Browsing by Subject "Religion"
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Ambivalent Devotion: Religious Imagination in Contemporary Southern Women's Fiction
(2011-02-22)Analyzing novels by Sheri Reynolds, Lee Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Sue Monk Kidd, I argue that these authors challenge religious structures by dramatizing the struggle between love and ... -
Assessing the Impact of Religious Beliefs on Public Perceptions and U.S. Government Policies: The Case of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(2011-02-22)This dissertation presents three separate studies designed to provide structure and evidence-based insight into the impact of religious beliefs on public perceptions and U.S. government policies regarding embryonic stem ... -
Buddhism east and west: Chinese Buddhism in Beijing and Houston
(2009-05-15)Although Buddhism was introduced in the United States over a century ago, only recently has it become part of the mainstream. In addition to the exponential increase in Buddhist practitioners in the United States, scholar ... -
Centers of Musement: Designing Sacred Spaced for Post Enlightenment Religious Philosophy
(2013-02-04)Due to vast changes in religious thinking, an attempt to rethink, and ultimately explode and recreate, religious typology in architecture as it exists becomes necessary. An intense review on existential and pragmatic ... -
Chasing the Trace of the Sacred: Postmodern Spiritualities in Contemporary American Fiction
(2011-10-21)This dissertation examines the treatment, forms, and representations of spirituality in contemporary American fiction. Drawing on recent theories in cultural and critical theory, sociology, and rhetoric, I argue that ... -
Commonplace Divinity: Feminine Topoi in the Rhetoric of Medieval Women Mystics
(2012-10-19)This dissertation examines the works of five medieval women mystics—Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, and Julian of Norwich—to argue that these writers used feminine topoi, ... -
Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation
(2020-08-21)Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation explores theological issues and challenges churches have been faced with due to social distancing and required social-cultural adaptations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... -
The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online
(2020-04-20)In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was ... -
The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online-mobile version
(2020-04-20)In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was ... -
Eve's Sin, Mary's Perfection, and the Mystics In Between
(2019-03-19)This thesis considers three women situated in the Middle Ages who all produced written accounts of their visionary experiences of the Divine. St. Birgitta of Sweden’s Liber Celestis, Margery Kempe’s The Book of Margery ... -
Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention
(2013-04-01)The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced both tremendous growth and intense turmoil in its relatively short history. After experiencing increasing internal conflicts throughout the late twentieth-century, a decade-long ... -
iPray: Understanding the Relationship Between Design and Use in Catholic and Islamic Mobile Prayer Applications
(2017-07-27)This dissertation examines the relationship between religious mobile app design and use in Catholic and Islamic contexts. Understanding this relationship is important because it provides a clearer picture of how mobile ... -
Khmourg Nakry: A Ghost’s Story
This creative thesis takes the form of a short story and accompanying expanded plotline. The analysis and creative artifact study a self-described lack of understanding about half of my ethnic culture. This is within the ... -
New Media in the Jewish Bedroom: Exploring Religious Jewish Online Discourse Concerning Gender and Sexuality
(2017-07-11)This dissertation examines the construction and negotiation of gender and sexuality in Jewish Orthodox online discourse. It explores how religious concepts of gender and negotiation were communicated online, and how they ... -
Race and Religion in the Bayou City: Latino/a, African American, and Anglo Baptists in Houston’s Long Civil Rights Movement
(2017-05-30)While studies that examine religion in movements for social justice have increased in recent years, the intersections of race and religion remain understudied. Therefore, this dissertation is a relational and comparative ... -
Racism and Religious Bias in Castilian Spanish Language Dictionaries
(2011-02-22)The present study examines the evolution of the definitions of 31 terms having to do with three prominent religions in Spain: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The definitions are analyzed for racism and religious bias in ... -
Reflexiones sobre los desafíos de las iglesias online
(2020-06)This is a Spanish translation of the e-book The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online. The title in spanish is: “Reflexiones sobre los desafíos de las iglesias online”. “Reflexiones...” is being registered ... -
Religion and womanism in the lives of Central Texas African American Baptist women
(2009-05-15)African American Baptist churches are not known as bastions of sexual equality. The dominance of males in the pulpit and the conservative and literal interpretation of the Bible often support this idea. African American ... -
Religion in American War to Diplomacy: A History
(2015-06-10)Dr. Preston examines how religion has impacted the foreign policy decisions of United States leaders throughout history.