The Edge of Possibility: Susan Warner and the World of Sunday School Fiction

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Sondra Smith Gates
Keyword(s):  
Sunday School ◽  
Susan Warner ◽  
The World

Christian Worship as Dramaturgical Model: A Study of the Use of Drama in Nigerian Churches

Imbizo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogungbemi Christopher Akinola ◽  
Patrick Ebewo ◽  
Olufemi Joseph Abodunrin
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
School Children ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Method Approach

Humans are actors on the stage called earth. It was William Shakespeare, the quintessential dramatist, who asserted that the world is a stage and all the men and women are merely players who have their exits and their entrances. In some churches, drama is employed as a tool in evangelism, while in others, it is an avoidable distraction, relegated only for use by teachers who instruct Sunday school children. However, in spite of a dearth of widespread support for church drama, more churches seem to utilise theatre and drama in their worships. It is assumed that while hearers sometimes struggle to remember verbalised sermons, the same sermons might be remembered if they are dramatised with the embellishments that scenery, stage props, music, dance, lighting, costume and dialogue bring. This article reports on an investigation into the assumption that drama is one of the timeous tools used to proclaim the timeless truth of scripture. It draws on a mixed-method approach of quantitative and qualitative methods for the study conducted in four churches in three Nigerian cities. Its historical perspective attempts to sketch major empirically grounded features of Christian worship as dramaturgical model. It further reveals the inseparable fusion of religion, theatre and drama. Findings from the study indicate that theatre and drama have become prominent in Christian worship in Nigeria in the last few years. It also suggests that theatricals and dramatics are possible reasons some churches experience numerical growth. 

Preaching the Gospel in Academy and Society

1992 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
William C. Placher
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
College Mathematics ◽  
World Book ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Division ◽  
As If ◽  
Mathematics Department

“Many academics turn from church or synagogue sometime in early adolescence, and their image of religion remains what they learned in fourth grade Sunday School. It is as if one assumed that the curriculum of a college mathematics department culminated in long division, or that biological research consisted exclusively in gathering the leaves from different species of trees and pressing them flat under three volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia. If those no longer involved with churches want to update their views of religion, they sometimes turn their television dials to the cable evangelists and find most of their prejudices confirmed.”

scholarly journals Dampak PandemiCovid 19 Terhadap Spiritual Dan Sosial Mahasiswa Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yokhebed Palinoan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Abstract: COVID-19 is an outbreak of chinese disease that is spreading rapidly around the world. COVID-19 spread in Indonesia in early March 2020. The spread of this virus causes losses for many countries especially in the field of economics. In addition to education, COVID-19 also has an impact on religion in various ways, including the cancellation of religious worship and sunday school closures, as well as the cancellation of pilgrimages, ceremonies and festivals. Many churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are worshipping online. This is certainly very influential on the aspects of student and student affairs, especially the spiritual and social aspects especially for students of the Toraja State Christian Institute. This research is a qualitatively scripted study that describes how the corona virus impacts the spiritual and social students of the Toraja State Christian Institute. The subject consists of 4 students. Data collection using interviews. The data in this study is in the form of online interviews through WhatsApp which is the answer to the subject of the covid-19 impact on students. Based on the results of the interview, that in the spiritual aspect there are certainly good and bad as well as the social aspect there are good and bad as well.Keywords: Impact, COVID, spiritual, social.Abstrak: COVID-19 merupakan wabah penyakit yang berasal dari Tiongkok yang menyebar dengan cepat ke seluruh dunia. COVID-19 menyebar di Indonesia pada awal Maret 2020. Penyebaran virus ini menyebabkan kerugian untuk banyak negara terutama dalam bidang ekonomi. Selain dalam bidang pendidikan, COVID-19 jugaberdampak pada agama dalam berbagai hal, termasuk pembatalan ibadat berbagai agama dan penutupan sekolah minggu, serta pembatalan ziarah, upacara dan festival. Banyak gereja, sinagog, masjid dan kuil mwlakukakan ibadah melalui daring. Hal ini tentunya sangat berpengaruh pada aspek-aspek kehiduupan pelajar dan mahasiswa terutama aspek spiritual dan sosial terkhusus bagi mahasiswa Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian diskriptif kualitatif yang mendeskripsikanbagaimana dampak virus Corona terhadap spiritual dan sosial mahasiswa Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja. Subjek terdiri dari 4 mahasiswa. Pengumpulan data menggunakan wawancara. Data dalam penelitian ini berupa wawancara online melalui WhatsApp yang merupakan jawaban dari subjek meruppakan deskripsi dari penggaruh COVID-19 terhadap mahasiswa. Berdasarkan hasil wawancara, bahwa pada aspek spiritual tentu ada baik dan buruknya begitu juga dengan aspek sosial ada baik dan buruknya juga.Kata Kunci: Dampak, COVID, spiritual, sosial.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE WORLD

1930 ◽  
Vol 19 (76) ◽  
pp. 583-592
Author(s):  
Robert M. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Sunday School ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Richard Arman Gregory, 1864-1952

1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 410-417
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Vice Presidency ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
Wesleyan Church ◽  
John Gregory

Richard Arman Gregory was born in Bristol on 29 January 1864. His father was John Gregory, the poet cobbler, whose memory is perpetuated in Bristol by a bust in the Kingsley Hall. His mother was Fanny Arman. His parents lived to celebrate their diamond wedding in July 1916. John Gregory was one of a pioneer band of social reformers, actively engaged in establishing the socialist and labour movements. Among others of that group were Ben Tillett, Jim O’Grady (afterwards Sir James O ’Grady, British High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of Australia), and Ramsay Macdonald. Richard Gregory remained, to the end of his life, a Radical friendly to the views of the political party that these men helped to found. His father— following his own Devonshire parent, a shoemaker of Bideford—was also an active and devoted Methodist, and Richard in his boyhood developed a keen interest in the local Wesleyan Sunday School and sang as a boy alto in the Wesleyan church choir. Later he moved away from the religious outlook of his childhood, as is shown by his Presidency of the Ethical Union and his Vice-Presidency of the Rationalist Press Association; but that his interest in religion had been maintained is clear from his membership of the National Unitarian Fellowship and his Vice-Presidency of the World Congress of Faiths, the body founded by Sir Francis Younghusband.

Seeing Protestant Icons: The Popular Reception of Visual Media in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 406-428
Author(s):  
David Morgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twentieth Century America ◽  
Do So

Although it is commonly asserted that Protestantism bears an intrinsic antagonism toward images, this claim is manifestly, contradicted by a long history of the production and use of images among Protestants the world over. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, British organizations such as Hannah More’s Cheap Repository and the Religious Tract Society, and a host of tract and Sunday school societies formed in the United States, all made zealous use of illustrated tracts, handbills, broadsides, newspapers, magazines and books in order to address the disparity between the small number of evangelists and the vast number of those requiring evangelization. Founded in 1825, the American Tract Society invested unprecedented sums in materials and technology to illustrate its tracts and children’s literature and attracted the best wood engraver in the United States to do so. British and American tract producers explicitly felt that illustrations were a strong form of appeal to children and the semi-literate, such as immigrants and the poor. And they happily relied on images in urban settings to compete with secular advertisements and the rival trade of books and pamphlet sellers.

The Return of Liberal Judaism to Germany

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Jan Mühlstein ◽  
Lea Muehlstein ◽  
Jonathan Magonet
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
State Funding ◽  
World War Two ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
World War ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
German Cities

AbstractThe German Jewish community established after World War Two was shaped by refugees from Eastern Europe, so the congregations they established were Orthodox. However, in 1995 independent Liberal Jewish initiatives started in half a dozen German cities. The story of Beth Shalom in Munich illustrates the stages of such a development beginning with the need for a Sunday school for Jewish families and experiments with monthly Shabbat services. The establishment of a congregation was helped by the support of the European Region of the World Union for Progressive Judaism and ongoing input from visiting rabbis. The twenty years since the founding of the congregation have also seen the creation of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany, the successful political struggle for a share of the state funding for Jewish communities and the establishment of the first Jewish theological faculty in Germany.

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