A base de referência desta dissertação é a Comissão de Ensino Religioso do estado do Rio Grande do Norte (CER-RN) nos seus 39 anos de existência. Nesse percurso, buscou-se compreender como a instituição estudada faz surgir as ressonâncias do sagrado nas entrelinhas dos eixos temáticos previstos nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do Ensino Religioso (PCNER). A pesquisa valeu-se de consultas a fontes documentais da Secretaria Estadual de Educação, do estudo dos subsídios produzidos pelo Fórum Nacional Permanente do Ensino Religioso (FONAPER) e de entrevistas com membros da comissão. O sagrado aparece como uma dimensão humana capaz de inspirar o desabrochar de atitudes como temperança, prudência, tolerância, resistência e perseverança, sabedorias necessárias à formação do sujeito responsável. / La base de referencia de esta tesis es la Comissão de Ensino Religioso del estado de Rio Grande do Norte (CER-RN) en sus 39 años de existencia. En el curso del trabajo, se ha buscado comprender como la institución investigada hace surgir las resonancias del sagrado ente las líneas de los ejes temáticos previstos en los Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do Ensino Religioso (PCNER). La investigación utilizó como referencial metodológico consultas a fuentes documentales de la Secretaria Estadual de Educação, estudio de los subsidios producidos por el Fórum Nacional Permanente do Ensino Religioso (FONAPER) y entrevistas con miembros de la comisión. El sagrado aparece como una dimensión humana capaz de inspirar el florecer de actitudes como templanza, prudencia, tolerancia, resistencia y perseverancia, sabidurías necesarias a la formación del sujeto responsable.

A nossa pesquisa busca analisar a reação da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (IPB) contra a implantação do movimento pentecostal em Pernambuco na década de 1920. Procuramos acompanhar o início das atividades das Igrejas Presbiterianas e da Assembléia de Deus no estado, a partir do exame da imprensa pentecostal e presbiteriana, bem como das atas do Presbitério de Pernambuco, órgão que coordenava os trabalhos da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil no estado. Essas fontes nos permitiram perceber as diferenças e indiferenças entre os grupos que dirigiam essas igrejas. Vimos ainda os argumentos e as estratégias implementadas pela Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (IPB) no combate aos pentecostais/assembleianos, bem como analisamos também as características e diferenças doutrinarias quanto à reação dos presbiterianos a um movimento composto por imigrantes, negros e mulheres, uma religiosidade de gente marginalizada. / Our research aims at analyzing the reaction of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil against the implementation of the Pentecostal Movement in Pernambuco in the 1920s. We seek to trace the activities of the early Presbyterian Churches and of the Assembly of God in this State from the examination of the press both Pentecostal and Presbyterian as well as the Pernambuco Presbytery minutes, the agency that coordinated the work of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in Pernambuco. These sources have helped us understand the differences and indifferences between both groups that led these churches; we have seen also the arguments and strategies implemented by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPB) as it took a stand against the Pentecostals of the Assembly of God. Moreover, we analyzed the characteristics and doctrinal differences with respect to the reaction on the Presbyterians part against a movement comprised by immigrants, negroes and women, that is, a religion of marginalized people.

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Minorité ethno-religieuse originaire du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde, les sikhs ont une longue histoire migratoire qui prend naissance pendant la colonisation britannique. Cette thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont les sikhs de la diaspora, et particulièrement ceux de Grande-Bretagne, ont contribué de manière décisive à définir les contours de l’identité sikhe contemporaine.Pour ce faire, nous nous intéressons à la genèse coloniale du discours identitaire dominant, développé par l’élite sikhe réformiste dans la deuxième moitié du 19e siècle, qui repose sur l’élaboration de frontières socio-culturelles rigides séparant les sikhs des non-sikhs et sur la création d’une communauté unie et distincte, dotée d’un univers symbolique autonome, de rites propres et d’une histoire particulière. Cette notion normative d’une communauté sikhe monolithique s'est trouvée consolidée en Grande-Bretagne sous l'effet des politiques publiques et de décennies de mobilisations communautaires pour le turban. La politique sikhe de reconnaissance repose sur l’idée d'exceptionnalisme des sikhs, de leur contribution importante à la société britannique et d’une relation historique privilégiée avec les anciens colonisateurs. Cependant, l’étude de la pluralité des appartenances socio-religieuses – en particulier sectaires et de caste - révèle la diversité des manières d’être sikh en diaspora et bat en brèche les prétentions du leadership à parler au nom de « la » communauté sikhe. / As an ethno-religious minority originating from the North-West of India, the Sikhs have a long migration history, starting during the colonial period. This dissertation focuses on how the Sikh diaspora, particularly British Sikhs, have decisively shaped contemporary Sikh identity narratives.Sikh dominant identity narrative was shaped in a dialogic relation between the colonizers and Sikh intellectual elite in the 19th century and it relied on rigid boundaries between Sikhs and non-Sikhs. Sikh reformists strived to create a unified and distinct community, with its own rituals, symbols and collective memory. This normative definition of a homogeneous community has been strengthened in post-colonial Britain, under the influence of public policies towards immigrant minorities and of Sikh politics of recognition. The latter draws on the idea that Sikhs represent a model minority, entertaining a priviliged relationship with the British.However, the diversity of socio-religious practices and belonging observed during fieldwork highlights that, despite Sikh leadership claims to represent a homogenous community, there remains a plurality of ways to be a diasporic Sikh.

Thesis (DTh (Old and New Testament))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / In this study the very relevant theological-ethical question of social identity and intergroup conflict is looked at. This is done by reading the Book of Nahum multidimensionally as an “Oracles Concerning the Nations” text, and as part of the Book of the Twelve. The multidimensional methodology includes a combination of synchronic and diachronic reading strategies, the implementation of social identity theory and self-categorization theory, the focus on ideological-critical aspects and theological-ethical questioning. In the process of research the underlying dynamic of social identity construction of ancient Israel is uncovered and theological-ethically appropriated. In the first two chapters the problem of the global rise of extreme nationalism, racism and zenophobia is noted. The very diverse post-apartheid society of South Africa, as well as the post-nazi and post-unification German society is mentioned. The Book of Nahum, an Oracle “Concerning the Nations” text, is chosen as avenue for studying the dynamic underlying the construction of social identity in ancient Israel. It is suggested that while a one-dimensional reading strategy may lead to an exclusivist intepretation of Nahum that fosters a theological ethic of intolerance and hate, a multidimensional reading strategy leads to a theological ethic of liberation, responsibility and peace. Chapters 3 and 4 give a research overview of the study of ancient Israel’s identity as well as how the Book of Nahum is to be understood with regards to its dating, unity, stucture and historical situation. The research overview shows how incorporating social identity theory and self-categorization theory provides a better and more integrated perspective on social identity than what has been done up to now. The social psychology theories are summarized into five working premises. The background study of Nahum comes to the conclusion that Nahum should be read synchronically in its diachronical development from the pre-exilic Assyrian crisis with its polarized political inter-group conflicts to the exilic/post-exilic situation with its unique search for a new beginning, identity and hope. Chapters 5 and 6 contain the exegetical explication of the Book of Nahum. Nahum 1:9- 14;2:2-3:19 is interpreted as a pre-exilic construction of social identity. Nahum 1:2-8;2:1 is read as an exilic/post-exilic text. The inter-group dynamic between the Yahweh-Alone movement and the pro-Assyria party (pre-exilic) as well as the Deutero-Isaiah group with its theological opponents (exilic/post-exilic) are interpreted in terms of the five social identity premises. Although social identity construction in Nahum does follow the main premises of discrimination and prototypical ingroup favouring a surprising ambiguous undercurrent of self-criticism as apposed to ethnocentrism is discovered in both historical situations. Apart from the social identity, a strong movement towards liberation from oppression is present in the Book of Nahum. This underlying ambiguous dynamic of social identity construction and the liberatory rhetoric of Nahum is appropriated theolgical-ethically in Chapter 7. A theological-ethical model, which combines the role of identity in ethics, the concept of “natural law”, the responsibility ethics of Levinas and a focus on liberation, is suggested as a useful instrument for interpreting the theological-ethically uncomfortable Oracles Concerning the Nations texts. Chapter 8 summarizes the study and points out the research’s contribution towards Old Testament methodology (exegetical and ethical), Nahum studies as well as providing a possible theological-ethical solution to intergroup conflicts (religious, cultural, political etc.) from an Old Testament perspective.

This thesis presents an ethnographic investigation of teachers’ peer-to-peer engagement in online social spaces, using the concept of teachers’ professional identity as a framework to shape and focus the study. Using Religious Education (RE) as a strong example of the wider phenomenon of teachers’ online engagement, three online social spaces (the Times Educational Supplement’s RE Forum, the National Association of Teachers of RE Facebook Page, and the Save RE Facebook Group) were investigated as case studies. A year was spent in these spaces with digital ethnographic research taking place simultaneously in each one. Data gathering primarily took the form of participant observations, in depth analysis of time-based sampled text (three 8-week samples from each space), online and offline narrative based interviews and, to a lesser extent, questionnaires, elite interviews and analysis of grey literature. The study finds that engagement in the online social spaces offered teachers opportunities to perform and construct their professional identities across a variety of topics ranging from local practical concerns to national political issues. In more practical topics the spaces could often be observed as acting as communities of practice in which professional learning took place and identities were constructed, with such online professional development influencing offline classroom practice. However, engaging across this spectrum of topics afforded users a broad conception of what it means to be a teacher, where professional identity was understood as going beyond classroom practice and integrating engagement with subject-wide, political and policy related issues at a national level. Such engagement provided many users with a feeling of belonging to a national community of peers, which, alongside political activism initiated in online interaction and meaning making debates concerning the future and identity of the subject, provided teachers with feelings of empowerment and a sense of ownership of their subject. However, the study found that teachers’ online engagement took place within structures embedded in the online social spaces that influenced and shaped engagement and the ways in which users’ professional identities were performed and constructed. These structures were linked with the design and technical affordances of the spaces, the agendas of the parent organisations that provided the spaces, and the discourses that dominated the spaces. These aspects of the spaces provided a structure that limited engagement, content and available online identity positions while additionally projecting ideal identity positions, distinctive in each space. These ideal identity positions had a constructive influence over many users who aspired to these ideals, often gaining confidence through expressing such socially validated ideals or feeling inadequate when failing to perform such ideal identity positions. Thus, this study finds a complex relationship between agency linked with active online identity performance and the constructive influence of embedded structures that contributed to the shaping of users’ engagement and their understandings of themselves as professionals and their subject.

Lo studio 1 indaga l’autocategorizzazione dell’identità religiosa in diverse culture, analizzando le differenze tra livello individuale e sociale e tra identità religiosa centrale e periferica, mettendo così in discussione la distinzione tra orientamento religioso intrinseco e estrinseco (Allport & Ross, 1967). I risultati indicano che l’identità religiosa viene categorizzata a un livello sociale dai partecipanti europei e a un livello individuale dai partecipanti non occidentali e che entrambi i livelli sono centrali nell’identità personale. Lo studio 2 esamina gli antecedenti familiari e di gruppo dell’internalizzazione religiosa (Ryan, Rigby, & King, 1993; Assor, 2012). I risultati indicano che la promozione dell’autonomia e la testimonianza di fede data dai genitori predicono l’identificazione religiosa dei figli, mentre l’introiezione viene predetta dall’affetto condizionato dei genitori; i leader religiosi e il gruppo religioso hanno anch’essi un’influenza sull’internalizzazione religiosa. Lo studio 3 indaga la relazione tra internalizzazione religiosa e pregiudizio verso i musulmani, analizzando il ruolo di mediazione dei valori. I risultati indicano che l’identità religiosa identificata è associata a livelli più bassi di pregiudizio rispetto all’identità religiosa introiettata; i valori prosociali mediano la relazione tra identificazione e pregiudizio, mentre i valori di conformismo mediano la relazione tra introiezione e pregiudizio. / Study1 investigated the self-categorization of religious identity in different cultures, analyzing the difference between an individual and a social level and between a central versus a peripheral religious identity, thus questioning the distinction between and intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation (Allport & Ross, 1967). Results indicated that religious identity is mainly categorized at a social level by European respondents and at an individual level by nonwestern respondents, and that both levels are central in personal identity. Study 2 addressed the familiar and group antecedents of religious internalization (Ryan, Rigby, & King, 1993; Assor, 2012). Findings showed that parental autonomy support and intrinsic value demonstration predicted children religious identification, whereas conditional regard predicted introjection; religious leaders and groups also influenced religious internalization. Study 3 investigated the relationship between religious internalization and prejudice towards Muslims, analyzing the mediating role of values. Results indicated that identificated religious identity is associated with lower levels of prejudice than introjected religious identity; prosocial values mediated between identification and prejudice, whereas conformity values mediated between introjection and prejudice.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo geral criticar o modelo relacional vigente entre o terapeuta e o paciente, a partir de elementos fundamentais da Religião Cristã, do ponto de vista terapêutico. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, estuda-se a relação entre terapia e religião, buscando-se apreender o modo de interagir que pacientes e terapeutas reclamam. A pesquisa tem como base o Evangelho de Marcos, a partir de autores bíblicos atuais como Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Gerd Theissen e John Meier. São consideradas, também, para fundamentação teórica de conceitos, idéias de pensadores como Juan Luis Segundo, Paul Tillich e Victor Frankl. Conclui-se que a relação terapeuta-paciente é um importante agente promotor da fé/confiança que estimula os recursos naturais da cura, bem como que se percebe aproximações e contrastes entre as práticas do Jesus de Nazaré e do terapeuta brasileiro contemporâneo / The general objective of this dissertation is to criticise the actual model of relation between the therapist and the patient , starting from fundamental elements of the Christian Religion in the point of therapeutic view. Via a bibliographic research are made a study of the relation between the therapy and the religion , to search for learning the way to interact , way , what patients and therapists complaines. The research is based on the gospel of Marcos, starting from actual biblical authors like Ekkehard W. Stegemann , Gerd Theissen and John P. Meier. Are considered too the theorical bases of concepts and ideas of thinkers like Juan Luis Segundo, Paul Tillich and Victor Frankl. Coming to the conclusion , that the relation therapist-patient is an important promotion agent for faith/confidence to stimulate the natural resources of cure, perceiving approximations and contrasts between practices of Jesus of Nazareth and a brasilian contemporary therapist

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