Browsing HDS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Use of Slaves in Early Christianity: Slaves as Subjects of Life and Thought
(2017-07-24)Early Christianity emerged within an empire built on the backs of slaves. Christians likewise participated in the slaveholding practices of the Roman Empire. Christians owned slaves, were slaves, and made use of enslaved ... -
The Vital Landscape: Evangelical Religious Practice and the Culture of Nature in America, 1790-1870
Evangelicalism, historians have long noted, was a movement born in field, forest, and stream. Like most truisms, however, this one has rarely been explored as deeply as it deserves. Using the tools of cultural history, ... -
Theology in Place: Religion, Geography, and the American South
(2021-11-09)Christianity is a place-less religion, so the story goes. This dissertation argues, on the contrary, that Christian theology, far from having put an end to spatial thinking, has found ways to take place literally over the ... -
Trading Futures: Future-Talk, Finance, and Christian Eschatology
(2017-04-17)Standard textbooks describe finance as the field of economics that concerns itself with the future. This dissertation suggests instead that financial discourse conjures a particular mode of future-talk, one that renders ... -
Transforming Suffering: Insights From the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa
(2016-05-18)Gloria Anzaldúa’s understanding of suffering is inextricably connected to subjectivity and spirituality. Tracing her rethinking of stories/histories involving the violent dismemberment of female religious figures, ... -
Troubling the Body: A Feminist Critique of Corporeal Politics
(2019-05-20)In the last 30 years, the category of the body has been an area of intense interest for critical inquiry, particularly for feminist theoretical approaches across the disciplines. Through the adoption of a variety of critical ... -
'Un Imaginable Boundaries': Performativity, Theology, and the Study of Trauma
(2017-09-20)This dissertation locates versions of the Fall and original sin at the center of ostensibly secular theories of trauma and extreme violence. The first chapter reviews genealogies of trauma and Christian theological writings ... -
Veiled and Unveiled Others: Revisiting Karl Barth's Gender Trouble
(2016-02-04)Karl Barth is frequently named as the poster-child for modern patriarchal and heteronormative theologies. In Church Dogmatics he secures a binary, hierarchically-ordered, marital relationship between a man and woman as the ... -
Violence and the Survival of Israel in the Book of Esther
(2015-07-21)The book of Esther stands in a complex relationship to the Christian tradition. Accepted as canonical by ancient Israel, Judaism, and Christianity, the book nonetheless is known in the Church not for its powerful narrative ... -
Violent Lovesickness: Richard of St Victor, Beatrice of Nazareth, Hadewijch, and Angela of Foligno
(2017-05-15)This dissertation examines four medieval Christian texts that describe the love between the soul and Christ in violent terms and demonstrates how images of violence, such as wounding, striking, and beating, illustrate the ... -
We Dive And Reappear in New Places:Aesthetic Experience and Fundamentalism Undone
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of 100 men and women who grew up in an American fundamentalist Christian community and left it, and for whom the arts played an instrumental role in the process of leaving. The ... -
"What is This Word?": An Early Christian Narrative of the Universal Spread of the Spirit-Accompanied Word
This dissertation investigates the divine word and the Spirit as co-narrative themes in Luke-Acts. While the thematic importance of the word in Luke-Acts has been generally recognized, what remains jejune is the examination ...