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Gender, Symbolic and Social Boundaries, and Deconversion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Ines W Jindra and others
Sociology of Religion, Volume 85, Issue 3, Autumn 2024, Pages 346–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad043
Published: 22 December 2023
... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is characterized by specific expectations in the realm of gender roles and sexuality, expectations which can be interpreted as heteronormative symbolic boundaries...
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Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England. Ruth J. Salter
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Winston Black
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 209–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad008
Published: 10 February 2023
... but also from across the Channel in Norman, French, and German lands. Salter makes significant improvement on Finucane’s approach to the geography of saints’ cults, measuring distances travelled not “as the crow flies” but by charting movement on the major road systems known to exist in twelfth-century...
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Muslim saints contested: Ibn Taymiyya’s critique of al-Qushayrī’s Risāla
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Kamal Gasimov
Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, May 2023, Pages 153–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etac045
Published: 22 August 2022
.... These polemical exchanges demonstrate that Sufi figures, concepts, images, and texts became central to the articulation of theological arguments during the early Mamluk sultanate. Sufism theology kalām Sufi saints Ashʿarīs Ḥanbalīs Ibn Taymiyya al‐Qushayrī Ibn al‐ʿArabī al‐Ḥallāj Several...
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After Death, Her Face Turned White: Blackness, Whiteness, and Sanctity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
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Erin Kathleen Rowe
The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 3, June 2016, Pages 727–754, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.3.727
Published: 01 June 2016
... Abstract In the early modern period, devotion to black saints began to spread throughout the Catholic World. First envisioned as a tool for the conversion of newly baptized black slaves, the cults of black saints spread rapidly throughout Iberia and the Americas. This article examines hagiographies...
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Church Attendance and New Episodes of Major Depression in a Community Study of Older Adults: The Cache County Study
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Maria C. Norton and others
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 63, Issue 3, May 2008, Pages P129–P137, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/63.3.P129
Published: 01 May 2008
... University, 4440 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-4440. E-mail: [email protected] 7 9 2007 15 11 2006 Copyright 2008 by The Gerontological Society of America 2008 Abstract We examined the relation between church attendance, membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS...
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Suicide Rates and Religious Commitment in Young Adult Males in Utah
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Sterling C. Hilton and others
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 155, Issue 5, 1 March 2002, Pages 413–419, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/155.5.413
Published: 01 March 2002
...Sterling C. Hilton; Gilbert W. Fellingham; Joseph L. Lyon ICD-9, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision LDS, Latter-day Saints In 1996, suicide was the third leading cause of death for US males aged 15–24 years and the fourth leading cause of death for US males aged 25...
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Paracelsus Confronts the Saints: Miracles, Healing and the Secularization of Magic
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CHARLES WEBSTER
Social History of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 403–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/8.3.403
Published: 01 December 1995
... an important cultural development and it is often regarded as a manifestation of increasing secularization, the decline of magic and rise of science. This paper examines this issue with special reference to miraculous healing associated with saints, which constituted one of the most important facets of magic...
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Introduction: Ambient Sufism
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Richard C. Jankowsky
Published: 01 February 2021
...This chapter introduces the ethnographic context and analytical methods of the book’s study of the devotional and healing musical practices associated with Sufi saints in pre- and post-Revolution Tunisia. It proposes the theoretical concept “ambient Sufism,” an idea that captures the circulation...
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Encountering Hinduism: Thinking Through Avodah Zarah
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Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Published: 05 April 2012
.... The religious conversation with Hindus is important because of the spiritual opportunities it presents. As such, the chapter considers the Hindu quest for God and the model of Hindu saints as significant topics for a Jewish–Hindu conversation. Nuancing one's understanding of avodah zarah ...
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Published: 14 November 2016
...The reliquary saints of the Treasury Chapel were nomadic, at home in several places, never permanently fixed, and often on the move. They made possible its operation at the cutting edge of processes of aggrandizement and influence, through which the Treasury Chapel seemed to be centre stage...
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Missionary Zeal
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Natasha Sarkar
Published: 20 March 2024
... at Bandora which was opened in March, and when the Mahim Hospital was opened on 23 March, two Sisters were sent there by the Plague Committee. 35 It is significant that until 6 February 1897 there were no nurses in the only existing plague hospital. That was when the All Saints’ Sisters entered...
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Translating Europe
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Luisa Ostacchini
Published: 18 July 2024
...Translating Europe in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Luisa Ostacchini, Oxford University Press. © Luisa Ostacchini (2024). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198913733.003.0002 This chapter considers the literary translation of descriptions of European geographies and establishes that Ælfric...
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Holding on to the “Chosen Generation” The Mormon Battle for Youth in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
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Rebecca de Schweinitz
Published: 18 August 2016
... Was Lost 1969 Mutual Improvement Association Family Home Evening Temple LDS Durham G Homer Maxwell Neil A Book of Mormon Cannon Elaine Brigham Young University People’s Park Bishop’s Youth Council Latter day Saint Student Association Brown Victor Anti communism Nelson Russell M Smith Joseph...
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“This Is Our Red Sea” Exodusters, Prophet William Saunders Crowdy, and the Beginnings of Black Israelism
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Jacob S. Dorman
Published: 11 January 2013
...This chapter describes how Prophet William Saunders Crowdy, the founder of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, was born into slavery, experienced liberation, participated in the Civil War as a teenager, and moved to Kansas City and then to a Black town in Oklahoma as a middle-aged man...
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Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha
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Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 02 June 2005
...This book explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry, art, ritual, and even dream visions. Looking at the cultural and literary history of the well-known Indian Buddhist poet saint Saraha, known as the Great Brahmin, this book argues that we should view...
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Turning Swiss: The Patriotism of the Holy Hermit Nicholas
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David J. Collins
Published: 01 January 2008
...Chapter four examines how the Swiss began to transform the fifteenth‐century peasant‐turned‐recluse Nicholas of Flue into a patron saint for their slowly forming Swiss homeland. Nicholas became an exemplar of Swiss character that retained its appeal even as confessional divisions between Catholic...
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Varieties of Orthodoxy
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Nancy Shields Kollmann
Published: 19 January 2017
... Orthodoxy’s types of monasticism, reception of waves of hesychasm, cults of saints and the profound change that occurred in the church from the 1660s, exemplified by the “Old Belief” schism (whose political and doctrinal causes are examined) and the influx of reformed Orthodox practices and imagery from...
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Planning the Hospice
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Jacqueline Worswick
Published: 30 November 2000
... at that first meeting in March 1980 were: Mother Frances Dominica, Dr Roger Burne (GP), John Bicknell (Architect), Derreck Shorten (Architectural Consultant), Bronwen Bennett (Physiotherapist), Vivien Pritchard (Nursing Officer at Sir Michael Sobell House), Sister Margaret (Society of All Saints), and Richard...
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Saints and Souls
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Ronald Hutton
Published: 20 June 1996
... for the most famous ritual of the night: the ringing of church bells to comfort the souls in purgatory after the congregation had offered prayers for them. The concept of purgatory, the belief that the living could assist the condition of the dead by praying for them, and the notion that saints could function...
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Apostolic Geography
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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Published: 21 January 2016
... Scholasticus Sozomen historian True Cross Acts of Mari Late Antiquity early Christianity saints pilgrimage hagiography New Testament The imaginative worlds generated between the time of the apostles in the first century and the rise of the medieval Christian world in the seventh and eighth centuries...
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