Affective Socialists explores the story of the Chilean and Bahraini Marxist left, their rise to political and cultural prominence, and their subsequent removal from power during the peak of their influence. This thesis covers the period between 1964 and 1975, during which both n…
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The number of United Nations interventions in civil conflicts has increased since the end of the Cold War. Traditional peace-keeping has proved ill-suited to deal with them; second-generation, multi-task peace-keeping operations have emerged as a substitute. These new operations…
The concept of “island hopping” is to make a comparison of two international relationships in the East and South East Asian regions. that is the Anglo-Japanese (1854–1922) and Australian-Indonesian (1945–1995) relationships, which might not normally be compared to one another. T…
China’s official media are nearly a decade into a global expansion programme to challenge the dominance of Anglo-American news organisations and their framing of world events. This research tackles the questions of whether Chinese media abroad deserve to be dismissed as channels…
The current welfare-to-work reform in Britain is activating lone parents with older children and marks a step-change in the treatment of lone parents. While there has been some support for using age of child as selection criterion for the activation of lone parents, it is not cl…
This study traces the construction, application, and development of frames on issues and courses of action in social mobilization campaigns. Using mostly materials from the mass media--including the Internet--it depicts the stances proposed by advocates for potential allies to s…
As the number of students studying in the United States (U.S.) has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to multiple aspects of the international student experience. Despite a proliferation of studies generally addressing the topic of international students, few studi…
Contemporary Religious Music is a growing subsection of the music industry in the United States. Talented artists representing a vast array of religious groups in America express their religion through popular music styles. Christian Rock, Jewish Reggae and Muslim Hip-Hop are no…
The global entrepreneurialism of biomedical research and its close ties with the private sector have introduced strong financial incentives into the public arena. In Israel, powerful forces of privatization have strengthened the enterprise of competitive research. A pivotal conc…
This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the gender bias in the laws of Leviticus regarding genital discharge reflects both the fear of blood's power to give and take life, and the fear of a woman's power due to her unique God-given role of producing life. This thesis will first ex…
This study explored one aspect of religious life, prayer, at a dynamic time in human development, adolescence. This phenomenology examined the experience of adolescent prayer among those who subscribed to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Eighteen high school seniors from two Mi…
This dissertation examines and compares civil-military relations in Turkey and Israel with a focus on military interventions in politics. It aims to understand the reasons behind the militaries' political interventions at different levels and in different types in these countrie…
This dissertation addresses the question: how might the Sufi master, Muhyı al-Dın Ibn al-'Arabı (1165-1240 CE), have read the Gospel of John? Although the Gospel of John belongs originally to the Christian tradition, this dissertation is a contribution to Islamic Studies, endeav…
This study examines the trope of women's journey and the various kinds of movement and travel it includes employed and represented by three contemporary Arab women literary writers, Ghada Samman, Ahdaf Soueif, and Leila Aboulela in their literary narratives as well as travelogue…
This dissertation examines thirty-five psalms from Martin Luther's first professional lecture series (Dictata super Psalterium ) and compares them primarily with his most influential forerunner in the faith, Saint Augustine. Its central argument is that the second half of these …
Rammohun Roy (1772/1774 - 1833) and Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817 - 1898) broke the old tradition of the cultural isolation of their Hindu and Muslim communities in India and therefore began to build a bridge of relations with the West. It is the main purpose of this thesis to stu…
This dissertation investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia.…
My thesis involves an examination of the first written text of ancient China’s pre-dynastic period. The Dao De Jing of LaoTse presented a fully developed system of philosophical thought that would influence all future writings of Traditional Chinese culture. LaoTse is said to ha…
In Western art music, exoticism—simply defined as the representation or the evocation of foreign culture in music or art—has dated long before the nineteenth century. Evidence from scholarly literature points out that composers as early as the Renaissance actively sought inspira…