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Documentary Theology: Testing a New Approach to Texts in Religious Communities [PDF]

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2017
Scholars of religion have much to gain by studying texts, produced and used within religious communities and institutions, as documents. Documents, as theorized in a growing body of literature in the social sciences, offer distinctive perspectives on the dynamics within religious communities, and in particular on theological development. We demonstrate
Muers, R, Grant, R
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The link between religious ministry and theology: an analysis of influences, challenges, and cooperation in modern christian communities

Ministries and Theology, 2023
This research explores the intricate relationship between religious ministry and theology within modern Christian communities. Employing a mixed-methods approach encompassing qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys, and document analysis, the study investigates the influences, challenges, and opportunities inherent in this dynamic interplay ...
Schurink Dykstra, Hess Seminary, Tennent Tennent   +2 more
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From Ethnography to Theology ― Religious Communities in Contemporary Shanghai and the Tasks of East Asian Theology ―

Korean Jounal of Systematic Theology, 2014
Theology must remain alert to the perpetual novelty of God, expressed throughout believers’ lived experiences and communal inventiveness. The ethnographer’s sensitivity to the way religious communities take shape and evolve can help the theologian to reflect anew on the way God’s revelation unfurls itself in the contexts and languages of our time. This
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The Advantage of Peace Theology towards Exclusive, Inclusive, and Pluralist Theology for Realizing Religious Community in Indonesia

, 2020
In the current paper, the author points out what he sees as the root of the problem, viz. the impact of using certain kinds of theology models concerning the other religions. At present, the most common models are exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism. In expanding and spreading its doctrine, each Religion uses one of these models. As a result, people
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Weaving a Religious Community: Monasticism, Authority, and Theology in Gujarat, 1830-1905

, 2018
This thesis demonstrates the intersection of caste, doctrine, religious authority and monasticism in the Swaminarayan sampradāy, a Hindu devotional tradition founded by Sahajānand Svāmī. Religious traditions affected indirectly or minimally by colonialism or the nationalist struggle have seldom been rigorously studied.
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Celebrização clerical e teologia da levianização: uma análise comunicacional pastoral da influência digital religiosa = Clerical celebrization and theology of frivolization: a pastoral communicational analysis of digital religious influence = Celebrización clerical y teología de la livianización: un análisis comunicacional pastoral de la influencia religiosa digital

Teocomunicação
O artigo analisa a atuação digital do Pe. Patrick Fernandes, que passou de mero “pároco de aldeia” do interior do Pará, no Brasil, a “macroinfluenciador digital”, alcançando milhões de seguidores no Instagram em poucas semanas ao longo de 2021. Busca-se apontar as principais causas e consequências socioeclesiais desse processo.
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Traditional Islam in Kazakhstan: historical formation, state discourse, and contemporary challenges. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Kerim S, Kurmanaliyev M.
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Factors influencing husbands' participation in antenatal care: A study in Maluku, Indonesia. [PDF]

Health SA
Paunno M, Maspaitella MJ, Tuasela JA, Titarsole C, Talarima B, Lawalata IV, Titarsole NN, Manuhutu N.   +7 more
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Adolescent and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (AYSRH): Perceived Religious Health Assets of Churches and Their Optimization for Youth Sexual Health in South Africa's Vaal Region. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Magezi V.
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Listen and You Shall Hear: Lessons from Theology and Pastoral Care. [PDF]

Perspect Med Educ
Butani L.
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