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Growing Religious Diversity in South Carolina: Implications for the Palmetto State [PDF]

, 2004
This paper documents the growth of religious diversity in South Carolina, drawing on interviews with members from the traditions represented, previous scholarly research on religion in South Carolina, newspaper articles, census data and interviews with ...
Tracy J. Wells
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Religions and education in England: social plurality, civil religion and religious education pedagogy [PDF]

, 2007
In England, religious groups have been involved since the nineteenth century in partnership with the state in the provision of schools and the curriculum subject of religious education.
Jackson, Robert, O'Grady, Kevin
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John Bellers (1654–1725): ‘A Veritable Phenomenon in the History of Political Economy’

, 2019
What sort of a person would be an inspiration to Karl Marx and a champion of free trade, an advocate of gainful employment and hard work, a herald of providing education and medical care for the poor while also seeing their labor as the greatest ...
Anderson, Paul N.
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In the place of sanctity. Religious eminence in Jewish tradition

Ocula
The concept of holiness is among the religious innovations brought by Christianity. In Hebrew there is a word (kadòsh) that normally translates as holy, but its usage is noticeably different, as it applies mostly to deities or entities such as the Land ...
Ugo Volli
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Method and Theory in Religious Studies: Retrospect and Prognostications

Temenos, 2007
There is a distinct possibility that, in the twenty-first century, Religious Studies as a discipline could come into its own. Its multidisciplinary orientation, if handled with due critical awareness as to its own former grandiose ambitions and present ...
Morny Joy
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Growing up in Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798) : sources and methodologies for the history of childhood and adoloscence [PDF]

, 2008
The study of young people in the past is fraught with methodological problems and unearthing source material on children and adolescents can be problematic.
Buttigieg, Emanuel
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University students’ religious literacy and religiosity. What is the place of academic discipline and religious affiliation?

Cogent Education
The study examined the influence of university students’ religious literacy on their religiosity, while paying attention to their background characteristics such as field of study and religious affiliation. The urgency of this study lies in the fact that
Mensah Eric, Francis Tabiri, Asare Danso Seth   +2 more
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Religious minorities of Ukraine: status and problems

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
The democratic state and social development courses chosen by Ukraine have defined its religious diversity, where a prominent place in the spiritual life of society is the phenomenon of religious minorities, which play an ambiguously important role in ...
Oleg Vasyliovych Buchma
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School as a Place of Formation of Moral-Ethical and Religious Competences

Paedagogia Christiana, 2016
A quarter-century ago, religion as a school subject was reintroduced to Polish public schools. Simultaneously, ethics lessons were organized as an alternative to religion ones.
Dariusz Stępkowski
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Buddhism\u27s Worldly Other: Secular Subjects of Tibetan Learning [PDF]

, 2016
By analyzing the writings of select Tibetan authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this article reflects on the prestige attached to secular (but not anti-religious) knowledge, and the ambivalence prominent thinkers expressed around the ...
Townsend, Dominique
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