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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 ...
The Religious Foundations of Civic Virtue
(2011-10-21)
Scholarly accounts of the history of civic virtue in the modern era have with few
exceptions been wholly secular, discounting, ignoring, or even outright rejecting the role
religious thought has played in shaping the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...