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This project is an examination of the War against al-Qaeda from the field of religious ethics. In response to September Eleventh, the United States has spent the last decade fighting a war against a diffuse and elusive network of...
The guqin 古琴 (or qin 琴) is an ancient seven-stringed Chinese zither and it is a quintessential exemplar of traditional Chinese cultural aesthetics and sensibilities. In the guqin tradition, wellbeing emerges from the cultivation and...
In this project, I contribute to ongoing debates regarding proper conceptions of “political Islam” or “Islamism” by bringing greater attention to the roles that Islamic mysticism, or Ṣūfism (taṣawwuf), has played in shaping theories 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...
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...
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...
The right to religious liberty and the tolerance of difference that this right engenders are central components of the American national identity. As a result, many in the United States are perplexed by current events in the Middle East....
Historically-oriented and revisionist scholars advance two main approaches to contemporary just war thinking. Historically-oriented scholars argue for the continued use of historic just war thinking as it has provided sufficient, ...
Joseph B. Soloveitchik and George A. Lindbeck both constructed postliberal, religious methodologies that drew on modern resources as a basis for the retrieval of tradition. In the proposed dissertation, I argue that their attempts, ...
Often regarded as the first Islamic defense of political secularism, `Ali `Abd al-Raziq's Islam and the Foundations of Government provoked emotionally-charged repudiations that culminated in his dismissal from Egypt's corps of `ulama....
My dissertation approaches the issue of Muslim radicalization in the West from the standpoint of comparative religious ethics (CRE). As practitioners of a discipline rooted in the analysis of arguments, scholars of comparative religious...
This study tells the story of the political reception of Søren Kierkegaard in Weimar Europe. Much of this reception, I argue, is easily framed through the concept of tragic romanticism. While the bulk of this study is devoted to the...
In this study, I investigate the history and ethical implications of Christian discourses of political power, expressed through the modern phenomenon of bureaucracies. I argue that as a technical system of political power there is little...
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...
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