Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Theological and Religious Studies by Creation Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Our Problems and Our Future: Jews and America
(Georgetown University, 2019)Standard accounts of twentieth century American Judaism have generally paid minimal attention to the inner dimensions of religious life, opting instead to explore major social and political phenomena. As such, most studies ... -
A Martyr with Too Many Causes: Christopher of Antioch (d. 967) and Local Collective Memory
(Georgetown University, 2019)This study focuses on Christopher, the Christian patriarch of Antioch who was killed by Muslim rebels in 967 due to his loyal support of the Muslim ruler against whom they were rebelling. Two years after Christopher’s ... -
Does the Wind Bend or Break the Grass? A Comparative Study of Pentecostal Spirituality and Chinese Religious Thought
(Georgetown University, 2020)The first Pentecostal missionaries arrived in China in 1907, bringing an affective, emotional, and experiential Christian spirituality with them. This small, Holy Spirit focused Christian movement quickly grew into an ... -
Discerning a Lived Chinese Protestant Theology: Everyday Life and Encounters with the Other in Contemporary China
(Georgetown University, 2020)This study advances a theo-social method of analysis to discern a lived theology among mainland Chinese Protestant young adults in the contemporary Shanghai and Hong Kong regions that bridges empirical research with ... -
Inter-Religious Relations in a Sectarian Milieu: Fatimid Rulers in Relationship to Their Melkite Christian Subjects in Palestine and Egypt
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation undertakes a historical study of the Fāṭimid caliphate in Palestine and Egypt during the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries in order to first, better understand how religious principles (ascertained ...
