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Canadian Catholic Pastoral Workers With The Deaf, January 1995

Canadian Catholic Pastoral Workers with the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Ottawa, ON (Canada)

"Murder And Mystery Mormon Style": Violence As Mediation In American Popular Culture, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Terryl Givens's discussion of popular representations of Mormonism ("'Murder and Mystery Mormon Style': Violence and Mediation in American Popular Culture ) is a case in point, emphasizing the violence inherent in the acts of sociocultural and fictional mediation that have tried to contain the heretical challenge of Mormon theocracy. Mormonism has a complex cultural identity, as a religious group clearly outside the American mainstream and yet historically and ethnically American to the core. Nineteenth-century fictional representations of Mormonism tended to demonize the religion while at the same time deploring the violence of anti-Mormon bigotry; such representations mediated social violence …

The Development And Validation Of The Missionary Language Performance Test, Blair E. Bateman

Theses and Dissertations

Performance tests are an effective way of assessing examinees' ability to perform specific job-related tasks. This thesis details the development and validation of a performance test designed to measure LDS missionaries' ability to perform missionary tasks in a foreign language, the Missionary Language Performance Test (MLPT).

The development of the test involved identifying a set of relevant missionary tasks, specifying the criteria to be evaluated, designing test items, devising a procedure for sampling tasks and for administering and rating the test, and training raters to administer the test. Three separate studies were conducted to validate the test: (a) both the …

A Qualitative Analysis Of The Non-Lds Experience In Utah, Jesse Smith Bushman

Theses and Dissertations

Utah's foundation under the influence of the LDS church, and the continued influence of the majority LDS population in the state make this area unique in the United States. This situation makes life for the non-LDS in Utah somewhat different than in other areas. Through a series of interviews with members of the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist (National Baptist Convention), Buddhist, and Jewish faiths, this thesis produced a large body of qualitative data concerning the non-LDS experience in Utah.

The experience of non-LDS people in Utah can by typified, with a few exceptions, as a traditional majority/minority interaction. Elements of …

St. Justin Catholic Deaf Community Sunday Bulletin, January 1, 1995

Saint Justin Catholic Deaf Community Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Pittsburgh, PA

Saint Justin Catholic Deaf Community Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Dominic Deaf Center, January-February 1995

Saint Dominic Deaf Center

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Houston, TX

Saint Dominic Deaf Center Finding Aid

A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Art Of Magic In Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

No abstract provided.

The Emblem And Motto Of The Congregation Of The Mission (Abridged), John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

This study will show that this familiar figure of Jesus and the motto Evangelizare pauperibus misit me both date from the time of Saint Vincent. However, the use of both of these together, with the motto surrounding the oval, dates only from the nineteenth century.

"Questioning The Primacy Of Method: On Sokolowski's Eucharistic Presence", Peter J. Casarella

Peter J. Casarella

No abstract provided.

A Democratic Catholic Church, Ed. Eugene Bianchi And Rosemary Ruether, William T. Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh

No abstract provided.