The tasks in Christian Theology in a Pluralistic Context: A Methodological and Constructive Inquiry in the Doctrine of Creation are twofold: To develop a methodology for doing pluralistic Christian theology, and then to proceed to do it in the area of the doctrine of creation. E…
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A survey of Muslim, Christian and Jewish pilgrim accounts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries shows methods and themes common to most medieval writing about religious travel. Most accounts are self-conscious; all aim to shape the reader's sense of self. Some accounts are…
This dissertation examines the concept of contagion in Muslim and Christian thought during the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on materials produced in Iberia and North Africa. Alternating between Muslim and Christian scholarship, it identifies debates in both tradit…
This research is about the emotional aspect of human relationships with regards to cross-cultural communication. It arose from a concern to understand the dynamics of cross-cultural interactions in the Christian community. Allan Schore's developmental attachment theory is used a…
Historians and theorists of literacy have taken uncritically the legitimating myth of European colonialism: that modern schooling made rational citizens of colonized subjects. This dissertation argues instead that Gikuyu "readers" remade the techniques of schooling for their own…
Based on extensive fieldwork in postwar Guatemala City's most prominent neo-Pentecostal mega-churches, this study addresses the continued entanglement of evangelical Christianity and efforts at democratization through an ethnography of Christian citizenship--the identity that be…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ritualistic practice of female circumcision in order to discover the impact it has on the spirituality of Christian women. The study employed a qualitative research design method and data was collected using individual and focus g…
Much of the literature that has examined transnational actors' attempts to shape states' interests within international institutions portrays the international arena as a level-playing ground. Network theory posits that transnational actors participating in a network are horizon…
The purpose of this study was to develop initial theory regarding how a select group of Christians who report incorporating spiritual practices (such as prayer and meditation) and utilizing charismata (i.e., gifts provided by God) perceive their impact in various workplaces (i.e…
This dissertation explores ways in which Jewish, Christian, and Islamic authorities define and fortify the boundaries of their communities through the articulation of foreign food restrictions. Laws relating to the involvement of religious outsiders in food preparation and share…
Peace has been a major factor of economical, political, emotional and social development, but when communal identities, particularly religious identities, are key causal factors in violent conflict in an underdeveloped, illiterate and poor Nigerian community there is need for ea…
The dissertation analyzes medieval Christian and Jewish, and, to a lesser extent, Pagan and Muslim polemical uses of gendered, visceral, bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity. Drawing from medical texts, bestiaries (compendia of physical and symbolic characteristics of animal…
Following Thomas Kuhn and David J. Bosch, this dissertation attempts to describe an alternative paradigm of a global Christian theology of "State-after-Death," in contrast, for example, with the works of John Hick, Hans Küng and others. Having examined selected pluralistic relig…
The thesis follows the development of selected Christian missions in India as a form of NGO activity. The thesis examines the development of this form of NGO activity seeking to find factors that have made for success in areas of Christian expansion but also the resultant social…
Given the vast geography and immense population of Nigeria, the scale and scope of this research project is intentionally confined to offering a fractional glimpse of Nigeria's inherently complex and diverse story. Informed by methods such as ethnography and people's history, th…
This dissertation examines the place and nature of dialogue and engagement in conflictual interfaith relations through a multilayered study of political Islam's impact on Christian-Muslim relations within the Nigerian sociopolitical and cultural context. By examining a contempor…
This dissertation focuses on the study of interreligious violence, civic peace, and citizenship in the Christian-Muslim conflict zone of Maluku (the Moluccas) in eastern Indonesia, especially in the region of Ambon. Violent conflict between Christians and Muslims broke out in th…