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Encountering China: the evolution of Timothy Richard's missionary thought (1870-1891) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In pursuit of the conversion of others, cross-cultural missionaries often experience their own “conversions.” This thesis explores the ways in which one particular missionary, the Welshman Timothy Richard (1845–1919), was transformed by his encounter ...
Ireland, Daryl
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\u27Gaining a Voice\u27: An Interpretation of Quaker Women\u27s Writing 1740-1850

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of this paper is to suggest way s in which Quaker women Ministers, in a period of considerable doctrinal and secular change, used their journal writings as a tool to maintain their position within the Society of Friends.
Wright, Sheila
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
wiley   +1 more source

A Pastor’s Kid Finds the Catholic Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this essay, I describe my journey to Catholicism and explain one of the many reasons I became Catholic--namely, an argument from the canon of ...
Gage, Logan Paul
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Growth or decline in the Church of England during the decade of Evangelism: did the Churchmanship of the Bishop matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Decade of Evangelism occupied the attention of the Church of England throughout the 1990s. The present study employs the statistics routinely published by the Church of England in order to assess two matters: the extent to which these statistics ...
Barnes J   +33 more
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Immigrants’ Changing Religiosity: The Case of Spain

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes changes in religiosity of the migrant–origin population in Spain. Using data from the Spanish General Social Survey (ESGE) from four different years between 2013 and 2023, we compare people with migrant background with respect to the native‐born population in terms of religious affiliation (vs.
Jacobo Muñoz‐Comet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging Churches in Post-Christian Canada

open access: yesReligions, 2012
The traditional mainline and evangelical churches in Canada, as in most western countries, are either in decline or static. Taken as a measure of the future, the prospects for Christianity in Canada, and more broadly the West, are bleak.
Steven Studebaker, Lee Beach
doaj   +1 more source

“Servants, Obey Your Masters”: Southern Representations of the Religious Lives of Slaves

open access: yes, 2015
This paper focuses on how representations of the religious lives of slaves, specifically their abilities to comprehend the Bible and flourish spiritually, became an issue that not only propelled the North and South toward the Civil War, but also ...
Wedow, Lindsey K.D.
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