Art is a regenerative kind of healing magic. In the studio, my body works with my mind to make paintings, drawings, collages, ceramic objects, hand-written words, and multi- media instillations. Through this work, I examine how my menstruating, gender-fluid white/pink body/mind …
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Scottish composer James MacMillan, born in 1959, composed choral music throughout his life but initially rose to prominence as a composer of instrumental works in the early 1990s. In the first decade of the 2000s primarily with The Strathclyde Motets MacMillan solidified his pos…
This dissertation examines the ways in which Catholics in the seventeenth-century British Atlantic balanced their competing identities as English, Scottish and Irish subjects and Catholics, despite persecution for their religion. It traces the stories of four groups of Catholics…
Recent data regarding the faith of young adults in America continues to reveal that young people are disaffiliating from the Church at faster rates and in greater numbers. In light of this, the Church has consistently called for a New Evangelization, beginning with Pope Saint Jo…
This dissertation attempts to fill the gap in the sociological literature at the intersection of religion and community by examining how local, urban Catholic churches shape and nurture multiple models of community commitment based on differing public-private dimensions of ritua…
Servant leadership has become the preferred leadership style in religious settings due to its effectiveness and alignment with Christian values. However, the contemporary Catholic Church faces unique challenges that may require a more nuanced, holistic approach to leadership. Th…
During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), the Habsburg family struggled to consolidate their power and exert control over the Holy Roman Empire. The Habsburgs used the Catholic faith as a method to centralize their public image and political power despite military defeats. Focusin…
This research observes how other faiths, such as the United Methodist, Judaism, and Catholicism, execute the ministry of discipleship for their members. Each faith is actively in pursuit of maturing their members spiritually according to their particular beliefs. The investigati…
The liturgical changes of Vatican II sought to bring a period of renewal to the Catholic laity by encouraging active participation and making the Mass more simple to understand. However, the time after the Council was characterized by confusion and disengagement by the laity. I …
Attending Catholic school kindergarten through twelfth grade instilled in me beliefs and fears that guided every decision I made from childhood through young adulthood. I learned to pray--a lot. I learned about sinning and going straight to hell. I blamed myself when bad things …
The main question we set out to answer in this dissertation is: can Gabrielle de Coignard’s outlook, as perceived through her OEuvres chrestiennes, be described as hedonistic and, if so, to what extent?
This dissertation focused on how religious coping has changed for ex-Catholic Latino/a evangelical Protestants after their conversion. The research literature on religious coping for Latino/as indicated that religiosity is an important aspect of Latino/a life and that there is a…
In the 1960s, African American jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) used what was then known as the Negro spiritual, blues, swing, bebop, and even ragtime as inspiration for her settings of the sacred liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. She deliberately chose …
Since its 1824 premiere at the St Petersburg imperial court, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Op. 123 has only ever been performed in secular concert settings. This performance history is reflected in critical trends in Missa solemnis scholarship. Following Adorno’s 1959 essay that c…
The Easter Vigil is the most beautiful and significant celebration during the liturgical year for Catholics. Not only is it a celebration and remembering of the Resurrection of Christ, but it is also where catechumens are fully initiated and welcomed into the Church through bapt…
Many scholars on the settlement movement have mentioned Hull-House’s interactions with the Catholic Church and/or the surrounding immigrant communities, but have failed to fully examine the dynamic between Hull-House women, Catholic laywomen who took up settlement work, and the …
The following thesis document presents research in the dance field surrounding women within religion, specifically Catholicism, and how dissent and its manifestation in the human face and body can lead to discovering the innate self. This paper examines Catholic doctrine related…
John Emerich Edward Dahlberg-Acton (1834–1902), “Lord Acton,” is a much-praised figure within the American conservative movement, and among free-market or “classical” liberals. His attempts to reconcile his devout Roman Catholicism with a love of of freedom have inspired many co…
This thesis argues that Oscar Wilde anticipates Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading. In 2003’s Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Sedgwick argues that the hermeneutics of suspicion–whereby the reader exposes the unjust power structures lying be…