Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Theological and Religious Studies
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Overcoming Whiteness: A Critical Comparison of James Cone's Black Liberation Theology and Shinran's Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism
(Georgetown University, 2019)“There is no truth in Jesus Christ independent of the oppressed of the land—their history and culture…Indeed it can be said that to know Jesus is to know him as revealed in the struggle of the oppressed for freedom.” James ... -
From Subjects to Citizens of the State and of God’s People: Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (1877-1940) and the Project to Indigenize the Chinese Catholic Church in Republican China
(Georgetown University, 2018)This dissertation investigates the indigenization project of the Catholic priest Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (雷鳴遠) in Republican China. The early twentieth-century Catholic Church faced a crisis of witness in China: Missionary ... -
Prohibited Speech and the Sacred: Critically and Constructively Engaging Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī’s (d.756/1355) al-Sayf al-maslūl ‘alā man sabba al-rasūl
(Georgetown University, 2018)Tensions over blasphemy, religious offense, and the freedom of expression first surfaced powerfully on a global scale in 1988 following the publication of The Satanic Verses by the British-Indian author, Salman Rushdie. ... -
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Muhammad Iqbal on Human Consciousness and Sociality: A Critical Comparison
(Georgetown University, 2018)This study is a comparative analysis of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Muhammad Iqbal focused on how the themes of consciousness and sociality are developed and interconnected in their respective worldviews. Research efforts ... -
Writing the Kaleidoscope of Reality: The Significance of Diversity in the 6th/12th Century Persian Metaphysical Literature of Sanā'ī, 'Ayn al-Quḍāt and 'Aṭṭār
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores the significance of diverse forms of diversity in the writings of three 6th/12th century authors of Persian metaphysical literature, Sanā’ī of Ghazna (d. 525/1131/1131), ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī ...
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