Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Theological and Religious Studies by Creation Date
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TOWARD A MUSLIMA THEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: THE QUR'AN, FEMINIST THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
(Georgetown University, 2011)This study examines the Qur'anic depiction of the religious 'other,' and has three main objectives. The first objective is to survey and critique the contemporary Islamic discourse on religious diversity, thus highlighting ... -
THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN AMERICA THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERFAITH MARRIAGE
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation explores interfaith relationships and the nexus of personal and communal religious identity in the United States. The thesis is that religious intermarriage is both a reflective and a predictive material ... -
'Because they are no more': Memorializing Pregnancy Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism
(Georgetown University, 2011)In comparative perspective, this dissertation examines contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices related to pregnancy loss. For many women, a failed or terminated pregnancy is a traumatic, ... -
Untying the Holy Tongue: the Transformation of Sacred Language in American Yiddish Literature
(Georgetown University, 2013)Throughout Eastern European Jewish history, the Yiddish language served to demarcate which subjects, people, and ideas were specific to the Jewish sphere, and which belonged to the larger world. Within this context, the ... -
The Mirror of the Other: Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi's Splendid Replies
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation focuses on a polemical work written by the thirteenth-century Egyptian Maliki scholar, Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, entitled al-Ajwiba al-fakhira `an al-as'ila al-fajira (Splendid Replies to Insolent Questions). ... -
Evangelizing Arabs: Baptists and Muslims in Lebanon, 1895-2011
(Georgetown University, 2014)This dissertation utilizes ethnographic and archival research to examine the history of the encounter between the Lebanese Baptist community and the Near East Baptist Mission of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern ... -
Knowing The Known Unknown: Comparing The Religious Epistemologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Gendun Chopel In Response To Modernity
(Georgetown University, 2014)What can one ever know for certain? On what basis or "authority" can one ever assert any knowledge of objective "truth"? Such questions are not only quite common within much of contemporary society but are indeed becoming ... -
Reforming Religion: Sabbath Schools and the Negotiation of Modern American Jewish Education, 1873-1923
(Georgetown University, 2014)This dissertation analyzes the development of Sabbath School Education in American Reform Judaism as a lens through which to view the complex implications of the Reform movement's attempt to re-imagine Judaism as a "religion." ... -
A Place Between Two Places: The Qur'an's Intermediate State and the Early History of the Barzakh
(Georgetown University, 2015)For those who believe in a future resurrection of the body, there naturally arises the question of what happens after death but before the end of time. This condition is the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the ... -
Dalit Christians and Caste Consciousness in Pakistan
(Georgetown University, 2015)This study explores caste discrimination in Pakistan against untouchable (Dalit) converts to Christianity. During the nineteenth century in India, many Dalits converted to Christianity to escape caste persecution. In the ... -
Interreligious Debates, Rational Theology, and the ʿUlamaʾ in the Public Sphere: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautvī and the Making of Modern Islam in South Asia
(Georgetown University, 2015)The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous change for Islamic intellectual traditions in South Asia in an era of colonialism, the decline of traditional authority, and the transformations of modernity. In spite of ... -
The Ur-Migrants: The Qur'anic Narratives of Adam and Eve and Their Contribution to a Constructive Islamic Theology of Migration
(Georgetown University, 2015)The study of contemporary migration from a theological standpoint has been mainly approached from within the Christian perspective. Islamic theological reflections on the phenomenon of immigration are rare. The contested ... -
COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY: TOWARD A SEMIOTIC THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
(Georgetown University, 2016)The recent proposals in the field of comparative theology distinguish themselves from the previous forms of the so-called “old comparative theology” in the following ways: they choose intentionally to deal with particularity, ... -
CLARIFYING COMPANIONSHIP: AL-SULAMĪ’S (D. 412/1021) KITĀB ĀDĀB AL-ṢUḤBA
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation examines the understanding of companionship in the writings of the Ṣūfī master Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021), particularly his treatise Kitāb ādāb al-ṣuḥba wa ḥusn al-ʿishra (The Ways of ... -
Dialectics Not Dualities: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue
(Georgetown University, 2017)“Dialectics not Dualities: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue” examines Turkish theology faculties and the creative and critical responses of Turkish theologians to challenges of modernity. Turkish theology ... -
Politics of Scripture. Discussions of the Historical-Critical Approach to the Qur'an
(Georgetown University, 2017)My thesis analyzes the political nature of contemporary Qur'ān scholarship. Based on both Western and Arab treatments of the Qur'ān I demonstrate that scriptural discussions are used to negotiate societal and political ... -
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 ... -
Commonsense Scripturalism: The Textual Identities of Salafi Muslims and Evangelical Christians in America
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation compares the American branches of Salafi Islam and Evangelical Christianity, two modern, global, religious revival movements. In the late twentieth century, both movements were labeled forms of religious ... -
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 ... -
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. ...
