Browsing by Subject "Narrative"
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A Journey Chronicling Memories of Grief and Loss
(2018-04-18)Abstract Storytelling is a natural and necessary human behavior. Stories connect us to our past, our present, and, most importantly, to each other. They tease our imaginations and stir our emotions. Certain stories are ... -
Confession, Sexuality, and Desire in the Decameron
(2019-06-12)This essay discusses how in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the stories of I.1, III.3, VI.7, and VII.5 subvert the fundamentally religious and juridical activity – confession – to serve a wholly different and erotically-charged function. ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Finding Meaning in Organized Religion: A Practical Theology for the Church's Mission with Millennials
(2020)This thesis develops a practical theology for mission with Millennials. This theology engages in an Empirical Task as it gathers data; engages in an Interpretive Task as it reviews the multi-disciplinary conclusions drawn ... -
Forming Person: Narrative and Psychology in the Victorian Novel
(2014)This dissertation argues that the Victorian novel created a sensory self much like that articulated by Victorian physiological psychology: a multi-centered and process-oriented body that reacts to situations and stimuli ... -
Gashes Creek: Christian Leadership Through a Narrative Lens
(2014)What follows is a novel. I had a two-fold purpose in choosing to work in narrative. My primary intention was simply to explore the nature of Christian leadership through a narrative lens. More specifically, I have attempted ... -
If Lee Kuan Yew Were A Pastor: Reflections on Lee's Relevance for Christian Leaders
(2020)Pastors, especially senior pastors of churches with larger congregations and staffteams, have to provide leadership, not only in the typical pastoral sense ofpreaching/teaching and counseling/caring, but also in terms of ... -
Otome Games: Narrative, Gender and Globalization
(2019-04-04)The goal of the thesis is to answer the question of how otome (maiden) games, despite their heavily cultured origins, have been able to create playable romance narratives that a global audience can understand, relate, play, ... -
Re-Membering Redemption: Bearing Witness to the Transformation of Suffering
(2012)My subject is the redemption of profound suffering. I begin with the presumption that there is no suffering beyond the redemptive reach of God's grace. Drawing on insights from a number of academic disciplines, as well ... -
Schools’ Role in Shaping Youth Collective Memory of Conflict and Experiences of Sectarianism in Lebanon
(2015-01-08)This study analyzes Lebanese and Palestinian youths’ memories of sectarian conflict, their sources of knowledge, and how their memories shape their experiences of current sectarian divides. From 1975 until 1990, Lebanon ... -
The Stories We Tell Ourselves; Narrative Repentance and True Stories of God, Self, Church, and Creation
(2022)This thesis outlines how a Christian leader can guide the faithful to live their life rightly in light of true stories of God, self, Church, and Creation. Each of us perceives, contextualizes, and interprets our experiences ...
