Browsing by Subject "Religion, History of"
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
(2009)Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
(2009)This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. ... -
Constituting the Protestant Mainline: the Christian Century, 1908-1947
(2008-11-19)Scholars, journalists, and religious leaders in the twentieth century widely hailed The Christian Century as the most influential Protestant magazine in America. This dissertation investigates the meaning of such praise. ... -
Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis
(2010)This dissertation lays the groundwork for a reevaluation of early Protestant understandings of salvation in the sixteenth century by tracing the emergence of the confessional formulation of the doctrine of justification ... -
Divine Exposures: Religion and Imposture in Colonial India
(2009)My dissertation interrogates the figure of the priestly charlatan in colonial India. It begins in a theoretical register by arguing that the unmasking of charlatans serves as a metonym for the secularizing procedures of ... -
"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 ... -
Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
(2008-12-10)My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with ... -
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 ...
