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81	Jewish hermeneutics of divine testing with special reference to the epistle of James Ellis, Nicholas J. January 2013 (has links) The nature of trials, tests, and temptation in the Epistle of James has been extensively debated in New Testament scholarship. However, scholarship has underexamined the tension between the author’s mitigation of divine agency in testing ( Jas 1:13–14) and the author’s appeal to well-known biblical testing narratives such as the creation account (1:15– 18), the Binding of Isaac ( Jas 2:21–24), and the Trials of Job ( Jas 5:9–11). is juxtaposition between the author’s theological apologetic and his biblical hermeneutic has the potential to reveal either the author’s theological incoherence or his rhetorical and hermeneutical creativity. With these tensions of divine agency and biblical interpretation in mind, this dissertation compares the Epistle of James against other examples of ancient Jewish interpretation, interrogating two points of contact in each Jewish work: their portrayals of the cosmic drama of testing, and their resulting biblical hermeneutic. The dissertation assembles a spectrum of positions on how the divine, satanic, and human roles of testing vary from author to author. These variations of the dramatis personae of the cosmic drama exercise a direct influence on the reception and interpretation of the biblical testing narratives. When the Epistle of James is examined in a similar light, it reveals a cosmic drama especially dependent on the metaphor of the divine law court. Within this cosmic drama, God stands as righteous judge, and in the place of divine prosecutor stand the cosmic forces indicting both divine integrity and human religious loyalty. These cosmic and human roles have a direct impact on James’ reading of biblical testing narratives. Utilising an intra-canonical hermeneutic similar to that found in Rewritten Bible literature, the Epistle appeals to a constructed ‘Jobraham’ narrative in which the Job stories mitigate divine agency in biblical trials such as those of Abraham, and Abraham’s celebrated patience rehabilitates Job’s rebellious response to trial. In conclusion, by closely examining the broader exegetical discourses of ancient Judaism, this project sheds new light on how the Epistle of James responds to theological tensions within its religious community through a hermeneutical application of the dominant biblical narratives of Job’s cosmic framework and Abraham’s human perfection. 220.8
82	The anthropological construction of Czech identity : academic and popular discourses of identity in 20th century Bohemia Vimont, Michael January 2015 (has links) Through close textual analysis of 20<sup>th</sup> century Czech anthropological texts from the Revivalist and Socialist periods and contemporary social research conducted after the Velvet Revolution, I demonstrate certain prominent discourses of identity developed in early Bohemian anthropology and their continuities in present day popular discourses. In each period, identity is deeply intertwined with teleological theories of history with Czech populations at the apex of cultural evolutionary development. In the Revivalist period this apex was believed to be the democratic nation state, transitioning to a Marxist nation state in the Socialist period, and in the contemporary period is conceived of as a neoliberal nation state. A major function of anthropology in the Revivalist and Socialist periods was to legitimate either period’s respective teleological theory and Czech possession of relevant values as 'objective' and 'natural' fact, a general mode of discourse which continued in the contemporary period in numerous editorials in the 1990s on the advantages of capitalism. The contemporary manifestation has particularly noteworthy consequences for the Roma minority, which I argue has provided Czech discourses with an ethnic category 'anti-thetical' to their own identity, providing a 'repository' for negative Czech self-stereotypes emerging from collaboration in the Socialist period. 943.7105
83	"O Deus, eu quero cantar e tocar" : a musica e os instrumentos musicais no salterio davidico Moschella, Fernanda Tresinari Bertinato 29 September 2006 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FERNANDA TRESINARI BERTINATO MOSCHELLA.pdf: 13603971 bytes, checksum: d54c7aac006fadb9c759a81ebb52ca0b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this work is to study the characteristics of the Psalm music made by the levites, the ones responsable for the celebration of the cult at the Second Jerusalem Temple; to show which musical instruments they used, their characteristics and origins; and also the musical notation developed in that community and its music function / Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar como a música dos salmos era realizada pelos levitas, responsáveis pela celebração do culto no Segundo Templo de Jerusalém; mostrar quais eram os instrumentos musicais utilizados por eles, bem como suas características e origens; a escrita musical desenvolvida e a função que a música exercia naquela comunidade música e religião música na Antigüidade música na Bíblia Estética da Religião Ciências da Religião Musicologia Biblia -- A. T -- Salmos Musica na Biblia Musica -- Aspectos religiosos Instrumentos musicais music and religion music in Antiquity music of the Bible Aesthetics of Religion Science of Religion Musicology. CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
84	Backward time travel and its relevance for theological study : An explorative literature study based on physics, philosophy, counterfactual thinking and theology Madfors, Ingela January 2011 (has links) This paper explores the possibility and relevance of theological study of backward time travel and its consequences. An examination of current research on backward time travel reveals a number of interdisciplinary topics which are not handled within physics. Some of these topics, mainly concerning free will and determination, are of interest to philosophers, whereas topics such as meaning and responsibility are left aside. In theology, there is a general dismissal of the idea of backward time travel. This study claims that this negative stance may be the result of taking science and its methods too seriously. The result of the study is that the interdisciplinary questions connected to backward time travel makes the subject very relevant for theological reflection. Thought experiments on backward time travel can provide valuable insights on how we deal with our lives, our world, time, and God today. / Denna explorativa studie utforskar möjligheten och relevansen av teologiska studier av tidsresor till det förflutna och deras konsekvenser. En undersökning av det aktuella forskningsläget visar på förekomsten av interdisciplinära frågeställningar som inte hanteras inom fysiken. Vissa frågor, framförallt knutna till den fria viljan och determinism, intresserar filosofer, medan andra områden som mening och ansvar inte behandlas vidare. Teologer ställer sig generellt negativa till tanken på resor till det förflutna. Denna studie hävdar att denna negativa inställning kan vara resultatet av en alltför stark respekt för vetenskapens fynd och metoder. Resultatet av studien är att de interdisciplinära frågeställningar som är kopplade till tidsresor till det förflutna gör ämnet högst lämpligt för teologisk begrundan. Tankeexperiment kring ämnet kan ge värdefulla insikter om hur vi hanterar våra liv, vår värld, tiden och Gud idag. backward time travel science-and-religion physics theology relativity theory logical paradoxes thought experiment counterfactual thinking post hoc prayer meaning co-creation responsibility memory relation process theology God tidsresor vetenskap-och-religion fysik teologi relativitetsteori logiska paradoxer tankeexperiment kontrafaktiskt tänkande post hoc bön mening medskapande ansvar minne relation processteologi Gud HUMANITIES and RELIGION HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Religion/Theology Religionsvetenskap/Teologi
85	El pensament religiós de Joan Maragall Moreta, Ignasi 15 December 2008 (has links) El pensament religiós de Joan Maragall no havia estat objecte fins ara de cap estudi ampli i sistemàtic. Aquesta tesi pretén oferir una sistematització d'aquest pensament en el marc d'una biografia intel·lectual que permeti visualitzar-ne l'evolució i el desenvolupament. Expositivament, s'ha perioditzat la biografia intel·lectual en quatre etapes: 1) la religió romàntica de la bellesa (1860-1890); 2) de l'exaltació positivista dels forts a la cristianització de l'excelsior (1890-1901); 3) un neoespiritualisme modernista (1901-1906), i 4) l'últim Maragall (1906-1911). És en l'últim període quan Maragall dota el seu pensament d'una terminologia específica i li dóna una forma travada i coherent. Des d'una posició clarament antiascètica no, però, antimística , Maragall detecta l'existència en el temps de moments de suspensió de la temporalitat els «moments d'eternitat» la vivència dels quals permet superar la distinció entre vida terrenal i ultraterrenal. / Until now Joan Maragall's religious thought has not been the object of an extensive and methodical study. This thesis aims to offer a systematization of his religious thought within the framework of an intellectual biography which allows for the visualization of its evolution and development. For the purpose of this analysis, the intellectual biography has been divided in four stages: 1) the romantic period of the religion of beauty (1860-1890); 2) the positivist period, from the exaltation of the strong to the Christianization of the excelsior (1890-1901); 3) the modernist neo-spiritualist period (1901-1906), and 4) the last period (1906-1911). Maragall develops a specific terminology for his thought and gives it a coherent and unified form in the last stage. From a clearly anti-ascetic position though not anti-mystic , Maragall detects the existence of moments when temporality is suspended «moments of eternity» , the experience of which allows for the overcoming of the distinction between earthly and otherworldly. libraries poetics Neo-spiritualism Modernism Positivism Romanticism Philosophy of Time Mysticism Catalonian Philology Philosophy Theology Science of Religion poesia Joan Maragall Religious Thought biblioteques poetica Neoespiritualisme Modernisme Romanticisme Positivisme filologia catalana mistica filosofia del temps teologia filosofia ciencies de la religio pensament religios Joan Maragall poetry 2 82
86	The Teaching Heart of J.A. Zahm, C.S.C. Griggs, Rachael Kimberly January 2021 (has links) No description available. Religion Religious History Science History Theology American History John Augustine Zahm J.A. Zahm H.J. Mozans Evolution and Dogma evolution evolutionism science and faith science and religion Catholic Church Americanism Americanists special creation Woman in Science Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena Theodore Roosevelt liberalism The Life of Father Hecker neo-scholasticism neo-Thomism Leo XIII
87	The evolution of literacy : a cross-cultural account of literacy's emergence, spread, and relationship with human cooperation Mullins, Daniel Austin January 2014 (has links) Social theorists have long argued that literacy is one of the principal causes and hallmark features of complex society. However, the relationship between literacy and social complexity remains poorly understood because the relevant data have not been assembled in a way that would allow competing hypotheses to be adjudicated. The project set out in this thesis provides a novel account of the multiple origins of literate behaviour around the globe, the principal mechanisms of its cultural transmission, and its relationship with the cultural evolution of large-group human cooperation and complex forms of socio-political organisation. A multi-method large-scale cross-cultural approach provided the data necessary to achieve these objectives. Evidence from the societies within which literate behaviour first emerged, and from a representative sample of ethnographically-attested societies worldwide (n=74), indicates that literate behaviour emerged through the routinization of rituals and pre-literate sign systems, eventually spreading more widely through classical religions. Cross-cultural evidence also suggests that literacy assumed a wide variety of forms and socio-political functions, particularly in large, complex groups, extending evolved psychological mechanisms for cooperation, which include reciprocity, reputation formation and maintenance systems, social norms and norm enforcement systems, and group identification. Finally, the results of a cross-cultural historical survey of first-generation states (n=10) reveal that simple models assuming single cause-and-effect relationships between literacy and complex forms of socio-political organisation must be rejected. Instead, literacy and first-generation state-level polities appear to have interacted in a complex positive feedback loop. This thesis contributes to the wider goal of transforming social and cultural anthropology into a cumulative and rapid-discovery science. 302.2
88	"That which was missing" : the archaeology of castration Reusch, Kathryn January 2013 (has links) Castration has a long temporal and geographical span. Its origins are unclear, but likely lie in the Ancient Near East around the time of the Secondary Products Revolution and the increase in social complexity of proto-urban societies. Due to the unique social and gender roles created by castrates’ ambiguous sexual state, human castrates were used heavily in strongly hierarchical social structures such as imperial and religious institutions, and were often close to the ruler of an imperial society. This privileged position, though often occupied by slaves, gave castrates enormous power to affect governmental decisions. This often aroused the jealousy and hatred of intact elite males, who were not afforded as open access to the ruler and virulently condemned castrates in historical documents. These attitudes were passed down to the scholars and doctors who began to study castration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, affecting the manner in which castration was studied. Osteometric and anthropometric examinations of castrates were carried out during this period, but the two World Wars and a shift in focus meant that castrate bodies were not studied for nearly eighty years. Recent interest in gender and sexuality in the past has revived interest in castration as a topic, but few studies of castrate remains have occurred. As large numbers of castrates are referenced in historical documents, the lack of castrate skeletons may be due to a lack of recognition of the physical effects of castration on the skeleton. The synthesis and generation of methods for more accurate identification of castrate skeletons was undertaken and the results are presented here to improve the ability to identify castrate skeletons within the archaeological record. 306.09
89	Peter Guthrie Tait : new insights into aspects of his life and work : and associated topics in the history of mathematics Lewis, Elizabeth Faith January 2015 (has links) In this thesis I present new insights into aspects of Peter Guthrie Tait's life and work, derived principally from largely-unexplored primary source material: Tait's scrapbook, the Tait–Maxwell school-book and Tait's pocket notebook. By way of associated historical insights, I also come to discuss the innovative and far-reaching mathematics of the elusive Frenchman, C.-V. Mourey. P. G. Tait (1831–1901) F.R.S.E., Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast (1854–1860) and of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1860–1901), was one of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Europe in the nineteenth century. His expertise encompassed the breadth of physical science and mathematics. However, since the nineteenth century he has been unfortunately overlooked—overshadowed, perhaps, by the brilliance of his personal friends, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) and William Thomson (1824–1907), later Lord Kelvin. Here I present the results of extensive research into the Tait family history. I explore the spiritual aspect of Tait's life in connection with The Unseen Universe (1875) which Tait co-authored with Balfour Stewart (1828–1887). I also reveal Tait's surprising involvement in statistics and give an account of his introduction to complex numbers, as a schoolboy at the Edinburgh Academy. A highlight of the thesis is a re-evaluation of C.-V. Mourey's 1828 work, La Vraie Théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires, which I consider from the perspective of algebraic reform. The thesis also contains: (i) a transcription of an unpublished paper by Hamilton on the fundamental theorem of algebra which was inspired by Mourey and (ii) new biographical information on Mourey. 510.92

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