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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
De-Gendering The Church Wedding: An Analysis Of The United Church Of Christ Marriage Rite For Persons Of The Same Sex In Light Of Catholic Teaching, Daniel Avila
Daniel Avila
An analysis pursuant to Catholic teaching of the United Church of Christ wedding ceremony revised to celebrate same-sex commitments as marriage.
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.
For The Good Of The Empire: The Basis Of Decisional Thought At The Council Of Niceae, Ian Waterhouse-Terrell
For The Good Of The Empire: The Basis Of Decisional Thought At The Council Of Niceae, Ian Waterhouse-Terrell
Senior Theses and Projects
As the Christian Church began to gain power in Late Antiquity the church needed to have an agreed upon set of beliefs. At the Council of Nicaea many of the early church Canons and creeds were created. This Thesis looks at the political reasons for why such decisions were made.
Gender Bias After Death: The Case Of The Clergical Cemetery, St. John’S Orphanage, Thurgoona, Nsw, Australia, Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Gender Bias After Death: The Case Of The Clergical Cemetery, St. John’S Orphanage, Thurgoona, Nsw, Australia, Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Journal of International Women's Studies
Cemeteries are commonly seen as reflective of the historic environment in which they were created and therefore form a unique interpretive tool for the cultural heritage manager. As this case study of clergical cemetery documents, physical heritage of a cemetery may well reflect the power hierarchy at the time, but it does not accurately reflect the historic reality. The effective manipulation of the tangible evidence left behind for future generations has effectively enshrined a gender bias in perpetuity.
Urban Rifts And Religious Reciprocity: Chicago And The Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone
Urban Rifts And Religious Reciprocity: Chicago And The Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone
Dissertations (1934 -)
From the late 1960s onward, a sequence of unusually transformative, combustible, and sometimes alarming urban phenomena beset the city of Chicago and bred considerable turmoil and uncertainty: post-industrial transition; street gang activity and unprecedented levels of interpersonal violence; the political ascendancy in 1983 of African American reform candidate Harold Washington to the mayor's seat; gay liberation; and AIDS. Each accentuated a host of social and/or spatial rifts--between the deteriorating city and comparatively thriving suburbs; the economically impoverished, culturally alienated, and frequently isolated inner city and the rest of Chicago; machine and reform politicians; Black lawmakers and White "ethnics"; sexual majorities …