This analysis examines the life and actions of the seventeenth-century Irish man, William Lamport, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Guillen de Lampart. In this thesis, William Lamport, influenced by the literary and intellectual trends of his time, stylized himself as an i…
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Writing, or art of any kind, can be cathartic, depending on the subject matter. The term catharsis here refers to the experience shared by the tragic hero and audience in a common emotional tension that gets released in a fictional process that provides clarity. I would assert t…
This dissertation examines the prospects of laïcité (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism …
In what is increasingly considered a post-secular age, the role of religion in immigrants’ negotiations of transnational identities and search for national belonging is once again thought to be a significant one. The growing presence of Islamic diaspora communities in Europe and…
This dissertation examines how anti-Catholic sentiment affected Americans' conduct in, and opinions of, the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848. Chapter One explores how increased immigration and republican ideology allowed anti-Catholicism and nativism to fuse in the late 1830s and e…
The thirteenth-century missionary effort of the Order of Preachers to convert Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians has been viewed by scholars as a manifestation of a “persecuting society.” Jeremy Cohen argues that the mendicants, under the direction of Friar Raymond of Peñafo…
The progress of the Roman Catholic Church in Wales under a succession of able bishops between 1916 and 1962 was striking. The Church grew in strength, stature, and confidence. The expansion in the number of its adherents was largely due to continuing immigration from Ireland, En…
This study examines the illustrations that appear at the Office of the Dead in English Books of Hours, and seeks to understand how text and image work together in this thriving culture of commemoration to say something about how the English understood and thought about death in …
This dissertation argues that six dominant models of evangelization emerge in the Christian experience. They can be identified in seminal form with specific New Testament passages. The St. Stephen model shows the strength of Christian witness to lead others to Christ, and is bas…
As human beings who know the world through our bodies, understand the world through our bodies, and think through our bodies, we engage our "most natural tool" (Lock 1993, 148) in the process of belief in a number of ways. The body is "our general medium for having a world" (Mer…
The right to religious liberty and the tolerance of difference that this right engenders are central components of the American national identity. As a result, many in the United States are perplexed by current events in the Middle East. Rising sectarian violence and the imposit…
This dissertation presents a study about dialogue between contradictions: Christians and pagans, missionaries and converts, foreign and native, male and female, and above all the sacred and the profane. I explore how specific actors such as French Catholic missionaries of the Mi…
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Luther's theological concept of idolatry must be regarded as a pivotal component in understanding his polemic, particularly against Roman Catholicism and Judaism. The method employed to carry out this study, though it varies sligh…
Officials from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, identified Cuba as a fertile missionary field shortly after the island's liberation from Spain in 1898. This work will argue that Methodist missionaries working in Cuba did not view the saving of souls or the extension of Ame…
What explains the emergence and endurance of what Alfred Stepan has termed the “twin tolerations” between religion and democracy? This question is of broad comparative importance, from religiously vibrant democracies in Asia and Latin America to newly plural societies in Western…
Faith and culture enjoy a harmonious relationship. In the past centuries of Catholicism, evangelization did not take into cognizance the culture of a people. The translation and adaptation approaches were the dominant models missionaries often used in the context of evangelizati…
This dissertation argues that between 1830 and 1914, with increasing intensity over time, French Catholic missionaries sowed divisions among the European population of French Algeria. The French government initially welcomed missionaries to cater to religiously devout Spanish, I…
Guilt, particularly around sexuality, is a concept commonly associated with those who practice Catholicism. Additionally, women in the United States (US) often navigate many mixed messages surrounding sexuality. Women who are raised in religious traditions that hold strong messa…