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This thesis presents an ethnographic analysis of the contemporary folk music scene in Budapest, based primarily on fieldwork in the city between 2013-2015. It draws on concepts from ethnomusicology, cultural studies and popular music studies, while sustaining a particular focus …

This study addresses eighteenth-century English-speaking evangelicals' understandings of church history, through the lens of published attempts to represent preceding Christian centuries panoramically or comprehensively. Sources entail several short reflections on history emergi…

This work argues that the origins of the great movement towards Christianity that Zulu underwent in the early twentieth century began not, as has been widely supposed, through the Zionist and Ethiopian churches, but earlier, as part of an intense effort by African evangelists an…

This project develops a system of learning and training through which the students and parental figures of the Learning and Achievement Academy grow in their understanding of the gospel. Chapter 1 describes the context and need for this project. Chapter 2 engages with the biblic…

The 1778 Meschianza of Philadelphia lived large in the nineteenth-century historical memory of the American Revolution. All but faded from our cultural memory today, the then-famous eighteen-hour regatta, theatrical performance, and fancy-dress ball came to represent the materia…

As both a student of Pentecostalism and the moving of the Holy Spirit has effected Christianity as well as how the Christian faith has impacted western history, I am intrigued by the impact the movement known as the First Great Awakening had on the formation of America as a nati…