This study examines the lived experience of self for practitioners from the spiritual tradition of Uwaiysi Sufism, a contemplative, mystical branch of Islam cultivated in the Middle East. Sufi Masters suggest the possibility of attaining and embodying a level of psycho-spiritual…
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This dissertation analyzes experiences of self and identity in “modern” Central Java, Indonesia, through narratives of mental affliction and healing. These stories of individual and social suffering reveal how personal desires and public ideals are expressed and contested in an …
Julien Gracq, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Sylvie Germain employ ambiguous language in their depictions of depressed, indifferent protagonists in, respectively, Un Balcon en forêt (1958), La Nuit sacrée (1987), and Opéra muet (1989). Such language and themes could easily be construed a…
Throughout history, cultural encounters between the East and the West have led to attempts to struggle with the relations between Self and Other. It is a commonplace that dramatic events such as the fall of Constantinople (renamed Istanbul), the first siege of Vienna in 1529 and…
In this dissertation, I explore the role of community in the narrative articulation of the self. Recent studies of St. Paul's letters suggest that Paul's statements about justification refer first to Paul's community and only secondarily to the stance of the individual before Go…
This dissertation explores the power of Jewish history and social studies textbooks as agents of socialization and identity formation in the United States. It examines the shaping of American Jewish identity, communal values, and orderings of experience through an analysis of th…
The work selected for this portfolio comprises two language-specific case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the…
This thesis examines the reading lives of eighteenth-century English men and women. Diaries of the middling sort and the gentry show that reading entwined daily routines and long-term aspirations. This life-writing also demonstrates that readers performed and contextualised read…
At a time when there is increasing focus on the need to adapt approaches to psychotherapy to align with the cultural and religious/spiritual orientations of clients, this thesis explores the ontological foundations of psychology from an Islamic paradigm and how these foundationa…
The primary task of this thesis is to explain what the relationship between social practice and the socially emergent self is, and to concurrently explain why this relationship is of significance to an accurate theory of social practice itself. A subsequent aim of this is to exp…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal fea…
The present inquiry sets out to explore the self as an expatriate eacher working in international schools, through the lens of ositioning. To better understand complex phenomena such as the self and its episodic encounters in the social arena, this study uses positioning theory …
This is a multi-method ethnographic study, grounded in symbolic interactionism and social constructionism, which seeks to explore the social worlds of people with dementia in institutional long-term care. Carried out over six months, it uses non-participant observation, Dementia…
This thesis explores the working lives of British Born South Asian Ethnic Minorities (BB SAEMs), critiquing the homogenous identities ascribed to them in previous research. Its methodology is life-story interviews analysed using Nvivo. This identified four hybrid categories emer…
This study used a mixed methods research approach to explore stand-alone overnight solos, differences in experience between men and women, and resulting personal growth. Participants (n= 24) completed an overnight solo in either April or September as part of a college course at …
This thesis focuses on how some 'Greek Cypriots' and 'Turkish Cypriots' in North London locate themselves as such through the lived experience of each other in a given context and time. It aims to explore and problematize the notions of 'Self and 'Other' as positioning strategie…
Claiming the biblical female images of God in the Christian worship, this dissertation explores the possibility of female images of God in the context of Korean Christianity worship. Worship provides us a self-grammar which reminds us of who we are in relationship with God and t…
This dissertation explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has p…
This dissertation investigates the use of ‘alien rhetoric’ in early Christian texts—that is, the language of foreignness, sojourning, resident-alien status, and citizenship as a means for communicating varying forms of Christian alterity. In contrast to previous scholarship that…