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Islamic Political Thought: Reviving A Rationalist Tradition, Hazem Y. Salem Jan 2013

Islamic Political Thought: Reviving A Rationalist Tradition, Hazem Y. Salem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This work develops the foundations of an Islamic argument for secular, liberal democracy from within the Islamic discursive tradition. First, it challenges the presentation of contemporary Islamic political thought as a unified, continuous development of the classical canon by showing the influence of the now marginalized medieval rationalists in the development of Islamic political thought. The classical rationalist concern with divine justice forced the founders of Sunni orthodoxy to state their epistemologies and their positions on ethical ontology. The orthodox positions, and their related methods of legal-juristic reasoning, are shown to be incapable of accommodating the modern Islamic positions on …


Full Issue, Number 38, Fall 2013 Jan 2013

Full Issue, Number 38, Fall 2013

Intersections

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The Myths Of Muslim Women Liberation: Why Islamists Resist The Western Concept Of Universal Women’S Rights, Justine O'Sullivan Jan 2013

The Myths Of Muslim Women Liberation: Why Islamists Resist The Western Concept Of Universal Women’S Rights, Justine O'Sullivan

Self-Designed Majors Honors Papers

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Red Summer: The Summer Of 1919 And The Awakening Of Black America, By Cameron Mcwhirter, St. Martins's 2011, John Ramsbottom Jan 2013

Red Summer: The Summer Of 1919 And The Awakening Of Black America, By Cameron Mcwhirter, St. Martins's 2011, John Ramsbottom

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

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The Personal Is Political: On Twentieth Century Activist Lawyers In The United States, Michael Mccann Jan 2013

The Personal Is Political: On Twentieth Century Activist Lawyers In The United States, Michael Mccann

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Kenneth W. Mack, Representing the Race: The Creation of The Civil rights Lawyer (201), and Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (2012).


Rethinking The Connections Between Female Empowerment And Gender Bias In Child Births And Survival In Urban India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee Jan 2013

Rethinking The Connections Between Female Empowerment And Gender Bias In Child Births And Survival In Urban India, Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee

Economics Faculty Publications

Notwithstanding improvements in female work and educational achievements persistent and increasing female survival disadvantage is a feature of urban India’s demography. A temporal and cross sectional analysis of most recent available data from the Census of India while reaffirming the positive association between female work and the birth and survival of more female children, fails to reconfirm the oft emphasized positive connection between female education and increased survival of girl children. Relatively high levels of female education, by being indicative of household socioeconomic status may be associated with increased ability to discriminate especially in the presence of cultural biases resulting …


Interpreting The Bible With The Poor, Larry W. Caldwell Jan 2013

Interpreting The Bible With The Poor, Larry W. Caldwell

Papers

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Education That Is Missional: Toward A Pedagogy For The Missional Church, Christopher B. James Jan 2013

Education That Is Missional: Toward A Pedagogy For The Missional Church, Christopher B. James

Papers

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“Save The Mothers”: A Maternal Health Missiology, Daniel D. Scott Jan 2013

“Save The Mothers”: A Maternal Health Missiology, Daniel D. Scott

Papers

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Catching Missional: Shaping A Participatory Environment In Missiological Education (A Case Study), Karen E. Parchman Jan 2013

Catching Missional: Shaping A Participatory Environment In Missiological Education (A Case Study), Karen E. Parchman

Papers

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Beyond Western Approaches To Missions: Postindustrial Missions & The Missiology Within Hip Hop Culture, Daniel White Hodge Jan 2013

Beyond Western Approaches To Missions: Postindustrial Missions & The Missiology Within Hip Hop Culture, Daniel White Hodge

Papers

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The Transformational, Intersectional And Transcendental Agenda Of Mission: Quest For A Spirituality Of The Road, Thias Kgatla Jan 2013

The Transformational, Intersectional And Transcendental Agenda Of Mission: Quest For A Spirituality Of The Road, Thias Kgatla

Papers

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A Limited Survey Of Theological Rationales Proposed For Social Action In "Mission", Travis L. Myers Jan 2013

A Limited Survey Of Theological Rationales Proposed For Social Action In "Mission", Travis L. Myers

Papers

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America Still Fascinated By Its Own Civil War, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

America Still Fascinated By Its Own Civil War, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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The Son Of God Beyond The Flesh: A Historical And Theological Study Of The Extra Calvinisticum., Andrew M. Mcginnis Jan 2013

The Son Of God Beyond The Flesh: A Historical And Theological Study Of The Extra Calvinisticum., Andrew M. Mcginnis

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the doctrine that the incarnate Son of God was not limited to fleshly, human existence but continued to exist etiam extra carnem (“even beyond the flesh”), a doctrine that has come to be known as the extra Calvinisticum. The study argues that the doctrine had a significant role in the thought of three important theologians of the patristic, medieval, and Reformation eras—namely, Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444), Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), and Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583)—and explains how each of these theologians employed the doctrine. In general, however, the extra dropped from the theological scene by the end of …


Eugène Casalis And The French Mission To Basutoland (1833-1856): A Case Study Of Lamin Sanneh's Mission-By-Translation Paradigm In Nineteenth Century Southern Africa, W. Benjamin Beckner Jan 2013

Eugène Casalis And The French Mission To Basutoland (1833-1856): A Case Study Of Lamin Sanneh's Mission-By-Translation Paradigm In Nineteenth Century Southern Africa, W. Benjamin Beckner

Papers

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Mission Experiential Education For Social Action, David E. Fenrick Jan 2013

Mission Experiential Education For Social Action, David E. Fenrick

Papers

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Utilizing Digital Platforms In Social Justice Education For Students’ Transformissional Learning, Duane Brown Jan 2013

Utilizing Digital Platforms In Social Justice Education For Students’ Transformissional Learning, Duane Brown

Papers

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Law, The American Corporation, And Society, Fenner Leland Stewart Jr. Jan 2013

Law, The American Corporation, And Society, Fenner Leland Stewart Jr.

PhD Dissertations

This book explores how American legal scholarship treats the corporation by providing a history of American corporate legal theory, a history of corporate (social) responsibility from the perspective of the Berle–Dodd debate, an analysis of how legal scholars understand corporate lawmaking in America, and an initial inquiry into how the prevailing opinions about the corporation are realized in the context of a critical assessment of whether or not this resulting corporate governance holds the potential to compliment the efforts of new governance regulators. This book consists of four essays about American corporate governance. Three essays trace how three particular presumptions …


Evolutionary Biology For The 21st Century, Robert Ricklefs, Jonathan Losos, Stevan Arnold, Gill Bejerano, E. Brodie Iii, David Hibbett, Hopi Hoekstra, David Mindell, Antonia Monteiro, Craig Moritz, H. Orr, Dmitri Petrov, Susanne Renner, Pamela Soltis, Thomas Turner Jan 2013

Evolutionary Biology For The 21st Century, Robert Ricklefs, Jonathan Losos, Stevan Arnold, Gill Bejerano, E. Brodie Iii, David Hibbett, Hopi Hoekstra, David Mindell, Antonia Monteiro, Craig Moritz, H. Orr, Dmitri Petrov, Susanne Renner, Pamela Soltis, Thomas Turner

Biology Department Faculty Works

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Why Eu Legal History Matters--A Historian's Response, Bill Davies Jan 2013

Why Eu Legal History Matters--A Historian's Response, Bill Davies

American University International Law Review

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Who's Allowed To Ride The Short Bus? Un-Defining Disability, Hannah Widdifield Jan 2013

Who's Allowed To Ride The Short Bus? Un-Defining Disability, Hannah Widdifield

Bridges: A Journal of Student Research

This article uses personal testimony as a vehicle for deconstructing the theory and literature of disability studies. The definition of disability is traced from the term's origins to its present-day representations in popular culture, and I end with a look toward the future of the subject in academic settings and in society at large. The fictional character of Artie Abrams is considered alongside the real-life figure of Oscar Pistorius in an attempt to analyze the dangers and motives behind stereotypes surrounding the "disabled character." Throughout the article, anecdotal excerpts are included to emphasize the importance of the personal perspective in …


Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Online Identities: National And Cultural Expression Online, An Australian Perspective, Celia Lam Jan 2013

Online Identities: National And Cultural Expression Online, An Australian Perspective, Celia Lam

Arts Papers and Journal Articles

Over the last decade the genesis and use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has steadily gained traction with the almost instant popularity of sites such as Youtube, Facebook, Cyworld and Twitter to name a few. In Australia, as in the rest of the developed and developing world, Social Media (SM) use has become an integral part of the communication, entertainment and media practices of large sections of the population, with participation in online communities often employing the same social capital and patterns of communication that occur in offline encounters. Online interaction in SNS necessitates the creation of an individual‟s online …


Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel Jan 2013

Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel

Scholarship and Professional Work – Arts

Dr. Wayne Wentzel's review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.


There Is No Bournville In Africa: English Chocolate Makers, African Cocoa Producers, And The Ethics Of Capitalism, Ryan Harold Minor Jan 2013

There Is No Bournville In Africa: English Chocolate Makers, African Cocoa Producers, And The Ethics Of Capitalism, Ryan Harold Minor

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to contextualize the present day use of forced labor in West Africa within the larger historical framework of ongoing international labor exploitation in the chocolate industry as a whole. This study examines the English chocolate industry from its beginnings in the mid 19th century to the present day and its founders' complex and often contradictory relationships with domestic factory workers and African cocoa producers.


Rural Acute Myocardial Infarction Survey (Ramis), Nikiah Nudell Ba, Nrp, Tom Bouthillet Nremt-P, Don Rice Md, John A. Gale Ms, Gary Wingrove Emt-P Jan 2013

Rural Acute Myocardial Infarction Survey (Ramis), Nikiah Nudell Ba, Nrp, Tom Bouthillet Nremt-P, Don Rice Md, John A. Gale Ms, Gary Wingrove Emt-P

Rural Hospitals (Flex Program)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate why current treatment goals for patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) are not being achieved despite a large body of evidence supporting regionalized ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) systems. An online survey tool,developed by the research project team, was used to poll the Critical Access Hospitals in Nebraska in order to understand delay factors and other barriers to executing a STEMI system in a rural area. The authors found that the rural STEMI care system lacks a coordinated systems considered to be essential for urban areas. Several areas of potential failure in …


Joseph Smith, Jesus, And Satanic Opposition: Atonement, Evil, And The Mormon Vision, Steven L. Olsen, Douglas J. Davies Jan 2013

Joseph Smith, Jesus, And Satanic Opposition: Atonement, Evil, And The Mormon Vision, Steven L. Olsen, Douglas J. Davies

BYU Studies

Douglas J. Davies is one of the most insightful and prolific scholars of Mormonism working today. He is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, UK. Two of his earlier studies--The Mormon Culture of Salvation (2000) and An Introduction to Mormonism (2003)--analyze foundational aspects of Mormonism from an engaging academic synthesis of history, religious studies, cultural studies, literary studies, theology, and philosophy. The breadth and depth of his scholarly background enable him to address new and crucial questions, yielding remarkable insights. For example, The Mormon Culture of Salvation proposes that the plan …


"That Indispensable Figment Of The Legal Mind": The Contract Of Employment At Common Law In Ontario, 1890-1979, Claire Isabel Mummé Jan 2013

"That Indispensable Figment Of The Legal Mind": The Contract Of Employment At Common Law In Ontario, 1890-1979, Claire Isabel Mummé

PhD Dissertations

“The relation between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power. In its inception it is an act of submission, in its operation it is a condition of subordination, however much the submission and the subordination may be concealed by the indispensable figment of the legal mind known as the 'contract of employment'.” Otto Kahn-Freund , Labour and the Law (London: Stevens, 1977). This study examines the legal evolution of the common law of employment contracts in Ontario between the 1890s and …


Emerging Imagery: The Great Famine In Nineteenth Century Irish Lit, Barbara A. Pitrone Jan 2013

Emerging Imagery: The Great Famine In Nineteenth Century Irish Lit, Barbara A. Pitrone

ETD Archive

The critical debate surrounding the Great Famine in Irish Literature centers on the notion of a perceived silence. While some scholars claim that there is a literary void in Irish Literature following this cataclysmic event, others wonder whether language is even capable of describing the extreme physical, emotional, and psychological suffering that is inflicted upon the victims when such tragedies occur. Centuries of imperialism and colonialism had created a class divide so wide and an Irish economy so fragile that when a calamity such as famine occurred, it was the poverty-stricken, predominately Irish-Catholic peasantry that suffered most. Poor and illiterate, …