Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Theological and Religious Studies by Title
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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 ... -
'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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Conciliarity, Nationalism, and the Roman Social Imaginary: A History of Political and Ecclesiastical Ideas on the Separation and Integration of Powers
(Georgetown University, 2022)This project investigates the impact the conciliar theory had on the separation and integration of powers in political and ecclesiastical thought. Taking a long period approach, the project draws parallels between 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Halal in Korea: The Social Constructions of a Contested Category in a Globalized World
(Georgetown University, 2022)This study tracks the development of the public discourse on halal in South Korea between 2009 and 2019 that expanded the lexicality of halal, resulting in halal taking on a wider range of meanings as it also became ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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). ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
