Browsing by Subject "Religion, General"
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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 ... -
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, ... -
Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
(2010)The medium of performance art locates both the art-making subject and the art object in the body of the artist. Performance art thus serves as an appropriate medium for integrating the complex, repetitive, and often unconscious ... -
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity
(2010)In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in terms ... -
Limits of Conversion: Islamic Dawa, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
(2009)Tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers, women working and residing within Kuwaiti households, have taken shehadeh, the Islamic testament of faith over the past decade. Drawing on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork ... -
Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship and Interracial Existence
(2009)To exist racially "in-between," has been characterized as a tragic existence in the modern world. The loneliness and isolation of these lives have given rise to the term the "tragic mulatto." The dissertation Mulatto Theology: ... -
"See and Read All These Words": the Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah
(2009)Unusually for the Hebrew Bible, the book of Jeremiah contains a high number of references to writers, writing, and the written word. Written during the exilic period, the book demonstrates a key moment in the ongoing integration ... -
The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
(2009)This dissertation examines the translation and printing of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic of Turkey (1820-1938). As most Islamic scholars deem the Qur'an inimitable divine speech, ... -
The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The <italic>Summa Theologiae</italic> and <italic>Piers Plowman</italic>
(2010)This dissertation draws on the virtue ethics tradition in moral theology and moral philosophy for inquiries regarding the acquired and infused virtues, virtue's increase and remission, and virtue's relation to sacramental ...
