In this dissertation, I study the role of religion and public ritual in the responses of native communities facing the expansion of colonial powers. Through a combination of archaeological excavations and archival research on early colonial Maya, I explore how religious change i…
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Although the significance of animal sacrifice in ancient Greek religion has long been recognized, the significance of images of the gods, both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic, has been often overlooked, and certainly undertheorized. Focusing on images of the gods in anci…
Baptism is considered one of two holy and unique sacraments by the vast majority of Protestant churches for the body of Christ to preserve and practice while she exists (Grenz, 2000, p. 520; Grudem, 1994, p. 996). Christian baptism is not only a religious sacrament, but also is …
The development of traditions and culture in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria deviates from those of the rest of England. Though previous historians have sometimes acknowledged this fact, none have attempted to compile the necessary evidence to explain the anomalous charac…
The goal of this dissertation is to offer a systematic phenomenology of the conversion experience based primarily on the transcendental method of Husserl. Conversion is an empirical phenomenon that, when phenomenologically analyzed, is revealed to have several eidetic or essenti…
The population of Iberian Muslims who had been converted to Christianity, Moriscos, was marked by its diversity. While most Moriscos worked as tradesmen, making silk or working fields of fruits for example, many Morisco merchants and land-owners populated the higher echelons of …
While situating it in a changing American religious landscape marked by increasing participation in metaphysical religion, this dissertation examines the appeal of contemporary Indian godperson, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), to Americans. Although replete with portraits …
The Moravian mission to Africans enslaved in Purrysburg, South Carolina was carried out from the fall of 1738 to the spring of 1740. Peter Böhler and his assistant George Schulius attempted to appeal both to their African audience and to the slaveholders who controlled life in t…
My dissertation investigates the ways in which both medieval and early modern saint plays depict and incite religious conversion through self-aware theatrical techniques. In each of my chapters, I examine one or two popular saint plays from a given period and area (medieval Engl…
This research is an investigation into the role of encounter in conversion and its implications for mission by Pentecostal and charismatic (P+c) churches within the United Kingdom. Initially, contemporary conversion praxis is explored in literature associated with the ecumenical…
This research study explored the meaning of the lived spiritual conversion experience for the African American male by exploring in-depth descriptions of the phenomenon through semi-structured interviewing. The spiritual conversion process has been studied from perspectives of A…
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) consists of a series of rituals that celebrate and make present a person’s spiritual journey of conversion toward God within the context of a worshipping community. Connecting the vision of the R.C.I.A. process and its pastor…
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