his brother William. Through evaluating James’ biography, memoirs, and letters with William, this thesis will illustrate the subtle collaborative inspirations that initially helped James write the first twelve-part serial edition of “The Turn of the Screw” for Collier’s Weekly, which ran from January 27, 1898 until April 16, 1898. I will also demonstrate the effect of William’s philosophy and his death on the revisions James’ made to his story a

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de, Vreeze Marcus. "Min kropp är mitt tempel : En intervjustudie om hälsa som den nya tidens religion." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66017.

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Denna undersökning har haft som mål att undersöka och förstå hälsoism som begrepp inom bodybuildingkretsar men även om dessa kan uppfattas som religiösa fenomen. Den metod som använts har varit intervjuer, det har varit sex stycken informanter till denna undersökning, fördelningen mellan könen har varit helt jämn, åldersfördelningen har varit relativt jämn med spannet mellan 22 år till 28 år. Efter transkribering av intervjuer har ett kodningsschema använts för att finna material att tolka utifrån en innehållsanalys. Den tidigare forskningen har varit relativt omfattande med allt från mediers

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Gomér, Emelie. ""Min tro är min" : om religion på Internet och i det privata." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Religion and Culture, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7943.

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<p>Private religion is a faith that isn’t practiced in an organised religious community. Many people do not want to accept a religious concept that is already defined. To choose a conception of faith based upon personal preferences fits some modern man better. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if it’s possible to create a personal religion and how such a process looks. The function of Internet for people’s religiosity is also examined. Three informants have been interviewed by e-mail. The common denominator is the faith in reincarnation. The result shows that there are some central poin

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Youn, Heena. "Objects of popular devotion : Longquan ceramic religious figures during the Song-Yuan-Ming period." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20355/.

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This thesis investigates ceramic figures portraying religious images made at the kilns of Longquan in Zhejiang province, China between the Song and the Ming periods. Through a thorough examination of the images' iconography alongside further related sources drawn from diverse areas of study, the thesis offers a new understanding of the cultural and religious importance of the figures and examines how they became prevalent in Longquan and how they were used and valued within and beyond the Chinese mainland. The range of figures examined, including Buddhas, bodhisattvas, deified monks, Daoist de

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Nasu, Kei. "Heresiography and the idea of 'heresy' in mid-seventeenth-century English religious culture." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9879/.

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Wallace, Trevor. "God Changed his Mind About Black People : Race and Priesthood Authority in Mormonism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-307932.

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This study attempts to analyze Mormon justifications for the religion’s policy of denying priesthood authority to black men from both before and after the policy’s removal in 1978. Through a close reading of primary sources released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, this study attempts to understand how this paradigm shift is understood in the context of Mormon faith traditions. It is revealed that many official statements from the Church contradict one another to such a degree that a simple or coherent explanation is practically impossible.

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Holzhauser, Erin. "A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621.

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<p>Upon their arrival in China, priests of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, quickly began writing their opinions and observations of the Ming Dynasty, of the Manchu invasion, and of the subsequent Qing Dynasty. These priests arrived in China with both secular and religious goals, and these goals created the context for their comments, coloring their writings. However, when the Jesuits praised the Qing Dynasty, they began to use particularly European metaphors in their descriptions of the Manchus, from appearance and mannerisms to policies. While the Jesuit descriptions serve as informative ma

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Bardsley, Craig S. "Religion, mind and society : a socio-communicative approach to the archaeology of pre- and early protopalatial Crete." Thesis, University of Reading, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430838.

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Yen, Chun-Min. "Shadows and echoes of the mind: Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) syncretic view and Buddhist interpretation of the "Daodejing"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290151.

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The subject of this study is Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) Commentary on the Daodejing (laozi daodejing hanshan zhu ), a work which contains his syncretic view of the Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism) as well as his Buddhist interpretation of the Daodejing. The central argument of this study is that Hanshan's Commentary on the Daodejing reflects his syncretic character and his unique Buddhist understanding. I argue that each syncretist's interpretation or misinterpretation contributes to the variety and complexity of syncretic activity. Taking Hanshan as a case study,

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Black, Daisy Emma. "Mind the gap : time, gender and conflict in the late medieval Mystery Plays." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603244.

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This thesis explores the relationship between time, gender and moments of conflict in the Mystery Plays. Examining a range of encounters between male and female characters in the plays, I propose that characters’ differing and subjective experiences of time are often at the heart of their conflict. Time, moreover, provides a new methodology with which to understand the ways in which both gender and narrative operate within the plays. In doing so, I chart a number of conflicts staged between characters in plays concerned with biblical narratives which signify transition or rupture: the Incarnat

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Fleming, Safa Rebecca Lorraine. "Locating Women's Rhetorical Education and Performance: Early to Mid Nineteenth Century Schools for Women and the Congregationalist Mission Movement." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1209093895.

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Woo, Tak-ling Terry. "Religious ideals, beliefs and practices in the lives of women during the reign of T'ang Ming Huang." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49993.pdf.

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Luk, Yu Ping. "Empresses, religious practice and the imperial image in Ming China : the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:797fc7ce-34c7-4af3-a96d-928cec15098a.

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The Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) in the San Diego Museum of Art, a highlight at the Taoism and the Arts of China exhibition in 2000, is an unusual object among surviving visual material from Ming dynasty China (1368 – 1644). At over twenty-seven metres long, the scroll contains meticulously painted images and a detailed inscription that records the Daoist ordination of Empress Zhang (1470 – 1541), consort of the Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488 – 1505) by the Orthodox Unity institution. The event it documents, which elevates the empress into the celestial realm, would be unknown to histor

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Keogh, Richard A. "Catholic loyalty in mid-Victorian Ireland." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2012. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36125/.

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Silva, Anairan Jerônimo da. "O léxico do Tambor de Mina: uma proposta de glossário da linguagem afro-religiosa em São Luís." http://www.teses.ufc.br, 2009. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3616.

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SILVA, Anairan Jerônimo da. O léxico do Tambor de Mina: uma proposta de glossário da linguagem afro-religiosa em São Luís. 2009. 139f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.<br>Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-06-21T16:15:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_diss_AJSilva.pdf: 1101687 bytes, checksum: 22225b92767aa3fcba4dadaffe7efe61 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-03T16:47:27Z (GM

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Wang, Xing. "Fortune and the body : physiognomy in Ming China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6da1b53-e50d-425e-97b3-4f77eb071580.

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This thesis explores the cosmology of physiognomy - a method of telling fortune by inspecting the body and the material world - and its social reception in China in the Ming period. This is accomplished through the analysis of extant manuals as well as stories of fortune-tellers' practices. I focus on the Ming dynasty, because of their richness of historical evidence and the distinctive features of physiognomy developed in these periods, but also take materials about the Song inherited in the Ming in my analysis. The manuals and the anecdotal evidence on its social practices and practitioners

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Nadeau, Randall Laird. "Popular sectarianism in the Ming : Lo Chʻing and his "religion of non-action"". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30785.

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"Popular Sectarianism in the Minq: Lo Ch'ing and his 'Religion of Non-Action'" is a study of Lo Ch'ing (1442-1527), a lay religious reformer of Ming Dynasty China, the scriptures he composed and the Lo chiao tradition. Chapter I utilizes historical materials (official records, accounts of observors, and memorials to the throne) and sectarian documents (sectarian hagiographies and Lo's own autobiography) to formulate a biography of Lo Ch'ing. Chapter II analyzes Lo's religious thought, based on translated passages from his scriptures, entitled Wu-pu liu-ts 'e (Five Books in Six Volumes) , in th

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Mayo, Michael. "The well-disposed mind : Joyce, Loyola, and the psychoanalysis of ambivalence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:13d9376a-2e20-45b5-87ac-0ca6012be6ef.

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This thesis examines the relationship between the fiction of James Joyce and the theological practices outlined by Ignatius of Loyola. By deliberately foregoing claims of direct or simple influence, the thesis illustrates the way in which Loyola's concepts of belief, irony, discernment, and indifference illuminate the operations of the Joycean text. These operations in both Loyola and Joyce are themselves best explicated through the use of Kleinian psychoanalytic theory. Klein and her followers analyze dynamics of belief, representation, and meaning as products of frustration. Loyola and Joyce

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Morton, Sherry Lynn. "The Brain on Ritual: How Tantric Puja Shapes the Mind." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/24.

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Traditional ritual studies approaches to the body are effective for illuminating how the body functions as an entity that absorbs and expresses a variety of social, and political dynamics; however, they are less productive for understanding the body as a physical organism. This interdisciplinary thesis applies theoretical models from cognitive science, social psychology and ritual studies to the Śrī Cakra Pūjā in order to develop a more complete understanding of the ritual body as a physical body. Using Lawrence Barsalou’s theory of embodied cognition, which focuses on the impact of human expe

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Hur, Won Jae. "Corporeality in Contemplation: A Comparative Study of Edith Stein and Tibetan Buddhist Lojong." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108649.

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Thesis advisor: John . Makransky<br>“The body” has become a major focus of intellectual inquiry across academic disciplines over the last fifty years. The interest in the body has also intensified with recent advances in studies of materiality, affect, technology, and neuro and cognitive sciences. In Christian theology, works on the body have also grown rapidly. My aim in this essay is to make a contribution to contemporary Christian theological discussions on the nature and role of the human body by turning to Edith Stein’s writings on contemplation and engaging a comparative theological stud

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Jorge, Erica Ferreira da Cunha. "Tecendo laços, construindo famílias : conjugalidade e vida religiosa na umbanda e no tambor de mina." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2013.

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Lanman, Jonathan Andrew. "A secular mind : towards a cognitive anthropology of atheism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:99ae030b-5f3a-4863-abf2-2f63eb8b4150.

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This thesis presents descriptive and explanatory accounts of both non-theism, the lack of belief in the existence of supernatural agents, and strong atheism, the moral opposition to such beliefs on the grounds that they are both harmful and signs of weak character. Based on my fieldwork with non-theist groups and individuals in the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark, an online survey of over 3,000 non-theists from over 50 countries, and theories from both the social and cognitive sciences, I offer a new account of why nations with low economic and normative threats produce high levels

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McKinstry, Emily. "The Mind of a Medieval Inquisitor: an Analysis of the 1273 Compilatio de Novu Spiritu of Albertus Magnus." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4356.

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The fight against heresy in medieval Europe has fascinated scholars for centuries. Innumerable books, movies, and even video games have been made about this struggle to combat heresy in the Middle Ages. Despite this apparent fascination with the subject, our understanding of medieval heretics and the inquisitors who prosecuted them remains murky. What we do know is that many medieval people lost their lives, while others were punished with imprisonment or excommunication. We also know that many others dedicated their lives to rooting out what they believed was the evil of heresy among the popu

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Silva, Anairan JerÃnimo da. "O lÃxico do Tambor de Mina: uma proposta de glossÃrio da linguagem afro-religiosa em SÃo LuÃs." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5588.

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FundaÃÃo de Amparo Ã Pesquisa do Estado do CearÃ<br>Ce travail prÃsent um soulÃvement des termes especifiques du lexique du â Tambor de Minaâ Ã SÃo LuÃs, em visant l‟elaboration d‟un glossaire dÃs termes de La langage afro-religieuse de laquel on parle. Donc, cette idÃe est basÃe dans les fondements teÃrique et mÃthodologique de L‟Ãtinolanquistique, de La terminologie, de La terminographie et da socioterminologie, em considerante notre visin du lexique comme um facteur d‟identitÃ de quelque groupe linguistique lequel c‟est passif de variation. L‟objet de cet

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Marsden, Thomas. "The crisis of religious toleration in mid nineteenth-century Imperial Russia : the state and the old believers, 1842-55." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550517.

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The Old Believers were the largest group of Orthodox dissenters in Russia. In 1853, the government introduced a new system of measures aiming at their eradication. These marked the highest point of religious persecution during the final century-and-a-half of Imperial Russia. This thesis explains what lay behind these extreme policies, examines how they were implemented and the reasons behind their abandonment in 1855. Rather than seeing the system as the result of the autocratic reaction of these years, it argues that it derived from wider processes of modernisation in the political, intellect

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McPhail, John Alexander. "Religious attendance and provision in Birmingham and the Black Country and the surrounding rural areas during the mid-nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/108001.

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Adjakly, Edoh. "Pratique de la tradition religieuse et reproduction sociale chez les Guen/Mina du Sud-Est du Togo /." Genève : Institut universitaire d'études du développement, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36629306q.

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