Agobard of Lyon has usually been studied because of his writings about Jews. This dissertation likewise began from a desire to understand Agobard's anti-Jewish writings, their content, motives, and impact. Approaching that topic from the basis of Agobard's whole corpus of writin…
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The main focus of this dissertation is on the interpretation of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor in the context of the Roman appropriation of ancestors and the implications of perspective for Shona Christians in postcolonial Zimbabwe. In constructing Abraham as a spiritual ancest…
This research explored the combined effects of interreligious similarity and extrinsic, intrinsic, or quest religious orientation on responses to outgroup religions. In Study 1, interreligious similarity was primed either directly (similarity condition) or indirectly (similarity…
El Abencerraje, Guerras civiles de Granada, and El remedio en la desdicha seem to me to be especially attractive and worthy of analysis because, in different ways, they respond from a moment in the past to a network of concerns whose relevance to a contemporary audience and cont…
This study examines the extant letters written by Christians and provenanced to Oxyrhynchus. Ranging in date from the third through seventh centuries and written primarily in Greek these letters collectively provide an invaluable database from which to consider a number of issue…
Christology, defined as the interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, has long been regarded as a predominantly Christian study. However, in our modern religiously pluralistic society, the necessity for Jews and Christians to achieve a mutually satisf…
This study presents a qualitative, interpretive analysis of audiotaped conversations (both one-to-one and focus-group settings) involving six middle-class European-American evangelical Christians' reactions to four contemporary American films (Michael Tolkin's The Rapture 1991; …
This study examines the legislative responses of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problems posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial systems outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh-early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in t…
This dissertation explores the presence of Christians in late sixth and early seventh century Mecca and Yathrib/Medina, from 565 to 625 C.E. These were the cities in which Muhammad lived and preached the message of Islam, and although the pre-Islamic polytheism of these cities h…
Muslims in Sindh remain largely unaffected by the Church of Pakistan, the largest Protestant denomination in the country. This study asks, (1) "What are the obstacles that prevent the Church of Pakistan from evangelizing Muslims in Sindh?" and (2) "How can the Church of Pakistan…
Images of God (IOG) have long been examined in the psychology of religion literature and have been found to vary depending on a variety of factors. Religion and attachment styles are two such variables that influence an individual's IOG. Most of the IOG research however, has bee…
This study examined the relationship between different dimensions of religiosity and mental health and well-being, and the mediating role of positive emotion in a sample of 181 Middle Eastern/Arab Christians and Muslims in the U.S. Results showed a positive relationship between …
The first two decades of Husni Mubarak's presidency witnessed increased sectarian conflict between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities, a by-product of rising religious identification in Egypt during the 1980's and 19901s. Even in a context of sectarian conflict, however, i…
This dissertation examines the writings and contribution of H[dotbelow]abib ibn H[barbelow]idmah Abu Ra'it[dotbelow]ah, a malpono and Christian mutakallim , who lived in Takrit near Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century. Writing in Arabic, he was among the few Christians to t…
The study explores the issues that have caused conflict between Muslims and Christians in Northern Nigeria. It focuses on how historical, cultural and political factors have influenced current Muslim-Christian relations. Within this context, the church's mandate to evangelize Mu…
In a thoroughly interdisciplinary manner this dissertation seeks to develop a Muslim-Christian theological discourse about humanity and creation which could serve to impel them forward and sustain them in a cooperative effort to preserve our planet and protect the life of all it…
My dissertation focuses on the Counter Reformation in Valencia, a prosperous archdiocese on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The unusually long tenure of Juan de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia 1569-1611, provides an excellent opportunity to examine the role of the bishop in the…
The attacks on 9/11 were a tragic episode in the centuries-old conflict between Muslims and Christians. While the roots of this conflict are ideological and historical, the current discord is being fueled with stereotypes and mistrust. It is increasingly critical for Christians …
In the late eleventh century, with the collapse of the Iberian Caliphate, the Ebro watershed came under the control of the Christian principalities which would become the 'Crown of Aragon.' The majority of the vanquished elected to remain under terms of surrender negotiated with…