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Kinds of Church Terms modified by Church Selected AbstractsECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: THE FRENCH CASEECONOMIC INQUIRY, Issue 4 2010RAPHAËL FRANCK This article provides a test of the secularization hypothesis, which argues that economic growth, industrialization, increased literacy, and low fertility decrease religiosity. It focuses on the elections of the secular politicians who voted in favor of the separation between Church and State in the French Parliament in 1905. If the secularization hypothesis is correct, these secular politicians should have been elected in the most developed areas of France at the turn of the twentieth century. Contrary to the predictions of the secularization hypothesis, we find that the support for secular politicians originated in the rural areas of France. (JEL Z12, D72, N43) [source] A SANCTUARY IN POST-CONFLICT SPACE: THE BAPTIST CHURCH AS A ,MIDDLE OPTION' IN BANOVINA, CROATIAGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2009Reinhard Henkel ABSTRACT. One of the observable aspects of social change during the transition period in most post-socialist countries is the revival of religion. The resurgence of churches has accompanied national revival and in some countries it is also connected to a growing post-socialist nationalism. This article focuses on the development of different ,,transnational', religious options in an area of ethnic conflict by presenting a case study of the post-war growth of the Baptist Church in the Banovina region in Croatia, close to the Bosnian border. Research results are based on halfstructured interviews with church representatives and members. The research shows that there has been a considerable post-war expansion of the Baptist Church in the Banovina region, and that it is mainly ethnic Serbs and people from mixed marriages who have joined the Church. Many of them have a background as communists. For them, neither the Catholic Church, which is regarded as a Croatian church, nor the Serbian Orthodox Church are viable religious options. Instead, there are three factors that make the ,Baptist option' attractive. First, it is grounded in the historical tradition of the Baptist Church in this region and on memories and myths activated in the war and post-war periods. Second, the Baptist Church has made a middle transnational option available in an ethnically mixed area. As such it attracts those who are searching for a niche of neutrality in an ethnically strongly divided region characterized by conflict. Third, the considerable humanitarian work and help of organizations related to the Baptist Church during and after the war not only added in the eyes of many people in need to its image elements of existential shelter, but also brought the Church out of the shadows and made it more ,visible', thereby improving its former reputation as an obscure sect. [source] FORMING CHURCH, FORMING MISSIONINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 365 2003Mark Lau Branson First page of article [source] THE CHURCH: GOD'S GIFT TO THE WORLD -ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH,INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 359 2001Alan D. Falconer [source] IS MISSION A CONSEQUENCE OF THE CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH?INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 359 2001AN ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE [source] THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH: SOME REFLECTIONS,INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 358 2001William G. Rusch First page of article [source] THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, TEXT ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCHINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 358 2001Neville Callam First page of article [source] HEALING,A CHALLENGE TO CHURCH AND THEOLOGYINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 356-357 2001Christoffer H. Grundmann First page of article [source] OPENING UP: SPEAKING OUT IN THE CHURCH edited by Julian Filochowski and Peter StanfordNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1027 2009ANDREW THOMAS KANIA No abstract is available for this article. [source] THEOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: CHURCH, ACADEMY AND NATION, edited by Gavin D'CostaNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1012 2006DANIEL D. INMAN No abstract is available for this article. [source] AUTHORITY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: Theory and PracticeNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 996 2004Philip Egan [source] CALLED TO BE CHURCH: THE BOOK OF ACTS FOR A NEW DAY , By Anthony B. Robinson and Robert W. WallRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 2 2008Ira Brent Driggers No abstract is available for this article. [source] THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICAN SACRED SPACESRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2004Louis P. Nelson Book reviewed in this article: THE HERMENEUTICS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIENCE, INTERPRETATION, COMPARISON (2 volumes) By Lindsay Jones TEMPLES OF GRACE: THE MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONNECTICUT'S CHURCHES, 1790,1840 By Gretchen Buggeln WHEN CHURCH BECAME THEATRE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVANGELICAL ARCHITECTURE AND WORSHIP IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA By Jeanne Kilde PRAYERS IN STONE: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1894,1930 By Paul Eli Ivey SHUL WITH A POOL: THE "SYNAGOGUE-CENTER" IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY By David Kaufman MYTHS IN STONE: RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. By Jeffrey F. Meyer UGLY AS SIN: WHY THEY CHANGED OUR CHURCHES FROM SACRED PLACES TO MEETING SPACES AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE THEM BACK AGAIN By Michael S. Rose BUILDING FROM BELIEF: ADVANCE, RETREAT, AND COMPROMISE IN THE REMAKING OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ARCHITECTURE By Michael E. DeSanctis ARCHITECTURE IN COMMUNION: IMPLEMENTING THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL THROUGH LITURGY AND ARCHITECTURE By Steven J. Schloeder [source] SYMMETRIES OF THE KINGDOM: SUGGESTIONS FROM GIRARD AND BONHOEFFER ON THINKING THE CHURCH,STATE RELATIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2010KEVIN LENEHANArticle first published online: 12 MAR 2010 The work of René Girard invites us to re-imagine a ,religious,secular' interactivity within social space in a way released from the violent dualisms of the ,sacred/profane.' Earlier Dietrich Bonhoeffer considered the same task and suggested directions for a positive theology of church-state relations, even as the inherited forms of these institutions were collapsing about him. This paper explores the Girardian scenario for church and state becoming rivalrous ,doubles', whether it be secular utopic projects doubling religious narratives of redemption, or churches doubling the state as parallel yet purer societies , and suggests resources from Bonhoeffer by which a non-rivalrous church-state relationality - both mutually-constituting and mutually-limiting - may be configured. [source] THE ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: A STUDY IN HISTORY AND ECCLESIOLOGYTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2004John Whooley First page of article [source] THE CHALDEAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE POLITICS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN MODERN IRAQTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2004Anthony O'Mahony First page of article [source] EVIDENCE FOR THE USE OF EGYPTIAN BLUE IN AN 11TH CENTURY MURAL ALTARPIECE BY SEM,EDS, FTIR AND SR XRD (CHURCH OF SANT PERE, TERRASSA, SPAIN)ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2010A. LLUVERAS The present study shows the analysis performed on pigment samples taken from Sant Pere (Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain), a remarkable church built in the Romanesque style. On the basis of the results obtained from the analysis, an interesting discussion arises after finding evidence of Egyptian blue in one of the samples, a discovery that was not expected due to the time period of the samples. The pigments were identified by the combined use of FTIR and SEM with an EDS facility. For the blue pigment, since the EDS and FTIR analyses suggested the possible presence of cuprorivaite, micro-XRD experiments using synchrotron radiation were run. [source] PUEBLO MISSION CHURCHES AS SYMBOLS OF PERMANENCE AND IDENTITY,GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 3 2000KEVIN S. BLAKE ABSTRACT. The three Pueblo mission churches of San Esteban del Rey, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and San José de Laguna are the most visually striking structures in the western New Mexico pueblos of Acoma, Zuni, and Laguna. Prime examples of "structures of permanence" on the landscape, the churches define local cultural identity. Church permanence and Pueblo identity are expressed in a five-part typology of visible characteristics: natural materials and hand labor, massive exterior form, adjoining cemeteries, syncretism of interior decorations, and structural decay and rebirth. Permanence must, however, be understood as an evolving condition, undergoing new representations as multicultural relationships evolve. [source] CASE STUDY: BUILDING BRIDGES OF HOPE , A "LIVING LABORATORY" FOR MISSION-MINDED CHURCHESINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 364 2003Simon Barrow First page of article [source] THE CHURCHES OF EUROPE ,"ARE WE STILL OF ANY USE?"INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 362 2002Keith Clements First page of article [source] A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: THE COMMON MISSIONARY VOCATION OF MAINLINE AND MIGRANT CHURCHESINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 362 2002Werner Kahl First page of article [source] THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, TEXT ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE CHURCHINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 358 2001Neville Callam First page of article [source] HEALING IN CHARISMATIC/PENTECOSTAL/INDEPENDENT CHURCHES AND MOVEMENTSINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 356-357 2001Article first published online: 25 MAR 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] WEST YORKSHIRE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, ENGLANDINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 354 2000Tony Parry No abstract is available for this article. [source] AFRICAN CHURCHES IN THE RHEIN-RUHR REGION OF GERMANYINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 354 2000Koilor Kimba No abstract is available for this article. [source] COUNCIL OF AFRICAN CHURCHES IN GERMANY (CACG)INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 354 2000SECTION: WIDER RUHRGEBIET AREA No abstract is available for this article. [source] THEOLOGICAL ETHICS, THE CHURCHES, AND GLOBAL POLITICSJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS, Issue 3 2007Lisa Sowle Cahill ABSTRACT Several discourses about theology, church, and politics are occurring among Christian theologians in the United States. One influential strand centers on the communitarian theology of Stanley Hauerwas, who calls on Christians to witness faithfully against liberalism in general and war in particular. Jeffrey Stout, in his widely discussed Democracy and Tradition (2004), responds that religious people ought precisely to endorse those democratic and liberal American traditions that join religious and secular counterparts to battle injustice. Hauerwas, Stout, and many of their interlocutors envision liberal U.S. culture as the context of Christian social ethics. The ensuing debate rarely incorporates Catholic scholars, feminist scholars, scholars of color, or international and liberationist voices. Their inclusion could enhance an understanding of the role of the church in society, and support a common morality in the face of global pluralism. More importantly, it could broaden the scope of discourse on religion and politics to envision global Christian social ethics. [source] THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICAN SACRED SPACESRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2004Louis P. Nelson Book reviewed in this article: THE HERMENEUTICS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIENCE, INTERPRETATION, COMPARISON (2 volumes) By Lindsay Jones TEMPLES OF GRACE: THE MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONNECTICUT'S CHURCHES, 1790,1840 By Gretchen Buggeln WHEN CHURCH BECAME THEATRE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVANGELICAL ARCHITECTURE AND WORSHIP IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA By Jeanne Kilde PRAYERS IN STONE: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1894,1930 By Paul Eli Ivey SHUL WITH A POOL: THE "SYNAGOGUE-CENTER" IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY By David Kaufman MYTHS IN STONE: RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. By Jeffrey F. Meyer UGLY AS SIN: WHY THEY CHANGED OUR CHURCHES FROM SACRED PLACES TO MEETING SPACES AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE THEM BACK AGAIN By Michael S. Rose BUILDING FROM BELIEF: ADVANCE, RETREAT, AND COMPROMISE IN THE REMAKING OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ARCHITECTURE By Michael E. DeSanctis ARCHITECTURE IN COMMUNION: IMPLEMENTING THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL THROUGH LITURGY AND ARCHITECTURE By Steven J. Schloeder [source] OPERATIONALIZING OPPORTUNITIES AND CREATING PUBLICS IN SALVADORAN CHURCHES: FINDINGS FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PROCESS EVALUATIONANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010James Huff This article explores how one faith-based nonprofit organization and its various Pentecostal and evangelical church partners in El Salvador are creating associational contexts within which local community development projects are identified and implemented. Observational and interview data derived from a process evaluation of a project identification exercise are examined to explore how different community and organizational stakeholders attempt to implement local development initiatives that will presumably build on local assets and associations. The study details the patterns of participation that emerged as members of local churches negotiated with their neighbors over how to best direct social change in their community. Corresponding analysis of interview data portrays how these same actors relied on diverse social logics,which are both religious and practical in nature,to make sense of and assess some of the key assumptions of a particular form of faith-based development. The case is a good example of how faith-based organizations play key roles in the formation of publics, wherein actors from diverse networks come together to deliberate over the aims and outcomes of local development projects in contemporary El Salvador. [source] THE BLUE ENAMELS IN THE BAROQUE DECORATIONS OF THE CHURCHES OF PALERMO, SICILY: FE2+ -COLOURED GLASSES FROM LIME KILNS*ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2009G. ARTIOLI Deep blue glasses coloured by octahedral Fe2+ cations are often reported as textbook examples of blue pigmentation. However, despite the possibility of laboratory synthesis under reducing conditions, to date there are no well-reported occurrences of their production and use in the past. A thorough historical, ethnographic, mineralogical, and chemico-physical investigation of the ,smaltini di calcara' from several baroque churches in Palermo, Sicily, has revealed that the blue enamels widely used for altar decorations in the 17th and 18th centuries are actually a unique case of ancient blue glasses pigmented by divalent iron cations in distorted octahedral coordination. This mixed-alkali glass was accidentally produced under severely reducing conditions in the local kilns during production of lime. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||