This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. This shift in spatial perception presents the opportu…
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The classical grounded theory method was used to examine the patterns of behavior demonstrated by current and former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Nation of Islam. The data collection procedures included observations, interviews, and field notes. A …
The purpose of this exploratory inquiry is to begin to articulate traces of Sophia wisdom, a whole-making presence, as it appears throughout the development of Western mind. This inquiry explores specifically that aspect of the divine wisdom of Sophia that unites spiritual consc…
Events that could, and often do, crush us psychologically (and/or physically) can also be used for personal transformation and change. There are some individuals who find hope and opportunity in the midst of adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive social ch…
The 1995 Million Man March catered to a heterogeneous group of persons separated along demographic and psychographic lines. A reformation/protest-type March, such differences were problematic for the receipt of the main message delivered by Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis…
The problem this ethnographic study addresses is the relationship between various ways of understanding "difference" and particular conceptualizations of what might constitute just educational practices for students across lines of social demarcation. Thinking about differences …
ABSTRACT Political scientists believe that the Abu Sayyaf Group's (ASG) penchant for accumulating funds through hostage ransoming and other criminal activity has caused the organization to drift away from its Islamic foundations to become bandits. This research explores this cla…
This dissertation is a contribution to the social history of the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It is a study of the opening of the Virgin Lands, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's project to settle and to open up to cultivation new lands in Siberia and Kazakstan. It focuses on a…
In Malaysia, there are on-going efforts to teach higher-order thinking skills in content instruction for the benefit of all students in elementary and secondary schools. Teachers are expected to infuse higher-order thinking skills in the school subjects they teach. This study in…
In July 2013 the British Government unveiled its Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) policy, which aimed to radically change the role and function of the Army Reserve by making it both more capable and more deployable. One of the policy’s central organising principles was its focus on o…
This thesis draws on an ethnographic research in Ghana to question mainstream views on decentralisation that local level institutions can be consciously crafted to enlist the participation of marginal actors in governance thereby leading to efficiency and equity in development. …
Background: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a promising new alternative to anti-depressant medication (Kuyken et al., 2015) and whilst some qualitative studies have explored participants' experiences of MBCT, none yet have explored experiences of participants who a…
This study offers an ecumenical exploration of human transformation through the examination of this topic in the thought of Karl Barth (1888-1968), a Swiss Reformed theologian; Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927), a Roman Catholic theologian; and John Zizioulas (b. 1931), a Greek Orthodo…
This thesis explores some of the processes involved in the transformation of a university as it moved from a conventional collegial style of decision-making towards a more corporate one. Much of the mainstream literature in higher education management tends to polarise these sty…
In this study, I take an interdisciplinary approach to the symbolic geography of Transjordan and the Jordan River in the Deuteronomistic History, utilizing concepts and models from anthropological, sociological, and philosophical thought. The meaningful nature of the Jordan Rive…
This study examines the patterns, dynamics and appropriate contextual expressions of transformative worship among the Salako of Sarawak, Malaysia. The study shows that in worship, there is a transformative cycle that has three phases: come-commune-renew, with all three phases be…
This study examined the perspectives, experiences, and leadership of rural women from Lassa who were members of one grassroots organization, Yiriwaton. Further, the study sought to understand the impact this organization had on this group of women in terms of their empowerment a…
In this dissertation, I argue that the transformation of the soul is fundamental to the thought of Augustine and Ghazzali. Their other views are better understood and are in more agreement when taken as secondary to the transformation of the soul. They have given similar account…