The Worldwide Church of God in Québec: A Case Study of a New Religious Movement in a "Distinct" Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Claude Rochon
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Worldwide Church Of God

Conversion to Christianity: A Bajju Case Study

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Carol V. Mckinney
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
British Colonial

Within a 55-year period, most Bajju (Kaje) of southern Kaduna State in northern Nigeria converted to Christianity. This research identifies factors that contributed to this widespread adoption of Christianity, including political, religious, sociological, and personal factors. Lack of political representation throughout the British colonial era and the imposition of Native Authority administration formed the context within which conversion occurred. While this structure of the administrative context tended to be oppressive to the non-Muslim ethnic groups, including the Bajju, from a Bajju perspective their widespread conversion to Christianity was a profoundly religious movement.

scholarly journals Jihad Against Drug Mafias: A Case Study of Community Collective Movement in Aceh

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nirzalin Nirzalin ◽  
M Nazaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Collective Movement ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Terror Bombing ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
The Village

Collective movement for drug eradication organized by the community was proved to be more effective in stopping drug trafficking than to the security approaches organized by the state apparatus (government). Based on the case study of communitys collective movement in the village of Ujoeng Pacu Lhokseumawe, this artilce is intended to show the complex phenomena of genealogy and the dynamics of the collective movement of the community in fighting the drug mafias. Using the Perspective of Tilly Collective Movement and the Method of Phenomenolgy, the study found that jihad collective movement on the drug eradication caried out by the community of Ujong Pacu was motivated by the rigging relationship among theological unrest, social and economical security, and concerns about the future generations. The consideration of the drug as the only trigger of any immoral (ma maksiet) activities towards Allah Almighty has made the flow of this movement not only significant to the social movement but also to theological movement (jihad). Due to its interpretation as a religious movement, the moral of the drug eradication movement was not deterred despite the various threats and the terror bombing as an act of counter-attack from the drug mafias occured repeatedly in the Ujoeng Pacus community.

Pathways to Druidry: A Case Study of ÁÁr nDraííocht Fééin

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
European Origin

Contemporary Druidry is a religious expression that claims ties to the ancient Druids of Indo-European origin. These ties are not necessarily historical as much as they are ideological. As one expression of this form of Druidry, ÁÁr nDraííocht Fééin (ADF) represents a vital and growing new religious movement in the United States and Western Europe. The question arises as to how people encounter ADF and what leads them to become adherents. This article analyzes field data to build a framework for understanding the various pathways to ADF. Utilizing the Lofland-Stark model of conversion, the article discusses conversion theory in light of the testimonies of adherents to ADF. The article concludes by suggesting that religious deprivation, religious identity, and religious legitimacy are factors that contribute to conversion and should be a focus of study in conversion theory.

ISLAMISM IN SOUTHERN EGYPT: A CASE STUDY OF A RADICAL RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Toth
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Arab Muslim

For years, religious violence and terrorism in Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt have splashed across the headlines and surged across the screen, announcing yet another round of senseless death and destruction. While Arabists and Islamicists attempt to pick their way carefully through the ideological and intellectual minefields to make sense of what is happening, the wider public generally disregards their insights and instead sticks to what it knows best: deeply ingrained prejudices and biases. Egyptian, Arab, Muslim—all are painted in a very unfavorable light. Even in Egypt, many bystanders show the same sorry prejudices. In the end, people simply blame the brutality on inexplicable backward religious ideas and then move on.

The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua's Return

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan J. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Instructive Case ◽  
Christian Beliefs

Based on interviews and ethnographic observation, this study builds on my previous research concerning the Twelve Tribes, an American communal new religious movement that emerged out of the Jesus People Revolution in the early 1970s and has since spread internationally. Having now sustained three generations, the Twelve Tribes constitute an instructive case study of doctrinal and religious change in a maturing religious movement. Among other things, this article discusses ways in which the Tribes have reduced their level of tension with secular society while also elaborating an amalgamation of Jewish and Christian beliefs and developing a distinctive communal way of life that attempts to restore the Apostolic Church of early Christianity.

scholarly journals What Is Bahai Orientalism?

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Nash
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Writing ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Islamic Society ◽  
The Way

Scrutinizing the literature of a modern religious movement this article argues that postcolonial theory can effectively be brought to the analysis of religions and religious writing. The case study focuses on the way in which colonialism impacted the Bahai faith in a specific and formative way, causing its leadership to present aspects of the faith’s development by employing the codes of Western Orientalism. Drawing on nineteenth and early twentieth-century European orientalist texts composed either about their own faith, or the Islamic society out of which it grew, the article demonstrates how these led Bahais “themselves [to]… adopt [..] an essentially Orientalist vision of their own community and of Iranian society”. Edward Said’s Orientalism throws light on an enduring situation in which mutual othering has crossed from culture and religion into politics, however since the late 1990s critics have demonstrated that Orientalism can function in more varied ways than Said allowed. Finally, the possibility is discussed as to whether there can be such a thing as a postcolonial Bahai scholar.

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