Browsing by Subject "Christianity"

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    Billy Sunday and the Masculinization of American Protestantism: 1896-1935
    (2008) Hayat, A. Cyrus; Robbins, Kevin C.; Lindseth, Erik L.; Goff, Philip; Lantzer, Jason S.
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    Can home schooling make kids more politically tolerant?
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2014-04-01) Kunzman, Robert; School of Education
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    Can yoga be Christian?
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2017-06-21) Jain, Andrea; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    Just Scratching the Surface: The Exploration of Countertransference of a Christian Art Therapy Intern Through Reflective Visual Journaling
    (2018) Swihart, Jessie; Misluk, Eileen
    This phenomenological art-based study explored the lived experience of a Christian art therapy intern's countertransferential experience using reflective visual journaling. The emerging art therapist participated in a 7-week reflective visual journaling process at a metropolitan hospital in the final semester of her advanced internship.
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    Review of Linford D. Fisher's The Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
    (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    Linford Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening joins a growing body of scholarship on Native American engagement with Christianity. Much of that work so far (including my own) has focused on particular individuals or communities. Fisher’s is the first to take a broader, longer scope to survey the landscape of Native engagement with Christianity in southern New England (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Long Island, and western Massachusetts) through the eighteenth century (1700–1820), and it offers a welcome contribution. Fisher’s aim is to understand Native encounter with Christianity “in the fullest possible context of local colonial interactions and the broader, transatlantic tugs of imperial power.”
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    A Study of the Rhetoric of the Early Sermons of St. Augustine
    (2012) Wall, John K.; Saak, Eric Leland; Lindseth, Erik L.; Davis, Thomas J. (Thomas Jeffery), 1958-
    This examination of the first five years of his preaching identifies key ways in which Augustine of Hippo transformed classical rhetoric into the pattern he would later outline in De doctrina christiana. This thesis argues that Augustine began his career as a priest giving sermons in line with the sophistic speeches he had taught before his conversion, but that by 396 he had "redeemed" his rhetoric to fit the new purposes of the Christian church. During these early years, Augustine reduced or removed the classical exordia and perorations in order to meld his sermons into the liturgy. He also humbled, but did not eliminate, his rhetorical polish as he shifted the main purpose of rhetoric from pleasing the elites to teaching the masses.
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    Women and Christian practice in a Mahican village
    (University of California Press, 2003) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    This article explores the development of native Christianity in the mid-eighteenth century at the site of a Moravian mission in the Mahican village of Shekomeko. Two native women, baptized Sarah and Rachel, appear prominently in the vast mission records, providing a unique opportunity to study the gendered meanings of Christian ritual for native women. Combining the techniques and insights of ethnohistory and recent scholarship on "lived religion," this article examines the implications of a century of colonial encounter on Mahican culture and the meanings infused in Christian ritual by native practitioners within this context of dramatic culture change. Focusing on the lives of these two women, this article examines the development of native interpretations of Christianity by exploring the overlap and the divergences between Moravian and Mahican understandings of Christian ritual. It was in the performance of these rituals that many Shekomekoans engaged in the process of forming a new identity that they hoped might carry them through the severe trials of colonization. By exploring the meanings of these rituals for both Moravian and Mahican, this article attempts to enrich and complicate our understanding of the process of cultural and religious negotiation and adaptation undertaken in mission communities. Further, this study offers a ground level perspective on Indian encounters with Christianity that has rarely been possible for this time period. Finally, the often intensely personal and affecting nature of those sources representing Mahican sentiments allows for a more complex and personalized understanding of Indian responses to Christianity.