Our understanding of ancient Greek religion, once disproportionately founded on textual evidence, has in the last five decades increasingly acknowledged the value of material evidence and the unique insights it gives us on the topic. New media, however, are accompanied by new ch…
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Bi-vocationalism has been portrayed as an answer to challenges faced by marginalized churches through lack of qualified personnel and financial support. In a bi-vocational pastorate setup, research seems to suggest pastoral presence as a key factor in the health of a congregatio…
This thesis is a methodology for a writing project I have undertaken on Christian inclusivism. My approach to Christian inclusivism is drawn from Paul Tillich, but it is updated and improved by postmodernism and Derrida’s “religion without religion.” To wit: Whatever relief from…
Buddhism and psychedelic substances are historically connected in the United States. The relationship between the practice and study of Buddhism and the use of psychedelics is mutually beneficial in some cases. Yet, their interaction can also create obstacles to optimum Buddhist…
Nonduality, defined as the persistent sense that one is not a separate self, is sought by certain meditation groups or spiritual traditions as the epitome of well-being. However, the impact of the experience of nonduality on important psychological constructs, such as depersonal…
Media messages help construct and express intergroup perceptions, define boundaries between ingroups and outgroups, and shape a sense of belonging to social groups. Drawing upon social psychology, intergroup and mass communication, this study focuses on Muslims, a group that has…
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the current accountability systems of the Korea Baptist Foreign Mission Board (FMB) and four major Baptist churches in Korea and to provide a biblical and realistic accountability system for the FMB, Korean Baptist churches, and…
This project addresses the development of the ReIGNITE Free Will Baptist Church in Virginia Beach. This dissertation seeks to address the question, “When planting a new multi-ethnic church. In what forms can culture and composition be completely reflected?” The absence of repres…
This dissertation investigates the contribution of Dr. John C. H. Wu (1899-1986) to the inculturation of the Gospel in Chinese culture. The question of how to relate the Gospel message to Chinese culture has engaged the minds of both Chinese and Western intellectuals for several…
Religious participation has been shown to affect in a positive way physical and mental health, while its absence indicates a negative correlation. Religious communities seek to increase participation for the benefit of the community, the participants, and society. This study foc…
The question regarding the destiny of the unevangelized, what about those who have never heard? has been a consistent inquiry and repeated apologetic stumbling block for Christians and non-Christians alike. Since no uncontested evangelical position on this difficult doctrinal qu…
The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating the male body with the higher spirit and mind. These du…
This dissertation inquires into the experience of self-transcendence that results in compassionate living. This awareness engenders a sense of belonging, a cosmological vision in a social narrative in which individuals are members of the community and become caretakers of the ec…
The integral path of devotion to the Divine Mother may be described as a legacy of Sri Aurobindo and Mother Mirra Alfassa, and their gift to humanity, honoring a direct relation to the embodiment of the Divine Mother, and Her essential consciousness. Mother Meera, considered to …
Engaged Buddhism is a modern form of Buddhism that addresses social, as well as individual, suffering; often using contemporary political-economic structural analysis to understand suffering, in addition to traditional Buddhist teachings and practices. Earth Holder Sangha is a g…
Zora Neale Hurston, S. Ansky, Wole Soyinka, and Tyler Perry come from different locations and cultures, but the critical analysis of their work in tandem reveals connections, similarities, dissonances, and possibilities for close readings. These authors expose the breaches in th…
This thesis endeavored to introduce Messianic Judaism to the academic community and explore the notion of whether a supersessionist free form of Christianity is capable of existing. This question was posed by Wilhelmus Valkenberg and did not seem to have an answer; therefore, th…
The current dissertation centers on a host of communal liturgies at Dūnhuáng from the eighth through the tenth centuries. In this period, Buddhist ritual flourished by localizing the existing Chinese ritual elements and absorbing ritual techniques from Tibetan sources. The Dūnhu…