Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
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The study of religious conversion in general has created a vision of conversion as a negative phenomenon. Studies of religious conversion are relatively new as the recent wave of study of this phenomenon began only in the 1950s. Moreover, the study of Muslim conversion in the We…
This dissertation examines the manner in which Turkish secularism has come to delimit, define, and calibrate minority religious practices as well as citizenship policies by tracing different categories of the secular and the religious in Turkey. It is an ethnographic study of co…
This research investigates social identities according to the experiences of immigrant believers of Muslim background (BMB) in North America. Henri Tajfel and Nathan Turner's Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization Theory were utilized to better understand how immigrant B…
This dissertation analyzes the use of discourses of religious conversion in twelfth and thirteenth century Old French and Old Provencal romance fiction. The discourses of religious conversion are here defined to include narrative conventions of Christian scripture, hagiography, …
In providing the first extensive study of Renaissance English converts (both historical and fictional) who changed their religious affiliations multiple times, my dissertation contributes to recent research into the traumatic aftershocks of the Reformation. Specifically, I argue…
Most people in the United States report that religion and spirituality play an integral role in their romantic relationships. Thus far, research conducted on the role religion plays in marital relationships has primarily focused on the effects partners practicing different relig…
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors associated with conversion to Protestant Christianity by Ethiopian Orthodox young adults in urban context. The research used qualitative interviews to explore particular elements of the Protestant gospel message and other soc…
This dissertation explores late medieval and early modern representations of racial and religious identity as represented in several renditions of a very popular book of chivalry. Originally composed in French during the twelfth-century, Fierabras was translated to Middle Englis…
Esta investigación aborda la religiosidad de las primeras generaciones de jesuitas hispanos que, tras la aprobación papal de 1540 y la entrada de la Compañía de Jesús en la Monarquía Católica, encabezaron la expansión y fortalecimiento de la orden religiosa a lo largo del territ…
The emerging adult (EA) developmental period is often characterized by identity exploration and increases in abstract thought, including matters related to spirituality. Spirituality during EA has been found to be experienced open ended, with the goal of finding meaning and purp…
Within the last few decades, there have been significant discussions regarding the rupturing effect that conversions to Christianity have in indigenous contexts. Individuals who have converted to Christianity from indigenous religions frequently speak of a disruption between the…
Mukteda es-Sadr liderliğindeki Sadr Hareketi, milliyetçi söylemi ve Amerikan karşıtlığı ile güncel Irak siyasetinde önemli bir siyasi aktördür. Bu çalışmada, ideolojik ve örgütsel anlamda Büyük Ayetullahlar Muhammed Bakır es-Sadr ve Muhammed Sadık es-Sadr tarafından başlatılan d…
Religious education involves learning about religion and the possibility of having religious experiences. Although measuring religious knowledge can be fairly straightforward, assessing whether students are having religious experiences can be more difficult. The purpose of this …
As a missionary religion, Islam has expanded its religious boundaries to the world beyond the Arabian Peninsula since the beginning of Muhammad's religious movement. Muslims first contacted Koreans thirteen hundred years ago in China and then arrived in Korea at the end of the S…
In prison many inmates turn to religion for a novel world-view fostering belonging, identity, and management of life. Dogma associated with religious conversion may reinforce anti-social, radical identity or it may encourage pro-social conformity (Sadri 2007, 2009). This study f…
This dissertation contends that religious conversion in modern India is a multi-faceted phenomenon that reflects a flowering of diverse interests and concerns. It argues that conversion in India is inadequately understood if it is construed merely as a shift from one "ism," or r…
The purpose of this single-subject case study was to explore how a Muslim teacher made sense of her life and work in two different contexts, the United States and Egypt. This topic is important because an increasing number of women are converting to Islam and scant research expl…
This work examines ethnic group identities among the Muslim population in the Iberian Peninsula, or al-Andalus, between 881 and 1110 C.E. It specifically addresses three moments in Andalusi history in which ethnic conflict erupted into the political sphere: 1) The revolt of Ibn …