Thesis (Th.M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [82]-91).

Habilitationsschrift--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187) and index.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [82]-91).

Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, 1987. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-163).

9502325T Faculty of Science School of Mathematics / Abstract Increasing trees are labelled rooted trees in which labels along any branch from the root appear in increasing order. They have numerous applications in tree representations of permutations, data structures in computer science and probabilistic models in a multitude of problems. We use a generating function approach for the computation of parameters arising from such trees. The generating functions for some parameters are shown to be related to ordinary differential equations. Singularity analysis is then used to analyze several parameters of the trees asymptotically.Various classes of trees are considered. Parameters such as depth and path length for heap ordered trees have been analyzed in [35]. We follow a similar approach to determine grand averages for such trees. The model is that p of the n nodes are labelled at random in 􀀀n p(ways, and the characteristic parameters depend on these labelled nodes. Also, we will attempt to look at the limiting distributions involved. Often, when they are Gaussian, Hwang's quasi power theorem, from [18], can be employed. Spanning tree size and the Wiener index for binary search trees have been computed in [33]. The Wiener index is the sum of all distances between pairs of nodes in a tree. Arelated parameter of interest is the Steiner distance which generalises, to sets of k nodes, the Wiener index (k=2). Furthermore, the distribution of the size of the ancestor-tree and of the induced spanning subtree for random trees is presented in [30]. The same procedure is followed to obtain the Steiner distance for heap ordered trees and for other varieties of increasing trees.

Liu Dan. / Thesis submitted in: December 2000. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-171). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.ii / List of illustrations --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction: Research Issues and Literature Review --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Questions Raised and Their Significance --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Review of the Study on Ancestral Hall --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Goal and Research Method --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4 --- Content of the Thesis --- p.21 / Chapter 1.5 --- Research Discoveries and References Concerned with Liukeng --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Liukeng Village and Its Ancestral Halls --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1 --- A Brief Introduction of Liukeng Village --- p.26 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Ancestral Halls in Liukeng Village in Different Historic Periods --- p.33 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Construction of Ancestral Halls in the Context of Social Development in Various Historical Periods --- p.38 / Chapter Chapter3 --- Architectural Character of Ancestral Hall and Its Cause --- p.59 / Chapter 3.1 --- Architectural Form of Ancestral Halls --- p.59 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Reason for the Variety of Architectural Forms --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Zhuanci (Personal Sacrificial Hall) --- p.95 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Tradition of Building Zhuanci --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Function of Zhuanxi and Its Association with Residential Buildings 一 Integrated Architectural Complexes --- p.104 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Changes of the Function of the Complex --- p.112 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Ancestral Hall and Sublineage Living Units --- p.118 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- The Functional Shift of Ancestral Hall 226}0ؤ Ancestral Halls Used as Dwellings --- p.126 / Chapter 6.1 --- Rooms in Ancestral Hall --- p.126 / Chapter 6.2 --- "The Phenomenon ""Ancestral Halls Used as Dwellings"" from mid-Qing to the Republican Period" --- p.132 / Chapter 6.3 --- A Survey of the Residential Functions of Ancestral Hall --- p.137 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Behavioral Setting of Ancestral Hall --- p.145 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.151 / Appendix --- p.156 / Bibliography --- p.162

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, December 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Text in English / Oruuano is an Independent Church in Namibia founded in 1955 because of members of the Herero community breaking away from the Rhenish Mission Church. Oruuano has the same doctrinal position as the Evangelical Lutheran Churches. In all church services it uses the standard Lutheran liturgical forms and the Otjiherero Lutheran hymnal. Belief in the ancestors is strong among the Herero. It is centred around the holy fire that is found between the main house of the head man and the cattle's kraal. The church does not acknowledge the ancestors, but it allows its members to venerate their ancestors outside the church. The church's approach is that of tacit consent. This dissertation discusses this approach and concludes that Oruuano cannot remain silent on the ancestors any longer. Time has come to deal with it theologically, showing the supremacy of Christ, while integrating Herero traditional practices and spirituality with the worship and practice of Oruuano. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)

Text in English / Oruuano is an Independent Church in Namibia founded in 1955 because of members of the Herero community breaking away from the Rhenish Mission Church. Oruuano has the same doctrinal position as the Evangelical Lutheran Churches. In all church services it uses the standard Lutheran liturgical forms and the Otjiherero Lutheran hymnal. Belief in the ancestors is strong among the Herero. It is centred around the holy fire that is found between the main house of the head man and the cattle's kraal. The church does not acknowledge the ancestors, but it allows its members to venerate their ancestors outside the church. The church's approach is that of tacit consent. This dissertation discusses this approach and concludes that Oruuano cannot remain silent on the ancestors any longer. Time has come to deal with it theologically, showing the supremacy of Christ, while integrating Herero traditional practices and spirituality with the worship and practice of Oruuano. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)

Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated, distant and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This study questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is examined from a broad socio-anthropological perspective, which is then used to generate an overarching 'lens' for a set of case studies which analyse the cults of specific individuals in the Old Norse literary tradition. The thesis argues that the views of social anthropologists have been ignored in Old Norse scholarship for too long and that they have great potential to contribute to our understanding of the religious diversity present in typical folk-religious societies worldwide, including those of pre-Christian Scandinavia. Of particular importance in this context is the concept of 'god', which in most traditional cultures is intimately related to the idea of family ancestors. The situation of gods in Old Norse religion has been almost exclusively addressed in isolation from these socio-anthropological perspectives. The public gravemound cults of deceased rulers are discussed conventionally as cases of sacral kingship, and more recently, religious ruler ideology; both are seen as having divine associations in Old Norse scholarship. Building on the anthropological framework, this study suggests that the gods in pagan Scandinavia and Iceland, too, were perceived as human ancestors belonging to elite families. This thesis also discusses the euhemerism found in the Old Norse sources and suggests that even if medieval authors were influenced by classical writings, the 'euhemerisations' are based on real perceptions. It does not reject the existence of ruler ideology, but argues that the ideology was based on conventional and widely recognised religious practices revolving around kinship and ancestors. It introduces the concept of 'superior ancestors', used in social anthropology to denote a form of political ancestor worship used to deliberately regulate social structure. It is argued that the communal worship of deceased rulers derived from their doubly important role as social leaders and as ancestors.