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Youth Culture and Islam in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Indonesian youth culture is sometimes depicted through a moral panic discourse about mixed sex socializing. In this article, the authors challenge that view by presenting some ethnographic material on young Muslim Indonesians of both sexes socialising in
Mansfield, M. (Michelle)   +1 more
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On Taking One\u27s Daily Dip in the Font: Baptismal Piety [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
(Excerpt) The wife of a faculty colleague of mine has a serious problem with hip deterioration. Daily she goes to the local Y for a swim. For her a pool plunge is a matter of life and health. Most baptismal fonts are much too small for such a daily dip.
Tietjen, John H
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Pandemic oasis: Popular piety as women’s life-giving communitas

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2023
This article argues and explores how popular Catholic piety can serve as an agent to create life-giving communitas for women in Macao, China. This research uses the narratives of six Catholic women about how their immersion in various public and private devotional practices creates solidarity and communities that are inclusive, empowering, and ...
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Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God

open access: yes, 2015
Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Hartford\u27s First Church carried into the Connecticut wilderness (or ...
Instituto agrícola Murciano de San Isidro   +1 more
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Shape and origin of Bhaktivedanta Swami's image of christianity : an essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
0. Introduction and theses. 1. Bhaktivedanta Swami's view of Christianity. 1.1. The Bible; 1.2. Jesus; 1.3. History of the church. 2. Bhaktivedanta Swami's religious socialization. 2.1. Childhood; 2.2 College; 2.3. Vaishnava-teachers. 3.
Schmidt, Peter
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Resisting Marriage and Renouncing Womanhood: The Choice of Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The traditional Chinese perception of Buddhist monastics is that they choose to renounce the world out of desperation — after failing in the world such that their only options are suicide or the monastery.
Crane, Hillary
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