Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2018-07-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines the divergent theological visions of the Eucharist found in the works of Louis-Marie Chauvet and John Milbank. In particular, this dissertation examines the ways in which both thinkers utilize ...
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(2012-04-10)Department: ReligionI conducted ethnographic research on ritual, race, evangelical faith, and southern civil religion in the rural West Tennessee community of Bald Eagles. I asked: What can death rituals disclose about Southern evangelical ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: ReligionThis study explores the theological background to an highly acrimonious facet of the fourth century disputes provoked by Arius, namely the place of the will in Trinitarian discourse. By late antiquity, the will had assumed ...
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(2015-12-23)Department: ReligionThis thesis analyzes tricksters within African and African American literature and oral culture as figures signifying methods of criticism that can enhance modern preaching practices. This project relies upon Afro-American ...
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(2007-10-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an historical and critical study of sound as spiritual power in Qawwali, the Islamic devotional music of the Chishtiyya Sufi order of South Asia. My intention is to show that music and religion are, ...
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(2012-08-14)Department: ReligionEver since rumors of a “Golden Bible” began circulating in the late 1820s, the Book of Mormon has occupied a singular place in the American popular imagination. It has been revered as scripture by Latter-day Saints and ...
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(2011-08-05)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tanner’s way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific modes of Christian discourse (everyday theologies) and more specialized, ...
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(2011-04-13)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with the development of the scene of sermon invention in the field of homiletics. In this dissertation, I trace the development of the ways in which homiletic theory and pedagogy has treated the ...
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(2002-12-11)Department: ReligionEcological feminists have identified a conceptual dualism in western philosophy and religion. According to their analyses, this dualism is a conceptual structure which supports gender, racial and ethnic oppression and the ...
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(2011-04-11)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of the Fundamentalist movement on Southern Protestantism during Fundamentalism's formative period. While Southern Baptists were fearful of Fundamentalist institutions that sought ...
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(2016-04-07)Department: ReligionDominant readings of Luke’s gospel account tend to flatten the presence of children in Luke’s narrative into a handful of scenes. These scenes are typically treated as the exception rather than the rule of Jesus’ ministry ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: ReligionRELIGION FORGIVE US, AS WE FORGIVE: A REFORMED POSITION ON THE VISIBLE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH SARAH GRACE SANDERSON-DOUGHTY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Paul DeHart This project in constructive theology ...
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(2016-08-23)Department: ReligionEmergent images of masculinities in contemporary men’s movements and mass media are expressive of an increased concern for reimagining men’s roles and identities in a changing society. Androcentric assumptions and connotations ...
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(2008-06-24)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with racism in Churches of Christ. In this dissertation I explore the manner in which African American members of Churches of Christ moved on a trajectory from segregation to independence from ...
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(2021-06-15)Department: ReligionIn 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman ...
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(2007-04-25)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with exploring how gender socialization affects males, females, and causes gender-conflict on masculinity. I apply a pastoral care approach for treating perpetrators of military domestic violence ...
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(2008-04-10)Department: ReligionThis dissertation elaborates and evaluates the proprieties of genetic counseling as they are accounted for in three models: 1) the teaching model 2) the psychotherapeutic model and 3) the responsibilist model. The ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: ReligionWomen are ubiquitous in the Primeval History. Yet, they are erased from biblical genealogies and have often been negatively interpreted in biblical reception history. Cain’s wife (Gen 4:17), Adah and Zillah (Gen 4:19-22), ...
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(2008-07-08)Department: ReligionLuke 8:1-3 and 18:35-19:10 are two uniquely Lukan scenes which are meant to evoke similarities between Jesus and Dionysus. Luke’s intentional comparison constructs an apologia that is a response to allegations of Jesus’ ...
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(2012-03-28)Department: ReligionRELIGION HER PREACHING BODY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN MEANING, AGENCY AND PROCLAMATION IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE PREACHERS AMY P. MCCULLOUGH Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ted A. Smith While homiletics has ...