Explores the way Jürgen Moltmann uses the Shekinah concept as a solution to the classical problem of the immanence and transcendence of God, and to the aporia of the radically transcendent God portrayed in his first major work, Theology of Hope, and the radically immanent God po…
This practice-as-research project (a) invents, examines and self-reflects upon two techniques - 'Whirling in Pain' and 'Neurobreathing' - that the author has developed for dealing with pain in performance, (b) creates a framework for the qualitative analysis of pain retraining t…
This study was guided by the question: In what ways and under what conditions can food relate to a spiritual experience among advanced spiritual practitioners and leaders? Secondary questions addressed the role of food as it relates to meaning and transcendence. The purpose of t…
Corpora Caelestia: A Movement Opera is the written thesis prepared in conjunction with a performance that took place in October 2019. A requirement for the MFA in Dance at the University of Maryland, this performance crossed genres by blending dance and music. This paper outline…
This dissertation examines the philosophy and poetry of three major British Romantic writers (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth) to contest a popular narrative promulgated by literary scholars and intellectual historians that identifies the Ro…
This study investigates whether aesthetic experiences of art give rise to religious, spiritual, and/or transcendent understandings of the world and, if so, whether these psychological phenomena are empirically quantifiable. Although recent advances have been made in both the psy…