Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
Even as religious devotion becomes less and less mainstream, undergraduate students continue to practice religion despite the friction with which it often grinds against the …
Communal living is an intentional group of 5 or more unrelated people living in a shared space, house, or property with shared interests, beliefs, and/or …
This work seeks to explain the recurrent doubt and misunderstanding of, and hostility towards, naturalistic, Darwinian evolutionary accounts of the origins and development of living …
Actively writing from the mid-1800s until his death in 1881, Dostoevsky produced critically introspective works such as Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, …
From Cavalry to Calvary: Representations of St. Francis of Assisi in Twentieth-Century Italy, is an interdisciplinary study that examines constructions of Saint Francis of Assisi, …
This thesis will show how four Syrian refugee women resettled in Jordanian host communities have constructed their own therapeutic processes. It will show how they …
This thesis explores the ways that three Protestant groups: selected Mainline denominations, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Institute for Christian Socialism, read the Bible …
More than 17,000 Catholic priests and seminarians were conscripted into the German armed forces during World War II. 500 of them served as chaplains, the …
People throughout history and around the world have drawn on religion to frame and negotiate disaster phenomena. Recent research shows that these links between religion …
Challenging narratives that treat the fate of religion in modern Europe as a straightforward story of decline linked to the ineluctable forces of modernization, my …
A translation of the Cambridge Songs from Latin and Old High German into English, with basic commentary. Includes music (in an appendix) where possible.
2009 Animal sacrifice, the ritualized slaughter and consumption of an animal in dedication to a divinity, is one of the most pervasive religious acts in …
This thesis suggests a re-evaluation of Francis Bacon’s major writings based on biographical and historical evidence. I argue that Bacon’s lack of training in philosophy …
This dissertation examines how sacred political symbols are both used and modified by social movements to frame policy goals. Organizations do this through appeals to …
