This doctoral research thesis aims to provide a comprehensive depiction of contemporary spiritual engagement outside of religious tradition. Existing research is primarily contextualized within the areas of sociology and religious studies, and an in-depth psychological evaluatio…
"481" Result
Sort By:
O presente Relatório final da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES) elaborado no âmbito do Mestrado em Ciências Religiosas – especialização em Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica tem como objetivo expor uma reflexão sobre o contributo educativo da Educação Moral e Religiosa Cat…
Experiences deemed spiritual or religious play important but complex roles in the life narratives and meaning systems of many. The relationship between these experiences and individuals’ beliefs and worldviews is only partially understood. This thesis explores how people make se…
Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truth claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. In this study, I begin by showing that few explicit, develope…
The term ‘religious pluralism’ has been emerged as a result of interconnection and intersection between various ideologies, cultures, and religious affiliations among humankind. It is a theological concept that celebrates plurality, diversity, and coexistence of religions in whi…
The current study quantitatively and qualitatively investigated Spanish maintenance among 45 Spanish heritage language (SHL) speakers in Utah who completed a survey about their linguistic background, their attitudes toward Spanish, their self-rated Spanish proficiency, and their…
A elaboração teológica do dogma trinitário implicou, no século IV, uma nova articulação entre as categorias ontológicas de «substância» e «relação» em Deus. A conceção de uma metafísica do mundo e da pessoa pensada a partir da Trindade permanece, porém, uma tarefa a realizar. Kl…
This study uses the prose hagiography of the poet Venantius Fortunatus (c.530-600/609 CE) to examine the relationship between hagiographical narrative and pastoral care in the early Merovingian kingdoms. Consisting of the lives of six bishops and the ascetic Queen Radegund, this…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to initiate understanding of how obesity in the South is still so prevalent even though the majority of inhabitants subscribe to a faith that discourages unhealthy lifestyles. Furthermore, the information presented in this research sough…
This thesis presents an ethnographic case study into the political anthropology of contemporary religion. By exploring the ‘liquid’ faith of participants in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the…
To unveil the multilayered experiences which Christians undergo when engaging in nature-based experiences, this research utilized a multidimensional approach to address and further comprehend the characteristics of these moments. Specifically, this research aimed to understand h…
On May 18, 2018, a shooter entered Santa Fe High School, killing eight students and two teachers. Using ethnographic methods, this research examines the role of faith, rituals, language, and symbols in the trauma-affected community during the response, recovery, and resiliency e…
This project addresses Ephraem's approach to Bar Daysan and Mani in his heresiology. The primary aim is to reveal Ephraem's conception of the threat that Bar Daysanism and Manichaeism posed to Ephraem's own community and to analyze Ephraem's response to that threat by expounding…
The Fourth Gospel presents the doctrine of love by repeating the terms for love, such as agape and philos , and their cognate verbs. The Gospel further enriches the doctrine by adopting metaphors and symbols that signify love, lovers, and/or love deities in the first-century Med…
The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…
My dissertation is a critical edition, translation and analysis of the opening chapter of Sefer Milhamot Hashem (1170), Jacob ben Reuben's philosophical polemic against Christianity. This groundbreaking text, possibly the first of its kind in Europe, emerged seemingly out of the…
In this dissertation, I investigate reflection on divine providence and the formation of paideia (school culture) in Christian Alexandria (c. 100-250). My research focuses on a conceit developed in the writings of Clement and Origen of Alexandria that divine providence functions…
This study examines the interactions of Christian and Yoruba cultures through the funeral of a Yoruba Christian successively held in Ibadan and Ilesa in southwestern Nigeria. Strict Africological paradigms were used in all aspects of this study, including participant observation…
The particularity and concrete determinacy of Christian confession of faith In Jesus Christ necessarily comes at the cost of a certain inevitable sacrifice with regard to an ethical relation to Jews and Judaism—an irreducible theological dissonance, or conflictual difference, in…