Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2013-04-11)Department: ReligionDissertation under the direction of Professor Douglas A. Knight The story of Esther has a complex history of transmission and interpretation. This project examines the Hebrew (Masoretic Text) and Greek versions (Septuagint ...
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(2008-07-17)Department: ReligionStructurally and substantively, the two ancient Near Eastern folktales The Poor Man of Nippur and The Eloquent Peasant have a great deal in common. Both tales tell the stories of lower stratum protagonists whose livelihoods ...
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(2018-04-13)Department: ReligionThis thesis seeks to interrogate theological embodiment through a liturgical lens. We seek to understand how the logic of the State — the logic of capitalism, precarity, and use — has insinuated itself into notions of ...
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(2010-04-17)Department: ReligionThis project examines the concept of responsibility in relation to genetics and emerging genetic biotechnologies, with specific reference to preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and predictive genetic testing. I contend ...
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(2023-11-13)Department: ReligionThe thesis of this dissertation is that Christian theology is captured in the metaphysical models of its time, which establish for theology what counts as reasonable and plausible. This thesis is explored in light of the ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: ReligionRELIGION RIGHTEOUS GENTILE AND DIVINE DAUGHTER: AN ANALYSIS OF BAT PHARAOH’S CHARACTER AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN TIMES DANIELLA PRESSNER Thesis under the direction of Professor Annalisa Azzoni This ...
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(2006-01-10)Department: ReligionRELIGION ROMANS 13 AND THE MARKET ECONOMY SUBJECTION, REFLECTION RESISTANCE: A THREE DIMENSIONAL PROCESS OF EMPOWERMENT MONYA A. STUBBS Dissertation under the direction of Professor Daniel Patte Critical biblical ...
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(2012-03-25)Department: ReligionGod invites us to share in holy communion in the whole of life. Holy communion is the feast of wholly charitable life together through which we participate in the holy nature and work of God’s perfect love. The problem ...
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(2019-06-14)Department: ReligionThe “prophetic immanence” of James Baldwin’s racial and gender sexual politics as it relates to his experience with the black Christian church and the civil rights freedom struggle serves as symbol of hope, redemption and ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: ReligionTraditionally, Judaism has constructed barriers to separate itself from Christianity. Anti-Christian apologetics fill the Talmud, and, as a result, function as the fundamental premise for centuries of Christian-themed ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that affect is a critical element of worship. One of the reasons people go to church or go to one church instead of another is because of how worship makes them feel. The subjective nature of feeling ...
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(2019-06-25)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is about sexual violence and the problem of belief. In today’s social landscape, discourse on sexual violence often includes anxiety around what it means to believe survivors, which survivors ought to be ...
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(2021-03-23)Department: ReligionLate Antique Persia from the 3rd through 9th century AD was a center of religious plurality and change. Persia was a thriving center of a number of religions such as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and, after the ...
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(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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(2005-12-09)Department: ReligionThe interpretation of body of Christ (soma christou) in 1 Corinthians is a pressing contextual/ideological concern for me because its predominant interpretation as an ecclesiological organism characterized by unity and ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a multidisciplinary theological critique of whiteness. The project models a critical theological analysis grounded in a mixed-methods study of white Christian discourse about race between May 2020 and ...
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(2020-01-14)Department: ReligionPreachers who seek to address conflict or controversial issues from the pulpit often encounter homiletic models that either encourage taking a stand (the “prophetic”) or keeping the peace (the “pastoral”), both of which ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: ReligionIn recent decades, feminist exegesis has had a profound and wide-ranging effect on biblical studies. Many scholars have treated the accounts of Jael in Judges 4 and 5 from a feminist perspective, examining the interplay ...
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(2008-04-01)Department: ReligionThis paper offers a reformulation of Christological kenosis and its implications for Christian discipleship in light of the confusion surrounding “self-emptying” language and the painful ramifications of its prescription ...
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(2014-07-29)Department: ReligionThe principal objective of this dissertation is to read the Apocalypse as resistance literature in the interest of suffering readers through the construction of a new hermeneutic of liberation. I suggest a cultural studies ...