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The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
No full textThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic Inheritance in Seventeenth-Century Burma
No full textThis article examines laws governing the inheritance of monastic property and discourse about such law, expressed in the two principle vernacular and Pāli genres of written law in circulation in seventeenth-century Burma: Vinaya and dhammasattha.Calling into question any strict divide between lay and monastic legal spheres, it shows that monastic inheritance did not fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of Vinaya, and also that Vinaya laws regulating monastic partition were appropriated by dhammasattha for application to the lay community.This is a Corrected Version of Record of: Lammerts, C. (2014). Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic Inheritance in Seventeenth-Century Burma, In French, R. and Nathan, M. Buddhism and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press), 183-197. Copyright Cambridge University Press 2014. Reprinted with permission.Peer reviewe
Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific /
No full textDivine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest.Includes bibliographical references.Paradoxes of Domesticity: Missionary Encounters in the Making of Christian Homes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly -- Part One. Permeability and Paradox: Revisiting Domestic and Public in Asia and the Pacific : 1. The Missionary Home as a Pulpit: Domestic Paradoxes in Early Twentieth-Century Korea / Hyaeweol Choi -- 2. Missionaries and "A Better Baby Movement" in Colonial Korea / Sonja M. Kim -- 3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan / Rebecca Copeland -- 4. Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women's College and Christian Social Service in Republican China / Helen M. Schneider -- Part Two. Sacred and Secular Genealogies: Christian Missions and States--Colonial and Contemporary : 5. Sacred Genealogies of Development: Christianity and the Indian Modern / Kalpana Ram -- 6. "Ol Meri Bilong Wok" (Hard-working Women): Women, Work and Domesticity in Papua New Guinea / Jemima Mowbray -- 7. "Tired for nothing"? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall -- Part Three. The Architectonics of Home and Emotion: New Christian Families in Conversion Experiences : 8. Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael / Annie McCarthy -- 9. Deviant Domesticities and Sexualised Childhoods: Prostitutes, Eunuchs and the Limits of the State Child "Rescue" Mission in Colonial India / Jessica Hinchy -- 10. A New Family: Domesticity and Sentiment among Chinese and Western Women at Shanghai's Door of Hope / Sue Gronewold -- 11. From Open Fale to Mission Houses: Negotiating the Boundaries of "Domesticity" in Samoa / Latu Latai -- 12. Paradoxical Intimacies: The Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere / Holly Wardlow -- Part Four. On and Beneath the Skin: Embodiment and Sensuous Agency : 13. Paradoxical Performances: Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in 19-20th-Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls / Shih-Wen Sue Chen -- 14. Bibles, Baseball and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, 1900-1930 / Laura R. Prieto -- 15. The Materiality of Missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- 16. A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania / Margaret Jolly.Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest.JSTO
Jakobus (Kobus) Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Dieter T. Roth, Christopher M. Hays (éd.), Sensitivity towards Outsiders. Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity, (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe 364), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2014
No full textGrappe Christian. Jakobus (Kobus) Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Dieter T. Roth, Christopher M. Hays (éd.), Sensitivity towards Outsiders. Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity, (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe 364), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2014. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 95e année n°3, Juillet-Septembre 2015. p. 379
What it means to be Christian: Kierkegaard's purpose as an author
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.My purpose for this thesis is to understand and interpret the meaning and intent of Kierkegaard's authorship. Kierkegaard is emphatically concerned with making his reader aware of essential Christianity and what it means to be a Christian. Accordingly, I will begin by examining the context from which Kierkegaard writes. He felt that Christendom greatly misunderstood essential Christianity. Believing that those in Christendom erroneously focused too intently on the doctrines of Christianity to the neglect of the "how" of Christianity, he examines how it is possible that a person could learn eternal truth. For Kierkegaard, Christianity cannot be objectively discerned because it is not a teaching, but a way of life. As a result, Christianity is not primarily a historical matter of philosophy. As long as one seeks Christianity's truth objectively, he or she will constantly delay to make a decision about becoming a Christian, doubting the truth of Christianity. Having shown how Kierkegaard objects to Christendom's version of Christianity, I explain what he considers to be the prerequisite for genuine Christian faith-subjectivity. He believes that one must exercise the utmost personal concern if one is to be enabled to accept Christianity. Kierkegaard, therefore, conceives of Christianity as a way of existing. Furthermore, I make clear important points in Kierkegaard's thought. Since there are many competing ideas about what Christianity is, I suggest that, while Kierkegaard rejects Christianity as a system of doctrines, he is neither indifferent nor hostile to doctrines. For him, doctrines are descriptive of the normative Christian life. He adds that to truly believe, as a Christian, is to personally trust Christ. He says that this change of mind corresponds with a change of life such that one becomes a responsible individual before God. Finally, I conclude that Kierkegaard is best characterized as a Christian apologist, defending Christianity from Christendom, and that his contributions as an existential philosopher and literary writer simply complement his primary purpose as an author
[Letter] 1935 October 17, Pitcairn Island, [to] Henry C. Hoffman / Fred M. Christian.
No full textAutograph letter, signed.Christian writes from Pitcairn island to thank Hoffman for sending the $2, and to request that he sell more of the painted, pressed leaves which he encloses along with two baskets his wife made for Hoffman. Christian goes on to answer Hoffman\u27s questions about the size, dominion, population (210), language (English and Tahitian), schooling, climate, and grave customs on Pitcairn Island. He remarks that only one grave of the Bounty mutineers was ever marked, that being John Adams, for whom the British government sent over a tombstone. Christian also observes that they currently have nine visitors "none of them want to leave," and tells Hoffman about their housing, livestock, religion, and crops. Pitcairn Island was originally settled by mutineers of the HMS _Bounty_ led by Fletcher Christian (played in the movie versions by Clark Gable and Errol Flynn); they revolted in April 1784 against the alleged cruelties of Captain William Bligh, intermarried with Tahitian women, and then settled with their families on Pitcairn. John Adams was the only one of the original mutineers left alive in 1808 when an American ship _Topaz_ investigated the island. He was not able to convincingly relate the fates of the other mutineers, but the author of this letter, Fred Christian, is probably an original descendant of Fletcher
Church and state in religious education 1944-1984: a critical survey of trends in England from the point of view of the Christian parent with special reference to the Christian schools movement
No full textAt the end of the forty year period 1944-1984 a minority of Christian parents in England and Wales were expressing their disquiet at trends in Education in general, and Religious Education in particular. The five year research project 1979-1984 was primarily aimed at communicating their concept of events, and their aspirations, to those who, having had their attention drawn to the actions of the dissenting parents, wondered what sort of thinking inspired those actions. For those inclined to regard the parents as on the Christian fringe, evidence is presented to show that on the contrary they were mainly the orthodox, and in line with mainstream Christianity, as delineated by the historic creeds. The argument of this thesis is that the parents were a grass-roots reaction to a creeping revisionism that affected Christian thinking on education in the Protestant sector, but did not similarly affect the Roman Catholic sector
If you believe In what you do: the life and music of Freddie King
No full textThis thesis explores the life and music of blues guitarist Freddie King. The Introduction to the thesis chronicles my interest in the music of Freddie King. The first chapter chronicles King’s prolific early career and delineates influences and his musical aesthetic. The second chapter explains Freddie King’s crossover success in the context of the blues revival movement of the middle 1960s. The third chapter takes an in depth look at Freddie King’s use of rhythm and metric dissonance with examples from the instrumental tune “Sidetracked,” while chapters four and five are in-depth interviews with a Texas music scholar and notable blues author.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Christian M. McFarlandIncludes discograph
It's the market power, stupid! Stock return patterns in international bank M&A
No full textThis paper analyzes capital market reactions to international bank M&A. We investigate combined stock return patterns of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M&A hypotheses and relate characteristic and mutually exclusive abnormal stock return patterns to each hypothesis. We find that investors believe in gains through the exploitation of market power by the post-merger entity. In a multinomial logistic model we show that patterns related to market power significantly concur with large relative target size, intra-industry mergers, and increasing market concentration, suggesting a substantial lessening of competition through M&A. --M&A,Banks,Event Study,Peer Returns,Market Power
De Fontibus Exercitationem, Benevolis Suffragiis Inclytae In Alma Tiliarum Facultatis Philosophicae, Prioris Pro Loco In Eadem Impetrando Disputationis Materiem, III. Kal. Noverbr. Aer. Christian. M DC LIIX.
No full textDE FONTIBUS EXERCITATIONEM, BENEVOLIS SUFFRAGIIS INCLYTAE IN ALMA TILIARUM FACULTATIS PHILOSOPHICAE, PRIORIS PRO LOCO IN EADEM IMPETRANDO DISPUTATIONIS MATERIEM, III. KAL. NOVERBR. AER. CHRISTIAN. M DC LIIX.
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