This doctoral research thesis aims to provide a comprehensive depiction of contemporary spiritual engagement outside of religious tradition. Existing research is primarily contextualized within the areas of sociology and religious studies, and an in-depth psychological evaluatio…
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İçinde yaşadığımız dünyayı anlamlandırmak ve bu çağda sanat yapıtlarını sınıflandırmak, hiç olmadığı kadar zorlaşmış durumdadır. Bu çağda, tiyatronun ne olduğu ve ne olacağı ile ilgili soru ve sorunlar ortaya koyulurken, sunulan çözümler genelde bireysel ve teknoloji odaklıdır. …
Uluslararası ilişkiler disiplininde konstrüktivist teoriye göre kimlikler çıkarları, çıkarlar ise dış politikayı belirlemektedir. Buna bağlı olarak dini kimlik ülkelerin dış politikalarını şekillendirmede önemli bir faktördür. ABD geç kurulmuş ve ortak bir kimliğe sahip olmayan …
Kamu yönetimi disiplini, 19. yüzyılın sonlarından günümüze kadar birçok düşünce akımının etkisi altında kalarak şekillenmiştir. Batıda üretilen ve küresel ölçekte yaygınlık kazanan bu düşünce akımları kimi zaman kamu yönetiminde değişim sürecini şekillendiren hâkim paradigmalar …
This study interprets Sam Shepard’s plays Buried Child, True West , and Fool for Love as both evocative and critical of the spirit of Americanness captured by Western history and the western genre. Westward expansion and the ideology of Manifest Destiny encouraged an aggressive …
“Representations of History in African Diasporic Literatures and the Politics of Postmodernism” examines four novels published by African American and African authors in late 1970s and early 1980s. Literary criticism set narrow terms for literary production during these politica…
Brian Israel (1951-1986), American composer and pianist from New York City, left a wealth of music that has been largely ignored by the musical community. Included in his collection of nearly 200 works are six compositions that prominently feature the saxophone. Composed during …
The dissertation explores what key perspectives within the fields of comparative history of religions, philosophy, and science and religion can contribute to the understanding of a central, self-identity issue in the study of religion and interreligious dialogue: How does one de…
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
The West has long been conceived in American culture as the site of an elusive ideal of authenticity. This thesis aims to define the concept of American Authenticity as a political philosophy, affective current, and 'structure of feeling' which finds expression within the Hollyw…
This thesis has two main objectives. First, it outlines a taxonomy of reflexive development practice, which aims at transcending the divide between modernism and postmodernism in the methodology of development economics. Second, the thesis examines the taxonomy in two countries …
This thesis explores interactions between self-fashioning and consumption in the hip hop scene in Uganda. In the performances of musical and social life, hip hop reveals first, tactile interactions between ideas and objects, subjective and relational to processes of consumption …
The present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, it investigates the usefulness and accuracy of this very not…
In spite of postmodern attempts by prominent figures such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to deconstruct the Author, and to expose as fraudulent and false some of the underlying assumptions related to genius, a popular understanding of the Author-as-Genius persists in the …
What is an expression that can express that which cannot be expressed? Logic and grammar will declare it to be an impossibility and its expression, a mistaken use of language. Yet, humanity's archive persistently attests to both the legitimacy of the inexpressible expression and…
The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel's mod…
The following thesis is a study of Aras Ören's 1995 novel Berlin Savignyplatz. This novel moves away from the New Left's discourse on guest workers as helpless victims and toward a view that refuses to essentialize identities. The text does this by using instances of mass media …
This paper provides a brief historical overview of the integration of psychology and Christianity while highlighting some of the growing tensions within the movement. Integration of psychology and Christianity has been heavily influenced by training that occurs at APA-accredited…
The project director selected a strategy model to catalyze gospel conversations by the members of Stuart Heights Baptist Church among their circles of influence. The project director examined demographic and cultural information revealing decline in religious affiliation. Additi…