The Jedi Census phenomenon attracted the attention of sociologist of religion Adam Possamai who discusses it in his book Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament.

The sociologist of religion Adam Possamai describes these types of religions / spiritualities as hyper-real religions due to their eclectic mix of religion / spirituality with elements of popular culture and their connection to the fluid social structures of late capitalism.

Examples cited by Adam Possamai, of the University of Western Sydney, include Jediism and Matrixism.

Possamai ’ s study placed Jediism in the context of a specific methodological classification (‘ hyper-real religions ’) and attempted to demonstrate that hostility existed towards new religions in Australia.

Possamai uses the term ' hyper-real religion ' to describe these religions mixed with popular culture, arguing that they are part of the consumer logic of late capitalism and are enhanced by the growing use of the internet.

These include: A Pinch of Salt, a 1980s Christian anarchist magazine, revived in 2006 by Keith Hebden as a blog and bi-annual magazine ; Vine & Fig Tree founded by Kevin Craig in 1982 ; Jesus Radicals founded by Mennonites Nekeisha and Andy Alexis-Baker in 2000 ; Lost Religion of Jesus created by Adam Clark in 2005 ; Christian Anarchists created by Jason Barr in 2006 ; The Mormon Worker, a blog and newspaper, founded in 2007 by William Van Wagenen to promote Mormonism, anarchism and pacifism ; Academics and Students Interested in Religious Anarchism ( ASIRA ) founded by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos in 2008.

* Adam Storey Farrar ( 1863 ), Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion ( Bampton Lectures 1862 )

It is explained in depth in the essay, " Entire Sanctification " by Adam Clarke as well as, later, in Articles of Religion in the Book of Discipline of the Methodist Church.

# " The Religion of the Open Mind " by Adam Gowans Whyte

With very similar language between it and Article VII of the Manual, Article VIII states, " The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will " ( emphasis added ), language that was taken directly from Article X of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion adopted by the Church of England in 1563.

Current faculty include Religion scholar Wendy Doniger, theologian David Tracy, sociologist Hans Joas, literary theorist Thomas Pavel, theorist of German literature David Wellbery, classicist James M. Redfield, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, medieval historian David Nirenberg, philosopher Robert B. Pippin, Nobel Laureate economist Robert Fogel, classicist Laura M. Slatkin, historian of science Lorraine Daston, physician and philosopher Leon Kass ( former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics ), political theorist Nathan Tarcov, and poet Adam Zagajewski.

The use of low forms of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that was universally panned at the time as the only event that could bring Douglas Crimp and Hilton Kramer together in a chorus of scorn.

Popular head coach Adam Rita was dismissed in September as the team struggled to find its way, Matt Dunigan left for Winnipeg as his replacement, Rickey Foggie struggled as the starting QB.

Popular sessions included " Podcasting " with Adam Curry, " Overload " with Robert Scoble, and " Making Money " with Doc Searls.

: Death in Mexican Popular Culture by Harvey Stafford, edited by Adam Parfrey, illustrated by J. G. Posada, photographs by the ¡ Alarma!

Popular Shia belief ascribes cosmological importance to the family in various texts, wherein it is said that God would not have created Jannah ( heaven ) and earth, paradise, Adam and Eve, or anything else were it not for them.

The Age of the Passions: An Interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish Enlightenment Culture.

It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

* Tomczik, Adam, "' He-men Could Talk to He-men in He-man Language '": Lumberjack Work Culture in Maine and Minnesota, 1840 – 1940 ," Historian Winter 2008, Vol.

The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and The Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Japan, Ultravox, Visage, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, ABC and Culture Club.

* Webb, Adam K., Beyond the Global Culture War, Routledge, Jan 2006 ISBN 0-415-95313-8

* Apocalypse Culture, edited by Adam Parfrey, interview with Sotos ( Amok Books, 1990, ISBN 0-922915-05-9 )

* Apocalypse Culture II, edited by Adam Parfrey, chapter by Sotos ( Feral House, 2000, ISBN 0-922915-57-1 )

Its 1980s and 1990s mainstream success were fueled by its signing and releasing of albums by such acts as Michael Jackson, Shakin ' Stevens, Culture Club, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Adam Ant, Living Colour, Prong, Dead or Alive, Europe, Cyndi Lauper, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Sade, Luther Vandross, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Céline Dion among others.

* Adam Zamoyski, The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1994, ISBN 0-7818-0200-8.

Pioneers included Visage and Ultravox and among the commercially most successful acts associated with the movement were Adam and the Ants, Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran.

In September, the choir appeared in the Jugendkulturfestival Basel (" Basel Youth Culture Festival ") as well as The Glue's Lala Blabla Pomme d ' Adam Festival.

In a review in the The New York Times, Adam Cohen found Free Culture to be a " powerfully argued and important analysis ," where Lessig argues persuasively that we are in a crisis of cultural impoverishment.

Pioneers included Visage, Japan and Ultravox and among the commercially most successful acts associated with the movement were Adam and the Ants, Culture Club, The Human League, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran.

Early features on Trevor Brown's art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me!

Winton left Pick of The Pops on Saturday 30 October 2010 due to other work, and he counted down the charts from 1959 and 1983 with classics from Culture Club, Fats Domino, The Cult, Adam Ant and Dickie Valentine.

* Adam Zamoyski, The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1994, ISBN 0-7818-0200-8.

"— Adam Parfrey, editor of Apocalypse Culture

* Apocalypse Culture edited by Adam Parfrey ( Amok Press, 1988, ISBN 0-941693-02-3 )

* Apocalypse Culture: Revised and Expanded edited by Adam Parfrey ( Amok Press, 1990, ISBN 0-922915-05-9 )

* Apocalypse Culture II edited by Adam Parfrey ( Feral House, 2000, ISBN 0-922915-57-1 )

Vocals are sung by guest artists including Sarah Brightman, Moya Brennan of Clannad, Adam Young of Owl City, Andrea Corr of The Corrs, Colbie Caillat, Sarah Howells of Welsh emotional folk / indie band Paper Aeroplanes, Ben Becker, Peter Heppner of synth pop band Wolfsheim, MiLù-also known as Mila Mar, Xavier Naidoo, Maya Saban, Kim Sanders formerly of Culture Beat, Ana Torroja of the Spanish pop group Mecano, Tarja Turunen formerly of power metal group Nightwish, Despina Vandi, Alexander Veljanov of Darkwave group Deine Lakaien, Swedish singer September.

The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

Neither the Eastern Orthodox Church nor Protestantism accepts the concept of a limbo of infants ; but, while not using the expression " Limbo of the Patriarchs ", the Eastern Orthodox Church lays much stress on the resurrected Christ's action of liberating Adam and Eve and other righteous figures of the Old Testament, such as Abraham and David, from Hades ( see Harrowing of Hell ).

The east window of the chapel depicts twelve biblical scenes: the top six depict scenes from Jesus ' life ( including the Last Supper ), whilst the six below depict corresponding scenes from the Old Testament ( including Adam and Eve at Creation and the whale spitting out Jonah ).

Dodd quotes as a cautionary example Augustine's allegorisation of the Good Samaritan, in which the man is Adam, Jerusalem the heavenly city, Jericho the moon-the symbol of immortality ; the thieves are the devil and his angels, who strip the man of immortality by persuading him to sin and so leave him ( spiritually ) half dead ; the priest and levite represent the Old Testament, the Samaritan Christ, the beast his flesh which he assumed at the Incarnation ; the inn is the church and the innkeeper the apostle Paul.

In the Old Testament, the names of individuals are meaningful ; for example, Adam is named after the " earth " ( Adamah ) from which he was created.

* The Testament of Adam: an Examination of the Syriac and Greek Traditions, ( SBL ) 1978

The third mention is in the Epistle of Jude ( 1: 14-15 ) where the author attributes to " Enoch, the Seventh from Adam " a passage unknown in the Old Testament.

The term Harrowing of Hell refers not merely to the idea that Christ descended into Hell, as in the Creed, but to the rich tradition that developed later, asserting that he triumphed over inferos, releasing Hell's captives, particularly Adam and Eve, and the righteous men and women of Old Testament times.

The doctrine does not appear in earlier apocalyptic, in which the angels have the task of watching over the bodies of the saints ( Life of Adam, 46-47 ); and in the New Testament, Jude 9, following the Assumption of Moses, and indeed is more reminiscent of the Hellenistic doctrine of the angel-escorts of the soul, though it does not in fact derive from it.

A short section of 1 Enoch ( 1 En 1: 9 ) is quoted in the New Testament ( Letter of Jude 1: 14 – 15 ), and is there attributed to " Enoch the Seventh from Adam " ( 1 En 60: 8 ).

Examples of Old Testament pseudepigrapha are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees ( both of which are canonical in the Abyssinian Church of Ethiopia ); the Life of Adam and Eve and the Pseudo-Philo.

Mahalalel was a son of Kenan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam in the Old Testament of the Bible.

The Testament of Adam is a Christian pseudepigraphical work extant in Syriac and Arabic.

* Early Jewish Writings: Testament of Adam, a discussion of the work.

* Sacred Texts: Christianity: Testamentum Adami, an English translation of the Testament of Adam by E. A. Wallis Budge.

Adam, Testament of

It is a late part of the broad family of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha literature which includes the Life of Adam and Eve, Apocalypse of Adam, Testament of Adam and Books of Adam.