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In the inchoate field of comparative genocide studies, religion and sexual violence remain largely understudied. Using typologies as an investigative tool, this study examines the 1995 Bosnian and 1994 Rwandan genocides as case studies....
In SALVATION PHILOSOPHY FOR TODAY, Melinda Wilson explores questions and grievances regarding feminism, everyday sexism, motherhood, fertility, marriage, love and domesticity. The poems approach and unearth our darkest appetites in...
Florida's Department of Corrections (DOC) currently operates the largest state-run faith-based correctional facilities program in the United States. In these facilities, the state sequesters inmates from the larger inmate population and...
In this project I call for a reconsideration of Feuerbach's place in philosophy and the study of religion. His name is recognizable in these fields usually as a marginal or "bridge" figure, facilitating a shift from one thinker to the...
Engaging with the many questions surrounding the proper relationship between religion and politics in a liberal democratic state, this dissertation focuses on the contribution that can be made by rethinking the tradition of liberal...
This doctoral thesis studies the life and writings of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, a 10th century Saxon canoness within the Ottonian Empire. Hrotsvit's decision to write, and thus enter the male-dominated literary realm, places her within a...
In liberal democracies, debates about the status of women and debates about the authority of religious legal-moral systems often converge in the area of family law. Focusing on domestic violence, I show a patriarchal bias pervades both...
In 2015, Pope Francis published his second encyclical entitled Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. The encyclical’s primary purpose was to address the widespread inequality, poverty and injustice that threatens to worsen as we...
This dissertation considers the theological writings of Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (1810-1903), better known to history as Pope Leo XIII. During his papacy (1878-1903), Leo began many important new traditions which have had...
In this dissertation, I draw on feminist moral philosophy to bolster the pragmatist argument that ethics is ultimately the study of communities and the moral norms implicit in their social practices. In doing so, I offer a response to...
This dissertation stems from an ethnographic experience, i.e., a course on the Six Healing Sounds of Qigong taught by Dr Yu Zhang, which I and other students attended in 1991 in Los Angeles, California. The course led to the following...
This thesis is about nineteenth-century American Methodist circuit riders. They wrote autobiographies in order to define the denomination in response to changes it underwent during the first half of the nineteenth century.
This study focuses on the practice of Spiritualism among a group of Afro-creole men from 1858 until 1877 in New Orleans. It contends that Spiritualism was the process in which these Afro-creoles envisioned the proper social, political, ...
With reference to her poetry, prose, and visual arts from the 1910s to the 1950s, this dissertation considers Mina Loy’s representation of grotesque bodies within the context of the theory and artistic practice of early twentieth century...
This thesis will work to illuminate the significant similarities between Johann Georg Hamann and Søren Kierkegaard; a relationship that is often referred but rarely attended to. The lines of correspondence are both hidden and pronounced...
Religious communities find unity in a shared tradition, system of beliefs, and a determination to respond to those beliefs through active ethical engagement in the world. While these shared beliefs, often founded on sacred texts and...
The present study revisits both historically and analytically the work of Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), centering its interpretive lens primarily around his various theoretical and methodological contributions to Religionswissenschaft....
Tom Skinner, a preacher and evangelist from Harlem during the 1960's and 70's was publicly critical of Billy Graham's support of Richard Nixon. He and Graham shared many of their theological commitments but not their political ones. This...
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