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The Personality Profile Of Al-Qaida Leader Osama Bin Laden, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States.

Bin Laden’s primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/exploitative and Dauntless/dissenting, with a secondary Distrusting/suspicious orientation, and subsidiary Dominant/controlling and Conscientious/dutiful features.

Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and often act as though entitled. Dauntless individuals are bold, courageous, and tough; minimally constrained by the norms of society; routinely engage …

The Personality Profile Of September 11 Hijack Ringleader Mohamed Atta, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of a posthumous, indirect assessment of the personality of Mohamed Atta, apparent ringleader in the September 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.

Information concerning Mohamed Atta was collected from media reports in the one-month period following the attack and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.

The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the …

Magic In Modernity: A Study Of The Neopagan Movement In Contemporary America, Brandon A. Hale

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Religious Freedom And The Challenge Of Terrorism, Gordon H. Smith

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Attitude Of Belgian Authorities Toward New Religious Movements, Adelbert Denaux

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Religious Freedom Issues In Hungary, Balazs Schanda

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Religion, Church, And State In The Post-Communist Era: The Case Of Ukraine (With Special References To Orthodoxy And Human Rights Issues), Victor Yelensky

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Freedom Of Religious Association: The Right Of Religious Organizations To Obtain Legal Entity Status Under The European Convention, Lance S. Lehnhof

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

BYU Law Review

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Mormonism And The Maori: A Look At Beginnings

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a sustained mission to the New Zealand Maori beginning in the 1880s. Within a few short years thousands had been baptized. By the turn of the century, the church counted nearly a tenth of the total Maori population as members, with a significantly higher percentage in certain pas (settlements) along the east coast of the North Island from the southern Wairarapa to Poverty Bay and beyond.1 The reason Mormonism was so well accepted among a significant minority of Maori in the final decades of the nineteenth century and why it continues …

The Yakunin Vs. Dvorkin Trial And The Emerging Religious Pluralism In Russia, Marat S. Shterin Ph.D., James T. Richardson Ph.D.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This article examines the sociological and historical context of an important legal case which took place in 1997 in Moscow and involved so called "sects and cults" operating in Russia. The case was a libel action brought against Alexander Dvorkin, a functionary of the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, who had published some extremely damning material about a number of newer and smaller faiths in Russia. The plaintiff was the Committee for Protection of Human Rights, headed by noted Soviet dissident, Father Gleb Yakunin. The article discusses the court proceedings in a wider socio-historical context, showing the ways …

Mirando A Traves De Un Cristal Oscuramente: Aplicando Los Lentes Del Cubism Social Al Conflicto De Policia-Minoria En America, K. Michelle Scott

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

En los tiltimos afios, ha habido una corriente continua de preocupaci6n e inter6s creciente en las naciones del mundo sobre el empleo por parte de las autoridades de fuerza excesiva y brutal, a veces mortal donde las circumstancias no garantizan tales acciones.

Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder

Syllabi

(1) Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wineskins Today, by Howard Snyder (2) The New Reformation, by Greg Ogden (3) Natural Church Development, by Christian Schwarz (4) Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, by Jim Cymbala

Looking Through A Glass Darkly: Applying The Lens Of Social Cubism To The Police-Minority Group Conflict In America, K. Michelle Scott

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

In recent years, there has been a steady stream of growing concern in nations throughout the world about police officers' use of excessive, brutal, and sometimes deadly force where circumstances do not warrant such actions.

Honesty Of Mind: On The Uses And Abuses Of Socratic Ignorance In Environmental Studies, Religion, And The Classroom, Don Braxton

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Media And Religion, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

This survey will examine three broad strands of communication research on media and religion. First, it will review some emerging frameworks for studying media and religion and see how current scholars situate the topic. Second, it will look at how people have studied the relation of different media to religion, focusing on journalism (especially the coverage of religion), the entertainment media (both the content and the critique), and the information media (primarily the Internet). Finally, this survey will examine the Christian reflection on media, occurring in what some term Communication Theology (Plude 2001: 3).

Two Gifts Are Better Than One: Mary As Mother Of Christ And Mother Of All Graces In Fifteenth-Century Popular Sermons, Donna Spivey Ellington

Marian Studies

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Doing The Business Of Faith: The Capitalistic Dhammakaya Movement And The Spiritually-Thirsty Thai Middle Class, Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Dhammakaya, an active, affluent and expanding Buddhist religious movement, became a focus of public attention and media scrutiny in the quarter of 1998 due to its controversial practice of dogged solicitation for donations to build a grand Maha Dhammakaya Jedi structure worth nearly one billion US$, in the face of severe economic recession. Some Buddhist monks and scholars, both orthodox and radical, attacked the movement as a distortion and commercialization of Buddhism. If the Dhammakaya movement offers a novel religious package as alleged by some critics, it is worth examining why this consumer product has gained an upsurge of popularity …

The Cyborgian Self: Toward A Critical Social Theory Of Cyberspace, Michael Ian Borer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Contemporary social theory currently remains at a virtual standstill, quivering over the decision to radically leave the past behind or to continue within the historical narrative of the Enlightenment. Postmodern social theorists, advocating the position that we have, in fact, entered a new historical epoch, pose serious challenges to our perception of modernity and cultural identity. As an influential strategy that has infiltrated both the humanities and the social sciences for more than thirty years, postmodernism can no longer be dismissed as merely a fad or trend. In a world where the use of complex, and often mobile, …

A Historically And Culturally Contextualized Proposal For Health Evangelism In Latvia, Anna Galeniece

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Seventh-day Adventist church leaders in Latvia have used several approaches and methods for reaching people with the gospel, but proclamation evangelism has served as the main program. However, this method has lost its effectiveness since the middle-1990s. Therefore, today the necessity of discovering and developing new ways and strategies has become crucial. One approach to reach the Latvian population could be health evangelism, which has achieved immense success in many parts of the world since the beginning of the Adventist health message in the 1860s.

Method

The research utilized pertinent materials from books, periodicals, and the Internet. The purpose …

Tribute: Tamal Goswami, Julius Lipner

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A tribute to Tamal Goswami (1947-2002).

A Theoretical Proposal For Reaching Irreligious Czech People Through A Mission Revitalization Movement, Petr Činčala

Dissertations

The main goal of this study was to develop a theory of missionary outreach to unchurched Czech people which is biblically informed and culturally relevant. The theoretical proposal for a plausible model of churching in the Czech Republic builds on basic theological, philosophical, and conceptual assumptions (chapter 2), a societal analysis of the problem of Czech churching (chapter 3), and a review of the issues relating to the situation of existing churches and religious movements.

Based on Wallace’s theory of revitalization movements a model is developed for starting a missionary movement that aims at reaching today’s unchurched and seemingly irreligious …

The Constitution As Family Arbiter: A Moral In The Mess?, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Two interconnected social upheavals that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century underlie an intensifying legal debate about the conception of family. First, Western culture openly challenged a set of assumptions that supported a vision of family as hierarchical, holistic, and almost completely separate from the marketplace. Second, a group of social institutions (including schools, churches, and voluntary communal groups) that once anchored moral debate began to recede in significance. To these upheavals, American law has increasingly responded by eliding traditional legal responses to family issues and by seeking moral direction from constitutional principles. The second of these …

The Origins, Nature, And Significance Of The Jesus Movement As A Revitalization Movement, Kevin John Smith

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.