Researchers are noting that within the past two decades Americans are increasingly identifying as nonreligious and are reporting an awareness of the secularization of American life. Many individuals who no longer identify as religious and leave their religious communities, calle…
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The number of religious discrimination cases has steadily increased over the years (EEOC, 2018a). One under-studied aspect of religious discrimination is religious accommodations. To successfully win a religious accommodation case, employees must prove that they requested an acc…
Premillennial dispensationalism became immensely influential among American Protestants who saw themselves as defenders of orthodoxy. As theological conflict heated up in the early 20th century, dispensationalism’s unique eschatology became one of the characteristic features of …
Sexual intercourse is essential for human reproduction. Yet, to some, sexual intercourse outside of marriage can be a hypersensitive topic, or even believed to be an act only punishable by damnation. Religious dogma deeply rooted in historic texts in many sects of religions, not…
The current study is aimed at investigating the puzzle of why FPI (Islamic Defenders' Front) has chosen to adopt violent strategies within the democratic context of Indonesia. Much of literature on social movements suggests that democracy is inherently nonviolent because it allo…
In this dissertation, I have analyzed the rising influence of Islamic fundamentalist groups in Pakistan in its political, legal, cultural, and violent manifestations. In explaining this rise, I have questioned the widespread academic and journalistic notion that the rising tide …
The patterns of socio/political transformation that Iran went through in the 20th century generated episodes of great ideological divergence within Iran's shi'ite establishment. The current study seeks to shed light on an instance of textual exchange that took place in the earli…
Under the shade of escalating violence and fundamentalism, our epoch's diffused aura of liberalism supposedly tolerates difference, by exorcising the evil phantasms of totalitarianism, in favour of a liberal and humane post-modem order. Consequently, behind contemporary versions…
Queer people raised in Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity (FEC) may struggle, or even fail, to integrate their sexuality with their religious upbringing. This phenomenological study looks at the lived experiences of queer people leaving FEC and how leaving has impacted thei…
This study uses the history of Campus Crusade for Christ to explore the trajectory of post-1945 American evangelicalism. Campus Crusade, founded by Bill Bright (1921--2003) and Vonette Bright (1925-- ) at the University of California Los Angeles in 1951, grew by century's end in…
This dissertation, "American Religious Diplomacy and the State of Israel, 1933-1979," argues that when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 American Protestants were overwhelmingly anti-Semitic but that by 1979—the year a self-professed born again Christian President brokered…
Research on Muslim women in India has increased in recent years, but remains sparse. The few existing studies rarely examine the interplay of religion and gender on Muslim women, nor do they investigate the historical influences shaping Muslim women's lives. Using the National S…
The dissertation is a study of William E. Blackstone's contributions to the emerging evangelical fundamentalist movement in America. Though virtually unrecognized by the scholarly community, Blackstone wrote the most popular book on premillennialism during his day, and his commi…
The academic study of the Scopes Trial has always been approached from a traditional legal interpretation. This project seeks to reframe the conventional arguments surrounding the trial, treating it instead as a significant religious event, one which not only altered the course …
This dissertation examines the recent nuclear security problematique in India under the Hindu Right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. It represents an analytical hybrid of realism and critical social constructivism as its theoretical framework and the concept of post-colo…
After World War II, U.S. foreign policy was defined primarily through its competition with the Soviet Union. But now that the threat of communism has vanished, two main factors seem to play a determining role in shaping current U.S. policy: the preservation of American national …
The project assesses the encounter between global liberalism and its critics. It starts at the intersection of political theory and comparative politics, and revives the interdisciplinary, grand-theory traditions of the early twentieth century. First, I set forth a theory of fou…
A group of mostly black converts to Islam attempted to overthrow the legitimate government of Trinidad and Tobago using both ethnic nationalist and Islamic fundamentalist rhetoric on July 27, 1990. Just twenty years earlier, the country experienced the Black Power riots which ra…