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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 addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
Keyword:: Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
Subject:: History, Philosophy, and Political science
Creator:: Day, Andrew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265

Description:: This dissertation takes up Islam’s relationship to Black nationalism across the Atlantic diaspora of Muslims that I call “the Fugitive Islamicate.” Scholars most often have described this relationship as commencing in the twentieth century with the rise of “Black Muslim religion,” a U.S. religious movement that begins with Noble Drew...
Keyword:: Race, Black Muslims, America, Religion, Islam, and Africa
Subject:: African American studies, American history, and Islamic studies
Creator:: Caldwell, William
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14451 and etdadmin_upload_626228

Description:: This dissertation examines how the experience of migration and the context of reception influences religious ideas and practices. Using the experience of two branches of a Colombian Evangelical church, one in Miami, Florida and one in Madrid, Spain, I explore the extent to which context of reception and the experiences...
Keyword:: Religion, Immigration, and Culture
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Diego Felipe de los Rios
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/03/2019
Date Modified:: 04/03/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Initiation is a performative model that dictates the participation of individuals in the various traditions of Western occultism, locating that individual within a nexus of practices and discourses that facilitate the transmission of occult teachings to that individual. While the act of initiation may be represented by a single performed...
Keyword:: Religion
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Jason Winslade
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/11/2018
Date Modified:: 09/11/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation is an ethnography that uses semi-structured interviews, field notes, and participant observation to explore how two religious congregations respond to survivors of domestic violence. I interviewed twenty-two parishioners including domestic violence survivors, clergy and bystanders. I transcribed these interviews verbatim using Agar's method of transcript handling. I used...
Keyword:: Domestic Violence, Feminist, Ethics, Religion, Relational Psychology, and Jung
Subject:: Garrett/NU Joint Program
Creator:: Dorothy Ann Valin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/07/2018
Date Modified:: 05/07/2018
Date Created:: 2006-10-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Circling the Cosmograms marks the first full-length study of second-generation feminist and/or queer art and performance in the Haitian Dyaspora (Haitian Kreyòl spelling) following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Through archival research, visual and performance art analysis, and in-depth interviews, I document the ways feminist and/or queer Haitian-American...
Keyword:: Haiti, Gender, Diaspora, Religion, Vodou, and Performance Studies
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Kantara Souffrant
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/02/2018
Date Modified:: 04/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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