Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "C. Melissa Snarr"
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Attanasi, Katherine (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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VanHooser, Sarah Elizabeth (2009-06-24)Department: Community Research and ActionProstitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts ...
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Jones, Diana L. (2008-12-30)Department: Human & Organizational DevelopmentThis dissertation highlights the role of congregations in civic participation and illuminates the role of spirituality within the process of congregation based community organizing (CBCO). Empowerment (psychological, ...
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Cowser, Angela Rosita (2012-12-20)Department: ReligionUntil 1990, most black and progressive churches in Namibia were proponents of a contextual variant of liberation theology. In it, Black churches and liberationists who were bound together by suffering, oppression, and ...
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Moiso, Aimee C. (2020-01-14)Department: ReligionPreachers who seek to address conflict or controversial issues from the pulpit often encounter homiletic models that either encourage taking a stand (the “prophetic”) or keeping the peace (the “pastoral”), both of which ...
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Coley, Jonathan Scott (2015-12-18)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I trace the biographical pathways of activists mobilizing to make Christian colleges and universities more inclusive of LGBTQ students. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 65 LGBTQ ...
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Daniels, Brandy Renee (2017-06-21)Department: ReligionExamining the turn to practices in contemporary theological method, a trend that has its roots in postliberalism but has become common in feminist theology, this dissertation identifies and challenges the ways in which ...
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Bartlett, Virginia Latham (2010-08-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores women’s decision-making and experiences with the medical, social, and moral issues of open-uterine surgery to repair spina bifida. Part I identifies the medical and ethical discourses that typically ...