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12 Neue Missionslieder, Teßmer
Agim: Erzählt Aus China, Anna Oehler
Agim: Erzählt Aus China, Anna Oehler
Poetry
"The digital copy of this text was taken from the holdings of the Basel Mission Archives. The Basel Mission is now integrated with Mission-21. We are grateful for the contributions by the BMA and the permission to post these texts on the Sophie Digital Library. You can visit their sites at: Basel Mission Archives: http://www.bmarchives.org/ Mission-21: http://www.mission-21.org/"
Wasserquellen Im Dürren Lande. Bilder Aus Der Muhammedaner-Mission, Elisabeth Enderlin-Gonnermann
Wasserquellen Im Dürren Lande. Bilder Aus Der Muhammedaner-Mission, Elisabeth Enderlin-Gonnermann
Prose Nonfiction
No abstract provided.
Veiling In Fear Or In Faith? Meanings Of The Hijab To Practicing Muslim Wives And Husbands In The United States, Zahra Alghafli, Loren Marks, Trevan Hatch, Andrew Rose
Veiling In Fear Or In Faith? Meanings Of The Hijab To Practicing Muslim Wives And Husbands In The United States, Zahra Alghafli, Loren Marks, Trevan Hatch, Andrew Rose
Faculty Publications
This article examines the Muslim practice of wearing the hijab—the veiling and covering of a woman’s head and body. More specifically, this study aims to present insiders’ perspectives regarding the personal understandings of the hijab among 20 wives and 20 husbands (n = 40) in religious Shia and Sunni Muslim families living in the United States. Qualitative analysis yielded three emergent themes: (1) The hijab as a symbol of religious commitment; (2) The hijab as a tool of protection, rather than oppression, for women and families; and (3) Two different views of Muslims’ reasoning behind the hijab. These …
Jewish Families In The United States, Trevan Hatch, Loren Marks, David C. Dollahite
Jewish Families In The United States, Trevan Hatch, Loren Marks, David C. Dollahite
Faculty Publications
As mentioned in chapter 8, the rich context of religious minority families offers the chance to highlight issues like identity formation in youth and emerging adults, the importance of social support from their religious community, and the unique challenges religious minorities face as they strive to live their religion. In this chapter we feature Judaism and the 30 Jewish families from the American Families of Faith project.
Finding Religion: An Analysis Of Theology Libguides, Gerrit Van Dyk
Finding Religion: An Analysis Of Theology Libguides, Gerrit Van Dyk
Faculty Publications
This paper will compare various LibGuides in theology from thirty-seven different institutions. These institutions include universities granting undergraduate and graduate degrees in religion or theology as well as seminaries for professional clergy. Data on LibGuides content, such as books, ebooks, journals, databases, librarian contact information, and others, will be compared and analyzed. Resources especially tailored to religious and theological studies will also be highlighted.
The Folks Of The Postapocalypse: The Road, Religion, And Folklore Studies, Megan M. Toone
The Folks Of The Postapocalypse: The Road, Religion, And Folklore Studies, Megan M. Toone
Student Works
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Sacred Violence: When Ancient Egyptian Punishment Was Dressed In Ritual Trappings, Kerry Muhlestein
Sacred Violence: When Ancient Egyptian Punishment Was Dressed In Ritual Trappings, Kerry Muhlestein
Faculty Publications
Despite gaping holes in our knowledge of ancient Egyptian laws and punishments, the sheer amount of data available for that long-lasting culture dictates that we limit our study of punishments both topically and temporally. This article will investigate the topic of ritual-associated killing from the Old Kingdom through the Libyan era. Earlier phases of Egyptian history yield evidence of ritual killing, such as the retainer burials associated with Early Dynastic kings or the labels of Aha and Djer (fig. 1), that seem to depict ritual slaughter. Whatever the nature of these seeming programs of ritual slaying, we cannot trace a …
Linguistic Behavior And Religious Activity, Wendy Baker, David Bowie
Linguistic Behavior And Religious Activity, Wendy Baker, David Bowie
Faculty Publications
Studies have found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah exhibit significant linguistic differences. We break this down further by investigating whether there are also differences between Mormons who actively participate in the religion and those who do not, and find significant differences with a medium or larger effect size between the groups for multiple variables. We conclude that when investigating the linguistic correlates of religious affiliation in a community, it is vital to elicit not just respondents’ religious affiliations, but also their level of participation within that religion.
Sharia Law, Trevan Hatch
Sharia Law, Trevan Hatch
Faculty Publications
Sharia is the Islamic legal code that serves as an ethical, practical, and religious guide for practicing Muslims. Sharia has been variously translated from Arabic as "the way," "the correcting path," or literally "the path leading to the watering place." Sharia has Sunni and Shia variations as well as different schools of jurisprudence within those traditions, but all sharia is rooter in the Qur'an (or Koran, the primary sacred text of Islam) and the lived example of the Prophet Muhammad, as discussed in the hadith (a body of traditions concerning the Prophet Muhammad's life and revelations). these two sources are …
Linguistic Behavior And Religious Activity, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie
Linguistic Behavior And Religious Activity, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie
Faculty Publications
Studies have found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah exhibit significant linguistic differences. We break this down further by investigating whether there are also differences between Mormons who actively participate in the religion and those who do not, and find significant differences with a medium or larger effect size between the groups for multiple variables. We conclude that when investigating the linguistic correlates of religious affiliation in a community, it is vital to elicit not just respondents’ religious affiliations, but also their level of participation within that religion.
I Know Not, John Hilton Iii
I Know Not, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
Do you think that the weapons buildup we are seeing in some countries will lead to Armageddon?" It was a priesthood session of stake conference, and the presiding General Authority had opened the meeting to questions. He looked at the person who had asked the question and simply responded, “I don’t know. Next question.” Throughout the meeting, the General Authority was asked many questions, several of which did not have answers that could be found in the scriptures or teachings of living prophets. To each of these questions, he answered, “I don’t know.” One of the major temptations gospel teachers …
Helping Students Act As A Result Of Classroom Lessons, John Hilton Iii, Brandon B. Gunnell
Helping Students Act As A Result Of Classroom Lessons, John Hilton Iii, Brandon B. Gunnell
Faculty Publications
President Thomas S. Monson taught, “The goal of gospel teaching . . . is not to ‘pour information’ into the minds of class members. . . . The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.” In this same talk he emphasized the importance of taking action as it relates to learning, saying, “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I learn.” Thus a key responsibility in the role of a religious educator is to help students do things as a result of …
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
In a worldwide training broadcast, Elder W. Rolfe Kerr taught, “We cannot expect our students to learn all that we hope they will learn by just hearing a concept or principle one time. Multiple presentations, utilizing various approaches, often appealing to multiple senses, increase the likelihood of our students actually learning and internalizing the concepts we teach.”
See That Ye Do Them, John Hilton Iii
See That Ye Do Them, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
A young man went to institute the day before Thanksgiving. During the class, the teacher used several different methods to teach the topic of gratitude. At the end of the class the teacher challenged the students to take something from the class and teach it to their families or friends the following day. Although this young man was not living at home, he taught a lesson to the people he was living with. He later reported, “My Thanksgiving lesson was awesome! Everybody loved it!”
Dialect Identification: The Effects Of Religion Of Origin And Amount Of Experience, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Eddington, Lyndsey Nay
Dialect Identification: The Effects Of Religion Of Origin And Amount Of Experience, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Eddington, Lyndsey Nay
Faculty Publications
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more similar the listener’s dialect is to Utah English, the better his or her ability to identify Utah speakers. Moreover, it was found that listeners from …
Religious Affiliation As A Correlate Of Linguistic Behavior, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie
Religious Affiliation As A Correlate Of Linguistic Behavior, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie
Faculty Publications
The current study examined whether religious affiliation in Utah County, Utah affected the production of several vowel mergers typical of the area (i.e., fell-fail, pool-pole-pull,card-cord). To do so, we asked selfidentified members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and self-identified non- Mormons to produce these vowel contrasts. Next, three naïve raters trained in phonetics but unfamiliar with how English is spoken in Utah were asked to judge which of the two vowels in a vowel pair contrast was produced by the speakers. Findings demonstrated clear evidence of differences based on selfdescribed religious affiliation for several of …
Understanding The Purpose Of Creation Accounts, Terry Ball
Understanding The Purpose Of Creation Accounts, Terry Ball
Faculty Publications
Jeopardy is a popular and longrunning TV game show in the United States. It is somewhat unusual in the world of game shows. In typical game shows, contestants are asked questions and then awarded money for providing correct answers. But, in Jeopardy that process is reversed: the contestants are given the answers and then receive money for correctly providing the questions. For example, contestants might be given the answer "a biblical measurement of volume approximately equivalent to eight gallons." The contestant who first correctly asks the question "What is an ephah?" would then be awarded money. Unlike much of what …
Die Schlange, Aloisia Kirschner
Eine Frucht Deutscher Missionsarbeit Im Njaßaland, E. Kaellner
Eine Frucht Deutscher Missionsarbeit Im Njaßaland, E. Kaellner
Prose Nonfiction
No abstract provided.
Wie Stirbt Der Schwarze Christ, P. Haegeholst-Zambrost
Indische Lotosblumen: Mein Schwesterchen, Frau M. Männig
Indische Lotosblumen: Mein Schwesterchen, Frau M. Männig
Prose Nonfiction
"The digital copy of this text was taken from the holdings of the Basel Mission Archives. The Basel Mission is now integrated with Mission-21. We are grateful for the contributions by the BMA and the permission to post these texts on the Sophie Digital Library. The BMA provides access to a large selection of digitized visual and cartographic material, as well as comprehensive catalogue data from the Basel Mission Archives: some 30,000 images, 6,700 maps, sketches and plans, and detailed references to written records. You can visit their sites at: Basel Mission Archives: http://www.bmarchives.org/ Mission-21: http://www.mission-21.org/"
Das Befreyte Deutschland, Caroline Pichler