This dissertation examines a major debate in tenth- to twelfth-century Kashmiri literary theory between two famous theorists: Abhinavagupta and Mahimabhaṭṭa, and shows that we cannot fully understand the debate between ...

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of moral education and social activism among religiously-engaged Muslims in the Paris metropolitan area. It investigates how French Muslims are working to ethically transform their ...

This dissertation argues that Protestant Christianity provided the language through which individuals and communities created the political, social, and cultural future of the post-emancipation South. Christian arguments ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe provides one of antebellum American culture’s most significant lettered intellectual accounts of the development of morally persuasive literature in the cause of anti-slavery. This dissertation explores ...

This dissertation is the first endeavor to explore the formulation of the gradual Qur’ān in early works of commentaries on the Qur’ān (pl. tafāsīr, sing. tafsīr al-Qur’ān). It draws upon the hitherto largely neglected genre ...

This dissertation aims to reassess the character of the Prophet Muhammad’s movement by rethinking major aspects of the qur’anic worldview. Specifically, the dissertation proposes a new interpretation of the Qur’an’s ...

The dissertation offers, at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class, a constructive theological account of spirit in black Christianity. Although spirit is a pervasive trope in African-American religion, ...