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This dissertation is a study of the anti-Jewish rhetoric in the writings of the fourth-century Syriac poet and theologian Ephrem, “the Syrian.” Primarily, it is an investigation of the social and political repercussions Ephrem's anti-Jewish rhetoric had in his controversies agai…
This thesis extends recent scholarly interest in the practical processes of Late Antique Roman law and on the integration of the episcopate into Roman power structures in the fourth century, the first century of imperial patronage of Christian communities. It confirms the "minim…
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it retrieves from obscurity Philoxenos of Mabbug, an influential figure in the religious politics of late antiquity whose place in the historiography has been eclipsed by his “heretical” status as a so-called “monophysite.” Secondly, …
This project is concerned with the complex network of processes through which a recently converted Turkic tribe, the Saljuqs, came to be depicted as the upholders of normative Islam in the 5th /11th century. I utilize a wide range of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Syriac primary …
The thesis of this dissertation is that the identity of catholic Christianity in the early second century was marked by a unified confession of the unique incarnational christological narrative, that is, the account of the Son/Logos who came from heaven, became incarnate, suffer…
This thesis explores the construction of theological and social boundaries within contemporary Orthodox Judaism--an ideological subset of the Jewish religion known for its strict (and sometimes stringent) practice of Halacha (Jewish religious law), coupled with its ideological f…
Michael Muhammad Knight is known primarily as a provocative author concerned with the North American Islamic community. Knight gained attention with his 2004 novel, The Taqwacores, in which he detailed the lives of Islamic punk rockers, the eponymous taqwacores, as they navigate…
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…
This qualitative phenomenological research is seeking to determine why young adult Orthodox Jews are leaving Orthodoxy. This is the focus of the research and the main research question. This study focuses on the lived experiences of those who have chosen attrition from an Orthod…
Following forty-five years of control and restraint by the Communist government, political change engulfed Hungary in late 1989. These changes ushered in a new freedom of religion law in February 1990. With these new freedoms, Pentecostals in Hungary experienced the opportunity …
Through interviews with twenty self-described leavetakers from a wide range of Orthodox Jewish lifestyles in Toronto, Canada, this dissertation argues that leavetaking from normative Orthodox Judaism does not mean exiting Judaism or even stopping observance completely. Study dat…
Studying Dostoevsky’s poetics according to the principles of Orthodox Personalism—a school of thought that utilizes Anthropological and Ontological discourse to analyze contemporary philosophical and theological questions—frames a well-traversed area of scholarly interest within…
A significant disconnect exists between the stated beliefs of collegiate-age Christians and the presence of orthodoxy and orthopraxy. In essence, students are Christian in name only. Some institutions of higher learning dedicate themselves exclusively to teaching sound doctrine …
This study aims to trace the development of Islamic theological discourse in Indonesia, from the early 1900s to the end of the twentieth century. It will focus on how modernist Muslims have constructed their theological thought throughout the century, which, in turn, reflects th…
The concepts of orthodoxy and heresy mostly refer to the politics of domination between competing groups to determine which one shall be considered the bearer of the 'correct' beliefs. The winning party would claim its teachings orthodox, while the losing party would be condemne…
Through the evidence of the court records (sijill s), this dissertation examines the interplay between Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh ), codified sultanic law (qanun ) and customary law in the shari`a courts of Ottoman-Cairo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The thesis fo…