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Browsing by Subject "Christianity"
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American Law and Gospel: Evangelicals in the Age of Mass Incarceration
(2018)This dissertation charts the history of evangelical Christian influence in American criminal justice and prisons in the second half of the twentieth century. A work of cultural history that draws upon archival sources, newspapers ... -
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. ... -
Knowledge and Conversion in the Making of Western History, a Philosophical Investigation
(2023)In academia in general, and in the humanistic social sciences in particular, there is a problem. The "cruel optimism" of concepts is a problem faced by every specialization, and every discipline (Berlant 2011). In the social ... -
Out of the Church Closet: Hope for the Evangelical Covenant Church and Sexual Minorities in the Local Congregation
(2019)The Evangelical Covenant Church, like so many Christian denominations, is embroiled in conflict over homosexuality and gay marriage. This small North American denomination cannot afford a split, not only due to its small ... -
Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England
(2009)Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend ... -
Reimagining Relationship: What Autism Reveals About What it Means to Relate to God
(2021)Popular expressions of contemporary Christianity emphasize a version of the faith is not a religion, but a relationship. What would such a statement mean for people on the autism spectrum whose diagnosis in DSM-5 describes ... -
Reimagining Relationship: What Autism Reveals About What it Means to Relate to God
(2021)Popular expressions of contemporary Christianity emphasize a version of the faith is not a religion, but a relationship. What would such a statement mean for people on the autism spectrum whose diagnosis in DSM-5 describes ... -
Religionless Christianity for Today's Church
(2023)This thesis introduces a new interpretation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity from a missiological perspective. It will argue that religionless Christianity reflects Bonhoeffer’s theology of mission for ... -
Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
(2019)This dissertation examines how three ancient Christian poets scripted female biblical figures as models of emboldened faith for all to emulate. Through imagined speech and narrative embellishment, they brought familiar ... -
The life of leaders: an intensive health program for clergy.
(J Relig Health, 2012-12)Clergy suffer from chronic disease rates that are higher than those of non-clergy. Health interventions for clergy are needed, and some exist, although none to date have been described in the literature. Life of Leaders ... -
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Christian Practices: A Constructive Proposal
(2020)There continues to be strong interest in the arena of Christian formation, which isprimarily concerned with developing mature Christians in light of shifts in contemporaryviews on religion and its relationship to ethics. ... -
Undomesticated Sacrifice: Theologies and Genealogies of Desire
(2017)This dissertation approaches the question of Christian self-sacrifice through a particular problematic of race in the United States; specifically, where white supremacy “divides and conquers” by creating conditions ... -
Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
(2010)Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was one of the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical ... -
Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset.
(Journal of psychoactive drugs, 2011-01)Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses ...
