Religious

This dissertation offers an ethnographic study of a mosque in a small town in the Southwest of the United States. Composed primarily of entrepreneurs drawn mainly by the convenience store business, the congregation represents a multi-ethnic Muslim community in the early stages o…

As Muslim communities integrate into mainstream American society, it is important to examine how the youngest of the Abrahamic traditions will be absorbed into the dynamics at work in American society. Muslims retain their separate identity, nevertheless, there is a clear tenden…

Modern, Western, secularist legal systems are, in actuality, religious legal systems. The religious bedrock underlying secularist legal systems is the same as the transmuted, and therefore immanentist, faith and creed that underlies the essential mindset and spirit of modernity.…

This dissertation engages psychological and theological studies in an examination of the ways in which homosexual persons may employ religious resources to interpret and respond to anti-homosexual attitudes and behaviors associated with religious ideas. Previous social scientifi…

Bhasani was born in 1885, two decades after the famous Indian revolt of 1857. Following the revolt, in the tumultuous political arena of South Asia many notable politicians emerged. One of these was Mawlana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, best known as Bhasani. As a religious seer-wis…