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It is customary for postcolonial biblical critics to dismiss the book of Exodus as the tale of a tyrannical and genocidal deity. The following dissertation attempts to correct this impulse by redeploying the postcolonial approach in a way that seeks to more authentically realize…

Pluralities of people s crossings of the Mekong Thai-Lao border occur as locals subvert, reject, ignore, and embrace the logic of the national border. From a state-centric point of view, the everyday movements of these people, who rely mainly on a subsistence economy and have th…

This study discusses the professionalisation of higher education management and emerging patterns of decision making within a context of academic and organisational change. A total of thirty interviews were conducted across six Universities, with five similar roles interviewed i…

Living a life "on the hyphen" -- as the Cuban-American critic Gustavo Perez Firma calls it -- or in a "third space" -- as the Indian literary theorist Homi Bhabha defines it -- has become the most common way to describe the condition of those identities in-between, to define the…

This dissertation study explores the rise of Irish women poets of the twentieth century, in particular Eavan Boland from the southern Republic of Ireland and Medbh McGuckian from Northern Ireland. It investigates the birth of Irish Feminist Literary Theory and Irish Postcolonial…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive design study was to explore how Christian millennials experienced networked religion on Facebook for shaping values and beliefs. The theoretical framework appropriate for this study was the concept of networked religion. The three rese…

This thesis examines the church of Sant’Adriano in the town of San Demetrio Corone in Calabria, Italy, as evidence of the development a multi-cultural society and “third space” during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The church is located in a sparsely populated area with few…

This paper explores some of the reasons people are not attending Sunday worship and to discover and create ways of being the church in the present time and space. Rather than continuing to do church the way it has always been done and becoming less and less relevant to a growing…

Macau’s location and history gave rise to a Eurasian creole community - the Macanese. Initially an epithet for the mestizo individuals who resulted from intermarriages among the Portuguese settlers and their indigenous subordinates, the definition of the Macanese has been notori…

There is a wealth of existing literature on the importance of student organizations both at the secondary and post-secondary level; however, very little is known about Muslim female youth and their experiences in Muslim student groups in secondary schools. This study focuses on …