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The Marketing And Branding Of The Church In America, Joshua David Gregory
The Marketing And Branding Of The Church In America, Joshua David Gregory
Honors Theses
The objective of my thesis is to examine the church and its efforts to market to the consumer-centric society that is America. In the United States, churches have evolved and changed in many ways since our ancestors came to America. In what we call the “Bible Belt,” the area from Texas to Florida, there is a church on nearly every comer. The question becomes “Is variation a necessity?” One might say that all religions offer the same transaction in that they exchange the meaning of life for some investment by the believer (Twitchell, 2004). My intention is to focus specifically …
Liberal Policy And The Peasant Condition In Garibaldi's Sicily, 1860, Robert Liming Corban
Liberal Policy And The Peasant Condition In Garibaldi's Sicily, 1860, Robert Liming Corban
Honors Theses
My thesis was built around my excavations in Sicily during the summer of 2012. I researched a church on a small islet, and some of its findings over the years. Not only did I use my excavation notes, but I also used the notes from the earlier excavation of the same site in the 1960s. I needed expert advice on the building and the lamp that was found, so I contacted a Byzantine architecture specialist, and an ancient lamp specialist to obtain their opinions on the site. In order to understand the findings from 2012,1 researched the basic history of …