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- 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
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- 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
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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
- Creator:
- Edwin, Shirin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6
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- 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
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- Since the official adoption of the Islamic legal system by the state governments in Northern Nigeria, Islamic figures in the religious public sphere have amplified their censure of homosexuality as a 'social illness' and 'depravity of depravities' incommensurable with the ethics that govern the discourse on gender and sexuality in...
- Keyword:
- afrisem and gender and sexuality studies
- Subject:
- History, Religion, and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Abdulbasit Kassim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2020
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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