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This dissertation examines the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) women and genderqueer clergy who currently or have previously worked at congregations within Massachusetts. Drawing from twenty-five in-depth interviews with Christian ministers and priests, U…

This study examines the origins and development of the community of Hamawi Sufis that formed around Yacouba Sylla in French West Africa beginning in 1929. Based on research in the French, Senegalese, Malian, Ivoirien and Mauritanian archives, as well as on an analysis of the ora…