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Turning to God in the Face of Ostracism: Effects of Social Exclusion on Religiousness [PDF]

, 2010
The present research proposes that individuals who are socially excluded can turn to religion to cope with the experience. Empirical studies conducted to test this hypothesis consistently found that socially excluded persons reported (a) significantly ...
Allport, G.W., Altemeyer, B., Becker, E., Berger, P.L., Coolseat, R., Dieter Frey, Fischer, P., Freud, S., Freud, S., Goodenough, E.R., Kirkpatrick, L.A., Kristen, C., Leary, M.R., Nilüfer Aydin, Pargament, K.I., Peter Fischer, Rosenthal, R., Sauer, M., Spilka, B.   +18 more
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Faith communities, youth and development in Mozambique

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
In Mozambique, poverty is pervasive because of factors such as the civil war (1976–1992) and its aftermath, political instability, food scarcity and natural disasters.
Victoria Chifeche, Yolanda Dreyer
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Tradition and Prudence in Locke's Exceptions to Toleration [PDF]

, 2003
Why did Locke exclude Catholics and atheists from toleration? Not, I contend, because he was trapped by his context, but because his prudential approach and practica ljudgments led him to traditiona ltexts.
Aristotle, Ashcraft R., Audi R., Charles, Coffey J., Digges Dudley, Dowretz S., Dunn J., Dworkin R., Garver E., Gordon J., Harris I., Hirschmann A., Hull John, Locke J., Locke J., Mill J. S., Murphy A., Scargill D., Wootton D.   +19 more
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Rethinking theological training as ministerial empowerment for contextual mission: A case of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This research engaged a realist paradigm to triangulate existing literature with data that emerged from a PhD study on ministerial formation within the context of being a missional church in the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA). The
Sibusiso Zungu, Buhle Mpofu
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Understanding power struggles in the Pentecostal church government

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
This article highlights the power struggles that the Pentecostal church experiences in its church governance. These power struggles become very contentious to a point where members take each other to legal courts, which ends in multiple schisms that ...
Mangaliso Matshobane, Maake J. Masango
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Tsonga widow's mourning rituals practices in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa. A ritual-liturgical exploration

Theologia Viatorum, 2020
This article studies the rituals and ceremonies that are practised by Tsonga widows at a village in Giyani in Limpopo. The research is based on the observation of the exclusion of widows from church attendance and activities in the Evangelical ...
Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini, Cas J. Wepener, Esias E. Meyer   +2 more
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Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This research investigated the impact measures (such as lockdowns) used to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) have on the church’s mission.
Johannes J. Knoetze, Thabani Mkhize
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Do We Need to Put God into Emotional Support?: A Comparison of Caucasians’ and African-Americans’ Evaluations of Religious versus Non-Religious Comforting Messages [PDF]

, 2013
The current study explored whether ethnicity influences young adults’ evaluations of two different sets of comforting messages: those in which concepts such as God, prayer, religion, and faith are woven into low, moderate, and high person-centered ...
Morse, Chris R., Samter, Wendy, Whaley, Bryan B.   +2 more
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Living as if God exists: Looking for Common Ground in Times of Radical Pluralism [PDF]

, 2014
This paper offers some comments on some metaphysical and epistemological claims of theological realism from the perspective of continental philosophy of religion, thereby taking the work of Soskice and Hick as paradigmatic for this kind of philosophical ...
Jonkers, Peter
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Ubuntu in the worship service as heterotopia: A liturgical-ecclesiological exploration

In die Skriflig, 2020
Through taking an interdisciplinary approach to studying liturgy, a connection has been made in this article between three theological concepts: koinonia, liturgical inculturation and the utopian ideal of inclusivity in the form of ‘heterotopias’.
Hilton R. Scott, Cas Wepener
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