Daniel Ndoundou (1911 – 1986) was born in the southern part of French Equatorial Africa, close to the border of the Belgian Congo. At an early age he joined the Swe-dish protestant mission. As a young man he began to work as an evangelist and in 1946 he was ordained pastor. The following year a spiritual revival started and soon Daniel Ndou¬ndou became its leader, a position he held for the rest of his life. The aim of this thesis was to describe and analyse how Daniel Ndoundou carried out his ministry as a revival leader in the intersection between traditional beliefs and the new religion introduced by the protestant missionaries. He experienced the pro-cess of his country gaining its independence and the founding of the autonomous Evangelical Church of Congo. As a well-known counsellor and healer he received many pilgrims at his home. During revival meetings he sometimes preached to thou-sands of people. He had to take a stand on different movements of political and religious character that emerged especially during the colonial era. The thesis shows that the doctrines adopted by Daniel Ndoundou were close to those of the missionaries. However, he sometimes accepted and applied practices that were seen as controversial by his Church leaders. This was particularly evident when he invited people to the “Pool of Siloam” where he organized ritual baths for healing. The thesis also describes the legacy left by Daniel Ndoundou namely how the Evangelical Church of Congo manages the revival almost 30 years after his death. Many charismatic Christians play an important role and for the local pastor they are sometimes difficult to handle. The void left by Daniel Ndoundou is strongly felt by many church members since he was seen as the authority in matters relating to spiritual gifts.

Esta dissertação é resultado de um estudo socioantropológico que teve como objetivo identificar e analisar as práticas de socialização juvenil contemporâneas entre os evangélicos. Pretendeu-se compreender o contexto e os modos como as experiências sociais da juventude são constituídas, bem como os modos de adesão, resistência, preservação, inovação e dissidência. A pesquisa foi realizada, com o apoio da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, na Comunidade Evangélica Sara Nossa Terra Rua Augusta, em São Paulo SP, uma denominação do alto neopentecostalismo brasileiro. A partir de um trabalho de campo etnográfico de dois anos, realizado junto à igreja e aos seus jovens, foi possível analisar as estratégias e as tensões existentes em torno da socialização para a sexualidade e a fé. Descrevem-se e analisam-se: a) os afetos, as familiaridades e os estranhamentos no encontro etnográfico entre jovem pesquisador e jovens pesquisados; b) as práticas de lazer e de liturgia da igreja (cultos e baladas), por meio dos conceitos de festa, cosmopolitismo e hibridação; c) o lugar do jovem na interação social e no discurso da igreja, sob um modelo organizacional denominado de Visão G12; d) a construção social do gosto afetivo-sexual, uma categoria nativa interpelada teoricamente, bem como do exercício do sexo, a partir do consumo de mídia pornográfica entre os jovens; e) as trocas simbólicas e o circuito de dádivas em torno da socialização para a sexualidade. Para compreender a socialização, inspirou-se nos conceitos de configuração de Norbert Elias, habitus de Pierre Bourdieu, experiência e programa institucional de François Dubet, disposições híbridas de habitus e socialização como fenômeno social total de Maria da Graça Jacintho Setton. No tocante à etnografia, à juventude, aos evangélicos e à sexualidade, utilizou-se um amplo referencial teórico socioantropológico clássico e contemporâneo. Observou-se abalos sísmicos no processo de socialização juvenil na igreja evangélica, resultantes de adesões e de dissidências de gostos afetivo-sexuais de mesmo sexo e de sexo oposto em relação ao agendamento da sexualidade proposto pela igreja. As adesões e as transgressões são, portanto, resultado da configuração e do encontro antropológico entre diferentes instâncias e sujeitos da socialização, o que resulta em um caleidoscópio de sujeitos e de práticas culturais no interior da igreja, bem como na reconfiguração dos mecanismos de controle dócil. / This dissertation is the result of a socioanthropological study whose goal was to identify and to analyze contemporary socialization practices of youth among evangelists. The purpose was to understand the context and the forms through which social experiences of young people are constructed, as well as their forms of acceptance, resistance, upholding, innovation and dissension. The research, supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo FAPESP, was carried out at Sara Nossa Terra (Heal our Earth) Evangelical Community - located on Augusta Street in the city of São Paulo - SP, a faith inserted in the high Brazilian neo-Pentecostalism trend. Based on a two-year ethnographical field work carried out with the church and its youth, it was possible to analyze the existing strategies and tensions around socialization for sexuality and faith. The study describes and analyzes: a) affections, familiarities and unfamiliarities in the ethnographic meeting between the young researcher and the researched youth; b) leisure practices and church liturgy (church services and parties), based on the concepts of party, cosmopolitism and hybridization; c) the place of young people in the social interaction and in the discourse of the church, under an organizational model called Vision G12; d) the social construction of romantic-sexual preference, a native category theoretically questioned, as well as the exercise of sex, based on the consumption of pornography by the youth; e) the symbolic exchanges and the circuit of gifts around the socialization for sexuality. The inspiration for understanding socialization emerge from the concepts of configuration by Norbert Elias, habitus by Pierre Bourdieu, experience and institutional program by François Dubet, hybrid dispositions of habitus and socialization as a total social phenomenon by Maria da Graça Jacintho Setton. A wide range of classic and contemporary socioanthropological theoretical references about ethnography, youth, evangelists and sexuality were used in this study. Some seismic events were observed in the youth socialization process in the evangelical church, result of both acquiescence and disagreement about romantic-sexual preferences for same sex and opposite sex regarding the sexuality schedule proposed by the church. Conformities and offenses are, therefore, results of the configuration and the anthropological confluence between different socialization instances and subjects, which results in a kaleidoscope of subjects and cultural practices within the church, as well as in the reconfiguration of the mechanisms of docile control.

The Legal Order of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren - History and Present The aim of this thesis is to gather available sources concerning the legal order of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) since its establishment in 1918 to the present day. The sources used address the legal history of the Protestant Church in Cisleithania from 1848 until the end of World War I. A critical analysis of the sources is carried out to document the development of the church constitution and the orders of the ECCB. The criteria for the elaboration of individual storylines are primarily the historical relevance and the practical applicability of the information regarding the ECCB Strategic Plan of 2019. The thesis consists of an introduction, followed by three parts, and a conclusion. The first part, (1848-1922), comprises four chapters covering the legal history of the Protestant Church in Cisleithania from the revolutionary years 1848/1849 until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of both Czechoslovakia and the ECCB. Particular attention is given to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the church constitution of 1861, the constitutional reform efforts of the Czech-speaking Czech and Moravian Protestants of both confessions (Augsburg and Helvetic), the movement of...

Through the lens of analyses of populist mobilizations informed by political sociology, this study offers a new perspective on tactics used by anti-gender campaigns. Specifically examining the Education Curriculum and the Enfoque de Igualdad de Género [Gender Equality Approach] in congressional debates in Peru in 2018 and 2019, this study uses a qualitative content analysis to identify central themes. The themes reveal tactics that sabotage feminist gains in educational reforms, spearheaded by Christian political actors. The argument is thus that Christian political actors use tactics such as coopting feminist concepts such as “gender” and re-framing it as “gender ideology”. This is an example of using “emotional epistemic loops” of information to achieve political goals, in this case advancing patriarchal Christian values and undermining feminist and gender equality gains.

Diakonie as one of the most important services combines helping the needy and spiritual support. This service was already established in the early church and it focused on both material and spiritual area. The diploma thesis "The Work of Diaconia" with the subtitle "A Short Overview of the History of Diaconia, Czech Diaconia and Diaconia of the Evangelical Church of the Czech Brethren" describes diaconia from the point of view of the New Testament where it becomes helping a fellow man with the motivation of faith, i.e. following Jesus Christ. In next parts, diaconia is described from the period of early church until the Reformation. It is followed by the early days of diaconia in the Czech lands, the role of Kaiserswerth institute in Germany where Czech girls studied and some of them then used their knowledge about taking care of the ill and educating in their diaconic activities in the Czech lands. However, many of them continued living abroad. Priest Václav Šubert significantly contributed to the foundation of a first diaconic institution, girls' school or an orphanage in Krabčice, the birthplace of diaconia in the Czech lands. He and our first two deaconesses, Marie Karafiátová and Eleanora Kašparová, occupy more space in this work. In the next part, a historical development of Czech Diaconia...

The theme of this work is to compare the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and the Evangelical Methodist Church in Slovakia, the basic issues of faith and liturgical emphases, focusing on the contribution of the ecumenical environment to refer first to the historical and theological background and then the difference in understanding Christian worship and its liturgical expression, in further outline the importance of sacramentology, spirituality, religious dogmatic. We also attempt to compare the emphasis in the understanding of doctrine and traditions of individual churches. Both Churches with its Protestant character bear the common name "Evangelical Church" and that is the reason why to deal and examine the differences and look for the content of unity. We have considered that in spite of historical and liturgical divergences combines both these churches the fundamental reformation principle of "Sola Scriptura", which means that in practice it is possible creating mutual ecumenical cooperation not only at the Ecumenical Council of Churches (ERC) in Slovakia, but also at the level of inter-mission activities of the churches and parishes.

After 1781 there were established several Protestant congregations in Podkrkonoší (North-East Bohemia). Approximately one hundred years later, the whole region was greatly affected by Spiritualism, a belief in communication with spirits of the dead through mediums. My objective is to describe the attitudes of the Protestant congregations in Podkrkonoší towards Spiritualism and analyse their causes and effects. Understanding these attitudes will yield an insight into the character of the present congregations. For this purpose, I studied the congregations in Libštát, Křížlice, and Jičín. In particular I focused on their parish priests because they had the control over their flock in these questions. I went through the archival materials of the respective congregations as well as personal diaries, and I analysed the memories of several interviewed people. These findings were then compared with the attitudes of some congregations in Great Britain. The results revealed three different approaches of the priests. Some were very radical, which led to excommunication of Spiritualists. Others were rather tolerant, which resulted in integration of Spiritualists. Finally, some priests were quite secretive, so their parishioners may not have seen a clear line between Spiritualism and Christianity.

Formation of Protestant Hymnbook of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren This diploma thesis presents the history of preparation of the new Protestant Hymnbook of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB). Four chapters of this work include the work chronology in respectual departments, evolution of opinions and the final publication. The first chapter describes the oldest hymnbooks from 1918 (foundation of ECCB), second chapter studies the beginning of systematical work in departments in the years 1941 - 1950, the third chapter follows the work in the Department of Hymnology of the Synodal Council of ECCB in the years 1951 - 1979, when the new hymnbook was finally published. The fourth chapter concludes the thesis with the summary of reaction of the church after the publication of the new hymnbook, publication of the Appendix of the new hymnbook and describes the situation in present days. The whole thesis is finished with an interview with a contemporary witness, Mr. Jiří Otter, former secretary of the Synodal Council. His task was to superintend the press in Germany and he gave some photos to the author of this thesis (see Appendix). The whole thesis is based on archival materials found in the Archive of ECCB and National Archive in the first half of 2013.

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The aim of the thesis is to describe forms and the potential of social networks within a church community from the perspective of the inclusion. The thesis specifies what social networks are, how they relate to community, and how they can be explored. It deals with a local congregation as the main unit of a church and its specification in The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. It also describes various views of the inclusion. The research part of the thesis depicts the process of entering a particular local congregation of The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. Using this example, the thesis categorizes different forms of inclusion including the biblical commandment of love, and captures the ever changing ways and powers of the social networks within a church as they attract and carry a person. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)