Esta dissertação apresenta uma avaliação teológ ica e perspectivas para a herm enêutica pentecostal, a partir dos temas bíblicos estudados na Escola Dominical da Igreja Assembléia de Deus, entre os anos de 2000 e 2009. O primeiro capítulo discorre sobre o Movimento Pentecostal e a Assembléia de Deus no Bras il. O pentecostalismo surge nos Estados Unidos em 1901, sob influência, principalmente, da pregação metodista da segunda benção, associada ao batismo no Espírito Santo, buscando restaurar a experiência vivida pela igreja cristã, nos tempos apostólicos. A Assembléia de Deus brasileira tem sua origem em Belém (PA), em 1911, a partir do trabalho de dois missionários suecos, Daniel Berg e Gunnar Vingren, i nfluenciados pelo movimento pentecostal norte-americano. Após décadas de constante cres cimento, representa hoje cerca de 30% dos evangélicos brasileiros, estando presente em todas as regiões do país. Num segundo momento, são apresentadas refl exões de vários autores, acerc a da teologia e do princípio pentecostal. O segundo capítulo trata da leitura pentecostal da Bíblia, relacionando os assuntos estudados na Escola Dominical e avaliando teologicamente os temas mais relevantes: Inspiração da Bíblia Sagrada, Volta de Jesus, Disciplinas da Vida Cristã , Jesus, Batismo com o Espírito Santo, Teologia da Prosperidade, Curas e Milagres. O terceiro capítulo observa que a leitura bíblica praticada pela Assembléia d e Deus é direcionada por uma h ermenêutica pentecostal conservadora e experimental. Conclui, em termos de perspectiva contemporânea, propondo a adoção de duas outras ênfases: a diaconal e a profética, traduzidas como a disponibilidade em servir à Igreja e à comunidade, denunciar as mazelas sociais e buscar a justiça e a paz, preparando o povo de Deus para o serviço cristão, a fim de construir o corpo de Cristo na realidade brasileira. / This dissertation presents a theological evaluation and per spectives for the Pentecostal hermeneutics, from the biblical themes studied in Sunday Sch ool Assembly of God Church, between the years of 2000 and 2009. The first chapter discusses the Pentecostal Movement and the Assembly of God in Brazil. Pentecostalism emerged in the United States in 1901, influenced mainly by the "second blessing" Methodist preaching associated with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, seeking to restore the lived experience of the Chris tian church in apostolic times . The Brazilian Assembly of God has its origin in Belem (PA), in 1911, from the work of two Swedish missionaries, Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren, influenced by the American Pentecostal movement. After decades of steady growth, it currently represents about 30% of the Brazilian evangelicals, being present in all the regions of the country. In a second moment, reflections of some authors are presented about theology and Pentecostal principle. The second chapter deals with the Pentecostal reading of the Bible, relating the subjects that were taught in the Sunday School and theologically evaluating the most relevant topics: Ins piration of the Holy Bible, Return of Jesus, Disciplines of Christian Life, Jesus, Baptism with the Holy Spirit, Theology of Prosperity, Healing and Miracl es. The third chapter says that Bi ble reading practiced by the Assembly of God is guided by a conservative and experimental Pentecostal hermeneutics. It concludes, in terms of contemporary perspective, proposing the adoption of two other emphases: the diaconal and prophetic, both translated as the willingness to serve the Church and the community, to denounce the social ills and to seek for justice and peace, preparing the people of God for the Christian service, in order to build the body of Christ in the Brazilian reality.

Os sermões de Dominga de Quaresma do Padre Antônio Vieira interessam segundo as suas práticas contemporâneas de produção e recepção. Historicamente, foram preparados para circular de forma escrita e publicados dispersos pelos tomos da editio princeps do Sermões, entre 1679 e 1699. Editados, destinaram-se a um leitor em momento distante da pregação, que se constrói, porém, circunstancialmente na página. Para discutir esses sermões de Quaresma, são importantes as noções de ductus e eschematisménos lógos. A primeira é lida em Fortunaciano e Marciano Capela, sistematizada por Heinrich Lausberg e tratada por leitores de Vieira. A segunda procura iluminar as lições desses retores dito menores e embasar as leituras dos sermões a partir de passagens de outros textos, de outras doutrinas, de retores latinos e gregos, como Quintiliano, Demétrio, Hermógenes e, no século XV, Jorge de Trebizonda. / Sunday of Lent sermons by Father Antônio Vieira are of interest in conformity to their contemporary practices of production and reception. Historically, they had been composed to circulate in written form and to be published dispersed in the volumes of the editio princeps of the Sermões between 1679 and 1699. Nevertheless, from the moment they were printed they were direct to a reader who was, in a way, distant from the preaching, which is framed, even though circimstantially, in the pages. So as to discuss these Lent sermons, notions of ductus and eschematisménos lógos are fundamental. The former is read in Fortunatianus and Marcianus Capella, systematized by Heinrich Lausberg and debated by Vieiras readers. The latter aims to cast light on the lessons of these so-called rhetores latini minoris and also to give foundation to the readings of the sermons from excerpts of other texts, other doctrines, and Greek and Latin rhetoricians, as Quintilian, Demetrius, Hermogenes and, in the fifteenth century, George of Trebizond.

Dans cette thèse, nous avons essayé d'apporter une contribution à l'étude de la concurrence imparfaite. L'objectif de ce travail étant d'apporter des réponses pertinentes à des situations d'interaction stratégique entre les agents économiques. Autrement dit, nous avons traité de point de vue stratégique, les différents jeux stratégiques qui engagent les agents économiques, et avons caractérisé la situation d'équilibre pour chaque type de jeu. La première partie de ce travail est consacrée à l'analyse de l'effet de l'ouverture du dimanche, sur les entreprises, les consommateurs et le surplus global. Dans la deuxième partie de cette thèse, nous étudions la fusion horizontale, nous abordons tout d’abord une question clé en recherchant les conditions nécessaires afin de garantir la profitabilité d'une fusion dans le cadre d'un duopole mixte. Finalement, nous essayons de développer une fusion séquentielle qui peut être profitable de façon endogène. / In this thesis, we have tried to make a contribution to the study of imperfect competition. The objective of this work is to provide relevant answers to situations of strategic interaction between economic agents. In other words, we have dealt with the strategic point of view, the different strategic games that engage the economic agents, and characterized the situation of balance for each type of game. The first part of this work is dedicated to the analysis of the effect of Sunday’s opening, on companies, consumers and global surplus. In the second part of this thesis, we study the horizontal merger. First, we looking for the necessary conditions to guarantee the profitability of a merger in the context of a mixed duopoly. Finally, we try to develop a sequential merger which can be profitable in an endogenous way.

When Brian Friel’s play The Freedom of the City premiered in 1973, just a year after the events of Bloody Sunday, it was met with harsh criticism and called a work of propaganda. In the play, three peaceful protestors flee a civil rights demonstration turned violent and end up trapped inside the Guildhall in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the play, they are shot dead. These three protestors, disoriented by violence as well as the aftereffects of life-long poverty, on the surface are not emblems of morality. However, this thesis employs Ami Harbin’s theorization of disorientation and moral action to challenge traditional virtue ethics and showcase that even in the midst of all-encompassing disorientation, moral action can easily emerge, even from the most unexpected person. Specifically, I look at the character Skinner, a flippant hooligan who leads the other trapped protestors through a series of games ultimately meant to encourage them to embrace their disorientation as he has. Within Friel’s drama, accepting and embracing disorientation as opposed to fighting it, I conclude, is what frees one from the bounds of disorientation, and in this case, allows a person to more fully perpetuate moral action.

Upon receiving a role, an actor must research the major themes, concepts, and relationships associated with the play, its collaborators, and the character they are to portray. Only by layering this combination of research and analysis to the rehearsal process and performances in a detailed format can an actor cohesively transform the learned knowledge from the performer's training and research to a finished product on stage. Many forms of art are created using a similar process. This thesis will explore the similarities between the Post-Impressionist technique of pointillism and the actor's process in developing a role. Upon observing the basic process of each technique, one can conclude that the method of consistently adding many specific elements eventually creates a finished product whether it is in the form of a painting on a canvas or a performance on a stage. By paralleling these two artistic techniques, a new contribution to musical theatre is made by presenting a fresh outlook for performers in their approach to creating roles. Research on pointillism and George Seurat's painting technique when interwoven with Stephen Sondheim's techniques in music theory (specifically the examples derived from the score of Sunday in the Park with George), and compared to my technique and process as the actor playing the role of Dot in the University of Central Florida Conservatory Theatre's 2006 Spring production of Sunday in the Park with George, demonstrates how the theories of pointillism and the actor's process are clearly comparable and arguably inseparable.

Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Men have been experiencing a crisis in masculinity for a number of years now. Lower income white Afrikaans men experience this crisis in a unique way. Performance, especially in the area of work, as well as being able to provide for one‟s family, are integrally related to masculinity. This study takes place in the field of practical theology with an eye on the Sunday service, as practised in the Dutch Reformed Church, as a whole. The study is concerned with the question of how the Sunday service can be used as a space where an alternative masculinity can be nurtured. In this study the researcher makes use of qualitative empirical research in the form of a half-structured interview schedule to ascertain how men in a specific lower income community experience the Sunday service in times of questions about masculinity when in a situation of work loss. The researcher focuses on two areas when speaking about the Sunday service, namely preaching and liturgy. In the interviews the researcher not only finds out about men‟s experiences, but also about their needs with regards to experiences and messages of lament and hope in preaching and liturgy. Although hope is preached during Sunday services, there is little experience of lament. There is, however a need to lament before God and this can be expanded in Dutch Reformed liturgy. A need, coupled by an experience results in a message of hope received. In the next stage a detailed look is given at the Sunday service as a whole, in terms of preaching and liturgy. Different types of preaching are studied, as well as different elements of liturgy. The researcher focuses on a need to reclaim lament in both preaching and liturgy as a way of creating a space for bring one‟s feelings and emotions before God, but also as a way of finding hope. Prophetic and eschatological preaching are ways of bringing lament into preaching. It sees the present in light of the end where God brings everything to fulfilment. In liturgy, lament is reclaimed in music and song and facilitated in rituals. The rediscovery and reclamation of lament is central to the nurture of an alternative masculinity. There are many ways of doing this in the preaching and liturgy of a Dutch Reformed congregation. The researcher gives a few practical suggestions on how to bring lament into the Sunday service. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Mans ervaar al vir jare 'n krisis in manlikheid. Die mans van 'n laer inkomste werkersklas ervaar hierdie krisis op 'n unieke manier. Om veral in die area van werk te presteer en vir jou gesin te sorg, is kwessies wat integraal deel is van 'n man se ervaring van sy manlikheid. Hierdie studie vind plaas in die veld van praktiese teologie, met 'n oog op die erediens in sy geheel, soos dit in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk beoefen word. Hierdie tesis is bemoeid met die vraag oor hoe die erediens gebruik kan word as a ruimte waar 'n alternatiewe manlikheid gekoester kan word. In hierdie studie maak die navorser gebruik van kwalitatiewe empiriese navorsing in die vorm van 'n half-gestruktureerde onderhoudskedule om vas te stel hoe mans in „n spesifieke laer inkomste gemeenskap die erediens ervaar ten tyde van vrae oor hulle manlikheid in 'n situasie van werksverlies. Wanneer die navorser oor die erediens praat, fokus sy op twee areas, naamlik prediking en liturgie. In die onderhoude vind die navorser nie net uit oor mans se ervarings van die erediens nie, maar ook oor hulle behoeftes wanneer dit by ervarings en boodskappe van lament en hoop in die prediking en liturgie kom. Alhoewel daar wel oor hoop in die erediens gepreek word, is daar min ervarings van lament. Daar is wel 'n behoefte om voor God te lament en dit kan uitgebrei word in die liturgie. 'n Behoefte, gekoppel aan 'n ervaring loop uit op 'n boodskap van hoop. In die volgende fase word daar op 'n gedetailleerde wyse na die erediens as 'n geheel, in terme van prediking en liturgie, gekyk. Verskillende tipes prediking word bestudeer, sowel as verskillende elemente van die liturgie. Die navorser fokus op 'n behoefte om lament in beide prediking en liturgie te herwin as 'n manier om 'n ruimte te skep om 'n persoon se gevoelens en emosies voor God te bring, maar ook as 'n manier om hoop te vind. Profetiese en eskatologiese prediking is maniere om lament in die prediking in te bring. Dit sien die hede in die lig van die einde wanneer God alles tot vervulling bring. In die liturgie word lament herwin deur musiek en sang gefasiliteer deur rituele. Die herontdekking en herwinning van lament is van groot belang in die koester van 'n alternatiewe manlikheid. Daar is baie maniere om dit in die prediking en liturgie van 'n Nederduitse Gereformeerde gemeente te doen. Die navorser gee 'n paar praktiese voorstelle oor hoe om lament in die erediens in te bring.

Carlos Morton is a prominent Chicano playwright that has contributed greatly to Chicano theatre, creatively and academically, since in 1970s. This thesis offers a feminist analysis of the gender representation in three of his works: Lilith (1977), La Malinche (1984), and Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda (1992). The female characters in these three plays possess a unique agency that allows them to challenge oppressive patriarchal standards imposed on their gender identity. The second chapter explores Morton's Lilith, a play based on a Jewish creation myth. In the play, Lilith possesses agency of her gender identity and forms a bond with Eve to fight the patriarchal gender norms used to restrict women in Chicano culture. La Malinche is an adaptation of Eurpides's Medea set in post-Conquest New Spain. Chapter three focuses on the agency displayed by La Malinche through her indigenous roots to fight for her own form of motherhood and freedom from patriarchy. The final play analyzed in this thesis is Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda, a dream-like play that is based on Diego Rivera's mural by the same name. Several female characters in the play demonstrate agency through their androgynous sexual identities as they unite to resist male character's sexualized perceptions and expectations of females within Mexican and Chicano culture.

M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities (Journalism and Media Studies), 2012 / This research investigates the representation of kwaito in the Sunday Times between 1994 and 2001, a period of transition for South Africa and the South African media. Kwaito, a music phenomenon that began in the streets of townships, was an important social development. Initially, it offered a range of ways in which post-apartheid black youth could represent themselves and their lives, both good and bad. The Sunday Times, on the other hand, was a white establishment newspaper that needed to change to represent a wider community and provide a space for the inclusion of previously neglected areas of South Africa cultural life. My analysis of all the articles on kwaito published in the newspaper demonstrates that the paper increasingly covered kwaito musicians and events, but tended to confine this coverage to the gossip pages of the City Metro, an insert aimed at black readers. On the other hand, commentators in feature and commentary articles in the main body, who had the power as “cultural consecrators” to investigate the meaning of kwaito as a phenomenon, tended to dismiss it as debased form of expression by lost youngsters. This bears out the argument by Hebdige that youth subcultures tend to be accommodated and contained by the media through a process of converting them into mass-produced objects or through neutering them ideologically.

This thesis examines representations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children that circulated through various reports, magazines, and fictional stories that were produced for and about children in Canada’s settler colonial context. Particularly, I focus on the archives of two related institutions, the interdenominational Canada Sunday School Union’s annual reports (1843-1876), and the Shingwauk Industrial Home’s monthly juvenile magazine, Our Forest Children (1887-1890), as well as two juvenile adventure narratives, Canadian Crusoes (1852) by Catharine Parr Traill and “The Shagganappi” (1913) by Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Through the nineteenth century, childhood emerged as a stage of development in the making of a racialized adult identity; I find that these archives and texts record uneasiness about racialized systems of feeling and reveal the colonial management regime’s preoccupation with strengthening certain affective bonds of relationality in order to naturalize dominant, Eurocolonial practices of kinship. My argument through this thesis follows and extends critical approaches to discourses of kinship from scholars interested in deploying Indigenous and postcolonial critiques of Western kinship traditions (Gaudry 2013, Justice 2018, Morgensen 2013, Rifkin 2010). These scholars variously draw on Michel Foucault’s theory of biopower, which they find to be central to the production and proliferation of the institution of settler colonialism in North America, and query how the biopolitical management of Indigenous people was constructed through particularized institutions (such as the residential school) and discourses (such as blood quantum). My project builds on this work by focusing on the representation of child-centered affect in Canada’s settler-colonial context. While kinship figures as a dominant narrative through this thesis, I argue that the figure of the child emerged as the node through which the colonial management regime worked out competing forms of kinship in Canada’s settler-colonial context. In the first chapter, I close read the content of the annual reports that were published by the Canada Sunday School Union. I focus specifically on the “technologies of transparency” that reveal the kinds of investments that were made in the lives of real-life settler children in Canada. The Union’s interest in tracking the circulation of Sunday school libraries, for instance, reflects an impulse to inculcate Christian feeling within the nuclear family. The second chapter builds on the colonial management regime’s investment in the emotional lives of children, but shifts the focus to the lives of the Indigenous children who attended the Shingwauk Industrial Home in Sault Ste. Marie through the late 1880s. I demonstrate how Reverend Edward F. Wilson utilized the generic codes of popular British juvenile magazines of the period to showcase how the home’s Indigenous students learn how to articulate appropriate expressions of Christian feeling. In chapter three, I draw attention to Catharine Parr Traill’s undertheorized juvenile adventure novel Canadian Crusoes. I argue that Traill represents vignettes of an Indigenous kinship practice in order to stage the incorporation of a young Kanien’kehá:ka woman into the Euro-Canadian family. Finally, the fourth chapter examines how Emily Pauline Johnson represents the incorporation of mixed-race children into the Canadian nation in her juvenile adventure novel, “The Shagganappi.” While scholars read “The Shagganappi” as a tale of successful racial-intermixture, I argue that such readings only serve to reinscribe the fantasy that Canada is comprised of a “mythical métissage” (Gaudry 85).

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-21T14:23:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 revista_pequeno.pdf: 22625487 bytes, checksum: 56de3f117d192dfa44e1c2c31d1bb67c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-21T14:23:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 revista_pequeno.pdf: 22625487 bytes, checksum: 56de3f117d192dfa44e1c2c31d1bb67c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-01-11 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa tem como objeto O Pequeno Luterano, impresso produzido com objetivos educacionais definidos e explícita perspectiva doutrinária, vindo a se constituir como um dos principais veículos pedagógicos de que se valeu o Sínodo de Missouri (atual Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil/IELB), entre o período de 1930 e 1960. Caracterizando-se por um empreendimento destinado a crianças com vistas à formação do futuro fiel adulto, o periódico obteve grande repercussão por onde circulou. Este estudo, abrangendo a circulação na região meridional do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, vale-se de depoimentos e documentos impressos, em especial o conjunto de periódicos disponibilizados para leitura em diferentes acervos, perfazendo um total de aproximadamente 2.339 paginas. A análise de dados está alicerçada em referenciais teóricos advindos basicamente de dois autores: Roger Chartier - no que se refere a apropriação, produção e circulação do impresso; e Michel de Certeau, no que se refere aos conceito de estratégias (empreendimento dos editores) e táticas (diferentes formas como leitores se apropriaram da proposta estabelecida pelos editores). Como procedimento operacional, o conteúdo de cada periódico foi processado e transferido para um banco de dados, adaptado a partir de software existente para outros fins, criando-se Unidades e Subunidades de análise. Ainda como procedimento metodológico, a pesquisa vale-se da memória de sujeitos envolvidos com o periódico no período delimitado para esta investigação, coletando significativos depoimentos que ajudam a responder não só as questões iniciais que desencadearam a pesquisa, como também aquelas que foram emergindo ao longo do percurso investigativo. Entre as conclusões, cabe ressaltar que o impresso, ao adotar o locus da escola paroquial, e mais tarde o da escola dominical, bem com ao propor criativas estratégias planejadas e executadas em cada período, reforçou a sua legitimação por décadas. Embora conteúdos religiosos e doutrinários se sobrepuseram aos conteúdos lúdicos, estes constituíram estratégias fundamentais na conquista de leitores, em especial ao colocar leitores em interação com a revista e/ou com demais leitores. O conjunto de dados também permite concluir sobre o eficiente uso da revista nos processos de educação formal, não como material didático planejado, e sim como um veículo de leitura, continuamente legitimado pelos respectivos pastores e professores. Apesar das táticas de escape dos leitores- por exemplo, não fazendo uso do conteúdo conforme os editores previam - é possível afirmar que, de modo geral, o projeto da revista foi cumprido, constatando-se pelos depoimentos colhidos que ainda hoje muitos leitores dão continuidade a leituras produzidas e/ou recomendadas pelo Sínodo. / This research intends to analyze O Pequeno Luterano, a printout produced with clear educational purposes and explicit doctrinaire perspective, constituting itself as one of the main pedagogical vehicles used by the Missouri Synod (Brazils Lutheran Church nowadays), in the period between 1930 and 1960. The periodical was characterized as an undertaking assigned to children aiming the formation of the future adult believer and gained great repercussion where it circulated. This study comprehends the periodical circulation in the southern area of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and takes support on testimonies and printed documents, especially the group of periodicals available to reading in different documentary collections, totalizing nearly 2.339 pages. The data analysis is supported on theoretical referentials of two authors: Roger Chartier regarding the printout appropriation, production and circulation and Michel de Certeau, considering the concepts of strategies (editors undertaking) and tactics (different ways of how readers borrow the propositions set by the editors). The operational procedure used consisted in process the content of each periodical and transfer it to a database adapted from a software originally created for other purposes. In this adaptation, it was constituted unities and sub unities of analysis. This research also relies on the memories of the subjects involved with the periodical during the period investigated. These testimonies were very useful to answer the original questions which started the investigation as well as those which emerged along the investigative path. Among the conclusions, its important to emphasize that the printout reinforced its legitimation by adopting the parochial school (and later, the Sunday school) locus, as well by proposing creative strategies planned and fulfilled in each period. Although religious and doctrinaire contents overlapped ludic contents, the ludic contents constituted fundamental strategies to gain readers, especially by placing readers in interaction with the periodical and/or with other readers. The group of data also allows to set conclusions on the efficient periodical use in the formal education processes, not as planned didatic material, but as a reading vehicle, permanently legitimated by the respective priests and teachers. Though the readers escaping tactics ? such as not making use of the content according to the editors expectations ? its possible to affirm that in a general way the periodical project was accomplished. Also it was verified on the collected testiomonies that until today many readers continue reading the material produced and/or recommended by the Synod.