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This thesis cites many of the parallels and differences between Mormonism and Transcendental Meditation (TM) philosophy as it is expounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Areas explored include the following: (1) the technique of Transcendental Meditation as compared with notions of meditation within the Mormon tradition; (2) the issue of whether Transcendental Meditation is a religion; (3) reports of physical transformation as a result of TM and Mormonism; (4) a comparison of L.D.S. Church leaders' and Maharishi's views of America, the laws of the land, social order, modesty, drugs, and strict morality; (5) the ideas of inner and outer morality; (6) the idea of pure Intelligence in TM philosophy as compared with the doctrine of the Spirit of God in Mormonism; and (7) teachings concerning the purpose of life, evolution, and concepts of God.

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This thesis explores the relationship between image and text in four devotional books printed in Münster Germany between 1589 and 1660, and shows how this relationship supported the Catholic confessionalization programs of the three prince-bishops of those years. These confessionalization strategies, though varied, all emphasized the reinforcement of religious conformity leading to the consolidation of the authority of the ecclesiastical and secular leadership of the prince-bishop. The success of the confessionalization strategies of the three prince-bishops through this medium were the result of three contributing factors. The first of these was the printer of the works, the Raesfeldt printing house, which held a printing monopoly from all three of the prince-bishops. The second factor was the Jesuits who were responsible for education and indoctrination in Münster and shaped a significant portion of this literature. The last contributing factor was the readers, a group with a relatively wide spectrum of abilities in literacy who bought, read, and exchanged the books. Among the readers were a significant number of women readers who took up the confessional message of these books, wound it into their devotional lives, and strove to perpetuate Catholic piety within their homes. Although conventional wisdom suggests that images played a minor role in such programs, images were crucial elements in the communication of Catholic orthodoxy. This thesis shows how images were an equal partner in the conveyance of a nuanced Catholic confessional message in which the text directed a specific Catholic viewing and reading experience. The majority of the images do not carry an intrinsic Catholic message but rather present a traditional visual vocabulary that established an unbroken lineage between the Catholic Church and the pre-Reformation Church. These images provided the standard recurring theme around which the confessionalization message of the text was fashioned. As a distinctly regional literature, these devotional works reveal a localized Catholic response to Protestant polemic. They give valuable insight into the influence of confessionalization programs on regional devotional practices. The lasting effects of these confessionalization programs are still visible in Münster’s Catholic character today.

In using the doctrine of the Incarnation as a lens to approach the devotional poetry of seventeenth-century Britain, ‘“And the Word was made flesh”: The Problem of the Incarnation in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry' finds this central doctrine of Christianity to be a destabilising force in the religious controversies of the day. The fact that Roman Catholics, the Church of England, and Puritans all hold to the same belief in the Incarnation means that there is a central point of orthodoxy which allows poets from differing sects of Christianity to write devotional verse that is equally relevant for all churches. This creates a situation in which the more the writer focuses on the incarnate Jesus, the less ecclesiastically distinct their writings become and the more aware the reader is of how difficult it is to categorise poets by the sects of the day. The introduction historicises the doctrine of the Incarnation in Early Modern Europe through presenting statements of belief for the doctrine from reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldryk Zwingli in addition to the Roman Catholic decrees of the Council of Trent and the Church of England's ‘39 Articles'. Additionally, there is a further focus on the Church of England provided through considering the writings of Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes amongst others. In the ensuing chapters, the devotional poetry of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, and Richard Crashaw is discussed in regards to its use of the Incarnation and incarnational imagery in orthodox though diverse manners. Their use of words to appropriate the Word, and their embrace of the flesh as they approach the divine shows the elastic and problematic nature of a religion founded upon God becoming human and the mystery that the Church allows it to remain.

Séville, quatrième ville d’Espagne, constitue un exemple de société contemporaine « hybride », prise entre modernité et mémoire. Ce travail de thèse, à vocation comparative, appuyé sur une patiente immersion de terrain, interroge les modalités du renouveau, de la permanence et de la stabilité de l’identité de la ville, au miroir des complexités de son fait religieux populaire. L’étude révèle d’abord les singularités d’un principe relationnel à l’œuvre dans la cité : segmentaire et médiatisé, de type familial extensif. Elle détaille ensuite la nature des dévotions portées aux multiples images locales du Christ et de la Vierge. Réellement présentes, les images entrent dans le jeu des interactions mondaines et les liens qui les unissent aux hommes se déploient au fil d’un calendrier liturgique hautement festif. Le travail en décrit les principales séquences. Il dévoile également l’action géopolitique des variations morphologiques que cette boucle cérémonielle produit dans la ville. Enfin, au-delà de ce que les seuls yeux peuvent percevoir, la thèse questionne plus particulièrement certains secrets de l’herméneutique locale du mystère pascal. L’observation des différentes étapes du sacrifice du Fils, puis de sa résurrection locale invisible, sensible et progressive, vient en effet mettre à jour un principe original de renouvellement du social, impliquant rituellement les vivants, leurs morts, ainsi que les générations à naître.Cette thèse présente ainsi différents aspects d’un même système politico-religieux local. L’articulation complexe de l’ensemble y ordonne cycliquement pouvoir et autorité, politique et imaginaire, au sein d’un même espace de sens symbolique. / Seville, Spain's fourth largest city, constitutes an example of a « hybrid » contemporary society caught between modernity and memory. This thesis, aiming to be comparative and supported by a patient field immersion, questions the modalities of the renewal, the permanence and the stability of the city's identity, in the mirror of its popular religious phenomenon.The study first reveals the singularities of a relational tenet at work in the city : segmental and mediated, while also shaped as an extensible family. It then details the nature of the devotion shown to the multiple local images of Christ and the Virgin. Through their real presence, these images fit into a pattern of social interactions, with the links that unite them to people unfolding throughout a highly festive liturgical calendar. The research describes its main sequences. It also reveals the geopolitical action of the morphological changes created by this ceremonial periodicity in the city.Finally, beyond what bare eyes can perceive, the thesis questions more specifically some of the secrets in the local hermeneutics of the Paschal Mystery. An observation of the different stages of the sacrifice of Christ, and his ensuing invisible local resurrection, emotionally perceptible and progressive, indeed furthers an original principle of social renewal, ritually involving the living, their dead as well as the future generations to come.This thesis thus presents different aspects of the same local political-religious system, wherein the complex articulation of the whole cyclically orders power and authority, politics and imagery, all within one space of symbolic meaning.

This thesis deals with mapping of the small folk architecture, such as crosses, small chapels and devotional pillars, in area of microregion of Stražiště. The introductory part of this work contains theoretical introduction to folk architecture. Next part deals with typology of the small folk architecture, its origins, functions and reasons for destruction. Third part of this work deals with field research, during that were taken photographs of each object and written necessary attributes. Based on this information was created the catalog, which can be found in enclosed CD. Last part of this work deals with selected objects in each cadastral area and statistics connected with them.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:55:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jael_dos_Santos.pdf: 5676508 bytes, checksum: 3054ebaa87a0ae6f61ff50000616f550 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this study is to investigate the historicity of Catholic religious culture in southwestern of Paraná and how such cultural codes became hegemonic in the region. This condition allowed them to advise and stay advising practices, representations anddiscourses of religion and religiosity. The starting point for the research were research experiences, which allowed the visuality about processuality of religion in the history of the region as well as of religion, manifested by Catholic religious practices, from oldest to most current. Stand out the rituals expressed in the many caves shrines and festivals that take place in places of worship across the region. The first two chapters were constructed to examine the nuances of the processes that historically established Catholicism as a religion in that hegemonic speciality, as well as its role in the reinvention of same after the 1940s - the "backwoods hillbilly" to "Brazilianized agricultural civilization". Thematizes it, in this sense, the political importance assumed by the Church in the communities that formed the region. To account for the action of the Church's power will be based on the analysis of theological and pedagogical discourses of the Church, present in documents such as the pastoral letters, magazine articles and newspapers. In this sense, we seek to understand both the inclusion of the institution on spiritual and political sense. The third phase will seek to realize the permanence and re - updates the practices of religiosity from the analysis of practices of piety and public places of Catholic worship in the region. Thematizes is, in this sense, the memories that circulate in such sites, which allow the flourishing of religious practices such as festivals and pilgrimages. From this research aims is reflect on the subjective and intersubjective dimensions that formed from the relationship between the Church and the faithful as those practicing their religion. To answer these questions launches hand to multiple references and sources, among these ecclesial discourses, witnessed experiments and analysis on the content of religious ritual and devotional practices / O objetivo desse estudo é investigar a historicidade da cultura religiosa católica no sudoeste do Paraná e como tais códigos culturais se tornaram hegemônicos na região. Tal condição os permitiu nortear e permanecer orientando práticas, representações e discursos de religião e religiosidade. O ponto de partida para a pesquisa foram as experiências de pesquisa, as quais permitiram a visualidade acerca da processualidade da religião na história da região bem como a da religiosidade, manifesta por meio das práticas religiosas católicas, das mais antigas até as mais atuais. Destacam-se os rituais expressos nas muitas grutas, santuários e romarias que acontecem em lugares de devoção espalhados pela região. Os dois primeiros capítulos foram construídos para se analisar as nuances dos processos que historicamente estabeleceram o catolicismo enquanto religião hegemônica na referida espacialidade, bem como o seu papel na reinvenção da mesma após a década de 1940 de sertão caboclo a civilização agrícola abrasileirada . Tematiza-se, nesse sentido, a importância política assumida pela Igreja junto às comunidades que se formavam pela região. A abordagem acerca da ação do poder eclesial se dará a partir da análise de discursos teológico-pedagógicos da Igreja, presentes em documentos como as cartas pastorais, artigos de revistas e jornais. Nesse sentido, busca-se perceber tanto a inserção da Instituição no sentido espiritual quanto político. O terceiro momento buscará perceber as permanências e re-atualizações das práticas de religiosidade a partir da análise de práticas de devoção e de lugares públicos de devoção católica presentes na região. Tematiza-se, nesse sentido, as memórias que circulam em tais locais, as quais permitem o aflorar de práticas religiosas como as romarias e as peregrinações. A partir da presente pesquisa visa-se refletir acerca das dimensões subjetivas e intersubjetivas que se constituíram a partir da relação entre a Igreja e os fieis quanto esses praticam a sua religiosidade. Para responder essas questões lança-se mão de múltiplas referências e fontes, dentre essas os discursos eclesiais, as experiências testemunhadas e análises sobre o teor ritual das práticas religiosas e devocionais

I den politiska debatten sägs arbete vara den främsta vägen in i det svenska samhället, samtidigt som tidigare tonvikt på stöd och socialt ansvar har ersatts av aktivering och individuellt ansvar i etableringsprogrammen för nyanlända. Detta tankesätt centrerar social inkludering kring lönearbete och utelämnar den avsevärda del av samhällslivet som sker på fritiden. Denna studie ifrågasätter lönearbetets primat och undersöker därför integration i förhållande till fritidsvärlden, utifrån upplevelser av hem- och tillhörighet. Detta görs genom halvstrukturerade intervjuer med informanter som flyttade till Sverige i vuxen ålder. Mot bakgrund av Floya Anthias texter om migration och integration lyfts de relationella och flytande aspekterna – de translokala kontexterna – av hem- och tillhörighet. Den lokala kontexten utforskas vidare med Gary A. Fines interaktionistiska perspektiv på grupper, och fritidsaktiviteternas betydelse belyses med hjälp av Tony Blackshaws teori om fritid i moderniteten. Tolkande fenomenologisk analys av materialet visar hur fritidsaktiviteter kan understödja behovet av självförverkligande och gemenskap, samt hur upplevelsen av social inkludering till stor del handlar om de interaktioner som går utöver acceptans eller tolerans. Positiva och integrerande upplevelser bland informanterna relaterade till huruvida den lokala gemenskapen välkomnade och bjöd in, samt interaktioner som kännetecknades av uppskattning, gränsöverskridande, omsorg, och hänsyn. Vad detta föreslår är att stat och civilsamhälle borde vidga sin förhärskande förståelse av integration och gemenskap.

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