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The Spanish System Of Church And State, Gloria M. Moran

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Freedom Of Religion In The Netherlands, Sophie C. Van Bijsterveld

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Sufficiently Republican Church: George David Cummins And The Reformed Episcopalians In 1873, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

In 1873 George David Cummins, the assistant bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Kentucky, rocked the complacency of the Protestant Episcopal Church by resigning his Kentucky episcopate and founding an entirely new Episcopal denomination, the Reformed Episcopal Church. Schismatic movements in American religion are hardly a novelty. Still, Cummins and his movement occupy a peculiar position in both the history of American religion and the cultural history of the Gilded Age. Unlike the wave of church schisms before the Civil War, the Reformed Episcopal schism of 1873 had no clear relation to sectional issues. And unlike the fundamentalist schisms of …

Atheists And Cultural Mormons Promote A Naturalistic Humanism, Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue (1994), edited by George D. Smith.

A Restatement Of The Supreme Court's Law Of Religious Freedom: Coherence, Conflict Or Chaos?, Carl H. Esbeck

Faculty Publications

Religious freedom as guaranteed in the First Amendment makes religious pluralism more likely, while pluralism makes the maintenance of religious freedom as a fundamental civil right more necessary. It seems there is a limit, however, to the expansion of America's religious pluralism that, when exceeded, shatters cultural consensus thus rendering impossible the political and civil discourse necessary to sustain democratic institutions.1 This follows because pluralism promises freedom but exacts a price in civic disunity and moral confusion. The question thereby resolves itself into just how a religiously diverse people are to live together, despite their deepest differences, while sharing in …

Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, And Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Michael Stoeber

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In the late summer of 1993, representatives of the major religions of the world met in interfaith dialogue in Chicago, to celebrate the centenary of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions. The 1893 Parliament was remarkable, both in its magnitude and its purpose: it brought together forty-one denominations and over four hundred men and women in a forum of mutual teaching and learning. That is to say, its formal purpose was reciprocal dialogue, something rather unusual for the 19th century, when interfaith preoccupations of the time still normally focused on proselytism.

The Ufo Contact Movement From The 1950'S To The Present, Christoper Bader

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

"Since the beginning of the UFO movement in the late 1940s, beliefs about what the aliens are like and the purpose of their visits to Earth have changed numerous times. The first claims of extended contact with alien beings in the early 1950s were entirely different in form and content from the current, frightening UFO abduction tales. This article will trace the UFO movement from its origin in 1947 to the present, explaining how its prevailing paradigms have changed."

Motions 1994 Volume 22 Number 6, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.

Participation In New Religious And Healing Movements In The Philippines, Araceli S. Suzara

Dissertations

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The Mormons In Wilhelmie Germany, 1870-1914: Making A Place For An Unwanted American Religion In A Changing German Society, Michael Mitchell

Theses and Dissertations

Between 1853 and 1914 the kingdom of Prussia and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, disagreed over the issue of Mormon missionaries proselyting in Prussia. In 1853 royal magistrates banished all Mormon missionaries from the kingdom for advocating emigration. A new church policy of preaching without seeking for official permission, in addition to an improved relationship between the Mormons in Utah and the United States government after the Manifesto of 1890, led to an increase in missionaries sent to Germany, including Prussia. By 1900 mormon success alarmed the Prussian Protestant clergy and a few Prussian governors …

The Promise Of The New Ecumenical Directory, Thomas P. Rausch

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Factors Affecting Unconditional Acceptance Of The Institution Of The Church In Poland, Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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A Psychoanalytic And Archetypal Examination Of Two Seminal Dreams And Visions Of Ellen G. White, Dennis E. Waite

Dissertations

This study is a psychological examination of the earliest dreams and visions of Ellen G. Harmon (more commonly known by her married name Ellen G. White), a 19th century prophetess and founding leader of the Seventh-day Adventist church. The following two questions were addressed: (1) What effects did Mrs. White’s dreams and visions have upon her resolution of childhood emotional or developmental conflicts? and (2) In what way do Mrs. White’s early religious experiences clarify the role of religious experience in individual psychological and emotional development?

Two dreams and two visions were selected for analysis by two methods of dream …

"Vayamos Allá Donde Está Nuestra Madre": Peasant Recruitment To A Mexican Millenarian Colony, Miguel C. Leatham

Anthropology ETDs

The worldwide Catholic Traditionalist sectarian movement has nurtured various independent colonies of prophetic origin emphasizing Marian apocalypticism and ongoing charismatic revelation. This study presents findings from ethnological research focusing on the recruitment paths of peasants into a charismatic-led, Marian millenarian colony of Catholic Traditionalist origin, Nueva Jerusalén, in rural west Mexico. A microsociological framework emphasizing cognitive variables, and rooted in the work of cultural anthropologists and sociologists of new religious movement, is employed in order to study religious decision making. Life history data from Mexican peasant recruits and peasant control cases are analyzed chiefly in terms of the experiential dimensions …

“Is Mormonism Christian?” Reflections On A Complicated Question, Jan Shipps

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 16, No 1 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Reformed Worship (Rw) 27 - Ascension / Pentecost (March 1993), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Perspectives

In This Issue: A New Mission by Emily R. Brink....2

Culture Shock by Craig Van Gelder....3

We're Struggling with Worship by Edith Bajema....6

You're Halfway Home by David Beelen....8

Bulletin Board? by Douglas A. Kamstra....10

Seeking the Seekers by Mary Ann Wierks....14

Faithful or Faddish? by Mark Lemmenes....16

For Whom the Bell Toils by Emily R. Brink....23

Christ in the Clouds by Debra Levey Larson....26

Let the Children Come by Shelley E. Cochran....26

View from the Pew: Deception Pass by James Calvin Schaap....36

Resources

Hymn of the Month: …

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Dream Interpretation As Traditional Wisdom, Brenda G. Stewart

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Religious Healing In The Courts: The Liberties And Liabilities Of Patients, Parents, And Healers, Barry Nobel

Seattle University Law Review

Accordingly, in light of this struggle to balance public health with religious liberty, this Article chronicles the evolving liberties and liabilities of religious patients, parents, and healers over the course of the twentieth century and examines the current state of religious healing law. Throughout, it advocates the greatest possible liberty for religious healing consistent with public and family security, as well as advocating equal protection under the law for all involved in religious treatment, whether they are members of organized religious groups or individual practitioners.

A Non-Mormon Religion Professor's Impressions Of Mormon Missionaries, Robert L. Lively Jr.

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Women In Religion And Development In Nigeria: A Comparative Study Of Roman Catholic Church And And African Independent Church, Marypaul V.N. Asoegwu

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Extinction And The Law: Protection Of Religiously-Motivated Behavior, Fred P. Bosselman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mac Marshall's Review Of Ron Brunton's The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava And Cultural Instability In Melanesia, Mac Marshall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The Emergence Of Parliamentary Politics In Tonga, I. C. Campbell

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The Psychology Of Occultism & Ritual Abuse, Cindy D. Whitmer

Graduate Research Papers

For years psychological literature has included cases and treatment implications for individuals affected by emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Most recently, ritual abuse, a rather new topic in the mental health arena, has emerged, but unfortunately seems to be a problem that has been in existence a very long time. Some have said ritual abuse started with satanic worship dated as far back as 610 A.D. in Southeastern Europe (Daniels, 1989). Others disagreed, saying this form of worship did not appear until the Christian church was established (Kahaner, 1988), and that in the 19th century a new spiritualistic movement began …

Government Regulation Of Religiously Based Social Services: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Government Regulation Of Religiously Based Social Services: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck

Faculty Publications

A daunting welter of variables confronts anyone who sets out to systematize the First Amendment's effect on the government's role in regulating social services operated by religious organizations. The task is further complicated because the regulations in question often were promulgated as a consequence of the monitoring that inevitably accompanies government spending on private-sector welfare programs. The most suitable methodology should take into account: 1) the nature of the organizations that are the object of the government's regulation or program of aid; 2) the interrelationship between government and religious organizations that results from the regulation or aid; and 3) the …

The Nwagu Aneke Igbo Script: Its Origins, Features And Potentials As A Medium Of Alternative Literacy In African Languages, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

The present paper is a study of the origins, features and significance of the Nwagu Aneke Igbo Syllabary (otherwise known as the Umuleri Igbo Script), one of the thirty or so indigenous systems of writing which (re-)emerged in West Africa during the colonial period as a medium for challenging alien cultural values and for the re-assertion of the superiority of African spiritual and moral traditions and of the thought-patterns which lie behind them. Beyond the claims of a one-time prosperous land-owner and diviner, the late Ogbuevi Nwagu Aneke of the village of Umuleri in the Anambra Local Government Area of …

Factors Related To Religious Conversion In The Roman Catholic Church: Stressful Life Events, Faith, And Paternal Relationships, Kevin W. Miller

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.