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Description:: This study investigates how and why Tunisia’s 2014 Constitution describes the nation as both an Islamic and civil state, and what effect this duality has …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Cooper-Hohn, Keiko (creator); Willis, Andre (thesis advisor); Özdemir, Esra (reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Islam; Tunisia; Constitutional law; Secularism; Religion and politics; Transitional justice; International economic relations; Self-perception; Compromise
Language:: English
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Conroy, Nathaniel A (creator); Gould, Philip (Director); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Nabers, Deak (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Flannery O'Connor; James Baldwin; Sinclair Lewis; Nathanael West; Harold Frederic; Modernism; Secularism; American literature; Religion and literature; Fundamentalism; Pentecostalism; Secularization; O'Connor, Flannery; Baldwin, James > 1924-1987; Lewis, Sinclair > 1885-1951; West, Nathanael > 1903-1940; Frederic, Harold > 1856-1898
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation uncovers an Enlightenment that occurred in Britain between 1720 and 1740, from the collapse of the South Sea Bubble to the War of …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Azfar, Farid M. (creator); Harris, Tim (director); Harris, Tim (reader); Cohen, Deborah (reader); Steinberg, Michael (reader); Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: The Enlightenment; Britain; the body; the city; public sphere; Commerce; Masculinity; Anxiety; Secularism; Great Britain
Language:: English
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: How do protest movements interact with secularism in theocratic countries? What role do they play in the broader process of secularization? Through an in-depth analysis …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Michela Giovanna Alioto-Pier (creator); Polatty, David (thesis advisor); Babadi, Mehrdad (reader); Brown University. International and Public Affairs (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Islam; Resistance; Secularism; Protests; Identity; Theocracy
Language:: English
Collection:: The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs; Theses and Dissertations; International and Public Affairs

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Description:: This thesis argues for a critical return to and update of Critical Whiteness Studies' operative frameworks. I begin from the observation that the last sustained …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Cooper, Aaron (creator); Willis, Andre (thesis advisor); Nahme, Paul (reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Racism; Humanism; Nationalism; Liberalism; Whites--Race identity; African Americans--Study and teaching; Communism; White supremacy movements; Memory; Secularism; Whites--Race identity--Study and teaching; Critical race theory; Blacks--Study and teaching; Black Muslims; Young Patriots Organization; Black Panther Party; Hate crimes; labor theory; Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975; Southern States; White nationalism; Black separatism; Black nationalism; territorialism; state violence; Identity politics; Civil religion
Language:: English
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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