"This book analyses early Christian texts on prayer. These texts provide a rich perspective on the formation of Christian identity in the early church. The primary sources investigated are the four earliest known treatises on prayer in Christian history, written by Clement, Orig…
Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourk…
This thesis reports on the Researching Corporeality in Education (RCiE) project, a qualitative investigation into knowledge production in Gender and Education (G&E) research on boys and masculinities in schools in the UK, primarily, Australia and North America, within the field …
This thesis will examine Jung’s concept of the Archetypal Shadow and its role in evil. Most Jungian work on evil has revolved around the Personal Shadow, those elements of the personality that are rejected for personal, familial, or cultural reasons. Those researchers who have d…
"Space Cadet" investigates black and Asian women's slippery presence in performance through collaboratively devised solos. I am interested in the (in)visibility of lived experience and am curious about the residues of subjugation and erasure in the body. Through this process, I …
Up until now Marsian cultural identity has been approached from an old-fashioned theoretical angle of autoromanizazzione (“self-Romanization” or “emulation”). This perspective was one response to the unsatisfactory explanation of the previous paradigm (“Romanization”) to assess …
This study focuses on a religious group in America and how it has managed to engage the third and fourth generations who have assimilated into the American cultural milieu while maintaining allegiance to the Church of Lebanon-the Maronite Catholic church. Understanding the histo…
This study argues that the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, served as a key connective node in the early modern world which served as a site of encounter between both pilgrims and empires constructing new and contested notions of imperial power and crafting both communities…
This dissertation links theories of classroom pedagogy, sociocultural learning and racial identity formation, and racial literacy to analyze how a history teacher engaged students with issues of race and racism, and how students constructed meaning about historical and contempor…
Among mixed-status siblings (i.e., an undocumented sibling and a U.S. born citizen), the difference in immigration status may serve to strengthen or diminish the quality of their relationship. This qualitative study utilized a narrative inquiry framework to explore the stories o…
The American sublime aesthetic, discussed frequently in literature and art of the United States, is equally manifest in the nation’s symphonic music as a concurrent and complementary aesthetic. The musical application of the American sublime supports and enriches current scholar…
In this study, I explored the perspectives of three adults who self-described as non-singers through the conceptual framework of “identity formation,” to determine how “sense of self” influences their lives, and how they re-imagine the singer-self as an aspect of the whole self …
This thesis aimed to report on the qualitative research conducted which identified the role played by international television soap operas in identity formation and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditiona…
This study focuses on identity formation in three contemporary Arab American women's novels: Alicia Frian's Towelhead , a text written specifically for young adults, Laila Halaby's West of the Jordan , a novel that has been read and embraced by Arab American young adults, and Ev…
The field of Islamic psychology is a rapidly expanding one. Previous research has covered a broad spectrum including adapting existing therapeutic processes to work with Muslim clients, formulating Islamically oriented theoretical models, validating the efficacy of Islamic based…
Bu çalışmada, kimlik biçimlenme süreçlerinin psikolojik iyi oluşa olan etkisi öyküsel kimlik modeli yaklaşımı çerçevesinde ele alınmıştır. Araştırma problemin daha bütüncül ve detaylı bir şekilde incelemek için açımlayıcı sıralı desene göre yapılandırılan mevcut araştırma nicel …
This dissertation maps a history of Cuban comic production, analyzes hero characters in comics, and uses comics as a lens to discern both the reconstructing of memory and new imaginings of the future. Iconography and visual culture have played a formative role in negotiations ov…