Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Valeria de Araujo.pdf: 762124 bytes, checksum: 7018529fe25539f01ce7838cf4966f4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-20 / The focus of the present work is to analyses the history of religious women s garment, beyond studies about women identity concerning religion and clothing crossing history of religion around the time. The differences between distinguished religions and clothing are the point of view to study the women identity and its place in religious community. Women are the biggest participant in Christian religion. Not only in participation but in numbers either. The possibilities opened by religious group to women s paper is the target of studies to search the knowledge of this knowledge of this relation. So, history and women clothing studies in the religious community are the importance of the present work. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral traçar uma história do vestuário da mulher religiosa, através do estudo da formação histórica da identidade feminina e a relação com a doutrina da religião; bem como da formação da identidade religiosa, associada ao vestuário e adornos, estabelecendo uma clara relação com a história das religiões. Focará também, clara relação dessa identidade através da diferença de vestuário e adornos em diversas religiões através da comparação, visto que a mulher dentre o total de indivíduos freqüentadores de inúmeras denominações religiosas; ocupa papel principal na ação desenvolvida por estes sujeitos dentro da comunidade religiosa. São as mulheres que têm maior expressividade, sobretudo nas religiões cristãs. Aqui, a expressividade não significa necessariamente participação ativa e efetiva no desenvolvimento de cultos e da comunidade religiosa em si; mas sim expressividade em números. As possibilidades abertas pelos grupos religiosos ao papel da mulher é alvo de constantes estudos para buscar o entendimento desta relação. Logo, insere-se aqui o papel histórico da indumentária feminina, com identidade religiosa dentro as comunidades e grupos religiosos.

Mission is a central aspect of the Christian faith and much thought is given to the challenge of proclaiming the gospel in a new context or to a different people group (i.e. contextualization). In recent years, a new context has come to the forefront that has been and is being created through technology, namely virtual reality (VR). The purpose of this study is to explore how contextualization, with regards to evangelization, needs to be done in VR. The proposed thesis is that VR provides a new context in which the Christian faith is, or should be, shared in a contextualized way. Although much thought is given to the question of religion in VR, it mostly focuses on the nature of communities online. This study addresses the issue of online evangelization, which has so far received less attention. This doctoral thesis is structured after the empirical-theological praxis cycle of Faix (2007a), and the Policy Delphi Method (PDM) is the research technique used. Through the PDM, a panel of experts from different backgrounds (theologians, sociologists, and practitioners) discussed the various ways in which VR affects evangelization, the way people form their religious identity, and how contextualization could take place. The aim of this research is to contribute to the field of missiology by investigating VR as a new context in which to proclaim the Christian faith. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th.(Missiology)

Mission is a central aspect of the Christian faith and much thought is given to the challenge of proclaiming the gospel in a new context or to a different people group (i.e. contextualization). In recent years, a new context has come to the forefront that has been and is being created through technology, namely virtual reality (VR). The purpose of this study is to explore how contextualization, with regards to evangelization, needs to be done in VR. The proposed thesis is that VR provides a new context in which the Christian faith is, or should be, shared in a contextualized way. Although much thought is given to the question of religion in VR, it mostly focuses on the nature of communities online. This study addresses the issue of online evangelization, which has so far received less attention. This doctoral thesis is structured after the empirical-theological praxis cycle of Faix (2007a), and the Policy Delphi Method (PDM) is the research technique used. Through the PDM, a panel of experts from different backgrounds (theologians, sociologists, and practitioners) discussed the various ways in which VR affects evangelization, the way people form their religious identity, and how contextualization could take place. The aim of this research is to contribute to the field of missiology by investigating VR as a new context in which to proclaim the Christian faith / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielSantana.pdf: 1836793 bytes, checksum: c74e353f23dedd0831012472448d01e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This dissertation studies the dynamics between religion, urbanization, migration and urban sprawl in the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus in Vila Alpina, a neighborhood in the city of São Paulo. The Brazilian urbanization process that began in the 1930s profoundly changed society, especially in the southeastern region of the country. Urbanization encouraged another important Brazilian phenomenon, migration flows, which collided to create in large cities centers of segregation, exclusion and social anomie. The present study analyzes which aspects of the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus em Vila Alpina exerts an emancipatory role on the migrant population, reconstructing identities that were fragmented by constant migration and adaptation to new, and often, inadequate cultures. The social indicators of the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus are studied, obtained from the statistical field, and are also linked and compared to the data with the statistics collected by the city, district and neighborhood Censo 2010. From this dense analysis, ethnographic aspects of church services are observed in order to provide an study on the practices of the church, its message, as well as to describe the religious identity of its participants. Lastly, questionnaires, interviews, and field observation of dense ethnographic aspects of the supporters of the church are investigated to verify the existence of sociais networks embraced by the church, religious associations and the accumulation of symbolic capital, aimed at emancipation and restructuring of the migrant subject. / Esta dissertação estuda as dinâmicas entre religião, urbanização, migração e periferia urbana na Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus em Vila Alpina. O processo de urbanização brasileiro inicia na década de 1930 e transforma profundamente a sociedade brasileira, especialmente a região sudeste do país. A urbanização incentivou importantes fenômenos sociais como: os fluxos migratórios, alta densidade demográfica e especulação imobiliária que ao colidiram nas grandes metrópoles criaram polos de segregação, exclusão e anomia social. O estudo análise em quais aspectos a Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus em Vila Alpina exerce papel de emancipadora da população migrante, reconstruindo identidades fragmentas pelos constantes fluxos migratórios e a adaptação a inadequação das novas culturas. São estudados os indicadores sociais da Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus, a partir do campo estatístico, vinculando e comparando os dados obtidos com as estatísticas realizadas pelo Censo 2010 da cidade, do distrito e do bairro. A partir de uma observação densa é levantado aspectos etnográficos dos cultos da igreja a fim de estabelecer uma análise das práticas da igreja, mensagem e identidade religiosa de seus participantes. Por fim é elaborada, a partir de aplicação de questionários, realização de entrevistas e densa observação de campo aspectos etnográficos dos adeptos da igreja, e verificação da existência de redes sociais abarcadas na igreja, associativismo religiosos e o acumulo do capital simbólico, visando a emancipação e reestruturação do sujeito migrante.

The last two decades have set the global trend of internationalized education on a new course. Besides the usual flow of international students from their home countries to Western universities, an opposite flow emerged. In the Middle East, for instance, the number of international campuses nearly doubled between 2000 and 2009, and Egypt has been no exception. Starting 2003, Egypt has witnessed a remarkable surge of private international universities that use English as a medium of instruction, adopt foreign curricula and have partnerships with universities in Europe, North America, and recently Asia. This trend has raised identity loss concerns among many intellectuals and educational researchers whose worries mainly revolved around national, religious, and linguistic identities. This longitudinal qualitative study, thus, aimed to understand how Egyptian freshman students at an international University in Cairo construct and negotiate their national, religious and linguistic identities. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 12 students at three different points of their first year at the university, and a focus group was organized at the beginning of their second year. Results revealed a more complex picture than the widespread simplistic rhetoric about international universities’ influence on students’ identity construction. The participants’ social and academic backgrounds and unique life experiences were an important factor in their identity construction and negotiation; they seemed to determine the ranking of those identities on their hierarchy of identities, which in turn shaped how they constructed and negotiated them. Moreover, participants realized and used their agency to negotiate their identities and resolve identity crises when these happened. They also resorted to other identity agents, particularly family and students’ clubs. This study contributes to the Egyptian debate on educational reform and adds to the literature on English as a medium of instruction, identity formation, and internationalized education by shedding light on the intricate ways in which students navigate through international education, and by suggesting pedagogical and policy implications applicable not only to liberal-education institutions in the region, but perhaps also to other universities in Europe and North America that attract international students, particularly with the recent waves of refugees from the Middle East.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-03-02T13:26:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 analuziacaixeiro.pdf: 3299896 bytes, checksum: 3619e3fa331f347bd57b661a0a5d5a70 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-03-03T14:50:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 analuziacaixeiro.pdf: 3299896 bytes, checksum: 3619e3fa331f347bd57b661a0a5d5a70 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-03T14:50:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 analuziacaixeiro.pdf: 3299896 bytes, checksum: 3619e3fa331f347bd57b661a0a5d5a70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-29 / Este trabalho tem como foco o estudo da Fraternidade Cósmica Universal, um grupo sediado na cidade de Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. O grupo realiza encontros entre segmentos religiosos e não religiosos, promovendo o conhecimento, a interação e o diálogo entre as diversas tradições. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi compreender essa dinâmica. Para sua execução foram realizadas visitas ao grupo, observações, participações em suas atividades e entrevistas com seus membros efetivos e visitantes. O resultado encontra-se organizado em três capítulos. No primeiro capítulo serão abordados o diálogo inter-religioso no atual contexto do pluralismo, a questão da identidade, da busca pelo sentido e as novas configurações religiosas. No segundo capítulo serão apresentados a criação e o histórico do grupo, as atividades desenvolvidas pela casa, a dinâmica dos encontros e os espaços físicos onde ocorrem. O terceiro capítulo apresentará os personagens envolvidos nesse processo, suas trajetórias até o grupo e as funções que desempenham na construção de um espaço para o exercício do diálogo inter-religioso e na formação de uma identidade para o grupo. A análise final apresentará os elementos desta dinâmica do diálogo inter-religioso que ocorre na Fraternidade Cósmica Universal. / This research focuses on the study of the Fraternidade Cósmica Universal, a group headquartered in the city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group set up meetings between religious and non-religious segments, promoting knowledge, interaction and dialogue between different traditions. The purpose of this work was to understand this dynamics. For its implementation, visits were done to the group, observations, participation in activities and interviews with its members and visitors. The result of this research is organized into three chapters. In the first chapter will be addressed interfaith dialogue in the current context of pluralism, the question of identity, the search for meaning and new religious settings. In the second chapter will be presented the creation and history of the group, the activities of the home, the dynamics of the meetings and the physical spaces in which they occur. The third chapter introduces the characters involved in this process, their trajectories to the group and the roles they play in the construction of a space for the exercise of interfaith dialogue and the formation of an identity for the group. The final analysis will present the elements of the dynamics of interfaith dialogue that occurs in Fraternidade Cósmica Universal.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-28T12:20:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 claudilenechristinadeoliveira.pdf: 3950554 bytes, checksum: c2fb0b2b0d5bc0e141e2e8682675ad5b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-09-28T15:46:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 claudilenechristinadeoliveira.pdf: 3950554 bytes, checksum: c2fb0b2b0d5bc0e141e2e8682675ad5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-28T15:46:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 claudilenechristinadeoliveira.pdf: 3950554 bytes, checksum: c2fb0b2b0d5bc0e141e2e8682675ad5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / Na trajetória do negro e dos afrodescendentes, questões como diáspora, cultura e religiosidade, há tempos vem sendo estudadas sob novas perspectivas. Esses novos enfoques revelam que subjaz no discurso afrodescendente a questão identitária muitas vezes revelada através de gestos, olhares e não-ditos. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender o constructo da identidade religiosa baseado nas memórias fluídas e oscilantes dos afrodescendentes que vivem em São José das Três Ilhas. Pretende-se investigar como, entre lembranças e esquecimentos, os afrodescendentes constroem seu discurso religioso numa região onde os símbolos e rituais da tradição católica configuram-se como um apelo forte de manutenção do status quo. Argumentar-se-á que as memórias reveladas ou silenciadas pelos afrodescendentes fazem um contraponto com a vida cotidiana, redefinindo uma nova identidade que oscila entre a base cultural, os ecos dos saberes ancestrais e o receio de se exporem em uma comunidade com base cultural branca, européia e católica. Adotar-se-á como metodologia a história oral e a observação participativa, a fim de descrever e interpretar as variáveis: base cultural, história de vida, memória; e como essas variáveis se interrelacionam no processo de afirmação da identidade religiosa dos afrodescendentes que lá vivem. / In the trajectory of black and Afro-descendant issues such as diaspora, culture and religion, some time ago, is being studied under new perspectives. These new approaches reveal underlying the Afro-descendant address the issue of identity often revealed through gestures, glances and unspoken. This study aims to understand the construct of religious identity based on fluid and fluctuating memories of African descent living in São José das Três Ilhas. We intend to investigate how, between memories and forgetfulness, Afrodescendants build their religious discourse in a region where the symbols and rituals of the Catholic tradition are configured as a strong appeal maintenance of the status quo. It will argue that the revealed memories or silenced by African descendants make a counterpoint to everyday life, redefining a new identity that oscillates between cultural base, the echoes of ancestral knowledge and the fear of exposing themselves in a community with white cultural base, European and Catholic. It will adopt as a methodology oral history and participant observation in order to describe and interpret the variables: cultural base, life history, memory; and how these variables are interrelated in the process of affirming the religious identity of African descent who live there.

The text deals with the relation between religion and politics, in particular, with the conceptualization of religious identity in the discipline of International Relations from the position of postmodern approaches. The main goal is to examine whether and how feasible, useful, and usual is to work with the religious (and inseparable cultural) dimension of identity. The author claims that the concept of religious identity well reveals an important link between the religious and the political and represents a useful analytical tool. A categorisation and a model of identity are introduced and applied. The application is twofold, the categories are used in the academic discourse analysis and then once again it is used for the case of European identity in interactions of the EU and the RCC. Finally, the concept of the religious actor is discussed on this empirical basis and also the political construction of the religious, in general, is debated.

Les valeurs culturelles et leur impact sur les attitudes et les comportements ont longtemps été un objet de débat. La mondialisation, la migration et l'expatriation ont contribué au conflit provoqué par l'interaction entre les multiples identités culturelles, en particulier lorsqu’il s’agit d'organisations constituées de personnel diversifié. La France est un cas singulier, offrant un contexte historique et culturel particulièrement intéressant pour l’étude de ce sujet. En effet, la culture dominante en France prône l'égalitarisme et la laïcité. Parallèlement, une grande partie de la population française a adopté des valeurs culturelles issues de ses croyances religieuses. De plus, les perceptions au sujet de «l'égalité des chances» offerte par la société varient considérablement selon les cultures. Cette question est particulièrement importante dans un environnement de travail où les individus ayant des croyances diverses et complexes participent à des activités collectives. L'objectif de cette thèse est de découvrir les mécanismes par lesquels les attributs culturels déterminent une éthique de travail - premièrement, à travers leur interaction avec les croyances religieuses; et deuxièmement, à travers les croyances implicites sur la structure de la société. Les résultats révèlent que les pensées religieuses influencent positivement l’éthique de travail et le niveau de l’effort quand une culture de la religiosité est proéminente et négativement lorsque la culture laïque est saillante. Par ailleurs, cette recherche éclaircit les différentes perceptions de l'égalité des chances dans la société. Les attitudes méritocratiques sont directement influencées par la façon dont les gens distinguent la structure sociale : selon qu’elle soit perçue comme rigide ou malléable. Sur trois essais, cette thèse soulève une problématique particulièrement importante à laquelle font face les employeurs et les décideurs politiques, en particulier en France. Elle fournit une explication quant à l'impact des valeurs culturelles et religieuses, des perceptions sur la malléabilité de la structure sociale, et des mentalités, sur la prévision de l’éthique de travail et la motivation. / Cultural values and their impact on people’s attitudes and behavior have long been a place for debate. Globalization, migration and expatriation have contributed to the conflict caused by the interaction among multiple cultural identities, particularly when it comes to organizations with diverse workforce. Specifically, France is a unique case that provides a historically and culturally rich, yet very ambiguous context for studying this topic. The dominant culture in France emphasizes on egalitarianism and secularism. However, a great part of the population has adopted distinct cultural values with regard to their religious beliefs. Moreover, the perception about ‘equal opportunities’ provided by the society varies considerably across the cultures. The topic is specifically important at workplace, where individuals with diverse and sometimes divergent beliefs take part in collective activities. The objective of this dissertation is to discover the mechanisms by which cultural attributes predict work ethic and productivity- first, through their interaction with religious beliefs; and second through the implicit theories about the societal structure. The findings reveal that religious thoughts positively influence work ethic and level effort when a culture of religiosity is prominent and negatively when the laïc culture is salient. Furthermore, this research sheds light to the different perceptions about equal opportunities in the society. The meritocratic attitudes are directly influenced by the extent to which people perceive the social structure to be malleable vs. fixed. Across three essays, this dissertation addresses a particularly important issue as faced by employers and policy makers, specifically in France. It provides a compelling understanding about a number of antecedents of work ethic and work behavior; namely, the cultural and religious values, perceptions about malleability of the social structure, and mindsets.

<p>This study presents a new reading of the <i>Perlesvaus</i>, an anonymous thirteenth-century Old French Grail romance bizarrely structured around an Arthurian restaging of the battle between the Old and the New Law. I construe this hyper-violent, phantasmagorical text as a profoundly significant work of “trauma fiction” encoding a hitherto-unrecognized crisis of religious ethics and identity in Western Europe in the first half of the thirteenth century. Combining literary and historical analysis and drawing on current trends in trauma studies, I tie what I term the “deranged discourse” of the <i>Perlesvaus</i> to the brutal onset of internal crusading in southern France (the papal-sponsored Albigensian Crusade, 1209-29), making the case that the collective trauma staged in its narrative perturbations was a contributing factor in the well-documented worsening of Western European antisemitism during this period. One key analytical construct I develop is the “doppelganger Jew”—personified in the <i>Perlesvaus</i> by its schizoid authority figure, Josephus, a conflation of first Christian priest and first-century Romano-Jewish historian—who functions as an uncanny embodiment of powerful, unacknowledged fears that Christians were losing their spiritual moorings and reverting into reviled, scapegoated Jews. Traces of this collective trauma are explored in other contemporary texts, and one chapter examines how the fourteenth-century <i>Book of John Mandeville</i> revives similar fears of collapsing Judeo-Christian identity and unfolds under the sign of the doppelganger Jew.</p>