"With its emphasis on the relationship between governmentality and other key concepts drawn from Michel Foucault, such as bio-politics and sovereignty, the first edition anticipated and defined the terms of contemporary debate and analysis." "In this timely second edition Mitche…
Thesis directed by Professor Christopher Braider This dissertation contends that harmonious conceptions of eternity, time, and history underwrite political, religious, and social institutions, whilst discordant ones dismantle them by sustaining dissent or even inciting revolutio…
This dissertation considers the concept of walāyah, commonly translated as guardianship, within Islam in terms of theology, hermeneutics, religious law, and praxis. These applications are analyzed for the ways in which they lend themselves to an authoritative application of walā…
This study presents an interpretive approach to Cormac McCarthy’s early works—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God—which seeks to account for the deterioration of traditional community values and the accompanying degradation of the individual that occurs over the cou…
This qualitative case study assessed the need for a Catholic Education Center (CEC) for Catholic school principals within the United States. The research questions that were addressed were: 1) How have Catholic school principals experienced support around complex and controversi…