Officials from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, identified Cuba as a fertile missionary field shortly after the island's liberation from Spain in 1898. This work will argue that Methodist missionaries working in Cuba did not view the saving of souls or the extension of Ame…
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The thirteenth-century missionary effort of the Order of Preachers to convert Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians has been viewed by scholars as a manifestation of a “persecuting society.” Jeremy Cohen argues that the mendicants, under the direction of Friar Raymond of Peñafo…
This thesis examines the political posturing and rhetoric of two major Protestant denominations in Brazil—Presbyterians and Methodists—during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). During the Vargas years, the Catholic Church saw a renewed period of expansion, consolidation, political acti…
Guilt, particularly around sexuality, is a concept commonly associated with those who practice Catholicism. Additionally, women in the United States (US) often navigate many mixed messages surrounding sexuality. Women who are raised in religious traditions that hold strong messa…
This dissertation examines how anti-Catholic sentiment affected Americans' conduct in, and opinions of, the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848. Chapter One explores how increased immigration and republican ideology allowed anti-Catholicism and nativism to fuse in the late 1830s and e…
As human beings who know the world through our bodies, understand the world through our bodies, and think through our bodies, we engage our "most natural tool" (Lock 1993, 148) in the process of belief in a number of ways. The body is "our general medium for having a world" (Mer…
This dissertation argues that six dominant models of evangelization emerge in the Christian experience. They can be identified in seminal form with specific New Testament passages. The St. Stephen model shows the strength of Christian witness to lead others to Christ, and is bas…
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. Rising sectarian violence and the imposit…
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Luther's theological concept of idolatry must be regarded as a pivotal component in understanding his polemic, particularly against Roman Catholicism and Judaism. The method employed to carry out this study, though it varies sligh…
This dissertation presents a study about dialogue between contradictions: Christians and pagans, missionaries and converts, foreign and native, male and female, and above all the sacred and the profane. I explore how specific actors such as French Catholic missionaries of the Mi…
Latin Americans practice reproductive management at rates comparable with Western Europe and North America, a counterintuitive finding given the region's staunchly Catholic past. This paper examines the discourses on Christianity and modernity which, together, shape much of Lati…
This dissertation traces the influence of travel, trade, and cross-cultural contact on English Reformation literature and culture. Focusing particularly on English interaction with Muslims and Jews, who operated extensive ambassadorial and trade routes in the Mediterranean, the …
As nations and individuals draw ever closer together, there is a greater awareness of the wide variety of religions and philosophies in a multi-cultural world. Furthermore, rapid scientific advances, while providing many opportunities for a better life, threaten the very existen…
This thesis compares the religious power structure and the resistance to it of Sunni Islam in Egypt with the religious power structure and the resistance to it of Catholic Christianity in Europe, using the conceptual framework of discourse analysis. Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University…
