The mind of God /

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The saints' everlasting rest : or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven /

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ASSOCIATIVISMO RELIGIOSO E OS IMIGRANTES AFRICANOS: O caso do Campo Mission��rio Congoangolano da Assembleia de Deus na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Esta pesquisa faz uma an��lise do Campo Mission��rio Congoangolano da Assembleia de Deus, localizado no bairro de Br��s de Pina - Zona norte da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Procura identificar a fun����o desta comunidade religiosa para os imigrantes congoleses e angolanos que a ela pertencem. Desse modo, visa refletir sobre a forma����o de um espa��o territorial religioso consolidado por elementos da religiosidade africana e do pentecostalismo assembleiano e sua imbricada associa����o com a forma����o de redes de apoio e de coes��o social em torno da manuten����o e sustenta����o de um espa��o identit��rio. Esse espa��o �� marcado por elementos que expressam s��mbolos e signos dos pa��ses de origem de seus integrantes - Congo e Angola - ao utilizarem a liturgia africana em seus cultos. A pesquisa leva em considera����o as demandas que norteiam o processo migrat��rio, as leis que regem esses imigrantes e o quanto tal processo contribui para pr��ticas associativas que envolvem fatores inerentes a inser����o e integra����o sociocultural e econ��mica no interior do campo mission��rio.

CULTURA POL��TICA BRASILEIRA, PR��TICAS PENTECOSTAIS E NEOPENTECOSTAIS: A presen��a da Assembl��ia de Deus e da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no Congresso Nacional (1999-2006)

Esta tese apresenta uma an��lise das pr��ticas pol��ticas de parlamentares pentecostais e neopentecostais da Assembl��ia de Deus e Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no Congresso da Rep��blica do Brasil, de 1999 a 2006. Compara essas pr��ticas pentecostais e neopentecostais com padr��es de comportamento da cultura pol��tica brasileira e as a����es correspondentes do Estado nacional como preservador dessa mesma cultura. S��o estudados os agentes religiosos citados desde a investida que suas igrejas fizeram na pol��tica nacional, a partir da Constituinte de 1987-1988, mas o corte temporal s��o as duas legislaturas, de 1999 at�� 2006. O foco principal da an��lise �� a Frente Parlamentar Evang��lica constitu��da em 2003. O envolvimento de pentecostais e neopentecostais em casos de corrup����o e apropria����o de recursos p��blicos, conhecidos como mensal��o e m��fia dos sanguessugas , �� amplamente abordado no ��ltimo cap��tulo deste trabalho.(AU)

A ADES��O PENTECOSTAL DE BANDIDOS E EX-BANDIDOS ��� UM ESTUDO SOBRE RELIGI��O E PERIFERIA NA FAVELA DO JARDIM S��O JORGE EM CIDADE ADEMAR - SP

A disserta����o preocupou-se em analisar as rela����es de bandidos e ex-bandidos com o pentecostalismo na Assembleia de Deus Fortificada em Cristo (ADFEC), situada na favela Jardim S��o Jorge, periferia da Cidade Ademar, regi��o Sul da capital de S��o Paulo. Interessou-nos compreender as intera����es desses agentes e de qual maneira a igreja desempenhou seu trabalho em um espa��o pentecostal. A pesquisa, teve como objetivo fundamental, examinar as aproxima����es da criminalidade e o pentecostalismo indicando suas rupturas e caracter��sticas peculiares. O trabalho de campo se dedicou em coletar dados que comprovassem atua����o da ADFEC juntos aos agentes do crime, e em que medida a filia����o religiosa dos agentes ganhava import��ncia. Por fim, buscamos refletir sobre a ades��o de bandidos e ex-bandidos ao pentecostalismo e a influ��ncia dessa ades��o no cotidiano da comunidade.

Punks and believers An ethnographic study of subcultural, religious and non-religious identities in Indonesian punk scenes

Punk subculture is often assumed to have an antagonistic disposition towards religion. In this thesis, I examine this relationship in the Indonesian context, where the level of religious devotion is higher than in Western societies. I concentrate on how Indonesian punks who belong to secular punk communities negotiate the relationship between their religious or non-religious and subcultural identities. In addition, I examine the status of religion on the collective level in the punk communities. I collected the ethnographic data on Java in 2012. In addition to semi-structured interviews and participant observation, the analyzed data consists of social media sites, punk records and an online enquiry. I utilized thematic analysis in the study. The notion of identity is understood the way Stuart Hall has conceptualized it. Another essential concept, affect, is derived from Lawrence Grossberg���s theorization. The religious participants separated punk and religion in their lives. Many Muslim informants used an Islamic typology to separate one���s personal relationship with Allah and one���s relationship with other people. While some participants filtered away certain elements of ���Western punk���, the majority of them saw ideological similarities between punk and Islam. This relationship was negotiated using both affective and ideological rationalizations. Non-religious punks respected religious people, but criticized radical forms of religiosity. Some of them described the difficulties of maintaining a non-religious identity in Indonesia, and that they have felt less marginalized in the punk community. Almost all of the participants stated that punk scenes should be religiously neutral and viewed integrating punk and religion as a problematic phenomenon.

Pentecostais na pol��tica capixaba : representa����o parlamentar da Igreja Assembleia de Deus nas elei����es (2002, 2006, 2010)

A presente disserta����o pretendeu observar a presen��a de candidatos da Igreja Evang��lica Assembleia de Deus no Estado do Esp��rito Santo no ��mbito de sua representa����o parlamentar no legislativo estadual nas elei����es de 2002, 2006 e 2010. Observou-se a rela����o entre religi��o e pol��tica ressaltando-se a expans��o evang��lica pentecostal, especificamente o caso da Assembleia de Deus. O estudo parte da ideia de que a escolha de l��deres dentro das estruturas institucionais religiosas tamb��m pode influenciar escolhas no ��mbito da estrutura social como, por exemplo, a escolha de lideran��as pol��ticas.

Conceptions of God and narratives of modernity : a hermeneutical interpretation of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age

M��moire num��ris�� par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Universit�� de Montr��al

A din��mica territorial da Assembl��ia de Deus do serid�� do Rio Grande do Norte

In the norte-rio-grandense backwoods is possible to join to the power forms both political and economical ones, religious groups keeping under your control areas, people and flow of them, as well as settling new places of acts. That control refers to a field of power delimited by space, in other words, it refers to a territory marked and planned to reproductive intentions on the space. In relation to the religious pluralism, the Assembly of God church, in your territorial dynamics, has been standing out by the strategies of delimitation and space increase which by a constant territorial division process (1943-2010) managed to widen material and symbolic scale of its power for all cities of the Rio Grande do Norte backwoods. The Assembly of God church as the greatest Pentecostal denomination of Brazil was formed in the Rio Grande do Norte Serid��, following a ecclesiastical and governmental model divided into three ecclesiastical fields hosted in those following cities: Caic��, Currais Novos and Parelhas. Those headquarters interlink a limited number of churches through normative codes, which they express a functional dimension (bureaucratic) and in another symbolic one (charismatic) in an only field of territorial control. In this manner, the maintenance of the territorial power in the Assembly of God church is done by a charismatic-bureaucratic administration, expressed in the interdependent of material and abstract mechanisms. The believers permanent contact toward those mechanisms of institutional control revealed territorial identities which causes a feeling of property of the believer as much to the Pentecostal belief system as to community of the Assembly of God church. Considering new possibilities of articulation of the Rio Grande do Norte backwoods towards others territories more multiple, culturally, noticed cultural adjustments and revaluation at themselves. In relation to the territory of the Assembly of God church this one has exposed itself defensive faced with that cultural hybridization tendency, resisting a closer dialogue to new symbolic elements, mainly those came from the multifaceted neo-pentecostal movement. Unlike more open and flexible churches towards others significant systems, The Assembly of God church tries to reinforce the boundaries of its territory considering by the orthodoxy of its routine and customs

Pedagogia pentecostal: quando a igreja age em espa��os que o poder p��blico ignora

P��s-gradua����o em Educa����o - FCT

Onde a luta se travar: a expans��o das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil urbano (1946-1980)

P��s-gradua����o em Hist��ria - FCLAS

EDUCA����O E A ASSEMBLEIA DE DEUS NO BRASIL: COMPARA����ES, RESULTADOS, TENDENCIAS

O ensino teol��gico nas assembleias de Deus come��ou em meio �� divis��o de grupos, dos que defendiam o ensino formal e os do que n��o concordavam com a aplica����o desta modalidade de ensino. No ano de 2011 a Assembleia de Deus fez 100 anos de exist��ncia, e na d��cada de 2000 houve uma procura acentuada em cursos de teologia, por ser uma ferramenta necess��ria e obrigat��ria para o desenvolvimento do fiel dentro da institui����o como ministro do evangelho, o que traduzindo seria o mesmo que a promo����o dentro de uma empresa, subindo na hierarquia. A Assembleia de Deus despertou o interesse de pesquisadores, havendo muitos trabalhos desenvolvidos sobre a institui����o. Mas falta ac��mulo sobre como tem se dado a educa����o nas Assembleias de Deus. Um dos m��todos de pesquisa foi o da pesquisa bibliogr��fica e as refer��ncias utilizadas na pesquisa s��o bem conhecidas no meio acad��mico como: Max Weber, Peter Berger, Paul Freston, Ant��nio Gouveia de Mendon��a, entre outros. O levantamento desses trabalhos, relacionados �� educa����o e a Assembleia de Deus no Brasil, possibilita compara����es, oferecendo resultados e divisando tend��ncias. Este trabalho apresenta, assim, uma breve hist��ria da Assembleia de Deus, funda����o, implanta����o e desenvolvimento, propondo por onde realmente come��ou essa institui����o eclesi��stica e principalmente a classe social que teve maior participa����o em sua g��nese na hist��ria brasileira. Ap��s o levantamento hist��rico, destacamos a an��lise das pesquisas que correspondem ��s exig��ncias desse trabalho. Procura-se, assim, encontrar subs��dios para uma contribui����o �� Institui����o, compreendendo os diferentes aspectos da educa����o na Assembleia de Deus, como tamb��m para uma melhor compreens��o dessa institui����o religiosa no contexto da sociedade brasileira.

Negotiating queer and religious identities in higher education: queering ���progression��� in the ���university experience���

This article addresses the negotiation of ���queer religious��� student identities in UK higher education. The ���university experience��� has generally been characterised as a period of intense transformation and self-exploration, with complex and overlapping personal and social influences significantly shaping educational spaces, subjects and subjectivities. Engaging with ideas about progressive tolerance and becoming, often contrasted against ���backwards��� religious homophobia as a sentiment/space/subject ���outside��� education, this article follows the experiences and expectations of queer Christian students. In asking whether notions of ���queering higher education��� (Rumens 2014 Rumens, N. 2014. ���Queer Business: Towards Queering the Purpose of the Business School.��� In The Entrepreneurial University: Public Engagements, Intersecting Impacts, edited by Y. Taylor, 82���104. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.) ���fit��� with queer-identifying religious youth, the article explores how educational experiences are narrated and made sense of as ���progressive���. Educational transitions allow (some) sexual-religious subjects to negotiate identities more freely, albeit with ongoing constraints. Yet perceptions of what, where and who is deemed ���progressive��� and ���backwards��� with regard to sexuality and religion need to be met with caution, where the ���university experience��� can shape and shake sexual-religious identity.

Warunki wst��pne interpretacji do��wiadczenia religijnego. Pomi��dzy ��logos spermatikos�� a ��qehal el��

Nowadays we observe social transformations that have no counterparts in previous ages. Social dependences are expressed in forms that change and increase with unprecedented intensity. Human beings in their individual experience, particularly religious, realize themselves through dynamic relations to the surrounding world, other people and God. People desire a deepened interpretation what they experience. In this article I seek research tools which can help investigations in the area of fundamental theology which is expected to transform or translate individual experience in a rational way into an objective interpretative pattern. We seek such models of reality, which will ground theological investigations in the social relation of an individual person to world [in general] and to transcendence. Two investigative categories from the Christian tradition are accepted in the article: logos spermatikos and assembly of God ��� qehal which especially take into account the salvific perspective of the history of creation. These notions allow us to describe phenomena not only as static; they also allow us to interpret dynamic relations underway in our time. In the accepted investigative model (model 2) both the beginning and the aim of creation are qualified as dynamic realities. They influence and react to everything that happens in creation. We should therefore interpret the precondition of individual religious experience as dynamic. This will let us describe the .transient relations. as a basis in these investigations. Such an approach will prevent us from deprecating individuality in favor of the community, or the reverse.

A monohydrate pseudopolymorph of 3,4-dihydroxybenzophenone and the role of water in the crystal assembly of benzophenones

During a polymorphism screening of hydroxybenzophenone derivatives, a monohydrate pseudopolymorph of (3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)(phenyl)methanone, C(13)H(10)O(3)center dot H(2)O, (I), was obtained. Structural relationships and the role of water in crystal assembly were established on the basis of the known anhydrous form [Cox, Kechagias & Kelly (2008). Acta Cryst. B64, 206-216]. The crystal packing of (I) is stabilized by classical intermolecular O-H...O hydrogen bonds, generating a three-dimensional network.