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Description:: In 1964 the Second Vatican Council encouraged a switch from Latin Mass, celebrated by Roman Catholics across the globe in standardized form since the 16th century, to Mass in the languages spoken by the local people and with some adaptation to local circumstances. This event is familiar to scholars of...
Keyword:: Liturgical Reform, Religion and Culture, U.S. Catholicism, Ritual, Religion and Politics, and Chicago
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Jennifer Ann Callaghan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/18/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: While scholarship over recent decades has complicated the traditional classification of the Bavlis texts into the field has still maintained a model of two separate, though fundamentally interrelated, discourses. According to this model, the Bavli consists of a normative, non-narrative, legal discourse alongside an antinomian, narrativized discourse of stories. Through...
Keyword:: Rabbinics, Scholasticism, Talmud, law and Literature, and Late Antiquity
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Sarah Wolf
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This study is an examination of conservative Christian pronatalist discourse in the contemporary United States and the myriad ways it endangers American women and children. Insofar as conservative Christian pronatalism is part of broader religious and pollical movement, this study also examines related conservative Christian discourses asserting anti-intellectualism, libertarian economics,...
Keyword:: Conservative Christian, Motherhood, Pronatalism, Women, and Evangelical
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Myev Alexandra Rees
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 10/21/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the past decade, scholars, the news media, and the public have turned increased attention to the activity of atheists in the West. Atheism serves as a source of identity and community in todays society, signaling more than a simple lack of belief in god(s). This dissertation is a cultural...
Keyword:: cultural studies, atheism, religion and atheism, theory of religion, media studies, and American atheism
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Hannah Scheidt Tebbetts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: An important question in religious and theological ethics concerns the human capacity for moral action, but contemporary Christian theological anthropologies largely theorize the human person in terms of the imago Dei, not moral subjectivity. The following study contributes to this challenge an investigation of human moral agency in the theological...
Keyword:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Candace L. Kohli
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/28/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This work argues that Latina/o immigrant Charismatic Catholicism does not encourage passive hope for heavenly rewards but rather emphasizes active strategies for transforming the self and the world. This study responds to two major concerns in the field of religious studies: the concern that Pentecostal forms of Christianity emphasize an...
Keyword:: Sin, Charismatic Catholic, Addiction, Latina/o Immigrant, Depression, and Conversion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Lynn Brigid Elizabeth Jencks
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/26/2018
Date Modified:: 02/26/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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