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Factors That Contributed To The Growth Of The Kenya Assemblies Of God Church: An Analysis Of Multi-Paradigms, Florence Juma, J. M. Vorster Dec 2003

Factors That Contributed To The Growth Of The Kenya Assemblies Of God Church: An Analysis Of Multi-Paradigms, Florence Juma, J. M. Vorster

Luther Faculty Publications

Many churches in Africa lack recorded history for various reasons, such as scarcity of funds and/or scholars in the field of church history (cf. Kalu, 1993:166ff). This situation is more prevalent among the Pentecostal movements which, initially and for genuine reasons, were anti-intellectualist and emphasized ministry alone (Clark & Lederle et al, 1983:41; McNamee, 1974:27; and Hollenweger). Another possible explanation results from the fact that these churches are relatively young compared to their counterpart mainline churches. This lack of recorded history poses a hindrance to any efforts in evaluating the growth of such churches.

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Ancient Egyptian Religion On The Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties About Race, Ethnicity, And Religion, Caroline T. Schroeder Oct 2003

Ancient Egyptian Religion On The Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties About Race, Ethnicity, And Religion, Caroline T. Schroeder

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

This essay examines the depiction of religion, race, and ethnicity in four films: The Mummy, Stargate, The Ten Commandments, and Prince of Egypt. Each film - explicitly or implicitly, deliberately or not - uses ancient Egyptian religion as a foil to dramatize American concerns about race and ethnicity. The foil is the mysterious, and often false, religiosity of an often Orientalized religious and ethnic "other."


Conference Report On Cosmopolitan Alexandria: A Symposium, Cornell University, October 20-21, 2002, Caroline T. Schroeder Jan 2003

Conference Report On Cosmopolitan Alexandria: A Symposium, Cornell University, October 20-21, 2002, Caroline T. Schroeder

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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Menorah Review (No. 57, Winter, 2003) Jan 2003

Menorah Review (No. 57, Winter, 2003)

Menorah Review

Kishinev, 1903-2003 -- Kishinev 1903 -- Brief Reflections on Kishinev From Our Editors -- Crystal Night -- The City of Slaughter -- From The Children of the Warsaw Ghetto and Terezin … Fear, The Butterfly, My Father -- If I Forget... Can I? Dare I? -- Noteworthy Books


Correspondence: Lavinia Browne, Personal To Assistant Archbishop Tutu Responds To Researcher, March 11, 2003., Lavinia Browne Jan 2003

Correspondence: Lavinia Browne, Personal To Assistant Archbishop Tutu Responds To Researcher, March 11, 2003., Lavinia Browne

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Collection Textual

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Menorah Review (No. 59, Fall, 2003) Jan 2003

Menorah Review (No. 59, Fall, 2003)

Menorah Review

One Deity, Three Gifts -- From the Classics -- Non-Canonical Literature Remembered -- Zion and America -- Weighing the Prospects for Dialogue -- Renewing the Faith of a Diminishing Minority -- From the Classics -- Noteworthy Books