This dissertation seeks to recover the relational quality of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord and the Giver of life as enshrined in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Neo-Scholastic theology had utilized the conceptual categories of Aristotelian metaphysics with its orien…
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This dissertation examines the place of difference in black women's writing of the African diaspora. Afrodiasporic women writers since the late 1960s have subverted generic conventions to foreground complex black female identifications. These writers develop what I term a "poeti…
This dissertation examines selected novels written by contemporary Egyptian writers that present the Egyptian society during different historical periods–from antiquity to the present–as fundamentally heterogeneous, consisting of several groups based on differences in ethnicity,…
This thesis examines young people’s preferences for social interaction with others perceived to be similar and different, and school staff’s interpretations of the young people’s social behaviour. The issue is explored with reference to a tension between social inclusion, the pr…
This thesis argues the question of peace in Northern Ireland, and perhaps beyond, cannot be founded on tolerance, equality, or mutual understanding among persons. Peace cannot reside within a horizon of sameness, whereby bodies are posited as either dualistic or in-common. Both …
This thesis examines why, in spite of three decades of EO policy, workplace inequality persists between women and men. At the heart of this is the explicit question of whether the law is an effective vehicle for change. This thesis researches and analyses the four predominant ar…
Medieval Arthurian literature stages perennial problems of intercultural contact and conflict, from ethnic contests between Britons and Saxons to family strife and ideological struggles within the Round Table fellowship itself. These struggles turn on categories of difference th…
Loving the Neighbor assesses the ethics of difference in the shared romance narratives of late medieval England and Castile (1360-1450). It appraises the ethics informing portrayals of community across differences of religion, race, gender, and history. To this end, "Loving the …
Vers / Mouvements is a cross-cultural exploration of movement in contemporary French-language poetry and theater from the 1970-1982. The study focuses on poets Anne-Marie Albiach (France) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and playwrights Werewere Liking (Cameroon/Ivory Coast)…
There is a dearth of quantitative research examining the public stigma of Tourette syndrome (TS), and no known studies assessing public perceptions of difference (how similar they are), disdain (how bad they are), and blame (how responsible they are) toward individuals with TS. …
Ecofeminist Val Plumwood (1993) articulates that the dualistic logic which pervades Western culture operates by distorting difference and establishing hierarchical relationships based on that distortion. She identifies 5 aspects of hierarchical relationships that function to uph…