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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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As denominações do imigrante nas políticas de imigração no Estado de São Paulo : a produção da diferença / The categorization of the immigrant in São Paulo state immigration policies : the production of difference

Borges, Julie Kellen de Campos, 1974- 09 April 2013 (has links)
Orientadores: Carolina Maria Rodríguez Zuccolillo, Christian Puech / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T01:54:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Borges_JulieKellendeCampos_D.pdf: 83543123 bytes, checksum: 760e8528aeb3bbb00bad6bc5126f712d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: As complexas relações com o estrangeiro são constitutivas de nossa história social e política de modo particular, seja no período da colonização portuguesa, seja após a Independência (1822), quando se intensificaram os fluxos de imigrantes para o Brasil. Este trabalho de tese, inscrito na perspectiva teórica da Análise de Discurso, visa compreender quais sentidos foram produzidos para o imigrante e a imigração no Estado de São Paulo, considerando que na segunda metade do século XIX estes sentidos não se desvinculam das políticas nacionais de imigração. Analisamos os processos de significação do sujeito imigrante e, no mesmo movimento de sentidos, do brasileiro, em discursos da/sobre a imigração textualizados em verbetes de dicionários de língua portuguesa, periódicos franceses, relatórios produzidos por órgãos públicos responsáveis pela imigração e o antigo acervo do Memorial do Imigrante/Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo. Ao tratarmos dos discursos produzidos pelas diversas instituições destacadas, pensamos a língua como instituição que funciona, discursivamente, estabilizando sentidos, produzindo regiões de significância para o sujeito no espaço numa formação social dada. Considerando que as instituições produzem arquivo, ou seja, memória institucional, analisamos como as projeções imaginárias para o imigrante e a imigração recobrem sentidos já-ditos sobre a história social brasileira. Concluímos observando que o sentido de imigrante sempre desliza, as palavras "imigrante" e "imigração" enquanto efeito de discurso e investida do político não referem universos semânticos logicamente estabilizados, podendo o sujeito, no processo político e social de partilha dos espaços ser denominado/significado estrangeiro no seu próprio país. / Abstract: The complex relations with the foreigner are particularly constitutive of our social and political history, whether during the Portuguese colonization or after gaining independence (1822), when flows of immigrants to Brazil intensified. This thesis work, written from the theoretical perspective of discourse analysis, aims to understand what meanings were produced for the immigrant and immigration in São Paulo state, considering that in the second half of the 19th century these meanings are not detached from the national immigration policies. We have analyzed the significance of the immigrant and, in the same way, the significance of the Brazilian, in the discourses of / on immigration textualized in entries of Portuguese language dictionaries, French newspapers, reports produced by government agencies responsible for immigration, and the former collection of the Immigrant Memorial/Immigration Museum in São Paulo state. In addressing the discourses produced by the highlighted institutions, we think of language as an institution that works discursively, giving a sense of stability, and producing regions of significance for the subject in the space in a determined social formation. Considering that the institutions produce archive, i.e., institutional memory, we analyze how the imaginary projections for the immigrant and immigration overlie the sense of the Brazilian social history. We conclude by observing that the sense for the immigrant is always shifting, the words "immigrant" and "immigration" as an effect of discourse and invested with the politics do not refer to logically stabilized semantic universes, so the subject, in the political and social process of sharing spaces, may be classified as a foreigner in his own country. / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística
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The relevance of denominationalism in the postmodern era with specific reference to the Baptist Union of Southern Africa

Du Plessis, Charl Johann 23 April 2013 (has links)
Denominationalism is a concept that the church became used to. Very few people question the concept and simply accept it as part of the make-up of the universal church. More recently, and specifically with the advent of postmodernism, many people started questioning whether God’s will for the church is for it to function within the boundaries of denominations. The natural question to ask then is whether the concept of denominationalism is still relevant within the postmodern context. At the same time very direct and pertinent questions along the same lines have been asked of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa, specifically as to its relevance as a denomination. To obtain answers with respect to these questions seems simple enough at face value, but it is not really possible to address the relevance of denominationalism in the postmodern era without a thorough understanding of where the church came from and how the concepts of denominations developed over the centuries. Similarly, one cannot ignore the philosophical outlook of the world and how that played a part in the formation of the thousands of denominations we have today. The study finds that denominations, and specifically the Baptist Union of Southern Africa, have a purpose and are indeed relevant in the postmodern era. Any denomination has two distinct functions that it must fulfil in order to justify its existence: A pragmatic or functional purpose and a custodian purpose. These purposes remain constant, regardless of the era in which the church functions. Most denominations fulfil the functional role very well. This includes pooling resources enabling it to achieve more together than what individual congregations can achieve on their own. The custodian function is fulfilled less admirably. The church, and denominations in particular, are custodians of Biblical truth. This truth is to be disseminated to members of the denomination in a responsible, yet effective and efficient manner. The issue at hand is that the postmodern mind rejects the possibility to attain any kind of absolute truth. It is in this environment that denominations have a particularly important role to play. The Baptist Union of Southern Africa is ideally placed to fulfil both the functional and custodian functions, largely due to the way in which it is structured. However, the Union also has many weaknesses that need to be addressed so that the truth of the Gospel may be proclaimed in a responsible, yet efficient manner to a world that denies the very concept of truth. This makes the task particularly difficult and denominations have to consider how they will adapt in order to meet these challenges. / Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted
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Effekten av unika objektmärkningar i förvaltningsskedet / The effect of unique asset codes in the facility management phase

Moberg, Andreas, Wengenroth, Denise January 2018 (has links)
Unik objektmärkning är ett ord som uppstått i samband med projekteringen av Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS) och var det första projektet i Sverige där unika objektmärkningar var ett krav vid projekteringen. Syftet med rapporten är att undersöka vad en unik objektmärkning är och vad den genererar för information till förvaltaren. Vidare är syftet att undersöka vad en unik objektmärkning bidrar med under förvaltningen och mer specifikt vad den bidrar med i förvaltningen av NKS.För att undersöka detta hölls intervjuer med respondenter som var med och objektmärkte 2500 ritningar av Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS). För att undersöka effekten av de unika objektmärkningarna i förvaltningsskedet intervjuades en respondent från Coor som förvaltar NKS i dagsläget. Utöver intervjuer utfördes en omfattande litteraturstudie om hur arbetet med märkning av ritningar går till.Objektmärkningen av NKS resulterade i 600 000 stycken unika objektmärkningar varav 150 000 stycken av dessa förvaltas av fastighetsbolaget Coor idag. Informationen om objekten överlämnades i form av en databas som har gjort det möjligt för Coor att koppla informationen till underhållssystemet Maximo och plattformen Forge Viewer.Unika objektmärkningar definierades som en märksträng som särskiljer varje objekt från varandra i ett projekt. Märksträngen innehåller information om exempelvis rumsplacering, vilket system objektet tillhör och grupp och redovisas som koder i märksträngen. Under arbetets gång kunde det konstateras att den unika objektmärkningen resulterade i ett kvalitetssäkrat förvaltningsarbete på NKS. / Unique asset codes is a word that emerged in the development of Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS). The purpose of the thesis is to investigate what a unique asset code is and what kind of information it generates to the facility manager. Furthermore, the purpose is to investigate what a unique asset code contributes to during the facility management and, more specifically, what it contributes to the management of NKS. To investigate this, interviews were held with respondents who took part of the development of unique asset codes at New Karolinska Solna (NKS). In order to investigate the effect of the unique asset codes in the facility management phase, a respondent from Coor, the company which is responsible for the facility management at NKS, was interviewed. In addition to interviews, a comprehensive literature study was conducted on how regular asset codes are made. The NKS project resulted in 600,000 unique asset codes, of which 150,000 of these are managed by the facility management company Coor. The information about the assets was transmitted in the form of a database that enabled Coor to link the information to the Maximo facility management software and the Forge Viewer platform. Unique asset codes were defined as a tag string that distinguishes each asset from each other in a project. The tag string contains information about, for example, placement, which system it belongs to and group. The information is reported as codes in the tag string. During the course of the work it was noted that the unique asset codes resulted in quality assured facility management work at NKS.
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Nové názvy profesí / New Names of Professions

Kožuriková, Daniela January 2016 (has links)
The thesis New Names of Professions is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part, basic terms from the world of work are defined; the essential term is profession. Furthermore, neologisms are defined in the first part in accordance with professional literature without being confined to denomination of persons. For the purposes of the practical part, new names of professions were excerpted from the list of professions of the employment office and from a list in Učitelské noviny. Their occurrence was further verified using the EDA and Newton media databases and the results of the research were compared with the created list. An alphabetical list of the excerpted professions and a thematically divided list of those professions are an integral part of this work.
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Mit dem Evangelium nach Leipzig : zur religiösen Ansprechbarkeit der leipziger Bevölkerung : Fallstudie Plattenbausiedlung Grünau im Interesse der Mission / Carrying the gospel to Leipzig : the religious responsiveness of the people of Leipzig : a case study on Plattenbausiedlung Grunau in mission per spective

Schott, Daniel 31 October 2007 (has links)
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Die religiöse Ansprechbarkeit der Leipziger Bevölkerung in der Plattenbausiedlung Grünau ist bedingt durch den DDR-Sozialismus als ,,Ersatzreligion" gering. Doch stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit die politische Wende 1989 auch zu einer religiösen Wende im Leben der Menschen geführt hat. Für diese Erhebung habe ich zunächst die Geschichte, die sozialistische Prägung, die Rolle der Kirchen und die postmoderne Beeinflussung untersucht. Die aktuelle religiöse Ansprechbarkeit ließ sich im Zuge der qualitativen Sozialforschung mithilfe von Interviews mit den Kirchenleitungen Grünaus und der Kategorisierung religiöser Dimensionen von Charles Y. Glock eruieren. Dabei wurde nach den Ritualen, dem Sinn im Leben, dem religiösen Wissen, den Konsequenzen im Alltag und dem religiösen Erleben gefragt. Abschließend habe ich die Ergebnisse im Blickfeld der Kontextualisierung ausgehend von der Praxispyramide (Praxis-Zyklus) missionstheologisch evaluiert. Die Lage in Grünau entspricht grundsätzlich der in Gesamtostdeutschland: Konfessionslosigkeit, die sich vom bekennenden Atheismus durch die indifferente Haltung zum Glauben unterscheidet, bestimmt das Bild. Zahlenmäßig liegt die Summe der Kirchenmitglieder in Grünau (ca. 8%) sogar noch unter dem Gesamtdurchschnitt Ostdeutschlands. Aber die empirischen Ergebnisse lassen eine steigende religiöse Ansprechbarkeit nach der Wende erkennen, der mit kontextgerechten und mentalitätsadäquaten Maßnahmen, wie z. B. christlichen postsozialistischen Feiern, einem Grünauer Trabbi-Cafe, einem Plattenbaukino und anderen schöpferischen Aktionen begegnet werden kann. The religious receptiveness of the people of Leipzig, in the estate of prefabricated houses of Grünau, is low, due to GDR-socialism as an "alternative religion". However, the question arises, as to which extent the political turnaround in 1989, also brought about a religious turnaround in people's lives. For this research, I first of all analysed the history, the socialist influence, the role of the churches, and the post-modern influence. The current religious receptiveness was elicited by qualitative social research interviewing church leaders of Grünau, and by making use of the categorisation of religious dimensions by Charles Y. Glock. In the process questions pertaining to rituals, the meaning of life, religious knowledge, the consequences in everyday life, and the religious experience, were asked. Thereafter, I evaluated the results mission-theologically, in sight of the contextualisation of the so-called praxis pyramid (praxis cycle). The situation in Grünau basically corresponds with the situation in all of East Germany: Not belonging to a church which differs from confessed atheism because of the indifferent attitude towards faith dominates the picture. Numerically, the sum of church members in Grünau (approximately 8%) is even below the overall average of East Germany. However, the empirical results show an increasing religious receptiveness after the turnaround which can be met by measures fitting the context and the mentality, for example, Christian post-socialist celebrations, a "Grünau Trabbi-Café" (a coffee shop), a cinema on the housing estates, and other creative actions. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / (M.Th.(Missiology))
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Religion et homicide : étude du taux d’homicide des pays du monde en fonction des variables mesurant la religion et la pratique religieuse

Leroux, Maude 04 1900 (has links)
L’impact de la religion sur la violence demeure à ce jour ambivalent dans la littérature. D’un côté, les religions et leurs préceptes de paix sont identifiés comme des facteurs de dissuasion dans la commission d’actes violents. D’un autre côté, l’identité religieuse est historiquement décriée comme une source majeure de guerres. Cette étude propose de comparer dans 163 pays du monde l’influence sur le taux d’homicide de quatre aspects religieux : la religion principale, l’hétérogénéité religieuse, la liberté religieuse et la religiosité. Les taux d’homicide sont fournis par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé alors que les variables religieuses proviennent de sources variées. Les analyses de régressions linéaires tiennent également compte de quelques facteurs socio-économiques. Certains sont considérés dans la littérature comme des facteurs majeurs influant sur l’homicide et d’autres sont plutôt soupçonnés d’interaction sur la relation ici étudiée. Les résultats indiquent qu’il y a modérément plus d’homicides dans les pays qui présentent une forte hétérogénéité religieuse ou une faible religiosité dans la population. Par ailleurs, les pays musulmans, notamment chiites, présentent les taux d’homicide les plus bas, surpassant les pays bouddhistes et hindouistes, alors que les pays chrétiens, notamment catholiques, présentent des taux d’homicide très élevés. Ce constat s’oppose à la théorie libérale chrétienne qui démonise les États religieux musulmans. Néanmoins, l’interprétation des conclusions de cette étude invite à la prudence étant donné son aspect délicat et exploratoire. / The impact of religion on violence remains ambivalent in the litterature. On the one hand, religions and their teachings of peace or compassion are identified as deterrents in the commission of violent acts. On the other hand, religious identity has historically been criticized as a major source of violence and war. This study proposes to compare in 163 countries worldwide the impact on violence of four religious factors : religious denomination, religiosity, religious heterogeneity and religious freedom. The analysis is based on the homicide rates, supplied mainly by the World Health Organization, while religious variables are taken from various sources. Linear regression analysis also take into consideration few socio-economic factors. Some of these are considered in the literature as major factors in homicide and others are suspected of interaction in the relationship studied here. The results indicate that there is moderately more homicides in countries that have strong religious heterogeneity or low religiosity among the population. In addition, muslim countries, especially chiites, presents the lowest homicide rates, surpassing buddhist and hindu countries, while christian countries, especially catholics, have the higher homicide rates. This finding opposes the christian liberal theory that demonizes muslim religious states. Nevertheless, interpretation of findings from this study suggest caution in view of its exploratory and delicate aspect.
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Factores determinantes que influyeron en las exportaciones de Pisco al mercado de Estados Unidos en el marco del TLC, periodo 2002-2018 / Determining factors that influenced the exports of Pisco to the United States market within the framework of the Trade Promotion Agreement, period 2002 - 2018

León Viviano, Leyla Yussan, Zegarra Guevara, Karina Stefanny Anggela 14 May 2019 (has links)
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar los factores que influyeron en las exportaciones de Pisco al mercado de Estados Unidos en el marco del TLC en el periodo del 2002 al 2018. Se describirán los conceptos principales para lograr una mayor comprensión de la presente investigación. Se revisarán los antecedentes del sector pisquero en el Perú y su evolución a lo largo de los años a nivel local e internacional para medir su crecimiento en el mercado de estudio, tanto en volumen como en valor FOB. Asimismo, se revisará teoría de propiedad intelectual para lograr comprobar si es que la denominación de origen Pisco se encuentra dentro de los factores que han influenciado directamente en la exportación del Pisco. Por último, se evaluará la competitividad y el nivel de cuota de mercado del producto en mención frente a su principal competidor, Chile. Los tres objetivos planteados en el presente estudio tienen como propósito comprobar si es que los factores antes mencionados tienen injerencia directa con el tema en estudio y comprobar las hipótesis planteadas, lo cual se probará con la ayuda de un software estadístico y por medio de entrevistas. Para ello, se recopiló información a través de diversas herramientas metodológicas tales como: datos estadísticos de la SUNAT y del portal de Adex Data Trade, y entrevistas a expertos en temas relacionados al sector vitivinícola, en específico en el sector pisquero. / The present investigation aims to determinate the factors that influenced exports of Pisco to the USA market within the framework of the Trade Promotion Agreement in the term from 2002 to 2008. The main concepts will be described to achieve greater compression of the present investigation. The background of the pisco sector in Peru and its evolution over the years at local and international level will be reviewed to measure its growth in the market of study both in volume and in FOB value. Likewise, intellectual property theory will be reviewed, in order to verify whether the Pisco designation of origin is among the factors that have directly influenced the export of Pisco. Finally, the competitiveness and the level of market share will be evaluated of the product in question against its main competitor, Chile. The three principals aims set out in this study are to verify whether the aforementioned factors have direct interference with the subject under study and check the hypotheses, which will be tested with the help of statistical software and interviews. Therefore, information was collected through several methodological tools such as: statistical data of SUNAT, and the portal of Adex Data Trade, and interviews with experts, specifically in the Pisco Sector. / Tesis
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Identités politiques, discours et médias : le cas de la « révolution orange » / Political identities, discourse and media : the case of the « Orange Revolution »

Dymytrova, Valentyna 21 November 2011 (has links)
Cette thèse de doctorat étudie les formes et les modes d’expression, de représentation et de structuration des identités politiques dans la presse écrite lors de la « révolution orange » (Ukraine, 2004). En nous situant dans une perspective interdisciplinaire et en articulant l’analyse du discours et l’analyse sémiotique, nous étudions les représentations, à la fois esthétiques et discursives, que les identités permettent et la manière dont la signification leur est attribuée, acceptée ou refusée dans les discours et les images des médias. Le corpus étant constitué de quatre journaux ukrainiens (Den, Zerkalo nedeli, Segodnya et Fakty i kommentarii) et de quatre journaux français (Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro et L’Humanité). La thèse parvient à démontrer que les identités politiques se constituent dans les médias à travers trois modes d’énonciation : intertextualité politique, intericonicité politique et interévénementialité politique. La logique des médias est alors moins d’informer des événements qui ont lieu mais d’assurer par la médiation de l’information et de l’opinion la reconnaissance de notre appartenance et de notre sociabilité. / This PhD thesis explores the forms and the modes of expression, representation and construction of political identities in the press during the “Orange Revolution” (Ukraine, 2004). Through the interdisciplinary approach and bringing semiotic and discourse analysis together, this dissertation analyzes both aesthetic and discursive representations of identities and the manner in which the meaning is assigned, accepted or refused to them in discourses and images. The data consist of four Ukrainian newspapers (Den, Zerkalo nedeli, Segodnya and Fakty i kommentarii) and four French newspapers (Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro and L’Humanité). My findings support arguments that political identities are mainly constructed in media through three types of enunciation: political intertextuality, political intericonicity and political intereventness. Therefore, the logic of the media is less to inform of events taking place but to ensure through the mediation of information and opinion the recognition of our identity and of our sociability.
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De flor dos Andes a qhathu no Pari. Memória discursiva e deslocamentos na Feira Kantuta / From flower of the Andes to qhathu in Pari. Discursive memory and displacements at Feira Kantuta

Rocha, José Mauricio da Conceição 27 March 2015 (has links)
Esta dissertação de mestrado apresenta uma análise discursiva de enunciados veiculados na feira boliviana da Praça Kantuta, realizada aos domingos em São Paulo. O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi identificar nos discursos de pessoas da coletividade boliviana registrados em atos públicos realizados na Praça Kantuta os enunciados que indicassem filiações a memórias discursivas relacionadas à nacionalidade e à migração na América do Sul. Reunimos os enunciados selecionados em três grupos de fragmentos de discurso, que analisamos como sequências discursivas em função, principalmente, das repetições, da recorrência de formulações relacionadas à representação do ser boliviano em São Paulo, ao modo de referir a Praça Kantuta e ao processo de conquista/apropriação do espaço para realização da feira. Adotamos essa metodologia porque nos pareceu a mais adequada aos nossos objetivos; além disso, verificamos que há antecedentes, nos estudos discursivos, de trabalhos de análise nos quais o ordenamento desta se realiza a partir de unidades em repetição. Para construir nossa interpretação dos fatos de discurso observados na feira, levamos em conta as condições de produção do discurso, atentando tanto para o contexto imediato quanto para o contexto sócio-histórico, conforme propõe Orlandi (2012). Assim, nossa dissertação inclui um levantamento de estudos sobre as migrações bolivianas realizados por pesquisadores de outras áreas com as quais temos dialogado, fundamentalmente a sociologia e a geografia urbana. Consideramos as migrações bolivianas internas e internacionais; a ocupação dos espaços públicos pelos bolivianos que protagonizam deslocamentos populacionais massivos em busca de subsistência; a função das línguas no ambiente da Feira Kantuta; a representação do boliviano em enunciados veiculados na feira; e a construção do objeto de discurso Praça/Feira Kantuta. / This master\'s thesis presents a discursive analysis of enunciations made at Praça Kantuta\'s Bolivian market, which takes place on Sundays in São Paulo. The general objective of the research was to identify in the discourses of persons from the Bolivian community registered during public celebrations at Praça Kantuta the enunciations that could indicate affiliations to discursive memories related to nationality and to migration in South America. We divided the selected enunciations in three groups of discourse fragments that we analyze as discursive sequences due to repetitions, to recurrence of formulations related to the representation of being Bolivian in São Paulo, to the way to refer to Praça Kantuta and to the process of appropriation of a space where those migrants could implement their market. We used that methodology because it seemed the most adequate for our objectives; furthermore, we verified in discursive studies some examples of analysis where its organization is made in repeating units. In order to build our interpretation of the discursive facts that we found at the Bolivian market, we considered the speech production conditions, regarding the immediate context and the socio-historical context, as Orlandi (2012) suggests. Thus, our master\'s thesis includes an overview of studies about the Bolivian migrations made by researchers of other areas of knowledge that are interesting to us, such as sociology and urban geography. We do regard internal and international Bolivian migrations; the occupation of public spaces by those Bolivians starring massive population displacements looking for subsistence; the function of the languages at the Feira Kantuta; the representation of the Bolivians in enunciations made on the environment of their market; and the construction of the discourse object Praça/Feira Kantuta.
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God and Slavery in America: Francis Wayland and the Evangelical Conscience

Hill, Matthew S. 18 July 2008 (has links)
The work examines the antislavery writings of Francis Wayland (1796-1865). Wayland pastored churches in Boston and Providence, but he left his indelible mark as the fourth and twenty-eight year president of Brown University (1827-1855). The author of numerous works on moral science, economics, philosophy, education, and the Baptist denomination, his administration marked a transitional stage in the emergence of American colleges from a classically oriented curriculum to an educational philosophy based on science and modern languages. Wayland left an enduring legacy at Brown, but it was his antislavery writings that brought him the most notoriety and controversy. Developed throughout his writings, rather than systematically in a major work, his antislavery views were shaped and tested in the political and intellectual climate of the antebellum world in which he lived. First developed in The Elements of Moral Science (1835), he tested the boundaries of activism in The Limitations of Human Responsibility (1838), and publicly debated antislavery in Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution (1845). The political crisis from the Mexican-American War through the Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened Wayland’s activism as delineated in The Duty of Obedience to the Civil Magistrate (1847), his noncompliance with the Fugitive Slave Law, and his public address on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854). In 1861 he became a committed Unionist. I argue that Francis Wayland was a mediating figure in the controversy between abolitionists and proslavery apologists and that his life was a microcosm of the transition that many individuals made from moderate antislavery to abolitionism. Wayland proved unique in that he was heavily coveted by Northern abolitionists who sought his unconditional support and yet he was respected by Southerners who appreciated his uncondemning attitude toward slaveholders even while he opposed slavery. I argue that Wayland’s transition from reluctant critic to public activist was not solely due to the political sweep of events, but that his latter activism was already marked in his earlier work. Most importantly, his life demonstrated both the limits and possibilities in the history of American antislavery.

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