This study revises a dominant narrative of the eighteenth-century, in which a secular modernity emerges in opposition to religious belief. It argues that a major challenge for writers such as Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and for English subjects generally, was to grasp the object world--including the modern technological object--in terms of its spiritual potential. I identify disputes around the liturgy and common prayer as a source of a folk psychology concerning mental habits conditioned by everyday interactions with devotional and cultural objects. Swift and Defoe therefore confront even paradigmatically modern forms (from trade items to scientific techniques) as a spiritual ecology, a network of new possibilities for practical piety and familiar forms of mental-spiritual illness. Texts like A Tale of a tub (1704) and Robinson Crusoe (1719) renew Reformation ideals for the laity by evaluating technologies for governing a nation of souls. Swift and Defoe's Protestantism thus appears as an active guide to understanding emotions and new experience rather than a static body of doctrine. Current historiography neglects the early modern sense that sectarian objects and rituals not only discipline religious subjects, but also provoke ambivalence and anxiety: Swift's Tale diagnoses Catholic knavery and Puritan hypocrisy as neurotic attempts to extract pleasure from immiserating styles of material praxis. Crusoe, addressed to more radical believers in spaces of trade, sees competent spiritual, scientific and commercial practice on the same plane, as techniques for overcoming fetishistic desires. Swift's orthodoxy of enforced moderation and Defoe's oddly worldly piety represent likeminded formulae for psychic reform, and not--as often alleged--conflicts between sincere belief and political or commercial interests. Gulliver's travels (1726) and A Journal of the plague year (1722) also link mind and governance through different visions of Protestant polity. Swift sees alienation from the national church--figured by a Crusoe or Gulliver--as refusal of common sense and problem solving. Defoe points to religious schism, exemplified by dissenters' exclusion from state church statistics, as a moral and medical failure: the city risks creating selfish citizens who also may overlook data needed to combat the plague. / text

This dissertation investigates the development of progressive Christianity. It explores the ways in which progressive Christian churches in Canada adopt biblical criticism and popular theology. Contributing to the anthropology of Christianity, this study is primarily an ethnographic and linguistic analysis that juxtaposes contemporary conflicts over notions of the Christian self into the intersecting contexts of public discourse, contending notions of the secular and congregational dynamics. Methodologically, it is based upon two-and-a-half years of in-depth participant observation research at five churches and distinguishes itself as the first scholarly study of progressive Christianity in North America. I begin this study by outlining the historical context of skepticism in Canadian Protestantism and arguing that skepticism and doubt serve as profoundly religious experiences, which provide a fuller framework than secularization in understanding the experiences of Canadian Protestants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In doing so, I draw parallels between the ways that historical and contemporary North American Christians negotiate the tensions between their faith and biblical criticism, scientific empiricism and liberal morality. Chapter Two seeks to describe the religious, cultural and socio-economic worlds inhabited by the progressive Christians featured in this study. It focuses on the worldviews that emerge out of participation in what are primarily white, middle-class, liberal communities and considers how these identity-markers affect the development and lived experiences of progressive Christians. My next three chapters explore the ways that certain engagements with text and the performance or ritualization of language enable the development of a distinctly progressive Christian modality. Chapter Three investigates progressive Christian textual ideologies and argues that the form of biblical criticism that they employ, along with entrenched concerns about the origins of the Christian faith ultimately, leads to a rejection of the biblical narrative. Chapter Four examines the ways in which progressive Christians understand individual 'deconversion' narratives as contributing to a shared experience or way of being Christian that purposefully departs from evangelical Christianity. The final chapter analyses rhetoric of the future and argues that progressive Christians employ eschatological language that directs progressive Christians towards an ultimate dissolution.

This dissertation investigates the development of progressive Christianity. It explores the ways in which progressive Christian churches in Canada adopt biblical criticism and popular theology. Contributing to the anthropology of Christianity, this study is primarily an ethnographic and linguistic analysis that juxtaposes contemporary conflicts over notions of the Christian self into the intersecting contexts of public discourse, contending notions of the secular and congregational dynamics. Methodologically, it is based upon two-and-a-half years of in-depth participant observation research at five churches and distinguishes itself as the first scholarly study of progressive Christianity in North America. I begin this study by outlining the historical context of skepticism in Canadian Protestantism and arguing that skepticism and doubt serve as profoundly religious experiences, which provide a fuller framework than secularization in understanding the experiences of Canadian Protestants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In doing so, I draw parallels between the ways that historical and contemporary North American Christians negotiate the tensions between their faith and biblical criticism, scientific empiricism and liberal morality. Chapter Two seeks to describe the religious, cultural and socio-economic worlds inhabited by the progressive Christians featured in this study. It focuses on the worldviews that emerge out of participation in what are primarily white, middle-class, liberal communities and considers how these identity-markers affect the development and lived experiences of progressive Christians. My next three chapters explore the ways that certain engagements with text and the performance or ritualization of language enable the development of a distinctly progressive Christian modality. Chapter Three investigates progressive Christian textual ideologies and argues that the form of biblical criticism that they employ, along with entrenched concerns about the origins of the Christian faith ultimately, leads to a rejection of the biblical narrative. Chapter Four examines the ways in which progressive Christians understand individual 'deconversion' narratives as contributing to a shared experience or way of being Christian that purposefully departs from evangelical Christianity. The final chapter analyses rhetoric of the future and argues that progressive Christians employ eschatological language that directs progressive Christians towards an ultimate dissolution.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1997. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 304-314).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1997. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 304-314).

Diss. Univ. St Andrews, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 11792328 bytes, checksum: 4f447b3b4bd43717d53146ca0a3834dd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the second half of the XIX century, the establishment of protestant missions originated from Europe and the United States caused meaningful changes in the Brazilian religious and cultural scenario. The printed word would become, thus, an efficient ally of the gospel ideal by favoring it in, at least, three aspects: dissemination of gospel advertisement; circulation of information about missionary activities of the historical denominations and the doctrinaire instruction of the faithful through reading. In this printed set, the newspapers started constituting a meaningful cultural artifact by means of which several literary genres circulated and were read. Therefore, we appropriated the protestant newspaper as main source of the current research with the aim to fulfill a historical rescue of gospel reading practices in the 1800s that were made silent in the main literary manuals and of the history of Brazilian printing. From the theoretical fundamentals of the Cultural History, especially the concepts of practice, appropriation and representation, formulated by Roger Chartier, we propose to investigate the way how the Protestants made use of literary genres and models of the secular printing to produce a printed set of utilitarian character. By focusing our analysis on the pages of the first protestant Brazilian newspaper, the Imprensa Evangélica (1864), we intended to verify the categories of authorship, translation, works and readers in order to reflect on how content and materiality merge (CHARTIER, 2009), history and literature are intertwined (LUCA, 2011) in an attempt to reconstruct, avoiding anachronism, the formation of a protestant literary system by means of regular production. / Na segunda metade do Século XIX, o estabelecimento das missões protestantes originárias da Europa e dos Estados Unidos provocou mudanças significativas no cenário religioso e cultural brasileiro. A palavra impressa se tornaria, então, uma eficiente aliada do ideal evangélico por favorecê-lo em ao menos três aspectos: a difusão da propaganda evangélica, a circulação de informações sobre as atividades missionárias das denominações históricas e a instrução doutrinária dos fiéis através da leitura. Nesse conjunto impresso, os jornais passaram a se constituir um significativo artefato cultural, por meio do qual diversos gêneros literários circulavam e davam-se a ler. Assim, apropriamo-nos do jornal protestante como principal fonte da presente pesquisa, objetivando um resgate histórico das práticas leitoras evangélicas no Oitocentos, que foram silenciadas nos principais manuais literários e da história da imprensa no Brasil. A partir dos aportes teóricos da História Cultural, mais propriamente dos conceitos de prática, apropriação e representação, formulados por Roger Chartier, nos propomos a investigar o modo como os evangélicos se valeram dos gêneros literários e dos modelos da imprensa laica para produzir um conjunto impresso de caráter utilitário. Focando nossas análises nas páginas do primeiro jornal evangélico em circulação no Brasil, o Imprensa Evangélica (1864), procuramos verificar as categorias de autoria, tradução, obras e leitores, a fim de refletir como conteúdo e materialidade se fundem (CHARTIER, 2009), história e literatura se imbricam (LUCA, 2011), na tentativa de reconstituir, evitando-se os anacronismos, a formação de um sistema literário protestante por meio da produção periódica.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2018-03-19T19:59:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Timóteo Klein Cardoso.pdf: 1142409 bytes, checksum: ac6f1cc9683b82858b4e91d571d63a8c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-19T19:59:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Timóteo Klein Cardoso.pdf: 1142409 bytes, checksum: ac6f1cc9683b82858b4e91d571d63a8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation investigates the historical and contextual events involved in the process of implantation of Fluminense Evangelical Church, that cul-minate in the establishment of the 28 Articles of the Short Exposition of the Christianity Fundamental Doctrines. It was hypothesized that this declaration of faith has been created under the influence of The Westminster Confes-sion of Faith, main symbol of faith of the Scottish Presbyterianism, of which Robert Reid Kalley was part. In this aspect, this study aims to identify theo-logical-doctrinaire similarities and displacements that permeate the 28 Arti-cles, through a comparative study with The Westminster Confession of Faith. As theoretical-methodological referential it was used the concept of history of religious mentalities, as a strategy for identification of common doctrines believed and practiced in the daily life of different societies and contexts. The first chapter presents historical and contextual elements of the institu-tionalization of the Fluminense Evangelical Church and the 28 Articles. The second chapter reports the origin and development of The Westminster Con-fession of Faith. The third chapter categorizes the 28 Articles in the six main areas of theology (Theology, Anthropology, Christology, Soteriology, Eccle-siology and Eschatology), suggesting a comparative study in relation to The Westminster Confession of Faith. The results reveal, in an original way, the existing doctrinaire similarities and displacements, achieving the disserta-tion objective. / A presente dissertação de mestrado analisa os acontecimentos históricos e contextuais envolvidos no processo de implantação da Igreja Evangélica Fluminense, que culminaram no estabelecimento dos 28 Artigos da Breve Exposição das Doutrinas Fundamentais do Cristianismo. Trabalhou-se com a hipótese desta declaração de fé ter recebido influência da Confissão de Fé de Westminster, principal símbolo de fé do presbiterianismo escocês, do qual Robert Reid Kalley fez parte. Nesse aspecto, o trabalho busca identifi-car as similaridades e os deslocamentos teológico-doutrinários que permei-am os 28 artigos, através de um estudo comparativo com a Confissão de Fé de Westminster. Como referencial teórico-metodológico utilizou-se o concei-to de história das mentalidades religiosas, como estratégia para identifica-ção das doutrinas comuns cridas e praticadas no cotidiano de sociedades e contextos distintos. O primeiro capítulo apresenta elementos históricos e contextuais na institucionalização da Igreja Evangélica Fluminense e dos 28 Artigos. O segundo capítulo relata a origem e o desenvolvimento da Con-fissão de Fé de Westminster. O terceiro capítulo categoriza os 28 Artigos nas seis principais áreas da teologia (Teologia, Antropologia, Cristologia, Soteri-ologia, Eclesiologia e Escatologia), propondo um estudo comparativo em relação à Confissão de Fé de Westminster. Como resultado apresenta, de forma original, as similaridades e os deslocamentos doutrinários existentes, atingindo o objetivo da pesquisa.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:18:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ofir Maryuri Mora1-100.pdf: 548480 bytes, checksum: 39c1154590ffe1e936b536a94bf847b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The protestant women in Cali, Colombia, while reproducing in their bodies the principles of religious, are faced today with discourses and requirements they cannot articulate or totally accept in their daily life experience. We are currently witnessing an evident tension between Christian orthodoxy and the imagery and practices of Christian women related to corporeity. In recent decades the way in which women assume their bodies reflects inconsistencies in relation to the doctrinal matrix in Protestant religious system, which is due, on the one hand, to the cultural influence of media in promoting a new representation of the female body, based on beauty and youth, and secondly, the increasing relativization of religious power in a secularized society. The Christian woman is in the middle of the ideals of pure body and rules of their religious institution as well as media demands, values and standards set by modern society. In this sense, this dissertation aims to analyze the interfaces of this discursive tension that takes place in bodies through the study of Protestant women s discourses as well as their daily practices in relation to their corporality. / As mulheres protestantes da cidade de Cali-Colômbia, ao reproduzir nos seus corpos os princípios da tradição religiosa, se deparam hoje com discursos e exigências que não conseguem ou aceitam articular na sua prática cotidiana. Assistimos na atualidade a uma tensão evidente entre a ortodoxia cristã e o imaginário e prática das mulheres cristãs a respeito da corporeidade. Nas últimas décadas a forma de assumir o corpo por parte das mulheres reflete incongruências em relação à matriz doutrinaria do sistema religioso protestante, o que é decorrente, por um lado, da influência cultural e midiática na promoção de uma nova representação do corpo feminino, baseada na beleza e na juventude, e por outro lado a cada vez maior relativização do poder religioso numa sociedade secularizada. As mulheres cristãs acham-se em meio aos ideais do corpo puro e regrado da sua instituição religiosa assim como às cobranças midiáticas, valores e padrões estabelecidos pela sociedade moderna. Neste sentido, a dissertação analisa as interfaces desta tensão discursiva que tem lugar nos corpos, através do próprio discurso das mulheres protestantes assim como das suas práticas cotidianas em relação à corporeidade.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Eduardo da Silva Vieira.pdf: 1706408 bytes, checksum: de4d2f819f63cf37333940a0083508d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-09 / The dissertation elaborates reflexive considerations about choir singing as a cultural social practice in Brazilian Protestantism. The text directs its attention towards choir singing and its idiosyncrasies using the bases of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology and its application to sociological discussions on taste as a social reality defined by tensions created in the cultural milieu to which the concepts field, habitus and capital apply. Choir singing as a cultural practice is presented and a historic is traced since its origins until actual days. Focus falls upon uses of choir singing for the most different varieties of Protestantism in order to track the aspects that revealed themselves preponderant when this cultural practice arrived in Brazil and also to understand facts and characters that made Brazilian evangelical choir singing take the historical routes that brought it to occupy a place of high cultural value in Brazilian protestant culture. Later, commotions to the choir singing caused by social changes that deeply re-characterized musical taste in the Protestantism of that country are verified. The discussion follows to an analysis of the fights that those new configurations are establishing inside religious field and to the expressions of these battles in a market of symbolic goods that comprehends and orients them. With the goal of determine the subjects involved, the main adversaries of choir singing in Brazilian evangelic field are presented and, finally, three projects that, in the last decades, have reached impact in the protestant midst as defenders of choir singing are delineated. / A dissertação elabora considerações reflexivas a respeito do canto coral como prática cultural social no protestantismo brasileiro. O texto direciona sua atenção para o canto coral e suas idiossincrasias a partir das bases da sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu e de sua aplicação às discussões sociológicas sobre o gosto como realidade social definida por tensões criadas no meio cultural, as quais se aplicam os conceitos de campo, habitus e capital. A prática cultural do canto coral é apresentada e um histórico é traçado desde suas origens até os dias atuais. O foco recai sobre os usos do canto coral pelas mais diferentes vertentes do protestantismo a fim de acompanhar os aspectos que se mostraram preponderantes quando da chegada dessa prática cultural ao Brasil e compreender fatos e personagens que fizeram com que o canto coral evangélico brasileiro tomasse os rumos históricos que o levaram a ocupar um posto de alto valor cultural dentro da cultura protestante no Brasil. Posteriormente, verificam-se os abalos ao canto coral causados por mudanças sociais que recaracterizaram profundamente o gosto musical no protestantismo pátrio. A discussão se encaminha para a análise das lutas que essas novas configurações estão estabelecendo dentro do campo religioso e às expressões dessas batalhas dentro de um mercado de bens simbólicos que as comporta e orienta. Visando determinar os sujeitos envolvidos, são apresentados os principais adversários do canto coral no campo evangélico brasileiro e, por fim, são delineados três projetos que, nas últimas décadas, têm alcançado impacto dentro do meio protestante como defensores do canto coral.