Browsing by Subject "Christianity"
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(2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-10-01)
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Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs: "Great ideas of the 19th century" Nov. 10, 2010 class (Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(2018-06-20)Department: HistoryMy dissertation project asks a simple question: how did the invading Franks navigate the multifaceted language barrier when they conquered, settled, and ruled Syria in the era of the crusades? This project explores the ...
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(2006-10-30)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the effects of consumerism on identity and consumerism’s misunderstanding of freedom and identity. The dissertation argues that identity cannot be easily defined because paradoxically it does not ...
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(Académie Roumaine, 2019)Over the past century, the work of Peter R.L. Brown has repeatedly broken new ground as a model for understanding the centrality of religion in the Mediterranean cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This article ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2007-03-26)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-09-07)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-01-28)
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(2019-05-05)This thesis presents an electronic edition and English translation of a homily on the book of Job written by the fifth-century Syriac poet Mar Narsai. Furthermore, the edition and translation have been encoded in using the ...
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(Theological Education, 1996-09)
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“Our God is Marching On”: James Hudson and the Theological Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement (2010-08-02)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is an intellectual biography of James Hudson (1903-1980), a black minister and philosopher of religion. Standing just over five feet tall with a body that lacked a right arm and weighed less than 140 ...
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(2011-10-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation takes its lead from the neglect in the field of pastoral theology to reflect on and respond to the role and ambiguities of everyday sexual experience in human suffering, healing, and flourishing. I speculate ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis describes René Girard’s mimetic theory of desire and explicates its relevance for a critique of consumerism, emphasizing the loss of identity that can result from mimesis in a consumer society. It first presents ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-11-27)
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(Académie Roumaine, 2019)This article examines the impact which Peter R.L Brown’s half century of scholarship has made on the historiography of Christianity. This article surveys five recurring motifs or theoretical approaches to Christianization ...
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(Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 2010)
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(Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1993)