Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2011-12-05)Department: ReligionThis project offers comprehensive theory to explain the origin of certain Pentateuchal passages that though few in number contrast sharply with the dominant traditions regarding the divine revelation at Mt. Sinai/Horeb. ...
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(2006-04-11)Department: ReligionThis project is about spirit possession and its meanings from many disciplines, including theology, psychology, anthropology, and religion. In this dissertation, I explore experiences of spirit possession by women in many ...
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(2008-07-26)Department: ReligionDissertation under the direction of Professor Fernando F. Segovia. </br> <br> This dissertation approaches the Acts of the Apostles from the optic of postcolonial criticism. I argue that the Lukan community struggles to ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: ReligionRead together as a narrative whole, the parables and stories in Luke 18:1-30 illustrate various examples of humanity’s call to respond to and participate in the kingdom of God. For generations, biblical scholars interpret ...
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(2021-03-17)Department: ReligionThis dissertation asserts the value of Black girl voices and regards their unique ways of knowing as valuable epistemology and, therefore, challenges Womanist theology’s current treatment of Black girl narratives. I frame ...
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(2014-07-17)Department: ReligionThis study focuses on biblical Manasseh as a tribal entity, a territorial region, and a literary construct to explore facets of ancient Israel’s history and the ways in which it (re)constructed this history in the biblical ...
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(2002-11-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a genealogical examination of the construction, representation, and disputation surrounding the meaning of sexual acts identified under the rubric of sadomasochism. I argue for an enlargement and ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: ReligionThe Gospel of Matthew and the rabbinic compilation Genesis Rabbah draw on Scripture in order to portray individuals as symbols of biblical Israel that respond to present concerns about sin and forgiveness. Matthew’s Vineyard ...
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(2021-09-17)Department: ReligionMt 19:12 introduces three groups of eunuchs: eunuchs engendered that way from mother’s womb (εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς ἐγεννήθησαν), eunuchs made eunuchs by people (εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες εὐνουχίσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων), ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: ReligionHistorically religion has been a powerful agent of social justice and activism within black communities. It has also been a means of organization and agency for countless blacks in areas of politics and education. However, ...
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Miracles and the Kingdom of God in Mark and Q: Christology and Identity Among Jesus’ Early Followers (2016-07-25)Department: ReligionMark and the hypothetical gospel source Q both portray Jesus as a miracle worker and as proclaimer of the coming kingdom of God. Comparing the ways Mark and Q depict Jesus in these roles demonstrates two distinct ways of ...
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(2022-06-07)Department: ReligionBehemoth and Leviathan featured in the divine speech in Job 40–41 have been noted for their obscure nature; they have sparked a diverse range of interpretations and receptions over the course of history. While Jewish ...
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(2016-07-28)Department: ReligionIt is well known that the early Stuart and Interregnum periods witnessed an explosion of interest in the organizing potential of covenantal ideas. This study attempts to explain and interpret this interest by integrating ...
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(2013-03-11)Department: ReligionMusics and the Generosity of God appeals to French theological phenomenology, a re-translation of Heidegger’s concept of "Ge-Stell," and an analysis of musical compositions from the postwar avant-garde to critique the ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: ReligionThis is a study of wartime civil religion within American Christianity. I focus on a specific ideological manifestation of civil religion I call messianic interventionism--the belief that America can and should intervene ...
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(2009-04-10)Department: ReligionSecret names are a common folkloristic concept found in the Ancient Near Eastern society. The thesis examines four stories of various cultures in the Ancient Near East in search of secret names and how they relate to the ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: ReligionNarrative critics of the Hebrew Bible can describe the biblical narrators as “laconic,” “terse,” or “economical.” The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters ...
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(2008-04-07)Department: ReligionRELIGION NATURAL THEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY IN DARWIN’S TIME: DESIGN, DIRECTION, SUPERINTENDENCE AND UNIFORMITY IN BRITISH THOUGHT, 1818-1876 BOYD BARNES Dissertation under the direction of Professor Dale A. ...
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(2014-04-11)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the religious situation of mass incarceration in America. I employ the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz to investigate the deeply sedimented meanings that legitimate and rationalize mass ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: ReligionCan American medicine responsibly integrate patients’ religious beliefs into their end-of-life care? What is the clinical ethics consultant’s role in this process? In this dissertation, I attempt to answer these questions ...