This dissertation examines the depiction of inter-religious and inter-racial relations in several fifteenth and sixteenth century novellas. When Christians come into intimate contact with Jews or Muslims in these tales, the encounter is invariably problematic. My study examines …
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This study examines the history of the Kikuyu Independent Schools Movement from the perspectives of former Kikuyu students, teachers, local leaders, ex-soldiers, and former colonial education officers between 1922 to 1962. For four decades, ordinary Kikuyu people created their o…
Islam has become the world's second largest religion. Its people, Muslims, are now scattered all over the world. According to the CIA, in 2002 there were as many as twenty-five million Muslims in China. The Hui, being one of the ten Muslim ethnic groups in China, numbers over se…
The Moriscos, that is to say, the Muslims who remained in Spain after the fall of Granada in 1492, can be said to have lived a double life. Forced to live publicly as Christians, the Moriscos attempted to follow the precepts of Islam in secret. In spite of their dismal circumsta…
This thesis is a comparative analysis of Ibn Taymiyya of Damascus and Gregory of Rimini within their respective religious and philosophical traditions. Ibn Taymiyya and Gregory of Rimini rejected the use of Aristotelian logic in the valorization of divine revelation in Islam and…
This work is concerned with how Christian theology treats the question of religious others ---those persons and communities judged to fall outside the boundaries of "Christianity"---along with what I will call their "witness," which includes (but is not restricted to) their beli…
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…
The global persecution of Christians is an urgent human rights issue that remains underreported. This volume presents the results of the first systematic global investigation into how Christians respond to persecution. World-class scholars of global Christianity present first-ha…
The global persecution of Christians is an urgent human rights issue that remains underreported. This volume presents the results of the first systematic global investigation into how Christians respond to persecution. World-class scholars of global Christianity present first-ha…
"Severus of Antioch is by far the most prolific and well known theologian of the non-Chalcedonian churches. Although his life and writings came to our knowledge in Syriac, gaining him the title 'Crown of the Syriac Literature,' many texts relating to his life and works survived …
Severus of Antioch is by far the most prolific and well known theologian of the non-Chalcedonian churches. Although his life and writings came to our knowledge in Syriac, gaining him the title "Crown of the Syriac Literature," many texts relating to his life and works survived i…