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Browsing by Department "Religion"
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A "Trinitarian" Theology of Religions? An Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
(2007-05-04)Contemporary theology is driven by a quest to make the doctrine of the Trinity “relevant” to a wide variety of concerns. Books and articles abound on the Trinity and personhood, the Trinity and ecclesiology, the Trinity ... -
A Beautiful Noise: A History of Contemporary Worship Music in Modern America
(2015)How did rock and roll, the best music for worshipping the devil, become the finest music for worshipping God? This study narrates the import of rock music into church sanctuaries across America via the rise of contemporary ... -
A Contemporary Analysis of Shifting Contours of Jewish and Christian Identities
(2021)This dissertation argues that the boundaries between ostensibly separable “Jewish” and “Christian” religious traditions were fluid in the past and remain so today through examination of four contemporary case studies evidencing ... -
A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(2010)The New Testament book known as the epistle to the Hebrews contains little obvious reference to Jesus' resurrection. Modern interpreters generally account for this relative silence by noting that the author's soteriological ... -
A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder
(2008-12-10)The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the ... -
A Prescription for the Future of Religious Studies: Second-Order Tradition and the Spirit of Modern Science
(2016-06-20)An examination of the efficacy of religious studies scholarship through a Kuhnian lens. -
After Eden: Religion and Labor in the American West, 1868-1914
(2018)Variously romanticized as the repository of American Protestantism, free market capitalism, and self-sufficient individualism, or defined by material actions of conquest and colonization, the history of the Rocky Mountain ... -
After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956
(2015)This dissertation examines the modern transformation of orthodoxy within the Otani denomination of Japanese Shin Buddhism. This history was set in motion by scholar-priest Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903), whose calls for free ... -
American Manna: Religious Responses to the American Industrial Food System
(2016)“American Manna: Religious Responses to the American Industrial Food System” is an investigation of the religious complexity present in religious food reform movements. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at four field sites. ... -
Aphrahat's Christology. A Contextual Reading
(2010)The present study represents an attempt at reading the views on Christ of fourth-century Syriac writer Aphrahat, author of 23 <italic>Demonstrations</italic>, within the context of coeval developments in Christian thought, ... -
Asceticism and the Other: Angels and Animals in the Egyptian Ascetic Tradition
(2019)The study of Christian asceticism in late antiquity has traditionally been anthropocentric, meaning there is a pervasive focus on ascetic practice as experienced and undertaken by humans in pursuit of a more holy self. More ... -
Attention to Suffering in the Work of Simone Weil and Käthe Kollwitz
(2018)This dissertation traces the ethical and conceptual connections between Weil’s account of attention and Kollwitz’s artistic practice of attention, especially attention to suffering. Attention, in Weil’s view, is a strenuous ... -
Authorship of 2 Timothy: Neglected Viewpoints on Genre and Dating
(2017-05-04)This thesis will explore the authorship, genre, and date of Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy. 2 Timothy, alongside 1 Timothy and Titus, constitute what scholars term the “Pastoral Epistles”. The Pastoral Epistles identify ... -
Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Construction of Communal Identity
(2008-06-25)Genesis is central to both hegemonic and counterhegemonic conceptions of communal identity. Read one way, the book undergirds contemporary assumptions about the nature of communality and the categories through which it is ... -
Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration
(2013)In this dissertation, I argue that the conceptual grammar of Augustine's thought provides a way of re-thinking the public/private distinction as it has been developed in modernity. The dissertation consists of two parts. ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
(2010)This dissertation introduces readers to the major figures and features of the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel. It argues that these diverse expressions of Christian faith-fuelled abundance can be understood ... -
Building a Mountain of Light: Niẓām al-Dīn Gīlānī and Shīʿī Naturalism Between Safavid Iran and the Deccan
(2019)With the revival of Imāmī or “Twelver” Shīʿa Islam in the Safavid Empire (1501- 1722) of Iran, histories of its clerical elite have emphasized the overt juridical mechanisms that they erected in support of their imperial ... -
Building a Natya Shastra: Individual Voices in an Evolving Public Memory
(2011)In this project, I reassess fundamental assumptions about tradition, classicality, and authenticity by exploring how artists of various Indian dance forms construct and engage these terms in the retelling of the history ... -
Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism
(2021)Nearly half a century ago, acclaimed jazz musician Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), marital partner of saxophonist John Coltrane, began disseminating Hindu (Vedanta) teachings and jazz-inflected bhajans (songs of praise) in her ...
