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The main hypothesis of this paper argues that dispensationalism, specifically dispensational pre-millennialism, has significantly impacted a segment of evangelical Christian attitudes toward Muslims in the post-9/11 era, primarily in a negative fashion. The central concept of th…

This research illuminates the role of communication technologies and expanding social networks in influencing the trajectory of Muslim-Christian relations. While it brings attention to perceived negative uses of such resources to provoke tension and fundamentalism, its primary o…

There exist some very good reasons that Jewish/Christian/Muslim interfaith dialogue avoids the topic of the military conflict in Israel/Palestine, for the contentiousness it evokes runs counter to dialogic courtesy and prevents valuable relationships from forming. However, avoid…

Western contact with the highland Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, began in the period following the Second World War. By the 1960s, most highland Dani accepted evangelical mission Christianity as a response to the outreach of Westerners and Indonesian missionaries. The demise of …

La presente recherche etudie le motif de l'Election chez Paul, tel qu'il est exploite en Rm 9-11, et son apport a une theologie du dialogue entre Juifs et chretiens, de maniere a articuler exegese et hermeneutique. D'une part, d'un point de vue exegetique, une lecture nouvelle d…

This thesis traces a set of economic, political, and religious themes woven through the mythology of King Arthur during the reign of the Tudor monarchs. Beginning in the reign of Henry VII, the story of King Arthur as told by Sir Thomas Malory underpinned a Celtic cultural reviv…

Historians used to suspect that the decline of city-states in the last centuries of Roman rule coincided with a resurgence of the countryside; subject peoples threw off the yoke of their Roman masters. In recent years, scholars have recoiled from such nationalist or class interp…

What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreli…

Medieval Toledo was a political and economic center whose ethnic diversity promoted cultural variety. It was the first place where Castilian Christians lived beside large numbers of Jews and Muslims for extended periods of time. The norms of coexistence that developed there duri…

This thesis comprises an attempt to re-evaluate the experience and the survival of the indigenous Christian population of al-Andalus. It is a response to two problematic aspects of the historiography, whose authority has only recently begun to be questioned: first, the inordinat…

Agobard of Lyon has usually been studied because of his writings about Jews. This dissertation likewise began from a desire to understand Agobard's anti-Jewish writings, their content, motives, and impact. Approaching that topic from the basis of Agobard's whole corpus of writin…

This research explored the combined effects of interreligious similarity and extrinsic, intrinsic, or quest religious orientation on responses to outgroup religions. In Study 1, interreligious similarity was primed either directly (similarity condition) or indirectly (similarity…

El Abencerraje, Guerras civiles de Granada, and El remedio en la desdicha seem to me to be especially attractive and worthy of analysis because, in different ways, they respond from a moment in the past to a network of concerns whose relevance to a contemporary audience and cont…

The main focus of this dissertation is on the interpretation of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor in the context of the Roman appropriation of ancestors and the implications of perspective for Shona Christians in postcolonial Zimbabwe. In constructing Abraham as a spiritual ancest…

This study examines the extant letters written by Christians and provenanced to Oxyrhynchus. Ranging in date from the third through seventh centuries and written primarily in Greek these letters collectively provide an invaluable database from which to consider a number of issue…

Christology, defined as the interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, has long been regarded as a predominantly Christian study. However, in our modern religiously pluralistic society, the necessity for Jews and Christians to achieve a mutually satisf…

Examined here are "Arguments for the Existence of God" and "Arguments Against the Existence of God," hereafter collectively referred to as the "Arguments." The study reviews and analyzes some prominent and not so prominent Arguments that have been proffered for and against the e…

The objective of this thesis is to observe and analyze the function that the obstacle accomplishes in the dramatic structure of Lope de Vega's Muslim and Christian Comedias. The Corpus of the study constitutes thirty plays written between 1579 and 1629. From the methodological p…

Many Early Christians used Jesus' ascension to reflect upon their own heavenly ascents. Scholars of Jesus' ascension have often neglected this link, over-emphasizing both the role of Luke---Acts in development of ascension belief and the connection with his resurrection. In the …

Among the Maronites, a Lebanon-based indigenous Christian community in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, funeral rituals play a central social role. These rituals both inform us about the local attitudes toward life and death and give us access to old practices that were…