Rivers play a symbolic role in the story of Israel's formation as a people found within the Hebrew Bible. From the primeval period to the return from exile, Israel's history and understanding of themselves as a people with shared identity and collective memory is tied to their i…
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For Christian professional youth workers, the transition from student to employee positions them at the interstices of convergent and competing discourses. This thesis argues that Christian youth workers can position themselves within these discourses by articulating an authenti…
Background: Dementia is the biggest cause of death in the United Kingdom (Matthews, 2016). Early-onset dementia (EOD) is a subset of the dementias affecting people between the ages of forty-five to sixty-five (Mercy, 2008). People with early-onset dementia (PwEOD) can find thems…
The transitions of young people to adulthood in the UK are a political threshold that has received much public attention. The trend for young people to abstain from elections relative to older generations is one example of the many reasons young people’s politics have come under…
The paranormal industry in Edinburgh has become a thriving niche within the country's tourist market. While ghost walks have been explored in anthropology from the perspective of spectacle, this thesis investigates and analyses the cultural framework which has furthered the succ…
The dissertation analyzes the intersections between the discourse of adolescence and the discourse of Empire. The adolescent is a major, if not the central, figure in the rhetoric of Empire, specifically as a site of adult anxiety and imperial contestation. Chapter 1 revisits Ho…
This study examines the patterns, dynamics and appropriate contextual expressions of transformative worship among the Salako of Sarawak, Malaysia. The study shows that in worship, there is a transformative cycle that has three phases: come-commune-renew, with all three phases be…
This thesis explores the idea that transnational women writers are liminal figures: marginal as women, marginal as writers, and marginal as transnational personae "betwixt and between" nations. Authorial liminality provides a vantage point that is neither fully inside nor fully …
Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma functions as a social determinant of health influencing me…
This thesis is an exploratory study about adolescents' conceptions of food. It beginskhatejadidfrom a sociological or social anthropological perspective from which existing studieskhatejadidhave illustrated that food and eating can be used in order to create, maintain or dispute…
The term “liminality” originated in the work of two socioanthropologists, Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner; it is descriptive of the middle phase in a rite of passage. Whereas the “betwixt and between” transitional pattern is temporary in tribal societies, it often becomes a …
While research about mentoring in higher education is extensive, studies focused on mentoring in Asian higher education are limited and few address mentoring in Asian theological education. In recent years there have been calls for theological educators in Asia to recognize and …
The decade of the 1890s was a period characterized by racial violence, the ongoing entrenchment of the Jim Crow state, and the legitimization of scientific racism. It was also a time when race and racial construction were in a considerable state of flux, formation, and developme…
The zombie is one of the most recognizable figures in American popular culture, known for its soulless eyes, lumbering shuffle, and desire to eat flesh. The origins of this figure are not as popularly known, nor are the evolutions it has undergone. It originated in Haitian relig…