Browsing by Author "Bonnie Miller-McLemore"
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Davis, Carolyn Jane (2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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Bratt Carle, Jessica Lynne (2019-09-18)Department: ReligionNarrow and oversimplified views of children animate the contemporary adult-centric healthcare landscape. The dominant principlist approach in medical ethics reinforces those constrained views by giving disproportionate ...
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Coble, Richard Randolph (2017-03-29)Department: ReligionThe dissertation begins with an autoethnographic account of my own experiences as a CPE chaplain resident and current PRN hospital chaplain in order to explore wider relationships between pastoral care and dominant health ...
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Van Zee, Karla D. (2011-04-08)Department: ReligionThis dissertation focuses on essays from forty-eight college students in which each student answers the question: What has been your biggest “a-ha moment” in college? I argue that a rich, thick, and complex set of lenses ...
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Yun, Myounghun (2016-08-23)Department: ReligionEmergent images of masculinities in contemporary men’s movements and mass media are expressive of an increased concern for reimagining men’s roles and identities in a changing society. Androcentric assumptions and connotations ...
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Liao, Monica Smatlak (2006-11-28)Department: ReligionWhite conservative Protestants (fundamentalists, evangelicals, charismatics, and Pentecostals) in the early twenty-first century United States construct for themselves a religio-cultural identity by which they hold themselves ...
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Zagatta, Elizabeth R. (2011-10-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation takes its lead from the neglect in the field of pastoral theology to reflect on and respond to the role and ambiguities of everyday sexual experience in human suffering, healing, and flourishing. I speculate ...
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Capretto, Peter (2019-08-22)Department: ReligionBringing together phenomenological and relational analyses through a critical correlational method, this dissertation asks whether empathy can help religious caregivers broaden their consciousness of marginalized persons ...
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Brault, Emily R. (2005-07-15)Department: ReligionSWEATING IN THE JOINT: PERSONAL AND CULTURAL RENEWAL AND HEALING THROUGH SWEAT LODGE PRACTICE BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN PRISON EMILY R. BRAULT Dissertation under the direction of Professor Volney P. Gay This project is ...
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Stotts, Jonathan Andrew (2016-07-26)Department: ReligionThe sacrament of penance, known also as reconciliation and confession, plays a central role in Roman Catholic pastoral care, both as a practically significant ritual for a small percentage of American Roman Catholics and ...
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McKissick, Sierra JeCre (2017-04-05)Department: ReligionIn this thesis I offer a critique of the United States health care system and posit that a better relationship between the social sciences and theology could pave the way for better public health programs and services. My ...