Browsing HDS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Religion, General"
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The Aftermath: Memorialization, Storytelling, and Walking at the 9/11 Tribute Center
(2015-05-11)Located in the heart of Lower Manhattan, the 9/11 Tribute Center is a small memorial museum that commemorates the attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. Tribute’s five small galleries house numerous exhibits ... -
Apophatic Measures: Toward a Theology of Irreducible Particularity
(2015-05-12)Apophatic Measures: Toward a Theology of Irreducible Particularity is a work of constructive comparative theology examining select writings of Śaṅkara (Eighth Century, India) and Nicholas of Cusa (Fifteenth Century, Germany). ... -
Devotions of Desire: Changing Gods, Changing People at a Transylvanian Pilgrimage Site
(2015-04-16)This dissertation describes how desiring subjects make devotional worlds in times of radical change. I argue that what is centrally at stake for people who pass through the Şumuleu Ciuc (Hungarian: Csíksomlyó) pilgrimage ... -
“I am going to do it": The Complex Question of Action in Theology and Science in the Life of America's First Woman Minister, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
(2015-05-11)Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) became one of the most outspoken and remarkable women of her era: an ordained minister, a published author, a prominent public speaker, and a philosophical thinker whose writings ... -
Language and Religion in Modern India: The Vernacular Literature of Hindi Christians
(2016-06-21)A persistent interest in a particular type of Christian witness is found in a substantial amount of Hindi-language Protestant (hereafter, ‘Hindi Christian’) literature in modern India. Across a range of texts like Hindi ... -
Sobre La Marcha: The Fiesta of Santiago Apostol in Loiza, Puerto Rico
(2016-05-19)The annual Fiesta of Santiago Apóstol is the most significant religious festival in Loíza, Puerto Rico. This dissertation examines this religious ritual applying an indigenous methodological approach I call sobre la marcha, ... -
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, ...