From the unique perspective of the oath, this study investigates the entanglements of change in Kenya during the Mau Mau period, 1952-1960. Specifically, it challenges the prevailing Mau Mau narrative, revealing the oath as a complex, adaptive, and rational process ordered aroun…
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The most recent opioid epidemic in United States history emerged in the late 1980s and continues its destructive impact to this day. It has evolved into a devastating public health crisis with a broad range of medical, social, and economic consequences. This dissertation focuses…
Numinous experiences (defined in this study as direct, unwilled experiences which evoke a sense of being gripped or seized by a powerful affective state of trembling fascination in relation to a mysterious non-ego ‘other’) are described as having both a fragmenting and healing e…
In the current Western patriarchal milieu, there are few models of how motherhood can foster psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore how the stage of motherhood can birth psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. This thes…
Baptism as a ritual is not the creation of Jesus, but is introduced by John the Baptist. John's baptism originated in Judaism and his baptism preserved the function and implication of Jewish washing, i.e., ritual cleansing from impurity, by means of repentance and forgiveness. B…
Peer and parental influences are important predictive variables for smoking initiation in adolescence. No research exists addressing the relationships between these variables in Pakistani adolescents. Based on social learning theory and protection motivation theory, the present …
With the recent advances in computation technology researchers around the globe are working to simulate the crack propagation. One of the key issues in predicting crack propagation path is the knowledge of the crack initiation angle. The study of crack initiation angles is also …
Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a “second baptism”? I have argued, in this dissertation, that it is. There exists, clearly, a relationship between the two rites of initiation: the monastic profession and baptism. This dissertation examines these two rites of …