The purpose of this case study explores the impact of an immersion experience to a least developed country on the vocation of lay teacher leaders in American Jesuit High Schools. Nine lay teacher leaders engaged in a four stage process of immersion from November 2009 to August 2…
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This dissertation investigates the role of the poor and marginal characters in the Elisha narratives. It follows the methodology of the Spanish Old Testament scholar, Luis Alonso Schökel (1920–1998). Accordingly, the biblical text is read in its three dimensions: literary, histo…
This dissertation examines the role of micro-credit on the liquidity constraints faced by poor landless and near-landless households in rural Bangladesh. The objective of the study is to examine whether collateral-free interest-bearing micro-loans from the Grameen Bank can help …
The aim of this research is to investigate the claim made for small enterprises with specific reference to their ability to reduce poverty and unemployment in the countries of the developing world. According to World Bank estimates, about 1,115 million people in the developing w…
In the face of high population growth and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spati…
In my ethnography of Coptic social services, I explore the forms of pastoral care deployed by the Coptic Orthodox Church to create spaces where the central element of the Christian tradition--the commandment to love--is realized in a life of sharing. I look at two main forms of …
This dissertation examines the ways in which water development projects have altered the socioeconomic structure and natural environment in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The main objective of this study is to examine the social and environmental costs of the Southeastern Anatol…
This dissertation integrates the preaching, writing, and ministry of John Chrysostom (JCh) in fourth century Antioch to develop a missiological understanding of the biblical practice of almsgiving as it relates to transmitting the gospel. Chapter 1 introduces the significance of…
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of macroeconomic policies (specifically those supported by the International Monetary Fund) on the poor, especially women and children, both conceptually and in the case of Turkey after 1980. The premise is that m…
Hemoglobin disorders or inherited blood diseases affect about 5% of the world population. One main category of these disorders is sickle-cell disease (SCD). SCD can cause many physical complications, such as kidney problems, leg ulcers, and chronic pain. Less frequently discusse…
This dissertation is a biocultural study of the ways in which food consumption of pregnant women is fashioned by their social and physical milieu. The aims were to examine how multiparous women interpreted the cultural norms of food consumption during pregnancy based on their em…