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This dissertation offers an answer to the question of how the Midwest, specifically the middle Mississippi Valley, came to be the American heartland. In this dissertation, I argue that evangelicalism was instrumental in the making of the...
This thesis considers the role that gospel music played in the culture of early to mid-twentieth century Chicago. In order to better understand why the popularity of gospel music increased dramatically in the first half of the century, ...
Although studies of nineteenth-century evangelicalism emphasize the importance of sentimentality, scholars of modern evangelicalism usually overlook it. Instead scholars have tended to focus on the importance of belief or doctrine and...
Although religious innovation in America historically has been the norm rather than the exception, mainstream Americans have often viewed new religious movements with suspicion and occasionally with outright alarm. The question...
This thesis examines the historiographical paradigm of secularization as an analytical trope employed by historians of modern Christianity and as a discursive trope employed by evangelical participants in the contemporary Christian music...
This thesis assesses seeker sensitive churches from the standpoint of Andrew Walls' missionary paradigm. Seekers are described as a distinct population on the American religious landscape, characterized by the importance of individual...
Most historical accounts of women in Baptist life describe women's roles as both restricted by the conservative orientation of the denomination yet slowly expanding and progressing. Baptist women in ministry have found creative ways to...
Jesuit Missionaries and Native Americans lived in the New France region, perpetuated violence against one another, and participated in the healing ritual of baptism. Native Americans shared a nuanced cultural borderland with the Jesuit...
This paper addresses the formation of gender identity through the presence of female deities and related mythology. Using the theory developed by Luce Irigaray in "Divine Women", it proposes that women need a religious mythology that...
According to some scholars, religion is inseparable from the African-American experience. Others viewed race as almost a separate ontological category from religion. How can it be possible for scholars to view the relationship between...
Previous discussions of changes in Alexander Campbell's ideology have focused on an increasing ecumenism in Campbell's thought. Many scholars have argued that as Campbell aged he became more open to denominationalism. By conceiving of...
Among the pueblos of Nuevo Mexico, Franciscan missionaries and Pueblo Indians structured their perceptions of and relationships with one another within religious frameworks. The history of cultural contact and interaction between friars...
"Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971-1999" examines how during the latter decades of the 20th century gay and lesbian Catholic voices and reconciling ministries emerged from a specific and...
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is the largest Christian broadcasting entity in the world. Through its programming and global satellite outreach, TBN has grown and nurtured the pentecostal Faith movement. Affirming the divine right to...
This dissertation examines Southern civil religion in the post-Reconstruction era (c. 1877-1920). Geographically, it focuses on the "unfinished South" – an area encompassing Middle and West Florida, Southwest Alabama, and Southwest...
This is a study of the practice of the Roman Catholic priesthood and a history of French missionaries in the United States. From 1789 to 1865—from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the American Civil War—hundreds of...
'The Gospel According to the Klan' identifies the intimate relationships between Protestantism, nationalism, gender and whiteness in the print culture of the 1920s Klan in order to demonstrate that the Klan reflected the values, ideals...
In this thesis, I explore social and musical processes between participants of old-time jam sessions in Tallahassee, Florida. As an alternate perspective to the song-and artist-oriented scholarship of old-time music, I propose a...
Roman Catholics lived in the antebellum South, fought for the Confederate States of America, and participated in the postwar Lost Cause tradition. They encountered a Protestant-dominated South, but retained their minority religious...
It may be in the new birth as it is in the first birth. So wrote theologian Jonathan Edwards in his "Miscellanies" note numbered 241, named "Regeneration". The "new birth" that he spoke of was the process of religious conversion...
This thesis examines the history of antebellum West Point, tracing connections between the religious atmosphere of the Academy and the political ideology which it inculcated into cadets. A central claim of this essay is that the Revival...
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