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Styers believed that it held such a strong appeal for social theorists because it provides "such a rich site for articulating and contesting the nature and boundaries of modernity". [182] Scholars have commonly used it as a foil for the concept of religion, regarding magic as the "illegitimate (and effeminized) sibling" of religion. [183]
Randall Allen Terry (born April 25, 1959) [1] is an American politician and activist. Terry founded the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue . Beginning in 1987, the group became particularly prominent for blockading the entrances to abortion clinics; Terry led the group until 1991.
Postcolonial theologians argue that, in the past, the dominant Western form of Christianity is actually determined, shaped, and defined by European colonialism, implying and reinforcing notions such as Eurocentrism, colonial exploitation, and the superiority of European values and culture. [2] Therefore, critical examination is needed, and ...
Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 is a non-fiction book by Wallace D. Best, published by Princeton University Press in 2007. It discusses African-American Protestantism, [1] in Bronzeville, Chicago during the stated period in its title, which coincides with the Great Migration.
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Randal Rauser graduated with distinction from Trinity Western University in 1996 with a double major in English and Intercultural Religious Studies. [ 5] In 2003, he earned his PhD from King’s College, London; his dissertation being “Trinity, Mind and World: A Theological Epistemology of Mediation.”. [ 5]
One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings, [6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been ...
Career. Stephens is a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo. From 2004 to 2012 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, and from 2012 to 2018 he was a Reader and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Northumbria University, in Newcastle, England.