Academic Unit: Religion / Subject: Religion | Search Results

1. Affect in Power: Public Joy in Roman Palestine and the Lived Experience of the Rabbis (~70-350 CE)

: DeGolan, Erez
: 2023
: Theses
: ReligionJudaismRabbisEmotions--Sociological aspectsJoy--Religious aspects--JudaismHistory, Ancient

2. Age of Scripture: Divine Words and Human Authors in Premodern India

: St Amant, Guy
: 2022
: Theses
: ReligionEast IndiansMimamsaHinduismGautama BuddhaSiva (Hindu deity)Vishnu (Hindu deity)

3. Everyday Eschatology: Centering and Healing in Two Hindu Sects

: Tackes, Nick
: 2022
: Theses
: ReligionHindu sectsHinduismEthnologyEschatologyEnd of the world

4. Investigating the Margins: Bernard of Parma’s Glossa ordinaria on Religious Marginality in the High Middle Ages

: Liu, Yanchen
: 2022
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryCanon lawManuscripts, MedievalBottoni, Bernardo, -1266Decretales Gregorii IX (Catholic Church)Glossa ordinaria

5. Dīn and Duniyā: Debating Sufism, Saint Shrines, and Money in the Lucknow Area

: Clark, Quinn Alexander
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionSouth AsiansMuslimsMuslim saintsMuslims--Rites and ceremoniesIslamic shrinesSufismMoney--Religious aspects--Islam

6. Enhancing 'Human Nature': The Human Enhancement Debate in U.S. Bioethics

: Fisher, Joseph Andrew
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionReligion--PhilosophyScience--PhilosophyBioethics--Religious aspectsBiotechnologyCyborgs

7. Ibn A‘tham's History: Transmission and Translation in Islamicate Written Culture, 290-873/902-1468

: McLaren, Andrew G.
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryPersian literatureArabic literatureHistoriographyIbn Aʻtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad, -926?

8. Memory and Difference: Coherence and Paradox in Javanese Muslims’ Stories of the Past

: Meyer, Verena
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionIslamMemoryStorytelling--Religious aspects--Islam

9. Occupying Space: The Public Life of Africana Religions in New York

: Athias-Robles, Hillel Horacio
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionAfrican Americans--ReligionPersecutionRites and ceremoniesRitual

10. The Great Life Story of the Body of the Buddha: Re-examination and Re-assessment of the Images and Narratives of the Life of Buddha Shakyamuni

: Vendova, Dessislava
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionAsiansArtBuddhismBiographyGautama Buddha

11. The Silk Princess Narrative: Religious Identity and the Localization of Buddhist Networks in the Kingdom of Khotan

: Monteleone, David
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionBuddhismSericulture

12. True Philanthropy: A Religious History of the Secular Non-Profit Family Foundation

: Jungclaus, Andrew Edward
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionHistory--Religious aspectsCharitiesEndowmentsTwentieth centuryNonprofit organizationsHenry Luce FoundationPew Charitable TrustsLilly Endowment

13. Tsongkhapa’s Coordination of Sūtra and Tantra: Ascetic Performance, Narrative, and Philosophy in the Creation of the Tibetan Buddhist Self

: Arnold, Edward Allen
: 2021
: Theses
: ReligionBuddhismEnlightenment (Buddhism)BodhisattvasAsceticism--BuddhismTantric BuddhismTsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, 1357-1419

14. Schooling the Master: Caste Supremacy and American Education in British Ceylon, 1795–1855

: Balmforth, Mark Edward
: 2020
: Theses
: South AsiansReligionHistoryNineteenth centuryCasteImperialism--British coloniesMissions

15. The culture of healing in early medieval Japan: a microhistorical study in premodern epistemology

: Poletto, Alessandro
: 2020
: Theses
: HistoryReligionBuddhismHealingTherapeuticsMiddle AgesAristocracy (Social class)

16. 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

17. Esoteric Moxibustion for Demonic Disease: Efficacy and Ritual Healing in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

: Macomber, Andrew
: 2019
: Theses
: ReligionSpiritual healingBuddhism--Customs and practicesBuddhism--RitualsMedicine, MedievalMoxa

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

: Barnes, Rex Delno
: 2019
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryDemonologyTheologyFolklore

19. Rabbis and Donors: The Logics of Giving in the Ancient Mediterranean

: Dalton, Krista
: 2019
: Theses
: ReligionRabbinical literatureGifts--Religious aspectsHistory, AncientRabbis

20. Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing

: Sippy, Shana L.
: 2018
: Theses
: ReligionSouth AsiansHinduism and cultureHindu diasporaIdentification (Religion)Desire

21. Prophetesses of the Body: American Jewish Women and the Politics of Embodied Knowledge

: Rock-Singer, Cara
: 2018
: Theses
: ReligionKnowledge, Theory ofFeminism--Religious aspects--JudaismJewish women

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

: Ugolnik, Zachary
: 2018
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryLiteratureMirrors in literatureMysticism

23. (Im)Possible Muslims: Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic State, and Modern Muslimness

: Azad, Hasan
: 2017
: Theses
: EthnologyPhilosophyIslamReligionḤizb al-Taḥrīr

24. This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution: Black Feminist Ethics of Survival, Struggle, and Renewal in the new New Orleans

: McTighe, Laura Elizabeth
: 2017
: Theses
: ReligionAfrican AmericansEthnologyCommunity activistsAfrican American feminists

25. The Life of the Purātan Janamsākhī: Tracing the Earliest Memories of Gurū Nānak

: Singh, Simran Jeet
: 2016
: Theses
: Sikhism in literatureSikhismSikh literatureHagiographyReligionSouth AsiansHistoryNānak, Guru, 1469-1538Janamasākhī

26. The World Could Not Contain the Pages: A Sufi Reading of the Gospel of John Based on the Writings of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240 CE)

: Wolfe, Michael Wehring
: 2016
: Theses
: Sufi literatureReligionIbn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240Bible. New TestamentBible. Gospels

27. Translating Islamic Authority: Chaplaincy and Muslim Leadership Education in North American Protestant Seminaries

: Jalalzai, Sajida
: 2016
: Theses
: Theological seminariesIslamic leadershipIslamic learning and scholarshipReligion

28. Turning Towards a Life of Spirit: The Disruption of Economic Logic in the Vitae of Christina of Markyate and Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorites

: Stater, Megan E.
: 2016
: Theses
: HagiographyHermitsReligionBiographyWulfric, Saint, -1154Christina, of Markyate, Saint, approximately 1096-

29. Ascesis and Devotion: The Mount Yudono Cult in Early Modern Japan

: Castiglioni, Andrea
: 2015
: Theses
: Religion

30. Losing Touch: Rethinking Contingency as Common Tangency in Continental Thought

: Carlson, Liane Francesca
: 2015
: Theses
: Contingency (Philosophy)TheologyGood and evil--Religious aspects--ChristianityReligionReligion--Philosophy

31. Making Pushkar Paradise: Religion, Tourism, and Belonging in a North Indian Pilgrimage Town

: Thomases, Drew Jacob
: 2015
: Theses
: ReligionSouth AsiansEthnology

32. Making the American Secular: An Ethnographic Study of Organized Nonbelievers and Secular Activists in the United States

: Blankholm, Joseph
: 2015
: Theses
: IrreligionIrreligion and sociologyEthnology--Religious aspectsAtheistsReligionEthnologySociology

33. Mīmāṃsā, Vedānta, and the Bhakti Movement

: Venkatkrishnan, Anand
: 2015
: Theses
: ReligionHistory

34. Reception, Interpretation and Doctrine in the Sixth Century: John Maxentius and the Scythian Monks

: Pereira, Matthew Joseph
: 2015
: Theses
: ReligionHistory

35. The Mythic King: Raja Krishnacandra and Early Modern Bengal

: Bordeaux, Joel
: 2015
: Theses
: Hindu mythology--InfluenceNationalismPolitical scienceDevotional literature, SanskritReligionSouth AsiansAsians

36. Toward a Buddhist Philosophy and Practice of Human Rights

: Kelley, Christopher
: 2015
: Theses
: ReligionPhilosophyHuman rightsBuddhismMādhyamika (Buddhism)Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)

37. Under the Mask of Marvels

: Barnes, III, Rex D.
: 2015
: Essays
: ReligionReligion--Philosophy

38. Gushan: the Formation of a Chan Lineage During the Seventeenth Century and Its Spread to Taiwan

: Wang, Hsuan-Li
: 2014
: Theses
: Religion

39. Halevy, Halivni and The Oral Formation of the Babylonian Talmud

: Bergmann, Ari
: 2014
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryJewsHalevy, Isaac, 1847-1914Halivni, DaṿidTalmud

40. Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World

: French, Todd Edison
: 2014
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryTheology

41. Rabbinic Legal Loopholes: Formalism, Equity and Subjectivity

: Stein, Elana
: 2014
: Theses
: ReligionJews

42. A Seal of Faith: Rereading Paul on Circumcision, Torah, and the Gentiles

: Moorthy, Asha
: 2013
: Theses
: Religion

43. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

: Berzon, Todd Stephen
: 2013
: Theses
: ReligionHistoryHistory, Ancient

44. Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican China

: Scott, Gregory Adam
: 2013
: Theses
: ReligionHistory

45. Kasia the Melodist. And the Making of a Byzantine Hymnographer

: Zugravu, Gheorghita
: 2013
: Theses
: ReligionHistory

46. Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition

: Sorensen, Michelle Janet
: 2013
: Theses
: ReligionPhilosophyAsians

47. Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir

: Stainton, Hamsa Michael
: 2013
: Theses
: Hindu hymns, SanskritŚaivismSanskrit literatureSanskrit poetryReligionStutikusumāñjali (Jagaddhara)

48. Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism

: McClellan, Joseph Mark
: 2013
: Theses
: PhilosophyReligion

49. Representing Mount Wutai's Past: A Study of Chinese and Japanese miracle tales about the Five Terrace Mountain

: Andrews, Susan Patricia
: 2013
: Theses
: Religion

50. The Death Drive Revisited: A Reexamination of Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and its Implications for Critical Theory

: Fong, Benjamin Yen Yi
: 2013
: Theses
: ReligionPsychologyPhilosophy

51. The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition

: Shepard, Frank Griffin
: 2013
: Theses
: Religion--PhilosophyReligion

52. Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic in Mughal India: Kacchvahas, Ramanandis, and Naths, circa 1500-1700

: Burchett, Patton
: 2012
: Theses
: Yoga, BhaktiTantrismSufismRāmānandīsJogi-NathsBhaktiReligionSouth AsiansHistory

53. Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism

: Vaca, Daniel
: 2012
: Theses
: Book industries and tradeReligious literature--PublishingEvangelicalismReligionHistory

54. Haḍimbā Becoming Herself: A Himalayan Goddess in Change

: Halperin, Ehud
: 2012
: Theses
: ReligionHindu goddesses--CultSouth AsiansHinduism--RitualsAnimal sacrificeClimatic changesHiḍimbā (Hindu mythological character)

55. Eknath Remembered and Reformed: Bhakti, Brahmans, and Untouchables in Marathi Historiography

: Keune, Jon Milton
: 2011
: Theses
: ReligionDalits in literatureBhakti in literatureBrahmansIndian poetryMarathi poetryMarathi languageHistoriographyEkanātha, approximately 1548-approximately 1609