Traditional South Asian values have collectivist implications where the welfare and happiness of the family are held in a higher regard than the individual’s personal desires. While the requirement for parental and community approval is conventional for South Asian culture, this…
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The Fourth Gospel presents the doctrine of love by repeating the terms for love, such as agape and philos , and their cognate verbs. The Gospel further enriches the doctrine by adopting metaphors and symbols that signify love, lovers, and/or love deities in the first-century Med…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine cultural differences and relationships within the Arab American community, utilizing Lee's love styles, to better understand how courtship and relationships are closely linked. I focused on investigating how Lee's Love Style Theory …
Imagination, love, reason: these three elements come together in a delicate balance to form the workings of the human mind. This dissertation explores these concepts and their intricate relationship as portrayed in key writings of Italian literature. I focus on authors of the It…
It is often assumed that love in Old french romances derives from Provençal fin'amors, in which love and marriage are incompatible. Yet in at least half the surviving octosyllabic romances written before 1300, love leads to marriage. The present thesis studies these "marital" ro…
With increasing globalization, researchers are beginning to document the changing patterns of family life in collectivistic societies undergoing rapid economic development, such as India. With these changes, expectations of romantic relationships are also shifting as individuals…
Aci Tatli Yiyoruz explores transformations in gender, kin relationships and marriage in a Turkish village over a forty year period and argues that there is a connection between economic and social change, which is mediated by a local-level politicization of ideas of tradition an…
This dissertation offers a constructive theological argument regarding the nature of the relationship between divine and human mercy. The study takes as its starting point the injunction in the Gospel of Luke: "Be merciful as your Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36), and argues that…
The foundational element of the educational enterprise is the basic relationship of two human beings working collaboratively to accomplish something together that neither could accomplish alone. Faculty want to teach and students want to learn within thriving academic communitie…
Chapter one surveys past inquiries into the Song's geographical images and spells out a methodology for examining these contexts in light of contributions offered from hermeneutical studies of metaphorical language. The approach includes discerning the syntagmatic and pragmatic …
This study analyzes female friendship in four novels written by black diasporic women and examines the impact of race, class and gender on women's relationships. The novels emphasize how women face the challenges of patriarchal institutions and other attempts to subjugate then t…
This study is a phenomenological investigation through interviews with 14 co-researchers, 11 females and 3 males, who report a state of consciousness and awareness that they call love as a "miracle." The data naturally clusters into a thematic sequence of five processes: to awak…
In the first half of the eleventh century CE, a series of narrative poems about love and lovers were composed in the eastern Iranian lands, marking the advent of what is now generally called the romance genre in Persian literature. However, sustained theoretical considerations o…
The fundamental purpose of this dissertation is a comparative study of the concepts of love and the Beloved in the ghazals (lyrics) of Sa'd[Special characters omitted.] <math> <f> <rm><a><ac>i</ac><ac>&d1;</ac></a></rm></f> </math> (d. 1292) and Hafez (d. 1389), world-renowned P…
This research generates an alchemical hermeneutic analysis of four archetypes as found in certain ancient Egyptian texts and the contemporary dream text Heart of the Inner Chamber , the landscape of which is the "world's geography of love." As symbols of transformation, these fo…
This thesis conducts a conceptual genealogy of love in sociological thought. It traces the passage of a positive logic of love: a disappearing logic conceived in Goethe's art, cultivated from the social science of Comte and Marx to classical non/Marxist sociology, and finally ex…
This study in biblical theology proceeds from a basic curiosity: why do the foundational literature of many religions, Jewish and Christian ones in particular, enshrine stories of highborn individuals who (for one reason or another) are alienated from their inherited context of …
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their characteristics, and how it contributes to the p…
Kant’s practical philosophy has two ideals, but Kant seems mostly silent on the connection between them: namely the Just State and the Kingdom of Ends. Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason certainly gives a semblance of an answer, in claiming that we, as a community of huma…