This dissertation analyzes the relationship of articulations of tolerance and sympathy in US liberal media and activist discourses towards Muslims and Arabs to the process of racialization of Muslims and Arabs. These discourses produce "Muslims/Arabs" as racialized category, eve…
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This dissertation examines the manner in which Turkish secularism has come to delimit, define, and calibrate minority religious practices as well as citizenship policies by tracing different categories of the secular and the religious in Turkey. It is an ethnographic study of co…
This dissertation identifies a co-occurrence between the discourses about girl's 'hypersexualization' and those regarding the 'Islamic' practice of veiling, which have been generating similar concerns, discourses and anxieties in Quebec as well as in most Western societies for t…
In the last decade, particularly with the rise of terrorism, the link between education and propensity to approve of political violence has received renewed attention. In the context of violent extremism in Pakistan, this investigation has manifested itself in the intense attent…
Six hundred forty-eight college students from the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Pakistan, Ecuador, and Taiwan participated in a study investigating perceptions of sexual harassment in an academic setting. Participants indicated their reactions to a sexual hara…
An exceptionally important stress response of Pseudomonas putida strains to toxic chemicals is the induction of efflux pumps that extrude solvents, as well as other toxicants, into the surrounding medium. However, the bacterial tolerance mechanisms are still not fully understood…
This dissertation assesses the degree of tolerance held by the rabbis of the Talmud towards diversity of halakhic practice within the rabbinic community. By comparing dozens of Yerushalmi and Bavli parallel sugyot, we have found that the Yerushalmi generally views diversity of p…
Tolerance is the foundation of a just society and is a necessary tool to equip students with to function successfully in the world's global community (Vogt, 1997). While tolerance is touted as a goal to teach on educational and government lists, little emphasis is placed on meth…
Both the Old and New Order governments in Indonesia declared that their state system was based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution. Most Westerners and many Indonesians believed that the Pancasila under the New Order was but a euphemistic disguise for authoritarian governance…
Turkish immigrants, residing in Germany, claim that the development of immigration and naturalization polices in conjunction with violent acts made by extremists is valid evidence that German nationals are motivated by racial prejudice. Consequently, they assert that individuals…
This thesis sought to determine whether the values of religious organizations could be consistent with feminist values. Nine members of a women's interfaith organization consisting of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian members participated in semi-structured interviews, and the Brow…
Phytoremediation has been proposed as a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to clean highly contaminated sites. Phytoremediation using trees offer the advantage of metal immobilization (phytostabilization), high hydraulic pumping pressures, produce large plant biomass…
This research explored the cognitive processes underlying the Response Amplification Effect (RAE), which is ambivalent people's tendency to judge the object of their ambivalence (typically, a stigmatized other) more extremely than a comparable control target. Being in a state of…
Reptiles and amphibians are in rapid, global decline but these declines are regionally and taxonomically disproportionate. North American pit vipers have low fecundity and rely on high adult survivorship, making them particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic threats. The rare, bu…
How does inter-religious dialogue in Indonesia transform and being transformed by the New Order authoritarian regime in the creation of a strong civil society and a religiously plural and democratic country? By discussing the politicization of religion and mobilization of religi…
This dissertation examines the effects of diversity and tolerance (or lack thereof) on economic outcomes. The dissertation starts by arguing that religious diversity combined with institutionalized tolerance to create an environment conducive to the scientific and technological …