Religious Studies Dissertations and Theses
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Rituals and Sectarian Knowledge: Methods of Constructing Social Identity in the Community Rule (1QS)
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study deals with identity construction in the Community Rule (1QS). Examples of rituals and sectarian doctrines (knowledge) dictated in 1QS will be discussed along with a look into how these rituals and knowledge might ... -
"These Types of Sites Are Really Hard to Find": Lakota Oral Tradition and Resistance Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The Dakota Access Pipeline resistance movement provides a poignant example of the way in which oral traditions remain authoritative in the religious lives of American Indian peoples. The members of Lakota communities ... -
New Wine in an Old Bottle: The Korean Monk Sangwŏl (1911-1974) and the Rise of the Ch’ŏnt’ae school of Buddhism
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)The thesis explores the diverse ways in which a new Korean Buddhist movement that calls itself the “Ch’ŏnt’ae Jong (Tiantai school)” has appropriated and deployed traditional patriarchal narratives of the Chinese Tiantai ... -
Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The Devīstotra of Yaśaskara (c. 12th to 17th centuries CE), is a little studied and heretofore untranslated Sanskrit text from Kashmir. This thesis not only provides the first English translation and close reading of ... -
Emotion, Sensory Experience, and Islamic Discourse on the Internet: Theorizing the Affective Islamic Public
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Digital media platforms have become important spaces for Muslims to discuss and debate Islam and Islamic values in the contemporary world. In this study, I analyze the affective nature of digital Islamic discourse, focusing ... -
Girls' Puberty Ceremonies: A critical appraisal of scholarly work
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This thesis is the first critical appraisal of two foundational and influential scholarly sources in the study of girls’ coming-of-age ceremonies in the United States: Bruce Lincoln’s Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies ... -
Disorienting History: History and Identity in Ezekiel 20
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for ... -
Die Religion Otto Ludwig Aus Seinen Schriften Entwickelt
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The Didache and the Domestication of Dissidents
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The Didache has often figured prominently in scholars' constructions of early Christianity, especially with regard to two groups: the nascent positions of the overseers and agents in one, and the prophets, apostles, and ... -
A Seamless Garment of Eco-Justice: Green Sisters in Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Catholic sisters fuse long-standing, creation-oriented theology, the new story presented by science, and Catholic social justice teachings into a seamless garment of social justice and solid activism. Sisters shaped the ... -
Inscribing Pompeii: A Reevaluation of the Jewish Epigraphic Data
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This study examines the scant epigraphic evidence from Pompeii which has traditionally been linked to a Jewish community. I (re)contextualize and reevaluate this data according to its archaeological, philological, and ... -
THE HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATE IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Religious Ethics, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, and The United Methodist Moral Landscape
(University of Kansas, 2011-02-04)Since the inclusion of a statement prohibiting "the practice of homosexuality" in The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church in 1972, The United Methodist Church has vigorously debated homosexuality. As the ... -
The Late Bronze Age Town of Emar: An Examination of the Distribution of City Power Within the Context of the Major Rituals
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-13)The scholarship on the Late Bronze Age town of Emar has neglected to study the major rituals within the town to provide insight upon the roles played by the king, the diviner, and the city elders. This paper examines several ... -
The Circle Dance of the Cross in the Acts of John: An Early Christian Ritual
(University of Kansas, 2010-01-26)This study will discuss the original form, function, and meaning of the circle dance of the cross found in AJohn and determine whether it represents an early Christian ritual practice. This study will assess the evidence ... -
The History and Application of Christian Just War Theory as Related to Preemptive Attack
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)Abstract Galen Michener Turner, B.A. Department of Religious Studies, April 2010 University of Kansas The Christian Just War tradition was created around the central principle that war was part of human existence, but that ... -
Gray Whales, Green Indians, and Sea Shepherds
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-19)In recent years, scholars in disciplines outside the field of religious studies have attempted to explain the behavior of anti-whaling activists opposing the Makah tribe's attempts to being whaling in this contemporary era ...