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Au Revoir Paris, Bonjour Pékin en Afrique Francophone ?
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
(2022)My dissertation explores the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eduard Mörike, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and it contends that these modern poets retain, albeit uneasily, a view of things as symbols of the transcendent ... -
Storm, Stress, and Sexual Revolution: Economies of Desire in the German Literary Avant-Garde of the 1770s
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"Our Seeds Sprouted:" The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
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Caregiver Perspectives on Social Support for Individuals Living with Psychotic Disorders in Tanzania
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Your Mental Health Data is For Sale! The Impact of Data Brokers on the Exchange and Use of Mental Health Data and the Related Implications on the Personal Privacy of Depressed and Anxious Individuals
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Non-Genetic Littoraria Fitness: How Size, Environment, and Health Affect Survivorship of Predator Interactions
(2022-05)Marsh periwinkles (Littoraria irrorata) have many predators. When they encounter one, traits of both the periwinkle and its environment should contribute to whether or not it escapes. A better understanding of how these ... -
Soldiers of Yellowstone: The Role of the U.S. Army in the World’s First National Park
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Exploring Relationships with Food, Body, and Exercise at an Elite University: Determinants of Patterns of Disordered Eating
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"A New England in All But Name"
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Forgetting to Remember: The Creation of Seventeenth-Century French Calvinist Identities under the Edict of Nantes
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Keeping it Beta: Social Innovation & The Black Church. A Case for Strategy, Design & Social Change.
(2022)God created . . . and it was good. People of faith are a part of God’s work of creation that from the beginning of time has created and innovated without fail. A mantra of the ecumenical Black Church is that we serve a God ... -
Food, Justice, and the Church: How Local Churches Can Better Serve Black Communities Through Food Pantries—and Why They Should
(2022)This thesis seeks to examine how churches might better practice Jesus's command to “love your neighbor” (Matt. 22:37) through food pantries that primarily serve Black communities. Although churches believe they exemplify ... -
The Possible Church: Stories of Those Who Have Led White Churches into a Multiethnic Reality
(2022)As the number of multiethnic churches in the United States continues to rapidly increase, predominantly white congregations perpetually struggle to contribute to this trend. Stories of formerly white churches achieving a ... -
Fumbling With Love: The First Step Toward Cultivating A Beloved Community A Bible Study Addressing Four Psychological Barriers to Racial Reconciliation
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What Role Does The Black Church Play in Reducing recidivism
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God’s Journey Home: Toward a Theology of Migration and Home from the Americas
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Toward an Ecclesiology of Presence: Understanding the Church as a Thin Place Where Heaven Touches Earth through the People of God
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Transformed by Missions: Studies in the Sacrificial, Formational, Holistic, and Transformational Aspects of Missions
(2022)The work of missions has been integral to the church’s identity since Jesus commissioned his followers to make disciples, to teach, to baptize, and to tend to the needs of his people. In the long history of the church, missions ...
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