Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2012-07-30)Department: ReligionThesis under the direction of Professor Shaul Kelner This thesis investigates how evangelicals accommodate doubt into a theology that more or less demands certainty. By interviewing members from two area evangelical ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: ReligionKate Cumming(1835-1909) was an Confederate woman who lived in Alabama from 1840 until 1909. During her life she was a nurse, teacher, author, and was very devoted to the Episcopal Church. Through research into her private ...
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(2006-10-30)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the effects of consumerism on identity and consumerism’s misunderstanding of freedom and identity. The dissertation argues that identity cannot be easily defined because paradoxically it does not ...
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(2024-03-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines theological and ecclesiological approaches to Christian community, identity, and belonging from an Asian/American and postcolonial feminist perspective. Specifically, I examine how the Kachin ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: ReligionThis dissertation in pastoral theology explores the pain and healing discovered through the parallels of im/migration and sexual identity (re)construction. It grows out of autoethnographic reflection and the search for ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: ReligionThe short stories of J. J. Steinfeld and Lev Raphael reveal Second Generation sons’ strong identification with their mothers and their Holocaust experiences. While the mother-son relationships depicted in J. J. Steinfeld’s ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: ReligionHistorically, interpretations of Eve in Genesis 3-4 have been largely limited to matters of sin and gender (in)equality. Consequently, for some communities for whom Genesis has functioned and continues to function as ...
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Incommensurable Paradigms: The Competing Theological Claims of Black Pietism and Black Liberationism (2017-12-04)Department: ReligionSince its inception in the publication of James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power in 1969, academic black theology has viewed itself as the contemporary embodiment of the liberationist impulse that gave rise to black ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: ReligionThis study considers the category of religion, the phenomena ostensibly contained therein, and the cultural forces that often manage to evade or insulate themselves against critique by positioning themselves (or by being ...
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(2021-03-21)Department: ReligionDoes awareness of interdependence with human and nonhuman others produce a moral commitment to social responsibility? This dissertation examines “interdependence” in its political, economic, quanto-bio-cosmic, and moral ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: ReligionMy dissertation explores the otherness of minor characters in the Gospel of John beyond a model of binary opposition. The recent trend of Johannine scholarship is to perpetuate negative portrayals of the minor characters, ...
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(2009-08-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION JESUS THE BORDERLANDER: HYBRIDITY AS SURVIVAL STRATEGY AND MODEL FOR POLITICAL CHANGE——A CULTURAL REPRESENTATION FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN LETICIA AÍDA GUARDIOLA-SÁENZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2008-03-20)Department: ReligionRELIGION JOHN COTTON: THE ANTINOMIAN CALVINIST GREGORY ALLEN SELMON Dissertation under the direction of Professor James P. Byrd This project is a theological assessment of John Cotton’s life and ministry. This ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: ReligionThe relationship of the Gospel of John to the Synoptic Gospels has been a perennial question since the patristic era, and yet there has been little sustained focus on John's connection to Matthew. Scholars have predominantly ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis study argues that the story of the book of Jonah may be interpreted as a transformation of a familiar topos in which the protagonist undergoes a rite de passage during a quest that takes him towards a foreign land. ...
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(2006-11-28)Department: ReligionWhite conservative Protestants (fundamentalists, evangelicals, charismatics, and Pentecostals) in the early twenty-first century United States construct for themselves a religio-cultural identity by which they hold themselves ...
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(2017-12-06)Department: ReligionThis thesis will claim that applying the concepts of J.L Austin’s speech act theory to Søren Kierkegaard’s practice of indirect communication will provide insight into the performative aspects of indirect communication and ...
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(2020-03-10)Department: ReligionA prominent female voice, that of the personification of “Daughter Zion,” emerges from the poetry of Lamentations 1-2, demanding divine justice in the wake of disaster. Using a theoretical framework that draws upon reception ...
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(2010-07-28)Department: ReligionThis study proposes that Deuteronomic debt release (Deuteronomy 15:1-11) in its contours and its performance is an extra-economic compulsion functioning as a legal paradigm for socio-economic organization in the struggle ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: ReligionRELIGION LASHON HA-RA (THE EVIL TONGUE) AND THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH UNITY CHARLES BERNSEN Dissertation under the direction of Professor Shaul Kelner The premise of this project is that the ancient rabbinic prohibition ...