Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2008-08-12)Department: ReligionIn the early 1960s the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entered a period of conflict and change including disputes over biblical interpretation and women’s ordination. The Biblicist and Autonomist parties emerged and ...
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(2019-06-13)Department: ReligionJewelry practices in Tibet have been portrayed in past scholarship as entangled in the worldly vices of indulgence and wealth display. According to this reading, a study of bodily adornment in Tibet has no place within the ...
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(2019-05-15)Department: ReligionAlthough the field of homiletics has engaged performance studies as interdisciplinary partner to analyze preaching as a performance event, establish how sermons are always performance events, and how performance studies ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: ReligionPastoral theological response to families facing disabilities must be shaped by a critically-understood concept of care that both clarifies disability experiences in families, church, and society, and is attentive to ...
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(2007-02-15)Department: ReligionThis thesis investigates the problem of the disappearance of the Church, which is a result of the fracture of Christian praxis. First, the problem is introduced and outlined according to the maxim that the Church can only ...
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(2015-04-05)Department: ReligionTo understand the phrase “become all eye”, I will first examine optical imagery in Eastern Christianity as it relates to a theology of vision and theological anthropology. The occurrence of optical imagery in Eastern ...
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(2008-04-16)Department: ReligionWithin ancient Near Eastern studies, scholars have challenged the concept of dualistic gender division generally and, more specifically, with regard to texts and practices. They have raised the prospect for a more nuanced ...
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Between the horny and holy: womanist sexual ethics and the cultural productions of "No More Sheets". (2010-04-17)Department: ReligionThis dissertation utilizes a womanist cultural analysis to evaluate religious media and its implications for black women’s sexual decision-making. The dissertation offers a constructive womanist sexual ethics that uses ...
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(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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(2013-04-09)Department: ReligionMy doctoral dissertation examines the use and interpretation of the Bible as a religious text and source of Unitarian identity, focusing specifically on four leading figures within Unitarianism from the years 1803-1865. ...
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(2018-11-13)Department: ReligionOne question guides this dissertation: what is a text? Answering this question pushes the boundaries of biblical studies, prompting more considerations: is a text limited to the words written on pages and inscribed in ...
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(2013-04-09)Department: ReligionBlack authenticity is a false concept created by early European thinkers to overpower African people. Later the New Negro intellectuals used this misconception to compete with whiteness. However, their connotations of black ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation closely reads the public rhetoric and performance of three monumental figures in black religious discourse - Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton – in order to trace how a personality-centered ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: ReligionRepresentation is a trap for engaging the experiences of Black women in religious thought. The failure to capture the experiences of all Black women in religious thought is characteristic of the scholarly aesthetic of ...
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(2019-06-18)Department: ReligionThis study contributes to a diagnosis of how Christian ideas of peoplehood fund imaginations of race in the United States. Where many scholars examine how the Christian designation of “chosen peoplehood” legitimates claims ...
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(2014-04-08)Department: Religion“Call the Question” critically examines the gap between women’s divine inward call to preach and the institutional outward endorsement of the call to preach. This project is concerned with women’s call to preach and how ...
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(2009-01-08)Department: ReligionRELIGION CAN THESE BONES LIVE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF IMAGES OF THE BLACK CHURCH CHARLES EDWARD BOWIE Dissertation under the direction of Professor Victor Anderson This project is concerned with images ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that religious and cultural media are socially organized technologies of power that reproduce, maintain, circulate, and exchange historical myths on black womanhood, which black women and girls ...
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(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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(2013-12-04)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the problem of pressuring victims to forgive in three contexts. The restorative justice movement views responding to crime as a question of restoring relationships rather than—or sometimes in ...