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2021
Abstract Victorian London proved fertile soil for new religious groups. In the context of political, economic, and social unrest and the biblicism of the Evangelical revival and Romanticism, Christian millenarian groups seeking a perfected society emerged, or were transplanted from the United States.
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Abstract Victorian London proved fertile soil for new religious groups. In the context of political, economic, and social unrest and the biblicism of the Evangelical revival and Romanticism, Christian millenarian groups seeking a perfected society emerged, or were transplanted from the United States.
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2005
Abstract This chapter examines religious group autonomy which comprises the right of religious communities to determine and administer their own internal religious affairs without interference from the state. The importance of religious group autonomy (or church autonomy, to use the traditional label) to any overall scheme of religious ...
REX AHDAR, IAN LEIGH
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Abstract This chapter examines religious group autonomy which comprises the right of religious communities to determine and administer their own internal religious affairs without interference from the state. The importance of religious group autonomy (or church autonomy, to use the traditional label) to any overall scheme of religious ...
REX AHDAR, IAN LEIGH
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International Journal of Psychology, 2012
Religious group identification is an important but understudied social identity. The present study investigates religious group identification among adolescents of different faiths (Hindu, Muslim, Christian) living in multicultural Mauritius. It further explores how religious and national group identities come together among religious majority and ...
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Religious group identification is an important but understudied social identity. The present study investigates religious group identification among adolescents of different faiths (Hindu, Muslim, Christian) living in multicultural Mauritius. It further explores how religious and national group identities come together among religious majority and ...
Caroline, Ng Tseung-Wong +1 more
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The communalization of religious experience in contemporary religious groups
Journal of Community Psychology, 1986Samples of one new religious group (Unificationists) and two established religious groups (Catholics and Presbyterians) were compared on measures of the importance of communal experiences to one's religious faith and the number of prior religious associations.
Brock K. Kilbourne, James T. Richardson
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Divorce and Desertion by Religious and Mixed-Religious Groups
American Journal of Sociology, 1954The Protestants of Philadelphia and other areas show a higher incidence of divorce than the Catholics, although there is now considerable divorce among the latter. On the other hand, in the white population, Catholics account for a disproportionate number of desertion and nonsupport cases, and the Jews appear least often of the three groups.
Thomas P. Monahan, William M. Kephart
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Violence from Religious Groups
2003Connections between religious groups and violence are widespread in history and in contemporary societies, but have only recently begun to receive systematic attention by social scientists (Candland, 1992). This oversight is due, in part, to what Edward Shils called “the blindness of the social sciences to tradition” (1981:14).
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Religious Stage Development Among Converts to Different Religious Groups
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2008Only a few studies have dealt with the relationship between faith development theory and conversion or apostasy, though some have called for these studies. In this study, I compare religious judgment and religious stage transformations of 47 converts, focusing specifically on four case studies of conversions to Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses, and ...
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