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Description:: Christian artists use dramatic license and theatrical representation to mold idealized versions of the Bible into recreational spaces for popular consumption, such as immersive theaters, theme parks, and museums. For these Christian artists, the impulse to evangelize through theatrical representation overcomes deeply ingrained religious sentiments of antitheatricality and result in...
Keyword:: US tourism, Biblical adaptations, adaptation studies, Christian nationalism, Christian musicals, and Bible museums
Subject:: Religion, Theater, and American studies
Creator:: Taylor, Chelsea Marie
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16591 and etdadmin_upload_986485

Description:: From colonial practices designed to civilize indigenous communities, to counter-terrorism initiatives aimed at de-radicalizing dissidents in the wake of the War on Terror, to controversies over blasphemy and religious harm cases in international law, religious passions have been cast as a specter of unreason, treason, and radicalization. These assumptions sustain...
Keyword:: Emotion, Religion, International Law, Affect, Human Rights, and Political Theory
Subject:: Religion, International relations, and Political science
Creator:: Giliberti, Gina Camille
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16359 and etdadmin_upload_946425

Description:: This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...
Keyword:: religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance
Subject:: American history, Religion, and Religious history
Creator:: Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204

Description:: In an 18-month ethnographic and interview-based study of Afghan Americans in the greater Bay Area, California, I explore the relationship of culture and religion amongst this refugee community. As a majority of refugees in the past decade have been Muslim, it is important to understand what their process of integration...
Keyword:: immigration, racialization, Islam, Afghan, identity, and Muslim
Subject:: Sociology, Religion, and Ethnic studies
Creator:: Ahmad-Sediqe, Iman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_653428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14561

Description:: At the turn of the twentieth century, the Russian Orthodox Church established a dense network of social and material aid for thousands of migrants who travelled from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires to find work in the United States. The church’s growth followed the path of Progressive Era industrialization, with...
Keyword:: Orthodox Church in America, Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian immigration, American immigration, and Orthodox Christianity
Subject:: American history, Religion, and Religious history
Creator:: Sarkisian, Aram Gregory
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14581 and etdadmin_upload_658824

Description:: This dissertation examines how the maintenance and adaptation of heritage monuments and ritual traditions have contributed to the sustainability of communities on the islands of Inishark and Inishbofin along the west coast of Ireland. My analysis combines archaeological investigation of a pilgrimage tradition on Inishark, from its origins in the...
Keyword:: Ireland, Pilgrimage, Sustainability, Archaeology, Early Medieval, and Heritage
Subject:: Religion, Sustainability, and Archaeology
Creator:: Lash, Ryan P
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_655026 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14564

Description:: The problem of theological normativity concerns the conflict between the purported eternal, universal, and ahistorical nature of Christian theological and ethical claims and the fact that such claims are always articulated in a particular time and place and, therefore, seem to bear the marks of cultural and historical contingency. My...
Keyword:: Troeltsch, theology, historicism, social theory, philosophy of religion, and normativity
Subject:: Religion, Philosophy of Religion, and Theology
Creator:: Harrison, Joel David
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14554 and etdadmin_upload_648372

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