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This project delves into the role of American churches, notably the United Methodist Church (UMC), in perpetuating a segregation mindset and normalizing whiteness. The UMC's efforts toward a beloved community, exemplified by the Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural (CR/CC) appointment, are scrutinized, emphasizing the need to confront racial and cultural challenges to prevent erasure, silencing, and assimilation by underscoring the importance of recognizing and addressing these issues for collective well-being, encapsulated in the principles of honoring, communication, and integration. Introducing the concept of re(de)fined and rethought Christian Conferencing, the project emphasizes the integration and honoring of diverse narratives, particularly through the Transformative Community Conferencing framework. Based on a narrative mediation approach, this framework seeks to challenge the pervasiveness of white cultural norms within the UMC, promoting collaboration between predominantly white congregations and clergy from non-white backgrounds. The project explores the transformative potential of this framework, stressing the importance of active engagement and concrete actions for genuine transformation in local UMC congregations, with a case study at Pound Ridge Community Church.

In 1994 South Africa celebrated the election of a new democratic government. This came with the abolition of the Group Areas Act 36of1966, which controlled the movement of black people from rural areas to urban areas. The repealing of this act led to the rapid movement of people from rural areas all over Southern Africa to the cities and towns in search for a better life. In turn this led to rapid urbanization and the growth of informal settlements' also known as squatter camps. These communities are characterized by poverty and lack of basic necessities such as houses, water and employment. The church was caught unaware by the need to minister to these communities that need more than the gospel that satisfies spiritual poverty but also the satisfaction of material poverty. This exposed the need for a model of ministry that will be holistic. This study shares a model of ministry that has been used by a Methodist congregation in an informal settlement community called Ivory Park in Midrand. This church uses a model of ministry that propagates the gospel both through preaching and community development. / Religious Studies & Arabic / M. Th. (Missiology)

In 1994 South Africa celebrated the election of a new democratic government. This came with the abolition of the Group Areas Act 36of1966, which controlled the movement of black people from rural areas to urban areas. The repealing of this act led to the rapid movement of people from rural areas all over Southern Africa to the cities and towns in search for a better life. In turn this led to rapid urbanization and the growth of informal settlements' also known as squatter camps. These communities are characterized by poverty and lack of basic necessities such as houses, water and employment. The church was caught unaware by the need to minister to these communities that need more than the gospel that satisfies spiritual poverty but also the satisfaction of material poverty. This exposed the need for a model of ministry that will be holistic. This study shares a model of ministry that has been used by a Methodist congregation in an informal settlement community called Ivory Park in Midrand. This church uses a model of ministry that propagates the gospel both through preaching and community development. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M. Th. (Missiology)

John Wesley was a well educated son of a cleric, who chose to be a theologian and a minister in the Church of England. His theological distinctive was his insistence on the possibility of entire sanctification in this lifetime. In response to their position on sanctification, Wesley and the Methodists sought to save souls and cure the ills in society because they believed it was divinely mandated. Their love and work for the less fortunate was a response to their love for God and in obedience to His commandments. This is the great success of their work. They were able to serve God and their generation in a balanced yet inseparable way. The result of Wesley's life, direct and indirect, was that the social and spiritual plight of thousands of individuals and families was improved and dozens of church groups, missionary societies and benevolent organisations have emerged / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / Th.M. (Church History)

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.

This thesis examines the schisms in the antebellum Baptist and Methodist Churches regarding slavery. It was these internal ruptures in both denominations that helped influence life in the slave community. The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs reveal the impact the schisms had on master-slave relations and slave religious instruction. Moreover, the internal rupture in both denominations over the South‟s peculiar institution was instrumental in spawning a pro-slavery Christianity. This pro-slavery Christianity proved crucial in extending and strengthening white hegemony. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-11T12:46:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Christiane Grace Guimarães da Silva.pdf: 1884302 bytes, checksum: 65e4d267b07f849e9df83782f1821f2f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-11T12:46:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Christiane Grace Guimarães da Silva.pdf: 1884302 bytes, checksum: 65e4d267b07f849e9df83782f1821f2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Idealized by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the periodical ―Woman‟s Missionary Advocate‖, published monthly in the United States and without any interruptions between 1880 and 1910, used to receive information from the missionaries who reported their experiences in several parts of the world, including Brazil. Its first number was started in July, 1880 with 16 pages and its last edition was published in December, 1910 with 47 pages. The newspaper based on the saying ―from woman to woman‖ was totally managed by women and supported by annual subscriptions. Besides the actions of the missions in the educational field, it published, in full, the annual meetings of the Woman‘s Board of Foreign Mission and the several missionary activities accomplished in the mission fields. In the end of XIX century, several societies were organized with the purpose of becoming the activity of expanding Methodism more efficient and structured. Even the movement being led by men and considering the missionaries were married and their wives were consequently equally involved in this project, the scenario changes after the increase of the Woman's Missionary Societies that became an objective of great benefit at Church to take different positions and tasks, mainly in the establishment of schools. The purpose of this research is to study the North-American Methodist Missionary Movement in Brazil, in reference of the educational aspect, based on the woman's involvement. Through analysis procedures based on the Cultural History perspective, it is supported in the studies of Roger Chartier about practical notions and representations, and of Michel de Certeau in the distinction of the categories called tactics and strategies, in the study of the cultural practices. The Woman‟s Missionary Advocate, a diffusing newspaper about the Methodist missionary movement, especially with regard to the school education, was a privileged place of dissemination and defense of the Methodist missionary ideals in a historicity that highlights the women's role. Through its study was possible to defend the theses about the female protagonism in the Methodist missionary movement in Brazil, showing the women's effective involvement more than the direct action at schools / Idealizado pela Sociedade Missionária Estrangeira da Mulher da Igreja Metodista Episcopal do Sul, o periódico Woman‟s Missionary Advocate, publicado nos Estados Unidos mensalmente e sem interrupções entre 1880 e 1910, recebia informações das missionárias que relatavam suas experiências em diversas partes do mundo, inclusive do Brasil. Iniciando seu primeiro número em junho de 1880 com 16 páginas e tendo sua última edição publicada em dezembro de 1910 com 47 páginas, o periódico, baseado na máxima ―da mulher para a mulher‖, era dirigido integralmente por mulheres e mantido com assinaturas anuais. Divulgava, além das ações das missões no campo educacional, a íntegra das reuniões anuais do Conselho Missionário Estrangeiro da Mulher e as diversas atividades missionárias realizadas nos campos de missão. No final do século XIX, diversas sociedades foram organizadas com o objetivo de tornar mais eficiente e estruturada a atividade de expansão do metodismo. Mesmo que o movimento fosse liderado por homens, considerando que os missionários eram casados e suas esposas, por consequência, estavam igualmente envolvidas nesse projeto, o cenário muda após o incremento das Sociedades Missionárias Femininas, que se tornaram um alvo de grande interesse na Igreja para ocupar diferentes posições e trabalhos, especialmente na fundação das escolas. Esta pesquisa se propõe a examinar o movimento missionário metodista norte-americano no Brasil, no que tange seu aspecto educacional, tomando como base a participação da mulher. Com procedimentos de análise baseados na perspectiva da História Cultural, ampara-se nos estudos de Roger Chartier sobre noções de práticas e representações, e de Michel de Certeau na distinção das categorias denominadas como táticas e estratégias, no estudo das práticas culturais. O Woman‟s Missionary Advocate, como um periódico difusor do movimento missionário metodista, especialmente no que concerne à educação escolar, foi um espaço privilegiado de divulgação e defesa dos ideais missionários metodistas dentro de uma historicidade que destaca o papel da mulher. Seu estudo permitiu defender a tese do protagonismo feminino no movimento missionário metodista no Brasil, mostrando a participação efetiva das mulheres para além da atuação direta nas escolas

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge I Hirakaha.pdf: 4988852 bytes, checksum: 398dde13ba822a2a254999c89b8f4b6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-30 / This work aims to study the role of the Free Methodist Church in Brazil which is a Japanese evangelical church on the insertion process of nikkeis and their descendants in Brazilian society. The first part presents the History of immigration Japanese, In the second part, we analyse the church for immigrant people, In the last part, the Methodism and its beginning in England, United States of America, Japan and Brazil.¸Methodist Church in Brazil and its development among nikkeis and their descendants, followed by a comparison with the Brazilian Council, a branch of the church that deals with people which are not descendant of Japanese / Este trabalho visa estudar o papel da Igreja Metodista Livre no Brasil, uma Igreja evangélica japonesa, no processo de inserção dos nikkeis e seus descendentes na sociedade brasileira. A primeira parte do trabalho narra a História Imigração Japonesa, na segunda parte, analisaremos a igreja de imigrantes, Na terceira parte,analisaremos o Metodismo, seu início na Inglaterra, Estados Unidos da América, Japão e Brasil. Depois, analisaremos a Igreja Metodista Livre no Brasil e o seu desenvolvimento entre os nikkeis e seus descendentes, comparando com o Concílio Brasileiro, vertente da Igreja dedicada ao trabalho entre os não-descendentes de japoneses