Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Religion"
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(2018-07-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation revitalizes and revisits the historical category of polemic by arguing for the existence of a distinct subgenre within polemic that was constructed as oral university-style disputation. It does by first ...
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(2019-04-01)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an empirical study of neoliberal urban redevelopment in the U.S. It considers how race, class, and gender shape twenty-first century cities. While neoliberal urban redevelopment has pronouncedly negative ...
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A Critique of Christian Development as Resolution to the Crisis in U.S. Protestant Foreign Missions (2009-12-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that development has failed in fulfilling one of the primary tasks that it set for itself as an expression of Christian mission. Christian development failed to resolve the crisis in Christian ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: ReligionSince the beginning of the slave regime, African American interpreters have turned to the Bible define meaning and to address the brutality of racism that their communities faced. Central to that search for meaning has ...
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(2008-10-01)Department: ReligionThis project provides a concrete theory and effective theological model of spiritual and psychological development for contemporary Korean Christians. Three interconnected major challenges of Korean spiritual and psychological ...
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(2018-03-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation constructs a theological anthropology for ecofeminist theology. In spite of their insistence that human beings need to feel “at home on the earth,” ecofeminists have not developed a theological anthropology ...
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(2001-05)Department: ReligionThe dissertation is a history covering the years from 1912-1963 of the Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). COGIC, the largest African American Pentecostal denomination, founded in 1897, has a Women's ...
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(2015-05-13)Department: ReligionI propose that five socio-ecclesial codes as an integrative homiletic-hermeneutic are essential in rendering Asian/Korean American diasporic Protestant preaching culturally relevant, theologically rich, and communicatively ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that pneumatology is the performative discourse of participation in Jesus Christ. I claim that for both theologians trinitarian ...
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(2009-05-01)Department: ReligionThe focus of this dissertation is Michelangelo’s late-life development in his art and his life. While the recent decades in religion and personality have included more work on gender and ethnicity, there remains relatively ...
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A Solid Black Hyphen: Race, Religion, Identity, and the Black Power Activism of Gayraud S. Wilmore (2020-03-30)Department: ReligionIn 1963 the United Presbyterian Church appointed black minister Gayraud S. Wilmore as head of its new racial justice commission. In that post, as the top racial justice official for one of the largest, wealthiest, most ...
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(2008-12-06)Department: ReligionA United Methodist theology of service is developed in the general context of United Methodist sacramental theology. Baptism, as a sign of covenant with God, marks the entry into a Christian life of service in the world. ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation seeks to strengthen the relationship between preaching and adolescents. I begin by narrating a critical homiletic history of adolescence in North America, showing how a once fruitful relationship ...
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(2012-07-27)Department: ReligionAlthough the ideal of sexual renunciation was gaining popularity within many Christian groups in the second and third centuries, Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian stand out as two early Church Fathers who defended ...
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(2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: ReligionAmbiguity, Liminality, and Unhomeliness in the Book of Judges: An Analysis of the Gendered Pairs and Families by Jennifer Johnson Williams Dissertation under the direction of Professor Jack M. Sasson This dissertation ...
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(2006-04-14)Department: ReligionCelestial divination may be understood as the interpretation of celestial phenomena as signs portending the occurrence of future events. In ancient Mesopotamia, schools of professional diviners and scholars existed as ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: ReligionThis dissertation presents evolutionary and developmental science models that integrate attachment theory and mentalization theory with mindfulness meditation. Attachment researchers study the quality of the evolved bond ...
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(2012-07-31)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines the differing construals of the public/private relationship as distinction, hierarchy and, paradox, and the theoretical implications of these construals, in order to gain clarity on the public ...
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(2009-07-17)Department: ReligionThis is the beginning of our writing and our writing is about the relationship between Abraham and his sons, it is about how this relationship affects all relationships, how the relationship between Abraham and his sons ...