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Published: 12 September 2012
... practices in Dutch Pentecostal church icon and icons Netherlands Pentecostalism Dutch Pentecostalism Semiotic ideology Materiality Blood of Christ It has the power to draw you in and have you experience something on an emotional level that you may not be able to logically explain. However...
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Published: 12 September 2012
... media Netherlands Catholicism in Catholicism blood and New Age movement pillarization Protestantism capitalism and Internet Media Web design Roman Catholicism Protestantism Holistic spirituality Technological determinism Appropriation of technology Netherlands The notion that modern...
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Published: 01 November 2012
...Slomp grew up in the shadow of the War in his native Netherlands, where he studied before formative experiences at Bossey under the aegis of the WCC. The Christian ecumenical movement and the Student Christian Movement played important roles before going to Pakistan where he was involved...
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Published: 01 November 2012
...After studies in his native Netherlands, the Lebanon and Egypt, the Jesuit, Roest Crollius, moved to Rome where he was based for forty years, mainly at the Gregorian University. From here he became a world traveller to articulate and promote inter-faith and intercultural studies and advise his...
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Published: 15 November 2006
...This chapter documents and analyzes the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, an event preceded by but not unrelated to the assassination of Pim Fortuyn, the deaths of whom have haunted Dutch politics ever since. It sketches the historical and socio-cultural context against whose foil we...
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Published: 01 April 2015
... Calvinism Economy Eternity Flowers Netherlands Pleasure Rembrandt Still-life painting An excellent example of how art not only maintains the secondary qualities of objects but also transforms them into things is found in still-life painting, 1 particularly in seventeenth-century...
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Published: 16 April 2006
...The institution of the militia guild or civic guard company has a pedigree reaching back to the fourteenth century in the northern Netherlands. Grayson's pointed out that after 1572 the militia guilds in a number of Holland's cities began to acquire political influence precisely because they did...
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Published: 15 December 2009
...Chapter 3 opens with the author's family embarking on a trip to the Netherlands, where he chronicles a boat ride through Portugal, the Straight of Gibraltar, and several other places. The author also gives a short account of his daily life in this time, including the work of his father...
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Published: 12 September 2012
...This chapter delves into the feelings of discomfort, disgust, and fear evoked by the Islamic face veil in the Netherlands, negative affects that are discursively triggered in a cultural and political climate that insists on Muslims' cultural assimilation. Even though Islamic women...
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Published: 15 November 2006
...This chapter addresses the question: Can a minority retain its identity in law? In dealing with the relationship of majorities to minorities, it argues that, historically and in more recent times, the Netherlands has been a nation of minority groups (cities, provinces, pillars, and parties), each...