Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2015-07-14)Department: ReligionIn 1893 Phillips Brooks died the best-known preacher of his generation and a beloved pastor to the city of Boston. His death abbreviated his life but not his influence. A diverse archive preserved memories of him and his ...
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(2023-07-13)Department: ReligionThis project focuses on Christian theological superiority vis-à-vis religious others, arguing that notions of Christian normativity and ultimacy are affectually entangled in Christian theologies and embodied practices. In ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: ReligionThe author of 1 Peter adapts aspects of a Greco-Roman socio-cultural expectation, that of the hierarchically ordered relations within households, and prescribes this adaptation for the behavior of certain members of the ...
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(2009-09-21)Department: ReligionThis study employs qualitative methods to describe black South African women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS in two Pentecostal church communities. It analyzes beliefs and practices, connecting gender roles and divine healing ...
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(2019-03-14)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I look into the issue of the politics of language in the early Christian movement through reception analysis, contextual-theoretical analysis, socio-historical analysis, and exegetical analysis. The ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I argue that pastoral theologians must better understand crises of intercultural misunderstanding and help repair them. Pastoral theologians study human suffering and fulfillment in relation to ...
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(2016-04-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION Dissertation under the direction of Professor Herbert R. Marbury Biblical daughters - female members of the household who are not yet mothers - execute particular tactics to navigate antagonistic systems ...
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(2023-11-18)Department: ReligionIn this thesis, I examine legal documents of the Jewish community in the Cairo Geniza from c.1000 to 1150 CE to investigate the gap between loan agreements and actual repayment streams in medieval Egypt under Fatimid rule. ...
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(2024-02-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation delves into the multifaceted exploration of Afro-Caribbean feminist activism in Puerto Rico, shedding light on its significance and impact within the context of ongoing colonization. It critically examines ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: ReligionAudre Lorde wrote A Litany for Survival where she posited that “it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive” and that in the end what we are seeking is “a now that can breed futures”. The ability to ...
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(2015-12-17)Department: ReligionIn Matthew 26-27, questions surrounding the identity of Jesus come into sharp focus: the repetition of the title ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων in the trial scenes that comprise the passion narrative accents its pivotal role. ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: ReligionThis dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground the “self” circularly ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: ReligionA critical field of memoirs that has not had the mainstream academic or popular attention afforded to many environmental narratives is the hunting memoir. Hunting is a well-established cultural icon among more conservative ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: ReligionDiaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative in popularizing and expanding the nomenclature ...
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(2007-01-26)Department: ReligionStudies of the Solomonic Temple rely on the descriptive account found in 1 Kings 5-9 as the most extensive source available for understanding the form of the ancient temple. Although the description is superfluous by ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis thesis investigates the notion of divine inscrutability as expressed in Wisdom Literature of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. Working with a definition that Wisdom Literature is a group of texts that advocates a way ...
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(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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(2017-04-04)Department: ReligionHomileticians have felt the pressure and the apathy of emerging postmodern cultures about the church and its preaching. From Clyde Reid to Fred Craddock, John McClure to David Lose, Lucy Rose to Sarah Travis—the hunch has ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: ReligionThe images and theologies of the Trinity during the transition from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages have remained largely unstudied as a phenomenon. In this regard, the Creation folio of the sixth-century Ashburnham ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: ReligionBlack women’s bodies are experienced as a moral dilemma due to the markers of the race and sex that render them as demonized other. Such formulations sanction America’s social hierarchies, animate violence and neglect of ...