Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2004-04-07)Department: ReligionRELIGION ON THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: A STUDY OF THE PROPHETIC PRAGMATISM OF CORNEL WEST, THE CHRISTIAN REALISM OF REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND THE THEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS RONALD ...
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(2005-06-15)Department: ReligionThis project examines how the controversy on Confucian religiosity has shaped the conceptualization of Confucianism and of religion, and how it has contributed to the understanding of Chinese tradition and modernity in ...
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(2020-03-27)Department: ReligionThis dissertation develops a theological address to capitalism’s problematic work-ethics by extending the recent work of political Augustinianism into the economic sphere. In particular, I argue that a doctrinally coherent ...
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(2008-12-29)Department: ReligionThis dissertation reconsiders the importance of the preacher, the music, and the frenzy (a construction introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois in his 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folk) as core concepts for understanding African ...
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(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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(2016-04-20)Department: ReligionThis dissertation offers a reading of Kierkegaard as an apophatic author. I argue that his apophaticism is at heart an ethical-religious problematic, one that concerns itself with the “whylessness” of existence. Existence ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I have raised a question about the Korean ethnic church’s failure of playing a pivotal role of leadership including proposing new visions for Korean immigrants in America, when it was urgently needed ...
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(2011-04-26)Department: ReligionSTUDY OF RELIGION PICTURING THE GODDESS: BAZAAR IMAGES AND THE IMAGINATION OF MODERN HINDU RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Zo Newell Thesis under the direction of Prof. Richard J. McGregor This project inquires into the role of ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: ReligionGiles Firmin (1613/14-1697) was one of many migrants to the Bay Colony in the early 1630s that returned to England in the mid-1640s. Settling in rural Essex, Firmin received Presbyterian orders in 1648, but he spent the ...
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(2009-09-21)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the importance of critical social theory for womanist theology and ethics. Womanist theo-ethical discourse has done well in explaining the manner in which culture representations have contributed ...
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(2012-03-30)Department: ReligionThis project develops a homiletic for preaching persuasively about race in white American evangelical congregations. I analyze racism in America through the lens of critical race theory, stressing the prevalence of ...
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(2011-04-12)Department: ReligionOne of the notable lacks in current homiletic literature is a paucity of reflection on the work of the Holy Spirit and the relationship between that work and the task of preaching. This is true even in postliberal homiletics, ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: ReligionW. E. B. Du Bois claimed that the unasked question posed to Black people in the early 20th century was “how does it feel to be a problem?” This 21st century dissertation inverts Du Bois’ question, asking, “how does ‘the ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: ReligionThis dissertation seeks to connect the notions of race and religion to the scholarly construction of Judaism and Jewishness (Judentum) by analyzing the work of nineteenth–century German Protestant biblical scholar Wilhelm ...
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(2012-12-20)Department: ReligionUntil 1990, most black and progressive churches in Namibia were proponents of a contextual variant of liberation theology. In it, Black churches and liberationists who were bound together by suffering, oppression, and ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the mechanisms within the healthcare industry that shape the trajectory of reproductive health outcomes for individuals made vulnerable by social and political marginalization. The dissertation ...
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(2012-03-28)Department: ReligionMy project examines the construction of the feminist pastoral subject. Moving between theory and practice, I reflect on data I gathered by interviewing hospital chaplains on best practices of gender specific pastoral care ...
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(2009-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a thematic exploration of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the early national period of American history. Between the years 1784 and 1835, the denomination achieved unprecedented numeric growth, ...
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(2013-04-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines the early theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), from his student years to the completion of his habilitation essay in 1930. The unity of Bonhoeffer’s theology, previously unnoticed, lies ...
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(2016-07-29)Department: ReligionPsychotherapists’ interest in Buddhist traditions, once described as a new popular trend, should today be considered an established feature of the mental health field in the United States. Recognizing their religio-cultural ...