The purpose of this research was to investigate how the concepts of universalism and nationalism in the Book of Isaiah can be reconciled. The process of the analysis involved using canonical and rhetorical methodology to answer the research question and examine the hypothesis. T…
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Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Esperanto speakers and Esperantists - mostly, but not only, in Paris - this thesis asks: how can the Esperanto community and movement come into being in practice if Esperanto speakers are scattered all over the world and may, at ti…
As the first medieval text to combine the matter of the East with the matter of the Holy Land, The Travels circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to The…
This study seeks to show that a particularistic view of the nations as enemies is not the only view, or even the dominant view, of the nations in the Psalms. There are various other views in the Psalms, and some of them can be grouped under the notion of the nations as subjects …
Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winning Bengali poet and polymath, is an eminent figure in the history and culture of modern India. As the Indian Independence Movement grew in the early twentieth century, Tagore used his renown to establish a university in the rural community o…
This project investigates the role of translation within Theosophy and Integral Yoga, focusing on translational discursive devices in the work of the movements’ respective female preceptors—Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973), better known as the …
This study is a feminist critique of the human rights discourse, with particular reference to modern Iran. My objective is to investigate the ways in which the discourse of human rights might be salvaged from both its nativist opponents and its universalist proponents--and then …