Researchers studying religious experience have identified callings as a particularly salient context in which believers describe God’s presence. They noted standard elements that make up call narratives, along with variation how recipients articulate both the vertical call, intervention believer’s life, and horizontal community’s response. However, these are combined to produce culturally reson...

in the third century, the political multiplicity of iran was influential on various thoughts and expansion of the opposite religious interactions. benefiting from the attention towards the masses of people and equalizing among them, murjae and hanafiae could affect iran and missionaries deeply. in the middle of the third century, with the shafei’s influence in the fascinating cities of ray, ne...

BACKGROUND Given the university students' model role in the society and the importance of period of university education in selecting behavioral methods and lifestyles in the future have made it necessary to study the smoking pattern and its associated factors and complications among students. The aim of this study was to compare religious attitude and mental health between smoking and non-smok...

This paper examines the concept of God in traditional Igbo-African religious thought, prior to advent Western religion, with a view showing that idea God/Deity who is supreme every area life and sphere influence “creates out nothing,” like Christian or missionaries, unrecognized thought. Even though Igbo conceive strong powerful deities can only reign within their respective where they are char...

In 1902, the Norwegian Missionary Society (NMS) sent its first missionaries to central Hunan, China, preach and set up a local Lutheran Church. Missionaries in China traditionally had sense of religious superiority. At that time, Chinese Christians were experiencing series national crises, their desire for self-reliance correlated with rise consciousness. Hunan’s demanded autonomy Church, causi...

This paper considers the future transformation of management theory and practice towards greater sustainability by framing it as a battle competing faiths rather than logics. We apply lens ‘syncretism’, process that describes religious faith interactions to understand critical role ‘missionaries’ ‘believers’ in business progress sustainability. Using analogical reasoning, we argue missionaries ...

Missionaries are no strangers to students and researchers of the British Empire. The hackneyed image of the rough-hewn Anglican vicar preaching salvation, Christ, and colonialism to legions of natives is one of the enduring archetypes of British colonialism. This image, like so many similar ones, is not without basis in historical fact. Missionaries played a notable role in British imperial exp...

Nowadays the global changes process and various developments in various fields of economic, social and cultural rights at the national level have led to present the issue of religion in the country as a sub-category alongside other categories and it is on the sidelines. The aim of this study is to investigate the practices and factors affecting attitudes to religion among high school students i...

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

Jesus commands the Church to its reason for existence: preaching Good News of salvation all (Mt 28:18-20). For restoration in Christ, magisterial theology mission Catholic emphasises this mandate. The Vatican II document Ad Gentes restricts "missionaries" "priests, Religious, or laymen" who are distinct from but sent "to all". Deacons excluded. As baptised and ordained Christians, permanent ...