This dissertation is an exploratory study of the relationship between the Vietnamese refugees' escape experience from their home country and their experience of conversion to and within Christianity. This study focuses on sixteen Vietnamese refugees who escaped Vietnam by boats,…
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This edition, translation, and analysis of the Martyrdom of John of Phanijoit demonstrates how the text functions as a polemical response of Coptic Christians to their own community's assimilation to Islam in the thirteenth century. Sociological analysis reveals this martyrdom's…
Proclaiming Evangelical faith was very risky during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in highland Bolivia; some evangelists and converts suffered significant material loss and others were martyred. The Evangelical movement was firmly established nevertheless and today might…
This dissertation focuses on Quakers' efforts to convert Indians to Christianity and Native peoples' reactions to their endeavors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lenape welcomed members of the Religious Society of Friends to their homeland. Both peoples' religious beliefs s…
Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, ecocriticism and political theory, Active Enchantments explores a strain of thought within American literature that understands life in all of its forms to be generated not by self-determined identities, but by interconnectedness a…
The inconsistent translation of American military doctrine and the absence of information on the conversion process to an all-volunteer force (AVF) have been significant challenges for foreign militaries desiring to convert their manning procedures. More specifically, these two …
The purpose of this research was to examine why a vast number of incarcerated African-American males embrace the Islamic faith, and what makes the religion so compelling to them. The study also investigated the influence of the conversion on the subjects. A case study was utiliz…
This thesis deals with the conversion stories of five female converts to Islam; considering the expectations my interlocutors have faced, the pressures to tell a certain type of narrative, the formation of their practice and the stories they choose to narrate. The concept of an …
The present dissertation is a study of the Nabīvamśa , "The Prophet's Lineage," the first biography of the Prophet Muhammad to be composed in Bangla, in the first half of the seventeenth century. A literary milestone in the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural history of Islam, it marks…
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to determine the efficacy, if any, of altar calls as a form of a public evangelistic invitation. Since there is no scriptural command with regard to the practice, the literature prior to this study relied solely on opinion, con…
Although Calderón formulates an eloquent refutation of racialist discourse against Muslims, my thesis concentrates on the issue that his play-writing reinforces the Cristocentric ideology on the need for conversion. In order to determine some of his influences and inspirations, …
This study investigates the impact of the Damascus road encounter on Paul's theology of the cross. Much has been done in the field of the New Testament either focusing on the subject of Paul's Damascus road encounter or his theology of the cross; however, few works have been sol…
All the popes since the Second Vatican Council have been calling the Church to evangelization. In North America, as in other parts of the world, the reason for this exhortation is clear: Catholic churches are seeing declining membership and declining participation in the sacrame…
The Early Middle Ages was a turbulent time period of European history in which various Germanic tribes sought to establish kingdoms in Western Europe after the implosion of the Roman Empire. These kingdoms initially functioned under Germanic cultural practices that placed a stro…
The purpose of this dissertation will be to show in what ways John Owen's theology of regeneration, the event or experience of which he deliberately described in realistic categories, in which something is infused into the believer which he did not have before, is both continuou…
This dissertation develops an understanding of ardent submission to coercive authority through a historical-ethnographic study of the missionary encounter in colonial Goa—the religious and political capital of the Portuguese Empire in Asia. After its conquest in 1510, Goa was su…
This thesis contends that Claude Romano’s framework for interpreting the event in a phenomenological way can be utilized to reveal the hidden dynamics of St. Paul’s conversion, and the way in which the Christ-event is radically life-changing—not only for St. Paul but for every C…
Climate change is one of the major challenges of our current era. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by anthropogenic sources has steadily increased since the industrial revolution, in particular CO 2 , which reached a maximum historical concentration of 409.8 ppm i…