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2016

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Missionary Life In Singapore, Stacy P. Higgins Dec 2016

Missionary Life In Singapore, Stacy P. Higgins

World War II

This oral history is about a Seventh Day Adventist that went to live in Singapore to work at a school. He shares his experience in the overall culture.

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Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.

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Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster Nov 2016

Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

An important source of legitimacy for all types of government is the creation of or building up of a sense of nationhood for the citizens of the state. This can be achieved in many ways, including through the use of physical nationalist symbols. In my paper, I address this topic by exploring how the Communist government of Czechoslovakia reinterpreted and changed the traditional meaning of the historical Bethlehem Chapel in Prague in order to fit their own ideology. I found that the Communist government emphasized the communal aspects of the Hussite movement and ignored religious associations. My research is primarily …

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Intersections Of Religion And War: Examining A Uscc Diary, Savannah A. Labbe Sep 2016

Intersections Of Religion And War: Examining A Uscc Diary, Savannah A. Labbe

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

While most don’t immediately associate religion with war, there is no doubt that it plays a role in most, the Civil War included. The Civil War brought with it new levels of death and destruction that the government was unprepared to deal with; it didn’t have the resources to adequately care for the influx of wounded soldiers, which was painfully evident after Bull Run when the number of soldiers needing medical care was more than the hospitals could handle. In the wake of the Battle of First Bull Run, the general public as well as the government saw the need …

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Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3055. Mimeographed letter, 20 March 1906, of Henry H. Sweets, Louisville, Kentucky, Secretary, Executive Committee, Ministerial Education and Relief, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He urges recipients to convey the “crying need” for ministers to parents, teachers and young men in the church, and offers to send literature to interested parties whose names are forwarded to the Committee.

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Acercamiento Al Pensamiento Mágico Y La Superstición En El Discurso Literario De La Primera Modernidad Española: Miguel De Cervantes Y María De Zayas, Miguel Magdaleno Santamaria Jul 2016

Acercamiento Al Pensamiento Mágico Y La Superstición En El Discurso Literario De La Primera Modernidad Española: Miguel De Cervantes Y María De Zayas, Miguel Magdaleno Santamaria

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this thesis is to serve as a first approach to magical thinking and superstition in the literary discourse of Early Modern Spain, by examining these topics in Miguel de Cervantes’ first Quijote (1605) and María de Zayas’ Novelas Amorosas y Ejemplares (1637). The methodology followed in this thesis fundamentally includes the points of view of four fields of study. These are: anthropology, history, literature and historical linguistics. Accordingly, this study is thematically divided into four big sections: first, a discussion around the concept of ‘magical thinking’ in relation to religion (from an anthropological point of view); second, …

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Green River General Baptist Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 3027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Green River General Baptist Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 3027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3027. Minutes of the Green River General Baptist Church, Ohio County, Kentucky, from 10 December 1883 to 8 June 1901. Includes membership list.

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Berea Christian Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 3024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Berea Christian Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 3024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3024. Two passbooks of Farmers Bank of Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, recording accounts of Berea Christian Church, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1873-1875, and Berea Church Sunday School, 1875-1878.

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Dorjé Tarchin, The Mélong, And The Tibet Mirror Press: Negotiating Discourse On The Religious And The Secular, Nicole Willock May 2016

Dorjé Tarchin, The Mélong, And The Tibet Mirror Press: Negotiating Discourse On The Religious And The Secular, Nicole Willock

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Much scholarly attention has been given to the importance of the Mélong, the first Tibetan newspaper, in the discursive formation of Tibetan nationalism; yet in claiming the Mélong as ‘secular’ and ‘modern,’ previous scholarship has also evaded the press’s Christian and colonial roots. This paper investigates the secularization of the Mélong and the Tibet Mirror Press as an historical project, and as a corollary demonstrates the emergence of a vernacular project of secularism that aligned pan-Tibetan national identity with religious pluralism against the threat of communism. As a Tibetan Christian intellectual, the Mélong’s founder Dorjé Tarchin (1890-1976) creatively responded to …

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The Triad Of Nationality Revisited: The Orthodox Church And The State In Post-Soviet Russia, Robert D. Potts May 2016

The Triad Of Nationality Revisited: The Orthodox Church And The State In Post-Soviet Russia, Robert D. Potts

Honors College

The Orthodox Church has been intimately wrapped up in the Russian state since Russia’s conversion to Christianity in 988. The relationship between the two is most succinctly wrapped up in Tsar Nicholas I’s so-called triad: “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.” This paper seeks to explain the manner in which the Orthodox Church reasserted itself as a force in Russian politics after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 up through the first administration of President Vladimir Putin. The church under Patriarch Alexy powerfully reinserted itself into affairs of state during the August 1991 coup attempt, while its relationship with the …

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Plano Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Plano Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3006. Minutes of meetings of Plano Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky (also known as the United Baptist Church of Christ at Plano), 1897-1917.

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Old Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Old Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 575. Minutes and membership lists of Old Union Church, Warren County, Kentucky (also known as the United Baptist Church at Union).

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The Pneuma Network: Transnational Pentecostal Print Culture In The United States And South Africa, 1906-1948, Lindsey Brooke Maxwell Apr 2016

The Pneuma Network: Transnational Pentecostal Print Culture In The United States And South Africa, 1906-1948, Lindsey Brooke Maxwell

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exploding on the American scene in 1906, Pentecostalism became arguably the most influential religious phenomenon of the twentieth century. Sparked by the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, the movement grew rapidly throughout the United States and garnered global momentum. This study investigates the original Los Angeles Apostolic Faith Mission and the subsequent extension of the mission to South Africa through an examination of periodicals, mission records, and personal documents. Using the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa as a case study, this study measures the significance of print media in the emergence and evolution of the early Pentecostal movement. …

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Red River Church - Robertson County, Tennessee (Sc 3002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Red River Church - Robertson County, Tennessee (Sc 3002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3002. Minutes of Red River Church, Robertson County, Tennessee. Includes minutes of meetings and membership lists. Also includes the constitution and rules of decorum of the Cumberland Baptist Association. A typescript is available in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (F443 .R55 1983)

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Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2981. Research notes of Mary Leiper Moore, director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University, related to William Harris, an important early minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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New Perspectives On The Northampton Communion Controversy Iv: Experience Mayhew’S Dissertation On Edwards’S Humble Inquiry, Douglas L. Winiarski Jan 2016

New Perspectives On The Northampton Communion Controversy Iv: Experience Mayhew’S Dissertation On Edwards’S Humble Inquiry, Douglas L. Winiarski

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This fourth installment in a series exploring newly discovered manuscripts relating to the “Qualifications Controversy” that drove Edwards from his Northampton pastorate presents an unpublished oppositional dissertation by Experience Mayhew, a prominent eighteenth-century Indian missionary from Martha’s Vineyard. Next to Solomon Stoddard, Mayhew was Edwards’s most important theological target during the conflict. Where Edwards pressed toward precision in defining the qualifications for admission to the Lord’s Supper, Mayhew remained convinced that the standards for membership in New England’s Congregational churches should encompass a broad range of knowledge and experience. His rejoinder to Edwards’s Humble Inquiry provides a rare opportunity to …

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