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Psalmody, Shape Notes, And Sankey: The Evolution Of Protestant American Hymnody In The 19th Century, Paul T. Anderson

Tenor of Our Times

With improvements in the lyrics, rhythms, emotional appeal, and overall quality of hymns, nineteenth century Protestant American hymnody evolved from crude psalmody to gospel songs with influences from the American frontier, new denominations, and the African-American spiritual. By examining the general trends in Christian singing in the 1800's, a better understanding can be had of the origins of popular church music today.

Rockin' The Church: Vernacular Catholic Musical Practices, Kinga Povedak

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article focuses on the unique dimensions of lived or vernacular Catholicism through the analysis of contemporary congregational music in Hungary. Looking at the musical lives of Hungarian Roman Catholics from the late 1960s to contemporary times can provide us with new understandings of the theological contents and aesthetics, as well as the vernacular religiosity of the community. Christian popular music appeared behind the Iron Curtain relatively early, in 1967 when the first “beat mass” was created and introduced at Budapest. The early Christian popular music sounded astonishingly similar to the songs of the American Folk Mass Movement of the …

College Of Arts And Sciences: March 2020, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• Internships, faculty support help alumnus land job at ABC News
• WMU professor awarded for book that peels back the curtain on Fetzer's secret life
• What do you think?
• Giving Impact: Helping Students 'Take Off'
• Unearthing her passion for archaeology at WMU
• Geography alumnus analyzes tree canopy in Colorado
• Western Michigan University receives a $9.6M federal grant to advance renewable energy research

Immigrant Religion, Rhys Williams

Sociology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

From the origins of sociology, the topic of religion has always been central to the discipline. Religion plays a significant part of any society or culture. As founders of the field, key thinkers such as Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber all made contributions to the social history and meaning of religion that are still being explored today. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion takes a three-pronged look at this burgeoning field, namely investigating the role of religion in society; unpacking and evaluating the significance of religion in and on human history; and tracing and outlining the …

Encoding And Interpreting Neolithic Sites: World Heritage Temples In Malta, Marie Avellino-Stewart, Dane Munro

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Understanding and interpreting landscapes entails the encoding of symbols and deciphering of codes left on the palimpsest. Interpreting the Neolithic and more significantly Neolithic temple sites, is challenging and rife with contested meanings. The overall landscape is used by adherents of the New Religious Movements, on faith-based visits, and as an extension, spiritual fulfilment is sought in the Neolithic temples of Malta. The same landscape is then part of both the inner and outer pilgrimage in the context of not only the modern designer religions, but also of the established religions. This paper presents a case study of the Neolithic …

Editorial: Conference Proceedings, Niche Market Formation For Faith-Based Tourism, Dane Munro

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

No abstract provided.

Ask No Questions, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Ask No Questions (2020), directed by Jason Loftus and Eric Pedicelli.

The Others (2001) By Alejandro Amenábar In The Light Of Valentinian Thought, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The article offers a Valentinian interpretation of the Hollywood film The Others (2001). A particular attention is paid to the ways in which cinematic motifs and narrative elements of the film draw on myths, ideas and symbolic imagery present in Valentinian works, especially in the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3) and the Gospel of Philip (NHC II, 3). In the course of the heuristic analysis, the paper argues that although the film employs Valentinian ideas, it depicts different understanding of the world. This issue is addressed in the last part of the article by situating the film within broader …

Film Tourism Impacts: A Multi-Stakeholder Longitudinal Approach, Timo Thelen, Sangkyun Kim, Elisabeth Scherer

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study examines multiple local stakeholders’ perceptions of film tourism impacts to shed light on the complexities of film tourism planning and development, using a longitudinal exploratory research approach. The Japanese TV series Mare (2015) was chosen as the case study. Qualitative interviews with various local stakeholders were conducted over a 21-month-long period of a film tourism development project in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The study found that this film tourism project was initiated with high expectations. However, due to several incidents, such as the controversial rebuilding of a local highway road for promotional purposes, the audience’s mixed reception of the …

Introduction To The Study Of World Religions, Mark Luttio

Lynn University Digital Press Books

Introduction to the Study of World Religions, by Mark Luttio, is a prolegomenon to the study of the religions of the world from a historical perspective, focusing especially on the culture and geography of each religion and their respective practices which express the essential core of each tradition. In addition to an introductory chapter on the nature of religion, and a concluding chapter on the future of religion, an examination will be made of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and New Religious Movements. Course: HUM 335

Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism And The Early Writing Of James Joyce, Erin Garrow

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation traces the history of the references to Buddhism in Stephen Hero, James Joyce’s first and unpublished novel, through the author’s previous writing, his sources, and his context, in order to determine how—if at all—the tradition bore upon his earliest depiction of consciousness. Acknowledging that Joyce habitually revisited and refined earlier ideas and prose, it attends to previous essays, notebooks, book reviews, conversations, letters, epiphanies, poems, and autobiographical prose; to available material, bibliographical, and biographical evidence about the specific volumes and performances to which Joyce had access; to language and paratext—including advertisements, introductions, and appended essays—in those volumes; …

The Concept And Practice Of Inter-Religious Dialogue In Africa, Patrick U. Nwosu

International Review of Humanities Studies

No abstract provided.

"Demand Prisoners Be Given Liberty." Los Angeles Herald (February 2, 1908), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

Parham News Paper Clippings

An article by Charles Parham outlining a meeting by Charles Parham in protest of the detention of "laboring class" for idleness and unemployment.

"Dowie Good-By Bitter; Reviles Wife And Son", Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

Parham News Paper Clippings

A report on Dowie's departure from Zion City. The paper and date is unknown. It was likely 1906. Dowie says, "I am not a sick man. My disease is a broken heart. For twenty five years I lived with my wife a broken hearted man. Her private life was a shame. She abused me every day."

This report also mentions that Dowie, "ordained George W. Slater, a former negro attendant, as an evangelist."

Ayahuasca’S Religious Diaspora In The Wake Of The Doctrine Of Discovery, Roger K. Green

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

‘Ayahuasca’ is a plant mixture with a variety of recipes and localized names native to South America. Often, the woody ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) is combined with chacruna leaf (Psychotria viridis) in a tea, inducing psychedelic effects among its users. While social usage varies among Indigenous Peoples of South America, during the twentieth century new religious movements in Brazil began employing the mixture as religious sacrament. Additionally, various centers for ayahuasca “healing” have emerged both inside and outside of the Amazon Rainforest, frequently with the aim of helping people addicted to other substances. As interest grew, …

Biblical Rhetoric Of Separatism And Universalism And Its Intolerant Consequences, James Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

The long history of the Jewish and Christian use of separatist rhetoric and universal ideals reveals their negative consequences. The Hebrew Bible’s rhetoric about Israel as a people separated from the Egyptians and Canaanites is connected to Israel’s purity practices in Leviticus 18 and 20. Later communities wielding greater political power, however, employed this same anti-Canaanite pollution rhetoric in their efforts to colonize many different parts of the world. Separatist rhetoric was used to protect small Jewish communities in the early Second Temple period. The Christian New Testament rejected many of these purity practices in order to makes its mission …

Undergraduate Symposium, 2020, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

Counterculture Dystopia: A Comparative Study Of The Rajneesh-Osho Movement And The Counterculture, Junjie Ren

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

No abstract provided.

Out To Get Us: Contemporary Evangelical Expressions Of Identity In Interaction, Pace Tyler Ward

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Evangelical Christianity occupies a dominant position in American culture and politics. This thesis extends previous research on evangelicalism in America by identifying how evangelicals collectively construct their distinction and uniqueness in small group settings. By conducting an ethnography of bible study meetings organized by an evangelical church in North Mississippi, Mercy Church, I examine how church participants collectively differentiate themselves from the rest of the world. Rather than imagining themselves at odds with a single, monolithic Other, this study shows that evangelical identity is formed and crystallized through small battles with numerous outsiders, both Christian and non-Christian. Specifically, I find …

วิมุติวิทยาว่าด้วยการตื่นรู้อย่างฉับพลันและการปฏิบัติอย่างต่อเนื่องของโบโจ จินูล, ถาปกรณ์ กำเนิดศิริ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

แนวคิดทางวิมุติวิทยาเรื่องการตื่นรู้อย่างฉับพลันและการปฏิบัติอย่างต่อเนื่องคือหลักการทางปรัชญาที่สำคัญของโบโจ จินูล แนวคิดดังกล่าวอธิบายว่า การตื่นรู้อย่างฉับพลันหมายถึงความเข้าใจที่มนุษย์มีต่อความหมายที่แท้จริงของจิตเดิมแท้ซึ่งบริสุทธิ์และมีคุณสมบัติแห่งการรับรู้เป็นธรรมชาติพื้นฐาน ส่วนการคิดแยกแยะในเชิงมโนทัศน์นั้นเป็นเพียงการแสดงตัวในโลกปรากฏการณ์ของคุณสมบัติแห่งการรับรู้ของจิตเดิมแท้ การคิดแยกแยะถือได้ว่าเป็นปรากฏการณ์ที่ "ปราศจากแก่นสาร" ในแง่นี้การปราศจากแก่นสารของการคิดแยกแยะถูกใช้เป็นรากฐานที่สำคัญในการยืนยันในความถูกต้องแท้จริงของหลักการเรื่องการปฏิบัติอย่างต่อเนื่องในทัศนะของโบโจ จินูล วิทยานิพนธ์จึงชี้ให้เห็นว่าถึงแม้หลักการทางวิมุติวิทยาของโบโจ จินูล จะชี้ให้เห็นถึงความสำคัญของการปราศจากแก่นสารของการคิดแยกแยะ แต่ในการพิจารณามนุษย์ในบริบทของการดำรงชีวิตอยู่จริงในโลกเชิงประจักษ์กลับทำให้เห็นว่า “ความจริงในเชิงการดำรงอยู่” ของการคิดแยกแยะนั้นเป็นสิ่งที่มีความสำคัญต่อการทำความเข้าใจความหมายของความสัมพันธ์ของหลักการเรื่องการตื่นรู้และการปฏิบัติในทัศนะของโบโจ จินูล เป็นอย่างมาก กล่าวคือถึงแม้ความเข้าใจจะเกิดขึ้นได้อย่าง”ฉับพลัน” แต่ภายใต้บริบทแห่งชีวิตของปุถุชนการคิดแยกแยะยังคงมีผลอย่างต่อเนื่องต่อการดำรงอยู่ของของมนุษย์และผลดังกล่าวยังคงไม่สามารถดับสิ้นลงได้อย่างฉับพลันภายหลังการตื่นรู้ดังกล่าว การพิจารณาบทบาทของความคิดในมิติที่สัมพันธ์กับการดำรงอยู่ของชีวิตในโลกเชิงประจักษ์นี้จึงชี้ให้เห็นว่า การคิดแยกแยะในฐานะที่เป็นเนื้อหาของประสบการณ์ของมนุษย์ นั้นเป็นสิ่งที่มีความสำคัญต่อการเข้าใจความสัมพันธ์ของการตื่นรู้และการปฏิบัติ และเป็นเหตุที่ทำให้โบโจ จินูล ให้ความสำคัญกับความจำเป็นที่จะต้องมีการปฏิบัติอย่างต่อเนื่อง เพื่อให้เกิดความเข้าใจการคิดแยกแยะเหล่านี้ในฐานะตัวของมันเองและเพื่อถมช่องว่างระหว่างความเข้าใจกับการปฏิบัติให้สอดคล้องกัน

“Spirited” Engagement: Latin American Faith And The Construction Of Emancipative Pentecostalism, David Luckey

Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations

Pentecostalism is a prominent form of Christianity around the world that is increasingly pervasive in the Global South. One of the persistent issues that obscures accurate understanding of the movement is the question of whether such a spiritually-oriented faith gives attention to social realities. This dissertation identifies a broad spectrum of Latin America Pentecostal social- ethical engagement in order to complicate stereotypes and reveal a natural orientation toward public witness. It shows that Pentecostalism is too complex for broad generalization, and it draws on leading voices from within the movement to articulate a call to increasing efforts for social justice.

Actual Development Trends Of Religious Studies In Uzbekistan, Makhfuza Alimova

The Light of Islam

The paper highlights actual problems, major directions and development trends of the field of Religious Studies in Uzbekistan. It is clear that the youths have become the main target of different destructive ideas in the period of globalization. The paper focuses on the prevention of these threats and formation of a spiritual immunity against them as well as on the improvement of healthy lifestyle and respect towards national and universal values in souls and minds of the youths in order to prevent a gap to be appeared in their spiritual world.

National and religious values have developed for better in …

Fourth- And Fifth-Generation Warfare: Technology And Perceptions, Waseem Ahmad Qureshi

San Diego International Law Journal

The composition of warfare is changing. There is an increasing transformation in the traditional aspects of waging a war: conventional techniques of warfare are in decline and newer tactics and tools of warfare, such as information warfare, asymmetric warfare, media propaganda, and hybrid warfare, are filling the gap, blurring the lines between combatant and noncombatant, and between wartime and peacetime. The basic framework of modern warfare was elaborated by Carl von Clausewitz in his magnus opus On War. He defined modern warfare between states as “a duel on larger scale,” and explained its purpose as “a continuation of politics by …

(Global) Hip Hop Studies Bibliography, Travis T. Harris, Travis Terrell Harris

Journal of Hip Hop Studies

This bibliography documents Hip Hop scholarship outside of America, including scholarly works that may be US centric, yet expands its analysis to other parts of the world. Hip Hop Studies outside the boundaries of the United States stretches as far and wide as Hip Hop itself. This scholarship started in 1984, and the amount of scholarship beyond American boundaries has continued to grow up through present day. The first wave, before Mitchell's Global Noise (2001), includes a wider range of scholarly works such as conference presentations and books written by journalists, in addition to traditional academic sources such as books …

The Nineteenth Century Apostolic Christian Church: The Dynamics Of The Emergence, Establishment, And Fragmentation Of A Neo-Anabaptist Sect, Joseph Pfeiffer

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

This article traces the emergence, proliferation, and identity formation of a 19th century Neo-Anabaptist sect known variously as Neutäufer (New Anabaptists), Nazarenes, and Apostolic Christian Church. The Neutäufer emerged during an era that was a turning point in world religious history, marked by a renewed sense of missionary vigor and the proliferation of major voluntary (as opposed to state-driven) religious movements. These movements radically transformed Western, and even global, Christianity. The article gives detailed attention to the role of Samuel Heinrich Fröhlich in synthesizing evangelical renewalist impulses with traditional Anabaptist convictions. It also follows the tensions that emerged, where agreed …

The Amish Symposium, Megan Bogden, Steven Reschly, Benjamin Zeller, Tom Coletti

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The Amish is a 500-some page university press-sized handbook that touches on a variety of topical areas. The book is the culmination of two and a half decades each of Kraybill’s, Johnson-Weiner’s, and Nolt’s work about the Amish. Karen Johnson-Weiner published a series of linguistic studies through the 1990s, and from these spring-board works later explored more fully schools and New York settlements. Donald Kraybill’s first Amish-focused publication was a Durkheimian study of the Amish and suicide in 1986. From then on he has maintained this functionalist orientation in comparative studies of plain Anabaptists and Amish responses to cultural, economic, …

Giftive Dialogue: An Analysis Of The Use Of The Giftive Metaphor In The Pluralist Context Of The Lutheran University Of Brazil, Maximiliano Silva

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Silva, Maximiliano Wolfgramm. “Giftive Dialogue: An Analysis of the Use of the Giftive Metaphor in the Pluralist Context of the Lutheran University of Brazil.” Ph. D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2019. 189 pp.

Modernity’s secularization project and specific characteristics of Brazilian history have promoted pluralism to the status of a moral demand, especially in the academic context. Such a situation posits challenges and opportunities for ULBRA’s campus pastors. That is so because ULBRA’s chaplains’ pastoral ministry is the most visible and symbolic expression of ULBRA’s confessional identity. Because of the claims made by Christianity, that identity has exclusivist traits. Therefore, it …

Reviews, Arden C. Autry Phd, Christopher G. Foster, Jennifer Greig-Berens, John Austin Helm, Thad R. Horner, Wonsuk Ma, Sandra Richardson, R. Samuel Thorpe, Jeffrey Voth, Ruth Whiteford

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

No abstract provided.

Healing En Masse: Examining The Unique Contribution Of The Spirit-Empowered Movement To The Practice Of Mass Evangelism, Daniel King

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

This article explores the unique innovation of mass healing evangelism by Spirit-empowered evangelists as an effective methodology for reaching people for Christ. It will trace the development of the idea of healing “en masse” in the Pentecostal tradition. It showcases a case study from a crusade conducted by the author in the nation of Brazil in which healing and evangelism were wedded together as an effective ministry strategy.

The Impact Of Healing On The Growth Of Christianity In Asia: An Empirical Investigation, Julie Ma

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

This article explores the role healing has played in the expansion of Christianity throughout Asia. It documents stories from various regions of Asia to demonstrate that healing is an effective method for evangelism.