The Bible presents a clear call for God’s people to welcome and care for foreigners seeking refuge, but many evangelical churches in America have not adequately responded to this call. Churches do not often see the obstacles that inhibit domestic church members’ (DCMs’) motivati…
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This dissertation extends the ancient Hebrew and Christian ethic of hospitality to vulnerable strangers. The dissertation develops a mutually critical correlation between the fact of the Christian ethical centrality of hospitality and the contemporary situation of geographical a…
The research presents a practice-based examination of the politics and poetics of the manifesto form, drawing on feminist theoretical writing and activism alongside contemporary iterations of socially engaged art. It offers feminist manifestos as a lens through which to reconsid…
This thesis is a study of appropriations of the early modern banquet course in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries during the period 1590-1640. My interdisciplinary approach is evident in the range of sources used, including primary material such as accounts of entertain…
How can churches can welcome and integrate newcomers more effectively? Why do visitors come? What do they experience? How can the church support them? The principal theological theme of this research is hospitality. Study of this theme in the Bible reveals consistent emphasis up…
Senegal, a Muslim majority and democratic country, has long coined itself as "le pays de la terànga" (Land of Hospitality). This dissertation explores the central importance of terànga –the Wolof word which encapsulates the generous and civic-minded qualities of individuals – to…
The main purpose of this study was to explore guests' waiting experience at hotels in Saudi Arabia, as well as the role of delay on overall experience. Investigating the effects of guests' waiting experience on service quality and subsequent satisfaction with overall experience …
This thesis investigates the study of subtractive architecture, It examines sight condition to inspire a unique design with a sustainable structure in a harsh environment. The idea of subtractive architecture through a geological mass refers back two thousand years ago, the Naba…
“Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vit…
This study investigates the theatrical function and moral significance of disrupted banquets in six plays of William Shakespeare and in a history play of Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing in the Yuan dynasty. By examining feasting scenes interrupted by unanticipated guests, or des…
American Hospitality rereads the canon of American literature by focusing attention on the centrality of hospitality to the twentieth-century American literary imagination. It argues that twentieth-century U.S. authors employ scenes of hospitality (scenes of welcoming and withho…
This study tracks changes in how an identifiably Irish distilled liquor flowed through society in early modern Ireland. Ireland, as diagnostic grey area between colony and European state periphery, is a fruitful place to explore the intersection of colonialism and the emergence …
Hospitality can be regarded as a cornerstone of Ethiopian culture. The intense social interaction also can be perceived easily even if it is exercised in various ways depending on the number, condition, and locale of the community. Ethiopians are substantially attached to their …
This project analyzes the representation of increased human mobility from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe in contemporary films. The politicization and control of movement through closed borders, travel documents and anti-immigration laws have relegated the humanity of those concer…
The goal of this thesis is to understand the relationship between the spatial organization and visibility between the men's and women's domains of domestic space in Riyadh. It explores the dynamics of visual separation between the men's and women's domains by addressing visibili…