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Smith, Sharron C. "Faith Development in Youth Recreation in Religious Organizations." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1448840401.
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Ricks, McKenzie. "The measureable religious influence of participation in the Pioneer Trek Reenactment on young adults." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1528032.
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This study examined the measurable religious influence of participating in the Pioneer Trek Reenactment as an adolescent on young adults. A sample of 73 former Pioneer Trek Reenactment participants were surveyed. Both males and females were surveyed, and all respondents were between the ages of 18 and 35.
The results of this study may bring understanding to the impact of historical reenactment activities, such as the Pioneer Trek Reenactment, on their participants. The study showed how the participants' perception of the Pioneer Trek Reenactment from a religious, recreational, and physical perspective correlated with their current religious activity. This information would be helpful to those who plan and direct outdoor recreation activities, giving insight into how these activities can have a lasting positive impact on youth. The results of this study may help recreation professionals, teachers, and religious leaders build meaningful and effective curriculum for similar experiential learning activities.
Keywords: Pioneer Trek Reenactment, young adults, religion, recreation
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Anvar, Matluba. "Women and religious practices in Uzbekistan : transformation and changes in the capital of Uzbekistan in the light of the post-Soviet period." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58087/.
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This thesis is an anthropological study of Uzbek women's everyday life and religious rituals, focusing on the experience and transformation of women's religious and ritual lives in the capital Tashkent, after Soviet rule lasting seventy-three years ended in 1991. The research was conducted over four years, covering English, Russian, and Uzbek language literature, periodical press, archive materials, and oral histories of women who experienced the challenges of the Soviet system and the social changes of the period since independence in 1991. A large body of literature has been written about women's ritual life in Islam, but relatively little about Uzbek women's ritual life within Islam since independence. This thesis introduces an ethnographic contribution to the literature by investigating Uzbek women's everyday life since independence. This thesis will lay out the historical background to the changes in the government of Uzbekistan between 1991 and 2011, in particular the transition from Soviet to independent rule. It will then examine the particular impact this change in government had on women's religious and ritual life, by comparing data gathered before and after the transition. The existing body of literature on women's ritual life will be critically assessed in relation to the particular findings of women's experience in Tashkent, and differences and similarities will be discussed. The thesis argues that religious rituals and the everyday life of Uzbek women change continuously because of the influence of social forces and institutions. The ritual and everyday life of women has adapted to historical circumstance and political systems. Women's rituals are controlled and partly constructed by the state and religious institutions for the purpose of national identity-building, ideological legitimation, and controlling women's everyday lives. In the following study, I argue that women have incorporated change and transformation into their everyday (ritual and religious) lives, thus revealing their agency and self-expression as they navigate the social and gender realities of twenty-first century Uzbekistan.
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Sánchez, López Saúl. "La parabole du mouton noir : ou la vertu de se dire catholique malgré l’église." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB225.
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Cette recherche porte sur différentes organisations catholiques pour la libération sexuelle : organisations catholiques pour la diversité sexuelle, organisations catholiques pour les droits reproductifs, organisations catholiques pour l'égalité de genre et organisations catholiques pour le mariage des prêtres. Ces groupements sont constitués par des gens qui professent la foi catholique mais qui contestent la position de l’Église par rapport à l'homosexualité, l'avortement, l'ordination féminine et le célibat. La question qui se pose alors est la suivante : comment est-ce que ces groupes s'affirment catholiques et en même temps en désaccord avec l’Église ? A travers une réflexion critique, on analyse leur justification, on discute leur légitimité et on théorise à propos de leur signification et implications par rapport au catholicisme, voire le christianismeThe present research is about different catholic organizations in favor of sexual liberation: catholic organizations for sexual diversity, catholic organizations for reproductive rights, catholic organizations for gender equality and catholic organizations for married priests. Members of these groups profess Catholicism but contest Church's position concerning homosexuality, abortion, female ordination and celibacy. So the next question arises: how is it that these groups affirm themselves as Catholics and at the same time in disagreement with the Church? Through a critical thought, their justification is analyzed, their legitimacy discussed, and their significance and implications for both Catholicism and Christianism are theorized
Esta investigación trata sobre distintas organizaciones católicas en favor de la liberación sexual: organizaciones católicas por la diversidad sexual, organizaciones católicas por los derechos reproductivos, organizaciones católicas por la igualdad de género y organizaciones católicas por el celibato opcional. Estas agrupaciones están conformadas por gente que profesa la fe católica y que sin embargo contestan la posición de la Iglesia con respecto a la homosexualidad, el aborto, la ordenación femenina y el celibato. La pregunta que se plantea entonces es la siguiente: Cómo es que estos grupos se afirman católicos y al mismo tiempo en desacuerdo con la Iglesia? A través de un razonamiento crítico, se analiza su justificación, se discute su legitimidad y se teoriza sobre su posible significado e implicaciones en relación con el cristianismo en general y el catolicismo en particular
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Rumford, Michelle Hope. "Recreation, Religion, and Reconciliation: Christian Camps for Indigenous Youth in Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39450.
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In this master’s thesis, which takes the format of an introductory chapter, publishable paper, and conclusion, I examined camp programs for Indigenous youth that are run by Christian organizations in Canada, with the goals of bringing attention to this phenomenon and provoking dialogue on possibilities (or impossibilities) of reconciliation in these contexts. I employed an exploratory case study methodology, using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, and internet-mediated document analysis, to address the following research questions: i) What are the key characteristics of summer camps for Indigenous youth run by Christian organizations in Canada?; ii) To what extent are Indigenous staff members or volunteers and Indigenous cultures included at summer camps for Indigenous youth that are run by Christian organizations in Canada?; and iii) What does or could reconciliation look like in the context of these camps?, and present results and conclusions based on the collected data. This work is particularly timely and significant in light of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) and broader work for decolonization and improved relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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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 in Mormonism was to respond to Joseph Smith’s innovations and to forge alternate coherent (re-)interpretations of the Mormon faith that could continue into the future without access to the original prophet.
Two major issues that required reframing in a post-Smith world were issues ofdomesticity and marriage and hierarchical structure. One or both of these issues areconsidered in the thought of four second-generation prophets: Alpheus Cutler, William Smith, Charles Thompson, and Lyman Wight. Their response to these questions,ultimately, resulted in distinct traditions within the Mormon movement.
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Taylor, Sarah. "Praying, Playing and Happy Families: An Examination of the Relationship Between Family Religiosity, Family Recreation, and Family Functioning." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd814.pdf.
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Gbagbo, Divine Kwasi. "Rites, Recreation, and Rulership: Christianity and Ewe Music of Ghana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620229836882229.
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Erdozain, Dominic Francis. "Religion and recreation in England and Wales, c. 1850-1910, with special reference to evangelicalism and sport." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619864.
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Dhar, Sohini. "Religiosity, Spirituality and Attendance at Religious Services among Recreational Drug Users: A Sub-Analysis of the Drugnet Survey." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/181.
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This study is a sub-analysis ofthe previously collected cross-sectional DRUGNET survey data. The sample included 1,178 current users of illicit drugs and 389 former users. This study was delimited to U.S. citizens, aged 18 years and older, who completed the DRUGNET survey (n =1,567). DRUGNET was a descriptive online survey of self - reported attitudes and behaviors among a group of adult, self - identified drug users (i.e., not drug abusers). The purpose of the sub-analysis was to explore the importance of religion, spirituality, and religious service attendance in the context of an otherwise normal healthy adult life. Moreover, it also looked into potential patterns of association between aspects of religiosity/spirituality and illicit drug use. The study explored if there was a relationship between the strength of a respondent's spiritual or religious beliefs and the patterns of their recreational drug use. A canonical correlation analysis was conducted using self-rated spirituality, self-rated religiosity, and attendance at services as variables on the left (entered in MANOVA as dependent variables) and self-reported use of six groups of drugs as variables on the right (entered in MANOV A as covariates). One significant function was found, which showed that attending religious services and importance of religion were negatively associated with the use of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and hallucinogens. That is, people who reported a higher level of religiosity and who attended religious services were less likely to use these psychoactive drugs.
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Pond, Michael F. "Investigating Climbing as a Spiritual Experience." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366462195.
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Howard, Scott Davis. "Recreating Beowulf's "pregnant moment of poise" pagan doom and Christian eucatastrophe made incarnate in the Dark Age setting of The lord of the rings /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-03312008-092626/.
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Oliveira, Dudlei Floriano de. "Cinema, religion and literature : revisiting, recreating and reshaping Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as a 21st century comedy." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/61715.
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As obras de Jane Austen são extremamente populares tanto entre leitores comuns e estudiosos de literatura desde a época em que foram publicados, no início do século XIX até os dias de hoje. Tamanha popularidade foi responsável por inúmeras obras de arte, especialmente na literatura e no cinema, que foram ou implicitamente ou explicitamente influenciados pela obra de Austen. Um de seus romances mais adaptados é Orgulho e Preconceito, talvez seu romance mais lido, estudado e adaptado. Um dos motivos para tal apreciação é provavelmente resultado dos valores morais que Jane Austen expõe em seus romances. Estes valores, mesmo duzentos anos mais tarde, permanecem importantes e de grande valor, especialmente na era pós-moderna, quando o excesso de liberdade e alternativas parecem deixar a humanidade mais desprovida de um suporte seguro na vida. Esta é a razão que permite um fã de Austen encontrar na religião um possível diálogo, onde, em um mundo cheio de incertezas, certos códigos morais são as certezas a que alguém pode se segurar. Em 2003, Andrew Black dirigiu o filme Pride and Prejudice: a latter-day comedy1, uma transposição moderna do romance de Austen, no qual os personagens vão à igreja e estudam em uma universidade religiosa. Meu trabalho busca estabelecer uma relação entre o livro de Jane Austen, o filme de Andrew Black e as questões sobre moralidade e religião, e como o romance e o filme estabelecem uma conexão não apenas em seus elementos de ficção como personagens e enredo, mas principalmente no que diz respeito a uma das possíveis mensagens finais em ambas obras.The works of Jane Austen are extremely popular both among average readers and literature scholars from the time they were published, in the early 19th century until today. Such popularity has been responsible for innumerous works of art, especially in literature and cinema, that were either implicitly or explicitly influenced by Austen’s work. One of her most adapted novels is the 1812 novel Pride and Prejudice, which is perhaps her most read, studied and adapted novel. One of the reasons for such appraisal has probably to do with the moral values Jane Austen exposes in her novels. Those values, even two hundred years later, remain important and of great worth, especially in the postmodern era, when the excess of freedom and alternatives seems to make humanity more deprived of a secure ground in life. This is the reason that allows an Austen fan to find in religion a possible dialogue, where, in a world full of uncertainties, some moral codes are the certainties one can hold onto. In 2003, Andrew Black directed a movie entitled Pride and Prejudice: a latter-day comedy, a transposition of Austen’s novel to a modern setting, where the characters are themselves churchgoers and students at a religious university. My work is aimed at establishing a connection between Jane Austen’s novel, Andrew Black’s movie and the issue of morality and religion, and how the novel and movie establish a connection not only in terms of fictional elements such as characters and plot, but mainly in regards to one of the possible final messages in both works.
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Fadil, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim. "'Between hopelessness and ambivalence' : young Egyptians, secondary schooling and the Arab Spring in urban Cairo." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51648/.
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This thesis is based upon ethnographic fieldwork carried out in and around three secondary schools and Tahrir Square in urban Cairo between October 2009 and December 2011. It explores the lives of young Egyptians at the time of their secondary schooling and the Arab spring through examining the contradictions and ambivalence of the coming of age for middle class young people inside the school and in the wider everyday life in urban Cairo. This thesis seeks to understand, by examining the social theory on the tension between structure and agency, the way through which disciplinarian interventions enable youth's articulation of critical dispositions and forms of resistance. This thesis, whilst it embarks by looking at the deterioration of the formal schooling system in Egypt after thirty years under Mubarak's rule, examines the extent to which the everyday educational studentship circumstances had constrained the sorts of subjects that Egyptian youth could become and which would constitute them as young and educated in contemporary Egypt. Whilst education, in its broader meaning, emerged as being undeniably crucial for young Egyptians' project for social mobility, secondary schools are presented not as venues for socialisation or reproduction of inequalities but rather as an ambivalent and contradictory resource. The young Egyptians who were the subjects of this thesis negotiated meritocratic aspirations at the intersections of their transversal educational circumstances, and the norms of patriarchy and subordination of their wider everyday life. The forms of exclusion and tension about the future have affected young Egyptians' articulation of their critical dispositions of hopelessness and ambivalence. Their engagement in the Tahrir riots and occupational actions and demanding their right to the city, manifested their emerging political consciousness and capacity to produce new spatial meanings and practices.
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Ngurah, Anom R. I. G. "The civic realm in Bali : a case study of ritual traditions in the Littoral regions." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/32101/.
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This thesis investigates the civic life of a Balinese community in the context of ritual activities and traditions taking place in a coastal village, tracing relationships between ritual itinerary and topography, and highlighting the tensions and conflicts that have emerged between these ritual practices and recent developments in tourism. In the context of the littoral regions of Bali, the concept of the civic realm serves as a broad framework of the research which focuses on the village of Kuta. The choice of Kuta Village for this investigation was based on the following criteria: 1. the historical importance of the village, 2. its significance as a known tourist destination, and 3. its urban/coastal complexity. In order to address the relationships between these three criteria, the research adopted a mixed method approach, incorporating a range of quantitative and qualitative material. Participants in the research project are all, in various ways, stakeholders in the future of Kuta Village who are involved in the usage, monitoring and management of the beaches, including environmentalists. From the perspective of an outsider visiting Kuta Village, there seems to be little evidence of conflict between the local community’s ritual traditions and tourist activities in both the village and on the beaches. However, underlying this apparent tranquillity a rather different situation emerges, which concerns the sometimes conflicting interests of three parties; hotel companies, the community of environmental supporters, and the government. This conflict, which is manifested in disputes over claims of territorial ownership and control, is in danger of leading to long term negative impacts on the social life and beach environment. Furthermore, initial investigations of the key issues, arising from this conflict, suggests that a significant part of the problem is due to a combination of unplanned tourist development, weak management, ineffective law enforcement and the effect of beach erosion. Due to these negative impacts, and their implications on the civic life of the community, this thesis aims to initiate discussions for a revised planning and design strategy for Kuta Village in order to achieve a more balanced relationship among ecological needs, custody of the civic realm and a sustained development in tourism. Such a strategy aims, ultimately, to improve understanding of the key challenges facing the town for benefit of practitioners, planners, government bodies and academia.
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Wignall, Ross. ""Our brother's keeper" : moralities of transformation at YMCA centres in the UK and The Gambia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63209/.
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Founded in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) has spread across the world, becoming integrated into state programmes of social reform and driving a development discourse that links socially productive youth into economic moralities of transformation. I trace the circulation of these ideas through a multi-sited, cross-cultural ethnographic study of Young Men's Christian Associatin (YMCA) centres in the UK and The Gambia, focussing on YMCA programmes that operate transnationally, implementing global youth-oriented policy in local centres linked by bilateral partnerships. I follow these transnational linkages from Sussex Central YMCA (based in Brighton and Hove, England) where I have strong links as worker and volunteer, to a similarly sized centre in Banjul, Gambia, creating a cross-cultural analytical framework through which to explore the experiences of young men participating in their programmes. Using these contrasting contexts, I focus on the lives, narratives and practices of young men and YMCA staff in each location, analysing how YMCA programmes foster a version of transnational masculinity that combines economic rationality with the spiritual principles derived from Protestant Christianity. I explore this in reference to an often implicit, idealised form of YMCA masculinity based around strenght of 'mind, body and spirit', known as the 'Whole Man'. I suggest that the 'Whole Man' operates as an idealised motif of manhood within YMCA centres, fostering notions of self-sacrifice, empathy and embodied dynamism that is reproduced at the YMCA through 'secular rituals'. I trace how these masculine subjectivities interact with localised conceptions of manhood and youth in each location, focussing on the interplay of differing versions, conceptualisations and practices of masculine behaviour in each location. This thesis is generated by the friction between self-help models and actual lived realities, frictions which I hope to show represent the limitations of totalising models of coherent subjectivity based on moral principles.
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Maier, Katrin Dorothee. "Redeeming London : gender, self and mobility among Nigerian Pentecostals." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43345/.
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This thesis is an ethnographic investigation into how Pentecostalism impacts on the religious, family and work life of Nigerian migrants in London, and overall how such religious engagement shapes informants' relationship with the United Kingdom. It brings together the study of migration, Pentecostal Christianity and gender relations. The thesis focuses on the members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, where it has developed into a significant social and political player and has spread worldwide. In London, the RCCG caters for a good portion of the local Nigerian Christian community. The RCCG is part of a transnational social and moral field that I term ‘London-Lagos', which Nigerian migrants inhabit. RCCG members' relationships in church, with significant others and with wider society are embedded in power relations – relations that are mediated and rendered meaningful by a Pentecostal morality. The negotiation of moral authority is therefore central theme in this thesis. I trace how it shapes and is shaped by church doctrines and wider British society. The central modes employed to mould Pentecostal Nigerian selves in London are self-discipline, the dialectic of submission and responsibility, and the disciplining of others. Such dynamics around Pentecostal authority are crucially articulated in gendered terms. Hence, they are investigated in relation to gendering processes in singlehood, marriage and the raising of children. The requirements of non-Pentecostal contexts such as wider British society and state institutions sometimes contradict this three-fold way of becoming a morally sound Pentecostal. To navigate this tense and morally complex situation RCCG members tend to employ skills (‘smartness') they have obtained in Nigeria.
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Jennings, Joshua Kerby. "On Making a Difference: How Photography and Narrative Produce the Short-Term Missions Experience." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cld_etds/32.
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Short-term missions participants encounter difference in purportedly captivating ways. Current research, however, indicates the practice does not lead to long-lasting, positive change. Brian M. Howell (2012) argues the short-term missions experience is confined to the limitations of the short-term missions narrative. People who engage in short-term missions build assumptions, seek experiences, understand difference, and convey meaning, as a result of this narrative. The process of telling and retelling travel stories is integral to the short-term missions experience. Drawing upon literature on tourism, narrative, development, and photography, this study intends to evaluate the inefficacy of short-term missions through the stories which produce and are produced by photography. Through storytelling and photography from 21 short-term missions participants who have served in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, this project deconstructs the short-term missions narrative to understand, what is the relationship between the use of photography and the short-term missions experience? The results indicate a unique relationship between people, photography, and experiences within the framework of short-term missions.
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Livengood, Jennifer S. "The role of leisure in the personal spirituality and religious practices of New Paradigm Christians /." 2007. 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:3269965.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 3144. Adviser: Monika Stodolska. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-210) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Bixby, Brian L. "Seeking Shakers: Two centuries of visitors to Shaker villages." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3397685.
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The dissertation analyzes the history of tourism at Shaker communities from their foundation to the present. Tourism is presented as an interaction between the host Shakers and the visitors. The culture, expectations, and activities of both parties affect their relationship to each other. Historically, tourists and other visitors have gradually dominated the relationship, shifting from hostility based on religion to acceptance based on a romantic view of the Shakers. This relationship has spilled over into related cultural phenomena, notably fiction and antique collecting. Overall, the analysis extends contemporary tourism theory and integrates Shaker history with the broader course of American history.
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Raath, Steven. "Die heilige gees en die ekologiese problematiek." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1016.
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Hung, Chia-Lin, and 洪嘉臨. "The Study of religion recreational therapy of Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Taipei City." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54111370236023507648.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze how believers of Taipei Dalongdong Bao-an Temple participate in religious activities as a leisure activity by narrative approach. Meanwhile, try to understand the value of the religious activity that as recreation for believers, and explore the meaning for the author. The subject of the thesis is Baoan Temple, which Taipei Dalongdong area almost three hundred years, and the god of medical is the main worship main worship is the god of medical. Culturally, the religious activity of Bao-An temple is one of important religious festivals in Taipei. Thus, the research focuses on the origin of Bao-An temple and its meaning of therapeutic recreation of religion. The study adopts narrative approach and documentation collection by using data analysis, half-structured interview, and participant observation. Data analysis uses the observer’s recordings, interview diary, and reflection of the researchers to seize the phenomenon and the construct of the text, letting it be contextualized. The results of research are as following: first, Bao-An temple was a symbol to gather ethnic conscious, and nowadays transferred to a place that supplies cultural issue programs. Second, the religionous activities give the believers comfort and physical and spirit therapies. For the three believers, therapeutic recreation of religion mainly provide with psychological sustenance and a place of sense of security, and all of them emphasize on the value efficacious, thus it reaches the effects of treatment in the mental and physical illness for the believers. Finally, the study proposes suggestions of studying believers of different religions and area for future researchers.
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Belhassen, Yaniv. "Evangelical tours to the Holy Land : a study on the theopolitics of Christian pilgrimages /." 2007. 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:3290176.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4861. Adviser: Carla A. Santos. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-160) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Charon, Cardona Euridice T. "No Little Havana: recreating Cubanness in Sydney Australia." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31742.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis explores the ways in which Cuban identity is expressed, understood, maintained and recreated by Cuban migrants in Sydney and the wider Australian society. Initially, the analysis focuses on some of the most visible ethnic markers used by people outside the Cuban community to recreate Cubanness: politics, through the promotion of Cuba as a ‘socialist paradise’ by leftist Australian organizations and solidarity groups with Cuba; and music and dance, taking as an example the salsa boom in Sydney, and the advertising of Cuba as an exotic tourist destination in Australia. Throughout the work an argument is developed that the very different demographic configuration of Cubans in Australia has fostered a singular praxis of maintaining their identity. In doing so the study examines why politics does not play a primary role in the recreation of Cubanness in Australia, in contrast to numerically larger and higher profile Cuban settlements. Rather, Cubanness in Sydney has centred more in preserving eating habits, memories of Cuba as a place, listening and dancing to Cuban music, and other practices kept in the domestic space. This is achieved through the Cuban migrants’ strategic borrowings from other migrant communities, from food products to people and institutions, such as the Catholic Church being used to maintain the traditional worship of the Virgin of Charity. Finally, the study explores how migrants and outsiders understand the identity of Cubanness in Sydney, and considers the contribution of some major theories of ethnicity and identity to understanding this phenomenon.
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Chung, Jinhee. "An Exploration of Korean Immigrant Women's Leisure in Spiritual Settings." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3675.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the role and significance that ethnic churches have in the lives of Korean immigrant women in Canada. Particular attention was paid to the ethnic church as a potential leisure site, and the benefits associated with church participation, such as social interaction, social capital development, adaptation to living in Canada, and resistance to constraining ideologies. At the same time, possible negative outcomes of church association were also addressed, as appropriate, such as lack of integration into the broader Canadian society and reproduction of traditional gender ideologies.
Purposeful intensity sampling method was used to find Korean immigrant women who could provide information-rich stories for this exploratory in-depth study. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted one-to-one with a semi-structured format. Seven women were interviewed. These women were all first-generation married Korean immigrants who had lived in Canada for over one year. Initially the first participants were recruited through advertisements handed out to various churches in an urban/suburban region of south-west Ontario. Snowball sampling also took place as an alternative method for finding more information-rich cases.
The analysis of this study resulted in the following themes: The first theme was the benefits gained from ethnic church attendance. These included exchange of information, emotional support and reinforcement of ethnic identity. Second, conflicts, divisions and challenges deriving from church attendance were explored. Negative aspects such as challenges between traditional and new values, lack of interaction with mainstream Canadian society, and reinforcement of gender inequality were evident. Finally, despite the difficulties that derived from being a member of the Korean ethnic church, the community provided help in adjusting in the new life for the women. The Korean ethnic community acted as an extension of family while helping newcomers through a variety of services in adjusting to life in Canada.
The findings of this study do show that the Korean ethnic church is an important site for leisure for women. Although church attendance does not seem to specifically facilitate integration or resistance to the Canadian society, it did help them to re-create a smaller community that helped the women deal with their daily lives. As a result they often felt no need to step out into the larger society: thus creating ‘little Koreas’ within Canada.
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Weiss, Siegfried Eckart. "Freizeit und Mission: Eine empirisch-theologische Arbeit uber den Einfluss von christlicher Freizeitarbeit auf die Glaubensgenese Jugendlicher am Beispiel von SOLA." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23622.
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In dieser Forschungsarbeit wurde die Auswirkung von christlicher Freizeitarbeit
auf die Glaubensgenese von Jugendlichen erforscht. Die Umsetzung
erfolgte mithilfe einer empirisch-theologischen Untersuchung am Beispiel
eines SOLAs. Es wurden qualitative Interviews mit Jugendlichen durchgefuhrt, die uber die SOLA-Arbeit eine Glaubensgenese erlebt haben. Die
erhobenen Daten wurden mit der Grounded-Theory-Methodik nach Breuer
(2009) ausgewertet und mit den Theorien zur Glaubensgenese von Engel
(1989), Grom (1992) und Zulehner (2008) in Beziehung gesetzt. Die Ergebnisse
wurden auf die einzelnen Elemente angewendet, die bei der Gestaltung
einer Freizeit zur Verfugung stehen. Damit ist eine Hilfestellung entstanden,
die Veranstaltern von Freizeiten eine Orientierung geben kann, auf welche
Elemente einer Freizeit besonders zu achten ist, wenn eine Glaubensgenese
erwunscht ist.This research paper analyzes the impact Christian recreational activities have on the emergence of young people’s faith. Using the example of SOLA, the analysis is based on empiric-theological research. Young people, whose faith has emerged through SOLA were interviewed qualitatively. The data retrieved was analyzed using the grounded theory method by Breuer (2009) and put into relation to the theories of Engel (1989), Grom (1992) and Zulehner (2008) about how faith emerges. Furthermore, these results were applied to the individual elements available through the organization of camps. The outcomes the author has established are of assistance to all parties involved in the organization of christian recreational activities, who want to improve their programs toward impacting the emergence of faith in their participants.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
M. Th. (Missiology)
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Pereira, Sylvie Gonçalves 1977. "A parte recreativa da festa : o papel e funções das festas escolares no 1º ciclo do Ensino Básico do ponto de vista pedagógico, social, moral, religioso e político na formação integral do aluno e da comunidade no distrito de Bragança do início do século XX até à década de sessenta." Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37902.
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Tese de Mestrado em Ciências da Educação (Área de Especialização em História da Educação ) apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2006Este trabalho é uma reflexão acerca do papel e da função de uma actividade extra-curricular do ensino primário, no distrito de Bragança durante as seis primeiras décadas do século XX: a festa escolar. Porque se trata de um período em que se fala de Escola Nova, procurei orientar-me, ao longo dos meus capítulos, à luz do pensamento dos pedagogos da Educação Nova. De início, faço uma análise das características físicas da festa e a seguir das actividades desenvolvidas pelas crianças e pelos professores antes e durante o seu decorrer a fim de a perspectivar como uma actividade organizada, antecipada, controlada, consequente, de igual modo pedagógica e anti-pedagógica, ambígua e por isso suscitadora de muita polémica e divergências no seio do professorado. Para tal, também faço uma sistemática comparação entre os argumentos dos seus defensores e críticos. A nível social e cultural, defino as suas várias utilidades e vantagens para o desenvolvimento e educação integral da criança. Relativamente ao seu papel perante a comunidade, apresenta-se como veículo transmissor de saber. Além disso, retrato-a como poderoso instrumento de propaganda de ideais e para tal analiso as suas funções religiosas, pedagógicas, morais e políticas e suas consequências sobre o desenvolvimento da criança e a consciência do cidadão comum. Também foco três festas em particular por serem as mais frequentes e polémicas e analiso as suas funções, vantagens e inconvenientes pedagógicos.
Ce travail est une reflexion sur le rôle e la fonction d'une activité extra-cursus scolaire, dans le district de Bragança, durant les six première décennies du XX siècle : la fête scolaire. Parce qu'il s'agit d'une période où l'on parle de l'École Nouvelle,]'ai cherché à me guider, au long de mes châpitres, de la pensée des pedagogues de l'Éducation Nouvelle. Pour commencer, je fais l'analyse des caractéristiques physiques de la fête et ensuite des activités développées par les enfants et les professeurs avant e pendant son déroulement, afin de la visualiser comme une activité organisée, anticipée, à la fois pédagogique e anti-pédagogique, ambigue et pour cette raison provocatrice de beaucoup de polémique et divergences au sein du professorat. Pour cela, je fait également une comparaison sistématique entre les arguments des défenseurs et des critiques. Sur le plan social et culturel, je définis ses diverses utilités et avantages pour le développement et l'éducation intégrale de l'enfant. Relativement à son rôle envers la comunauté, elle se présente comme un vecteur transmetteur de savoir. De plus, je la dépeinds comme un puissant instrument de propagande d'idéaux et à cette fin, j'analyse ses fonctions religieuses, pédagogiques, morales et politiques et ses conséquences sur le développement de l'enfant et la conscience du citoyen commun. Je focalise aussi trois fêtes en particulier parce qu'elles sont les plus fréquentes et les plus polémiques et j'analyse leurs fonctions, leurs avantages et inconvénients pédagogiques.