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Retributive Justice, Capital Punishment, And Jurors In Northeast Florida, Joseph S. Hamrick Jan 2021

Retributive Justice, Capital Punishment, And Jurors In Northeast Florida, Joseph S. Hamrick

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Jacksonville is nationally recognized as being a city that disproportionately places defendants on death row. The author, who has been both a prosecutor and an appellate attorney representing inmates on death row in Jacksonville, believes that the high number of death sentences being issued in this city, at the recommendation of juries, is driven by a strong retributive intuition held by a significant part of Jacksonville’s society. This thesis evaluates the views of three philosophers who played influential roles in the resurgence of retributive theory in the latter half of the twentieth century in America, in seeking to identify and …

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Defending The Humanities: Making A Case For Eighteenth-Century Studies, Katherine Gustafson, Heather King, Scott R. St. Louis, Linda Zionkowski Jan 2021

Defending The Humanities: Making A Case For Eighteenth-Century Studies, Katherine Gustafson, Heather King, Scott R. St. Louis, Linda Zionkowski

Peer Reviewed Articles

While the percentage of humanities majors has long been on the decline, the more recent experiences of the Great Recession, its aftermath, and the outbreak of Covid-19 have introduced a variety of daunting and intertwined challenges to scholars in these disciplines. Financial and occupational anxieties surrounding higher education threaten not only to crowd out humanities departments but also to alter the very understanding of what higher education is. While some students attend college to prepare themselves for engaged citizenship or to learn in a community, many also attend as a pathway to employment and expect a prompt return on investment. …

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Hymnals As Historical Documents: A Contextualisation Of The Church Hymnal And Its Representation Of The Church Of Ireland And Its People 1864–1919, Nicole Robinson Jan 2021

Hymnals As Historical Documents: A Contextualisation Of The Church Hymnal And Its Representation Of The Church Of Ireland And Its People 1864–1919, Nicole Robinson

Doctoral

Congregational hymn-singing has played a central role in the worship of the Church of Ireland for centuries. This dissertation takes into account the first three editions of the Church Hymnal, published between 1864 and 1919, and discusses the reasons behind their publication before analysing their content with regard to main themes, sources, and contributors. The information acquired through this analysis is then looked at within the wider context of the times in which they were published. This contextualisation unlocks broader themes within the hymnals relating to the Church of Ireland, not just as a religious denomination, but as a …

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Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown Jan 2021

Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the connections between cultivating the land and cultivating the soul through select readings of early American conversion narratives composed between 1727-1831. Over a century after British Colonists colonized the shores of New England, members of the United Ministers of Boston championed the efforts of their descendants, who both cultivated the land and the Indigenous and new arrived souls emplaced within the North American landscape. As they told their readers in 1727, their dual cultivating efforts were worthy of universal adulation and imitation. And in 1836, the words of Reverend Nahum Gold echoed those of the United Ministers …

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Soul Liberation: Black Christian Intellectual Engagement With Black Power, Jemar Tisby Jan 2021

Soul Liberation: Black Christian Intellectual Engagement With Black Power, Jemar Tisby

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Throughout the Civil Rights movement, Black Christians figured prominently as clergy, leaders, and foot soldiers in the struggle. As a result, the presence of Black Christians during this phase of the Black activism is well-documented by historians. During the Black Power era, however, scholars tend to overlook the ongoing presence and significance of Black Christians in the movement. Soul Liberation corrects this omission by studying Black Christian engagement during the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Review Essay: "America's Hometown" Revisited, Drew Lopenzina Jan 2021

Review Essay: "America's Hometown" Revisited, Drew Lopenzina

English Faculty Publications

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Medical And Ethical Issues And Latter-Day Saints, Kevin J. Black Jan 2021

Medical And Ethical Issues And Latter-Day Saints, Kevin J. Black

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

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Common Data Set 2020, Uno Office Of Instituional Effectiveness Jan 2021

Common Data Set 2020, Uno Office Of Instituional Effectiveness

Common Data Sets

Common Data Set (2020-2021) for the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha 2021-2022 Course Catalog, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Jan 2021

University Of Nebraska At Omaha 2021-2022 Course Catalog, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Undergraduate Catalogs

Located in one of America’s best cities to live, work and learn, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is Nebraska’s premier metropolitan university. With more than 15,000 students enrolled in 200-plus programs of study, UNO is recognized nationally for its online education, graduate education, military friendliness, and community engagement efforts. Founded in 1908, UNO has served learners of all backgrounds for more than 100 years and is dedicated to another century of excellence both in the classroom and in the community

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Gentrification And The Black Church: Mitigating Black Suburban Displacement In A Post Covid-19 World, Jordan Mccray Jan 2021

Gentrification And The Black Church: Mitigating Black Suburban Displacement In A Post Covid-19 World, Jordan Mccray

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

Black churches have been playing an important, stabilizing and supportive role for their members, their neighborhoods, and their communities more broadly. However, these churches’ memberships, community functions, and abilities to support their members have been threatened by the accelerating displacement of African Americans due to the ongoing effects of gentrification, defined by massive economic investment in low-income areas leading to the displacement of low-income residents. At the same time, COVID-19 has also changed the ways churches are able to deliver their support and outreach, with some moving their services to be completely virtual, and many outreach programs having to be …

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Look Forward, Angel: Prison Abolition Through Multifaith-Inspired Restorative Justice, Bennett Gray Williams Jan 2021

Look Forward, Angel: Prison Abolition Through Multifaith-Inspired Restorative Justice, Bennett Gray Williams

Student Works

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Viral Jihad: A Genealogy Of Al-Qaeda And Isis' Propaganda, Renee Perper Jan 2021

Viral Jihad: A Genealogy Of Al-Qaeda And Isis' Propaganda, Renee Perper

CMC Senior Theses

For the past twenty years, the United States has been at war. Yet, while invocations of war often evoke images of soldiers on the battlefield, the war the U.S. has been fighting looks far different. In the past two decades, the U.S. has attempted to curb the impact of terrorist organizations’ media usage. This paper explores the genealogy of that media battle through a case study of al-Qaeda and ISIS’ media apparatuses. It argues that, often overlooked, is the role that media plays as a foundational element in both groups’ organizational structures. Moreover, this paper will demonstrate how ISIS has …

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"Then What Are We Fighting For": Securitizing Religion In The Ukrainian-Russian Conflict, Viktor Yelenskyi Jan 2021

"Then What Are We Fighting For": Securitizing Religion In The Ukrainian-Russian Conflict, Viktor Yelenskyi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, religion has shifted from a sphere of great importance in inter-state relations to the national security domain, where the sides in the conflict perceive religion as potentially posing the utmost threat and have resorted to extraordinary measures to securitize it. The author argues that at the core of the Ukrainian securitizing move was the struggle for the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which allowed weakening Russia's influence not only on the Orthodox milieu but also on Ukrainian society as a whole. Russia, viewing the loss of control over Ukraine …

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Religious Naturalisms, Carol W. White Jan 2021

Religious Naturalisms, Carol W. White

Other Faculty Research and Publications

This article focuses on recent developments in religious naturalism in the twenty-first century, building on Jerome Stone’s 2008 study of its resurgence in the mid-twentieth century. I introduce religious naturalism as a synthesis of naturalistic ideas that often depart from traditional forms of religious thinking, defining it as a capacious, ecological religious worldview grounded in the observational conviction that nature is ultimate. I also describe different models of religious naturalism, focusing on the key ideas found in the influential publications of contemporary religious naturalists (e.g., Ursula Goodenough, Donald Crosby, Loyal Rue, among others). While acknowledging specific points of emphasis, I …

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Southern Adventist University Annual Report 2020-2021, Southern Adventist University Jan 2021

Southern Adventist University Annual Report 2020-2021, Southern Adventist University

Annual Reports

The Annual Report for Southern Adventist University for 2020 to 2021.

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Religion And Theatrical Drama, An Introduction, Larry D. Bouchard, Charles A. Gillespie Jan 2021

Religion And Theatrical Drama, An Introduction, Larry D. Bouchard, Charles A. Gillespie

Catholic Studies Faculty Publications

Often, a lonely light bulb illuminates the edge of a stage outside of working hours. Part safety mechanism against falling in the dark and part theatrical tradition, the “ghost light” keeps the living alive and brightens up the place for any spirits still hoping to practice an old monologue. Stages juxtapose worlds, or fragments of worlds. The ghost light, then, would illuminate juxtaposed worlds, of the living and of the possibly otherwise. In some ways, this Special Issue of Religions takes theatrical juxtaposition as its premise. We invited papers working at intersections between studies of religious history, thought, and practice …

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Tribute To Professor Doug Rendleman, Katy Barnett, Alison Bell, Jeff Berryman, Neil Birkhoff, Daniel Friedmann, Thomas P. Gallanis, Claire Hagan Eller, Brandon Hasbrouck, Corey Hauser, Brant Hellwig, Margaret Howard, Alexandra L. Klein, Douglas Laycock, Benjamin V. Madison, Iii, Judith L. Madison, Kyle Mcnew, Linda Mullenix, Rami Rashmawi, Caprice Roberts, Victoria Shannon Sahani, Joan Shaughnessy, Barry Sullivan, Martha Vazquez, Edilson Vitorelli Jan 2021

Tribute To Professor Doug Rendleman, Katy Barnett, Alison Bell, Jeff Berryman, Neil Birkhoff, Daniel Friedmann, Thomas P. Gallanis, Claire Hagan Eller, Brandon Hasbrouck, Corey Hauser, Brant Hellwig, Margaret Howard, Alexandra L. Klein, Douglas Laycock, Benjamin V. Madison, Iii, Judith L. Madison, Kyle Mcnew, Linda Mullenix, Rami Rashmawi, Caprice Roberts, Victoria Shannon Sahani, Joan Shaughnessy, Barry Sullivan, Martha Vazquez, Edilson Vitorelli

Washington and Lee Law Review

A tribute to Professor Doug Rendleman, who served on the faculty of the Washington and Lee University School of Law from 1988 to 2020. Rendleman became Professor of Law, Emeritus in 2020.

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2015-2016, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2015-2016, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2015-2016.

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2016-2017, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2016-2017, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2016-2017.

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2012-2013, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2012-2013, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2012-2013.

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2013-2014, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2013-2014, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2013-2014.

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2010-2011, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2010-2011, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2010-2011.

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2014-2015, University Of Memphis Bulletin Jan 2021

2014-2015, University Of Memphis Bulletin

Bulletins

University of Memphis bulletin containing the undergraduate catalog for 2014-2015.

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2018 May University Of Memphis Commencement Program Jan 2021

2018 May University Of Memphis Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 106th commencement of the University of Memphis at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the FedEx Forum on May 5, 2018.

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2018 August University Of Memphis Commencement Program Jan 2021

2018 August University Of Memphis Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 106th commencement of the University of Memphis at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the FedEx Forum on August 11, 2018.

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2019 August University Of Memphis Commencement Program Jan 2021

2019 August University Of Memphis Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 107th commencement of the University of Memphis at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the FedEx Forum on August 10, 2019.

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2020 May University Of Memphis Commencement Program Jan 2021

2020 May University Of Memphis Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the online commencement of the University of Memphis at Memphis, Tennessee, held on May 9, 2020.

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Heavenly Freedom And Two Models Of Character Perfection, Robert J. Hartman Jan 2021

Heavenly Freedom And Two Models Of Character Perfection, Robert J. Hartman

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

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Interpersonal Forgiveness: An Approach To The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gianna S. Volonte Jan 2021

Interpersonal Forgiveness: An Approach To The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gianna S. Volonte

Honors Papers

Finding peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has been a daunting and, thus far, impossible task for the past 75 years. Many countries have attempted to negotiate and mediate peace between the two conflict groups, including the United States, Norway, and most Arab nations. With each of these failed attempts, Israelis and Palestinians sank deeper into violence and destruction, believing that retributive justice was the only solution to this conflict. This paper addresses the possibility of a different, non-violent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – forgiveness. Forgiveness offers Israelis and Palestinians a path to peace, co-existence, and reconciliation through personal relationships …

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Blurring The Boundary Between Play And Ritual: Sugoroku Boards As Portable Cosmos In Japanese Religion, Jingyi Yuan Jan 2021

Blurring The Boundary Between Play And Ritual: Sugoroku Boards As Portable Cosmos In Japanese Religion, Jingyi Yuan

Honors Papers

This thesis examines two Japanese board games, both called sugoroku 双六, from a religious studies perspective. Although bearing the same name, ban-sugoroku 盤双六 and e-sugoroku 絵双六 have long been studied separately because of their different origins, eras, layouts and rules. However, an examination of visual and textual evidence such as illustrated handscrolls and encyclopedic sources demonstrates that the two games are strikingly similar: both games carry cosmological meanings, and their religious functions are closely tied to the process of playing. I propose that the inextricable nature of ritual and play exhibited in both games enabled them to serve for laypersons …

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