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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-10Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:54:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 parra_ag_me_assis.pdf: 551220 bytes, checksum: 4ad521ad5d2daa3c90abf25dd651b38a (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar alguns cultos presentes na cidade de Roma no primeiro século e início do segundo d.C. Identificar como e por quais ordens a religião era vivida em alguns cultos oriundos de outras partes do mundo mediterrâneo e que não estiveram diretamente ligados, pelo menos em princípio, à estrutura do Estado romano. A pesquisa tem como fonte O Satyricon de Petrônio e os Epigramas de Marcial, sendo o primeiro um provável membro da aristocracia romana e, o segundo, um cliens na Roma Antiga / The objective of this essay is to analyse some cults presents in the city of Rome at the first century and in the beginning of the second century a.C. and identify how and by whose orders religion was lived in some cults from others parts of the Mediterranean world and which weren’t directly related, at least in the beginning, to the Roman State structure. The research has Petronio´s ‘Satyricon’ and Marcial’s ‘The Epigrams’ as source, the first being a likely member from the Roman aristocracy and the latter, a cliens from the Ancient Rome

Asatru is a New Religious Movement reconstructing the practice of pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Pagan religion. It has been one of the least studied of the Pagan movements in America. In addition, Asatru has often been associated with far right or fascist political views and racist ideology, developing a reputation as a movement in high tension with American culture and values. For the most part, academic interest in Asatru has focused on exploring the connection with racism and evaluating the role of racist ideology within the movement, while its more religious aspects have been overlooked. Scholars have recognized that new religions offer alternative solutions to social problems arising from modernity. By disembedding individuals from traditional social contexts, modernity creates social and psychological tensions requiring new modes of identity creation. Using this paradigm, Asatru can be approached as a movement providing creative religious solutions to the tensions experienced by people living in modern America. This study addresses several areas of tension and their solutions within Asatru, including the family, women's roles, and the environment. As parts of the movement shift toward lower tension with American culture, Asatru is in the process of emerging as a viable and complex religion that achieves a degree of cultural continuity by reinvigorating certain American values within its own religious solutions to contemporary tensions. In this light, Asatru can be seen as a new American religion that incorporates and adapts important cultural values while at the same time challenging scholarly assumptions about new religions.

The study of alternative religious movements (ARMs) encompasses a wide range of groups, from Fundamentalist Mormons to Scientologists to Jehovah’s Witnesses. There is, however, little research, and almost none of it from a therapeutic perspective, on the experiences of children who are raised in these groups. This leads me to wonder about the stories of women who are raised in and then exit ARMs and how these stories might inform the work of helping professionals. This thesis provides a narrative analysis of memoirs written by women who were raised in and then left alternative religions. Through the lens of deconstruction and post-structuralist feminism, it considers the ways in which women who have left ARMs narrate their experiences and how their stories might inform practice. Findings indicate that the women experienced a life marked by a pervasive sense of difference (though not always expressed in a negative sense). Long periods of managing doubt, dissonance, and disenchantment resulted in exhaustion. In the context of an expanding world and motivated by relationships with those outside their religious groups, they experienced deconversion and, eventually, disaffiliated. Disaffiliation was experienced both as frightening and liberating, resulting in the need to construct new identities and sites of belonging outside their religious groups. I have displayed these findings in the form of a model of religious deconversion and disaffiliation. This research may help child and youth care workers, therapists, social workers, and other helpers develop wise practices when working with those who have been raised in ARMs. / Graduate / 2022-04-14

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Chan Chi Ho. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-184). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Notes to the Readers --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Chinese Abstract --- p.iv / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One --- Imperial Cults as a Context of the Lukan Writings: Historical Preliminaries --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1 --- Imperial Cults or Emperor Cults as a Religion in the Roman Empire --- p.13 / Chapter 1.2 --- "The Lukan Perspective: Between the Author, the Literary Text, the Reader, and Their Historical Context" --- p.23 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Authorship and Intended Readership of the Lukan Writings --- p.24 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Time of Composition --- p.30 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Further Notes on Luke-Acts' Historical Situation --- p.37 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Lukan Perspective on the Roman Empire Rethought --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter Two --- A Contra-cultural Reformed Judaism Surpassing the Imperial Cult? Assessing Allen Brent's Interpretation of the Lukan Writings --- p.49 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.49 / Chapter 2.2 --- "An Overview of Brent's Interpretation of Luke's ""Political Theology""" --- p.53 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Contra-cultural Strategy and Social Reintegration into the Host Culture --- p.53 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- The Augustan Saeculum Aureum and Luke's Delayed Parousia --- p.54 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Latent Conflicts Remain --- p.57 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- "A ""Political Theology"" Doomed to Fail: Domitian and the Fiscus Iudaicus" --- p.57 / Chapter 2.3 --- "An Evaluation of Brent's Interpretation of Luke's ""Political Theology""" --- p.58 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Lukan vs. Imperial Eschatologies --- p.58 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- """Jewish"" or Pagan Backcloth?" --- p.58 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Roman State Religion or Greek Imperial Cults? --- p.59 / Chapter 2.4 --- Conclusion --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter Three --- King Agrippa I Smitten by an Angel of the Lord: Acts 12:20-23 and the Lukan Attitude towards Emperor Worship --- p.63 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.63 / Chapter 3.2 --- Acts 12:20-23 and the Theme of Apotheosis: Reviewing Some Recent Interpretations of the Lukan Account of Agrippa I's Death --- p.67 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- "An Assessment of Martin Meiser's ""Historical Objections""" --- p.69 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Typical Death of a Tyrant as Persecutor of the Church? --- p.75 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- "Some Alleged Allusions to ""Ruler Cult Rituals""" --- p.81 / Chapter 3.2.3.1 --- "The ""Royal Clothing""" --- p.83 / Chapter 3.2.3.2 --- "The ""Appointed Day"" and Imperial Festival" --- p.85 / Chapter 3.2.3.3 --- The Divine Voice: A Neronian Allusion? --- p.90 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- "A Critique of the Ruler Cult with Its Rituals of ""Divine Filiation"" and Its ""Wrong"" Expression of Power?" --- p.96 / Chapter 3.3 --- A False and Falsely Apotheosized Royal Benefactor: Acts 12:20-23 and Emperor Worship --- p.102 / Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion --- p.106 / Chapter Chapter Four --- An Imperial Neokoros Mocked: Acts 19:23-41 as a Domitianic or Post-Domitianic Retelling of an Ephesian Riot --- p.108 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.108 / Chapter 4.2 --- Artemis Ephesia and the Imperial Context of the Riot: Reviewing Kreitzer's Study --- p.113 / Chapter 4.3 --- "Ephesus, a ""Double"" Neokoros City: Imperial Cult as Context of the Riot Episode" --- p.129 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The Opening Appeal of the City Secretary --- p.129 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- """Neokoros"" as a Sacred Office" --- p.134 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- """Neokoros"" as a City Title" --- p.135 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- """Neokoros"" and the Flavian Provincial Cult of Asia" --- p.140 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Ephesus as the Neokoros of Artemis and of the ΔioπεTηζ --- p.144 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- "Ephesian Silversmiths, the Motif of Moneymaking Religion, and the Imperial Cults" --- p.154 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion --- p.158 / Conclusion --- p.160 / Works Cited --- p.165

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