"Despite his importance to understanding the history of early 19th century medicine, science and Protestant identity, Andrew Fernando Holmes has never been the subject of a comprehensive study. This study is based on a wide-ranging examination of primary sources, both manuscript…
This thesis examines the political posturing and rhetoric of two major Protestant denominations in Brazil—Presbyterians and Methodists—during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). During the Vargas years, the Catholic Church saw a renewed period of expansion, consolidation, political acti…
This dissertation explores the intersections of medicine and religion through a rhetorical historiography of nineteenth century birth medicine in the United States. It asks: How did religious sensibilities motivate and shape rhetoric in response to human suffering in the field o…
Cross-national empirical research consistently suggests that, on average, former British colonies are both more democratic and have more stable democratic transitions. I argue that former British colonies are distinct not because Great Britain was a democracy—so were France and …
Surveying the religious landscape of modern East Asia, one is struck by a curious fact: efflorescence of Protestantism in (South) Korea and the absence of such development in the neighboring countries of China and Japan. This is curious since all three countries are heavily shap…
This dissertation focused on how religious coping has changed for ex-Catholic Latino/a evangelical Protestants after their conversion. The research literature on religious coping for Latino/as indicated that religiosity is an important aspect of Latino/a life and that there is a…
9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents America’s present-day policies in the Middle East as prod…
This dissertation traces the development and reception of a particular accommodation between scientific knowledge and biblical knowledge, which I have named scientific biblical criticism, in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. My research focuses on …
In this thesis, I will offer three transcriptions from Claude Goudimel’s (1514-1572) Les pseaumes mis en rime Françoise par Clement Marot et Theodore de Beza, mis en musique à quarte parties par Claude Goudimel (The Psalms Set in French Meter by Clement Marot and Theodore Beza, …
This thesis offers the first sustained study of the various ways that English-language authors represented the voice of God during the early modern period. By situating the idea of God’s voice in the context of Protestant anxiety over scriptural usage, I consider how writers wor…
This thesis examines low-ranking British soldiers’ memoirs in the nineteenth century to determine the extent to which they identified with Christianity and how their expressions of faith differed from each other. Using twelve narratives published between 1811–1863, it finds that…
