One of the fundamental changes in the modern era was the coming of the “dying of death” throughout the Western World. Coined by historian James Farrell, this term is used to explain how mourners moved away from sentimental death mores that domesticated the dead body and encourag…
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God Damn is a poetic collection that delves into the complex relationship between a daughter and her father, who has recently suffered from a stroke. As her father grapples with Aphasia, a neurological disorder which has rendered him with a uniquely limited vocabulary, the autho…
Çalışma Türk düşüncesinin erken dönem eserlerinden olan Kutadgu Bilig ’de ahlak, ölüm ve ölümsüzlük arasında kurulan ilişkiyi incelemektedir. Kutadgu Bilig sahip olduğu zengin muhteva sayesinde birçok yönden incelenmeye muhtaçtır. Türk siyaset düşüncesi açısından kilit bir konum…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the seven-year-long mass hunger strike undertaken by prisoners affiliated with outlawed Marxist-Leninist organizations in Turkey to protest their transfer from traditional ward-type facilities to new cellular institutions modeled aft…
Hydrogen sulfide was found to be more toxic to hippocampal slice cultures than isolated hepatocytes. Chloride ion channel blockers decreased H 2S cytotoxicity suggesting that H2S enters the cells via these channels. Intracellular H2S was formed from cysteine, metabolism as the c…
This dissertation calls attention to the need for a systematic and comprehensive theological interpretation of the Elisha narratives found mainly in 2 Kings 2–9. A rhetorical-critical reading is employed to demonstrate how Elisha is portrayed as a prophet who typically worked to…
La présente thèse, par sa méthodologie, se situe dans le domaine de la sociologie des religions. En nous servant de l'approche wébérienne comme assise analytique, nous étudions le concept de la mort à Ougarit entre les troisième et deuxième millénaires avant l'ère commune. Plus …
This thesis explores the 'theories of Bataille and Baudrillard' in relation to the problem of extreme violence. The particular events of concern are the death of James Bulger, the Dunblane massacre and the 'serial killers' Frederick and Rosemary West. The thesis argues that domi…
This project examined, by qualitative investigation, the actual content and mechanics of ghost beliefs in Britain today. Through questionnaire, personal interview, and email correspondence, the beliefs and experiences of 227 people were assessed, and considered against historica…
On account of their supposed link to nature, women in post-revolutionary France were pigeonholed into a very restrictive sphere that centred around domesticity and submission to their male counterparts. Yet this thesis shows how a number of women writers – Cottin, Genlis, Krüden…
This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through co…
The thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions. The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death…
Managing Death: Diagnosing the "New " Eugenics in Canadian Legal Discourses and Narratives of Disability, examines how three twentieth-century Canadian legal cases---Henry Morgentaler, Sue Rodriguez, and Robert Latimer---inform and problematize Canada's concept of itself as a li…
The theme of death and life is a hermeneutical key to First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. Despite the repeated references to death and life in Isaiah 1–39, no study exists that synthetically discusses the relevant passages in that corpus. This st…
As the result of a series of synchronistic experiences, the author uses a heuristic paradigm to explore and reconcile perceived tensions in the world views of science, the social sciences, and theology about death and dying. This is done in the context of writing a textbook on d…
This dissertation consists of a rereading of two writers (Malraux and Camus) who are often considered as existentialists. With a blanchotian perspective, I endeavor to read them differently, keeping in mind the analyses of Blanchot on language and literature. Blanchot adds his p…
Assuming that ancient traditions were at the very heart of medieval Jewish practices, I question to what extent the care for the dead in medieval Ashkenaz continued and to what extent it differed from the treatment of the body in earlier periods. Were the halakhic norms regardin…
This dissertation examines the theme of exile in Deuteronomy. Chapter 1 discusses the history of research of Deuteronomy as it relates to both the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History, and the history of research of exile as a theological topic in Old and New Testament stu…