This project examines the role of honor as a moral economy in the factional competition that enables and constrains Iran's foreign policy preference formation. Honor is treated as a currency and resource by which faction leaders recruit new members, challenge other faction leade…
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Honor killings are perpetrated for a wide range of offenses in several parts of the world, including marital infidelity, pre-marital sex, flirting, and divorce. This study investigated the opinions of 18 to 22 Muslim American women, born in the United States, aged 25 to 40, of S…
This thesis explores the political reformation of “faction” in the political thought of Montesquieu, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, three thinkers whose works span what Pierre Manent calls “an exquisite moment of liberalism.” It examines the transformation of faction from one bas…
This article-based dissertation examines the impact of male migration and the feminization of agriculture upon the status of women in Rmāyniyya, a village of Northwest Tunisia (delegation of Nefza). It attempts to study the changes that have occurred during the last decades in t…
The literature addressing suicidal behaviour in young South Asian women is reviewed. Most published literature cites 'culture conflict' as a causal mechanism for the high rates of suicidal behaviour found in this group. Whilst this concept is undoubtedly of relevance, it is ill …
Christianity originated in what has often been described as an honor-shame culture. In Mediterranean antiquity, society, rather than the individual, defined both worthy behavior and a person's worth. While who and what was honored varied according to location and community, the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the semantics of honor and shame in the Hebrew Bible and to demonstrate how these social values intersect with Israel's fundamental social organizing principle, covenant. Though many scholars have claimed that honor and shame are p…
The Bible's attitudes toward Moabites are more varied than those expressed toward any other group. By studying biblical portrayals of Moab, this study aims to describe 1) how biblical authors imagine encounters with foreignness, 2) how texts about foreigners construct in-group i…
Available social psychological studies of honor cultures have mostly focused on emotional, cognitive, and behavioral consequences of perceiving an honor insult. The aim of this study was to examine possible ways of re-instilling a sense of honor and thus avoiding the negative em…
This project seeks to develop an expository preaching series on financial stewardship at Living Water Church in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Living Water Church and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of the fo…
The culture of honor in the American South was a major influence on the social and moral direction of the Confederacy. However, the southern brand of honor in early America changed from how cultural honor had been represented historically. Cultural practices specific to the Sout…
Honor was the core motivating factor for Colombians who participated in the Thousand Days’ War. It transcended racialized, gendered, and class-based societal boundaries. But these boundaries nevertheless determined how different elements of Colombian society at the turn of the t…
This work uses the life of one man, Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg, to assess the life cycle of honor using newspapers, personal correspondence, pamphlets, and eulogies. Through early blunders with the public performance of honor, Gregg showcases honor’s relative flexibility as h…
My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…
Rhetorical studies are deeply concerned with the way that human beings use language and symbols to interact and persuade others to follow a particular point of view, or plan of action. In the male dominant culture of 15th century France, Christine de Pizan recognized the limitat…
Although Moroccan female-initiated migration to Europe has captured the attention of scholars in various fields of study, the majority of these studies have focused on macro-level analysis of resettlement and integration patterns. These studies, however, have bypassed the subtle…
This portfolio follows the development, from conception to completion, of the original stage play The Disguise of Honor. The script subtly explores several questions including: What is honor? What is shame? Who is God? What is the core conflict between Islam and Christianity? Wh…