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Disentangling religion and culture: americanizing Islam as the price of assimilation [PDF]
, 2013 This essay is an exploration into the social inevitabilities of culture shifts within the American Muslim community’s self-understanding of their faith.
Morgan, John H.
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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But we had hoped ... : The Road We\u27ve Traveled; the Road that Lies Ahead [PDF]
, 2003 (Excerpt) It is a privilege to be here with you at this annual gathering to explore matters of consequence affecting our churches at the beginning of this new millennium.
Bernstein, Eleanor
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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta [PDF]
, 2016 In this chapter the case study of Ta’ Pinu, Gozo, a site of pilgrimage for Marian devotion and the national shrine of Malta, is analysed as a gendered assemblage and an example of the intersection of gender and religion, with attention to the spatial and
Maddrell, Avril
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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly +3 more
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, 1961 Dear Brother: You were probably busy at 9:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday morning when the television set brought a beautiful choir concert from the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross at Boston, Massachusetts.
Kretzmann, O.P.
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Preaching at Weddings and Funerals [PDF]
, 1991 (Excerpt) In his book, Grace Notes and Other Fragments, Joseph Sittler wrote: Most ministers are aware that it is a tough and delicate labor to insert the lively power of the Word of God into the rushing occupations and silent monologues of human beings.
Pipping, Jerald W
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