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1. Dharma Possession: Daishi Myōjin and the Roles of Gods and Past Masters in the Preservation of Teachings at Premodern Kōyasan

Tinsley, Elizabeth Noelle
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryBuddhism--Study and teachingBuddhism--Doctrines

2. Empire, Nation, and the Islamic World: Bosnian Muslim Reformists between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1901-1914

Buljina, Harun
2019
Theses
HistoryPanislamismReligionIslamic modernismČaušević, Džemaluddin, 1870-1938

3. Haunting Matters: Demonic Infestation in Northern Europe, 1400-1600

Barnes, Rex Delno
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryDemonologyTheologyFolklore

4. Taming Teotl: the Making of an Aztec Pantheon in Colonial Mexico

Colmenares Gonzalez, David Horacio
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryAztec godsColonizationIndians of Mexico

5. “The Best of Doctors Go to Hell”: Rabbinic Medical Culture in Late Antiquity (200-600 CE)

Shinnar, Shulamit
2019
Theses
HistoryJewsReligionMedicine in rabbinical literatureMedicine, AncientRabbinical literature

6. The Burden of Forgiveness: Franciscans’ Impact on Penitential Practices in the Thirteenth Century

Yee, Ethan Leong
2019
Theses
HistoryMiddle AgesReligionForgivenessPenanceFranciscans

7. The Poetry of Interpretation: Exegetical Lyric after the English Reformation

Bloomfield, Gabriel
2019
Theses
English literatureReligionHistoryHermeneuticsDevotional poetryCriticism and interpretation

8. Altruism in Action: The Southern Baptist Nurse Missionary in Nigeria, Mid-twentieth Century

Salevan, Alison
2018
Theses
NursingHistoryReligionAltruismMissionaries, MedicalWomen in missionary work

9. Inventing Chinese Buddhas: Identity, Authority, and Liberation in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhism

Buckelew, Kevin
2018
Theses
ReligionSong Dynasty (China)HistoryMahayana BuddhismZen BuddhismBuddhasChinese--Religion

10. Natural Law and the Origins of Political Secularism in Early Modern Europe

Mull, Nathaniel
2018
Theses
Political scienceHistoryReligionSecularism--Political aspectsNatural law

11. Origin Narratives: Reading and Reverence in Late Ming China

Ganany, Noga
2018
Theses
Hagiography in literatureReligionHistoryLegends in literatureChinese literature

12. The Making of a Muslim Reformer: Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1917-1996) and Islam in Postcolonial Egypt, 1947-1967

Zárate, Arthur Shiwa
2018
Theses
HistoryEthicsReligionIslamic renewalIslamReformersGhazālī, Muḥammad, 1917-1996

13. The Mirror of Glory: Sense and Subjectivity in Near Eastern Mysticism

Ugolnik, Zachary
2018
Theses
ReligionHistoryLiteratureMirrors in literatureMysticism

14. Contending Visions of Iran: Battle for the Sacred Nation-State, 1941-1983

Bolourchi, Neda
2017
Theses
IslamRevolution (Iran : 1979)Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)HistoryReligionSociology

15. Expanding Educational Empires: The USA, Great Britain, and British Africa, circa 1902-1944

Dunitz, Sarah Claire
2017
Theses
HistoryReligionEducation, ColonialEducation--British coloniesEducation--American influences

16. Printing, Hebrew Book Culture and Sefer Ḥasidim

Skloot, Joseph Aaron
2017
Theses
HistoryJewsReligionSefer ḥasidim (Judah ben Samuel)

17. Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History

Thompson, Luke Noel
2017
Theses
Buddhist literature, JapaneseBuddhismMahayana BuddhismJapanese--ReligionReligionHistoryAsiansGautama Buddha

18. The Memory of the Temple in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature

Schumer, Nathan S.
2017
Theses
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) in rabbinical literatureRabbinical literatureReligionHistory

19. Against the World: International Protestantism and the Ecumenical Movement between Secularization and Politics, 1900-1952

Reynolds, Justin M.
2016
Theses
SecularizationProtestantismEcumenical movementHistoryReligionPolitical science

20. Architecture, Technocracy, and Silence: Building Discourse in Franquista Spain

Gonzalez Pendas, Maria
2016
Theses
TechnocracyArchitectureHistoryReligionFranco, Francisco, 1892-1975
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