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Browsing by Subject "Religion"
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21st Century Ecumenism: The Local Church as a Model for Unity and Diversity in a Fragmented World
(2023)This thesis introduces readers to the rich tradition of the ecumenical movementand explores how emerging new strategies can benefit congregations as well as facilitate healing in our fractured and divisive world. It argues ... -
A Maladjusted King: Theological Resistance and Nonconformity in an American Prophet
(2018)In response to Nassir Ghaemi, an academic psychiatrist who presumes a mental illness and genetic abnormality in Martin Luther King, Jr., this project contends that King was a decidedly maladjusted prophet who dramatized ... -
A Model For Revitalizing Urban Churches Facing Decline
(2021)This project seeks to introduce a model for revitalizing urban churches that have experienced decline (i.e., membership, money, and morale). Social Justice, Prophetic Preaching, Missional Stewardship, Intergenerational Ministry, ... -
A Model For Revitalizing Urban Churches Facing Decline
(2021)This project seeks to introduce a model for revitalizing urban churches that have experienced decline (i.e., membership, money, and morale). Social Justice, Prophetic Preaching, Missional Stewardship, Intergenerational Ministry, ... -
A More Excellent Way: Dispute Resolution and Community Formation in Paul's Corinthian Ministry
(2015)St. Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth provides an important resource for the work of dispute resolution. The letter reveals Paul’s unique approach to conflict. Using modern categories of alternative dispute resolution ... -
A Work of Love: Horace Underwood and the Formation of White Korean Christianity
(2018)Christianity in South Korea has long been touted the one success story in Asia, dubbed the “Korean miracle,” whose traction and trajectory of explosive growth are unanimously traced back to the Protestant missionaries who ... -
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 ... -
“All We Had Was God and Each Other”: How the Transformational Leadership of Black Clergywomen Disrupts Male Dominance and Patriarchal Normativity in the Black Church
(2022)Despite the significant contributions made by African American women since the Black Church's founding, titles like pastor, bishop, and reverend for centuries have been freely awarded to men while being restricted to women. ... -
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. ... -
An examination of the contemporary challenges to the pastoral authority of a Christian chaplain who ministers in a secular medical institution with implications for holistic care
(2015)ABSTRACTLori Anne BrownDuke Divinity School, 2015Primary Advisor: Esther AcolatseAssistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and World ChristianitySecondary Advisor: Dean Sujin PakAssistant Research Professor ... -
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 ... -
At the Threshold with Simone Weil: A Political Theory of Migration and Refuge
(2012)The persistent presence of refugees challenges political theorists to rethink our approaches to citizenship and national sovereignty. I look to philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), who brings to the Western tradition her ... -
Banished from the City: The Exilic Ecclesiology of Luke-Acts
(2023)This dissertation examines those scenes in Acts where members of the church are banished, exiled, or displaced from the city, such as Acts 8:1, 13:50, and 16:35-39. It argues that Luke-Acts presents the church as a community ... -
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. ... -
Both Citizen and Saint: Religious Integrity and Liberal Democracy
(2011)In this dissertation, I develop a political liberal ethics of citizenship that reconciles conflicting religious and civic obligations concerning political participation and deliberation--a liberal-democratic ethics of citizenship ... -
Bridging and Bonding: How Diverse Networks Influence Organizational Outcomes
(2015)Although many organizations aspire to be diverse, both in their internal composition and external collaborations, diversity's consequences for organizational outcomes remain unclear. This project uses three separate studies ... -
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 ... -
Building Church Community in a Digital Age
(2019)This paper examines how individuals’ social interactions are influenced by the media environments they inhabit (Media Ecology) and the consequent impact on the practice of developing community in the local church (Ecclesiology). ... -
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 ...
