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Review Of Sremac And Ganzervoort's "Religious And Sexual Nationalisms In Central And Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays And Governments", Nena Močnik Jan 2016

Review Of Sremac And Ganzervoort's "Religious And Sexual Nationalisms In Central And Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays And Governments", Nena Močnik

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


‘Subvert And Survive’: Soft Power And Popular Resistance At The Transcultural Edges Of Hegemony, Harry Browne Jan 2016

‘Subvert And Survive’: Soft Power And Popular Resistance At The Transcultural Edges Of Hegemony, Harry Browne

Doctoral

This thesis, in three parts, documents and conceptualises a range of political and cultural activities that either sustain or challenge existing structures of power. It seeks to answer the question: how can we conjoin a Gramscian theoretical framework and the insights of transculturalism to understand and investigate practices of dominance and resistance operating in close cultural and ideological proximity to those they oppose? Drawing upon an understanding that a successful hegemonic discourse, one that earns consent and minimises conflict, must in some sense contain, and thus control, its own opposite, Part 1 of the thesis – divided into three chapters, …


Compute Or Not To Compute?, Rowena Keaveny Jan 2016

Compute Or Not To Compute?, Rowena Keaveny

Theses

The primary purpose of this enquiry is to explore the relevance of digital culture to contemporary art therapy practice in the digital age. The explosion of digital media into everyday life, as evidenced through it's impact on modes of communication and transformative societal behaviours has vastly altered how humans relate to each other and the world in which they can now live both physically and virtually in what has become known as the digital age. Silhouetted by it's emergent use within the therapeutic setting and informed by current literature, articles, research, questionnaires and interviews, this enquiry seeks to address the …


Bonus Lesson: The Seven Seals And The Four Horsemen, Calvin University Jan 2016

Bonus Lesson: The Seven Seals And The Four Horsemen, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 7: Revelation 16, Calvin University Jan 2016

Week 7: Revelation 16, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 6: Revelation 13, Calvin University Jan 2016

Week 6: Revelation 13, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Lesson 4: Revelation 11, Calvin University Jan 2016

Lesson 4: Revelation 11, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Lesson 1: Revelation 1, Calvin University Jan 2016

Lesson 1: Revelation 1, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Bonus Lesson 2, Calvin University Jan 2016

Bonus Lesson 2, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Bonus Lesson 1, Calvin University Jan 2016

Bonus Lesson 1, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Note To Leaders, Calvin University Jan 2016

Note To Leaders, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Semana 10, Calvin University Jan 2016

Semana 10, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Session 6: Thank God For Closed Doors, Calvin University Jan 2016

Session 6: Thank God For Closed Doors, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 01, Calvin University Jan 2016

Week 01, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 06, Calvin University Jan 2016

Week 06, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 08, Calvin University Jan 2016

Week 08, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Seekers And Dwellers: Plurality And Wholeness In A Time Of Secularity, Philip J. Rossi Jan 2016

Introduction To Seekers And Dwellers: Plurality And Wholeness In A Time Of Secularity, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Veneration Motif In The Temptation Narrative Of The Gospel Of Matthew: Lessons From The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov Jan 2016

The Veneration Motif In The Temptation Narrative Of The Gospel Of Matthew: Lessons From The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, And Interspeciesality, Temple Jo Gowan Jan 2016

Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, And Interspeciesality, Temple Jo Gowan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines three twentieth-century novels—Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale, and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are governed and controlled in a biopolitical era. Each chapter focuses on textual links between speciesism and the oppression of particular human groups based on gender, sexuality, and race, arguing that each novel offers new ways of thinking about both our own species, other animal species, and how humans relate to the nonhuman world.


Thrill Of A Billion Eyes: The Prancing J-Settes, Mary Paige Blessey Jan 2016

Thrill Of A Billion Eyes: The Prancing J-Settes, Mary Paige Blessey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The “Prancing J-Settes” is the official name of the dance line for the Sonic Boom of the South marching band at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. The popular form of dance termed “J-Setting” sources its name from the Prancing J-Settes. The Sonic Boom of the South and the Prancing J-Settes have a loyal fan following and have had a lasting and widespread influence on popular culture. This is an oral history interview project focusing on the current Prancing J-Settes themselves to hear their thoughts and definitions of the form of dance they perform and its significance. The primary interviews …


God's Gonna Trouble The Water, Dominiqua Dickey Jan 2016

God's Gonna Trouble The Water, Dominiqua Dickey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"God's Gonna Trouble the Water," is a noir set in Grenada, MS in the 1930s. This novel explores the issues of race, gender, and class via the protagonist, a thirtysomething black woman who despite her low status in the socioeconomic hierarchy of this small southern town is able to navigate the delicate complexities of the environment to search for her missing granddaughter, a mixed raced toddler whose father is the son of a prominent white land owner. Although national history portrays Mississippi as maintaining a polarizing view on race relations, the novel will explore how this idea of Mississippi is …


The Wound Is (Not) Real, Martin M. Cain Jan 2016

The Wound Is (Not) Real, Martin M. Cain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Invoking “the wound” as a space of semiotic, subjective, narrative, and hegemonic rupture, The Wound Is (Not) Real interrogates trauma and its effects on the formation of adolescent masculinity. Synthesizing and rejecting the conventions of lyric-narrative poetry, the prose poem, critical prose, and the memoir, The Wound Is (Not) Real ultimately attempts to link “woundedness” to poetic language itself, suggesting that poetry rises out of rupture and trauma. I seek to give poetic language its own form of agency; one which resists contextualization or New Critical modes of explication.


The Viet Cong, David Tran Tran Jan 2016

The Viet Cong, David Tran Tran

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

After the loss of his father, Eddie Nguyen – an English teacher – travels to Vietnam to fulfill his father’s dying wish, which is to have his remains returned to his village of origin, but the problem is that Eddie can’t seem to locate it. In an attempt to generate funds and solicit more information about the whereabouts of the mysterious village, Eddie tries to find work as an English teacher in Saigon, but he quickly discovers no school will hire him based off his Vietnamese heritage. Frustrated, Eddie goes to a local bar and befriends a bartender named Nykky, …


Playbook, Jason Edward Harrington Jan 2016

Playbook, Jason Edward Harrington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From 2007 to 2013 I worked for the Transportation Security Administration. It was a Kafkaesque experience, rife with bureaucratic absurdity. This memoir is a chronicle of that experience, from the days leading up to my initial application, to the days following my letter of resignation. It is also the story of a man dealing with personal demons, and struggling to find his way through the morass of modern society.


Effect Of Self-Evaluation On Jazz Improvisation Achievement, Ollie Eugene Liddell Jan 2016

Effect Of Self-Evaluation On Jazz Improvisation Achievement, Ollie Eugene Liddell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A Non-Classical Solution To Vague Persistence, Seth Waite Jan 2016

A Non-Classical Solution To Vague Persistence, Seth Waite

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One comtheory of persistence is that things move through time as wholly present entities, moving from time to time as a complete unit. This theory, the endurance theory, has come under challenge by various authors, and this paper will defend the view from one such objection. Katherine Hawley argues that the endurance theory fails to account for vague persistence on the grounds that endurance cannot account for vagueness semantically. I will show that this claim is based on an assumption of classical logic and that by rejecting this assumption in favor of a non-classical logic the objection is rendered mute. …


Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration, Yaeko Takada Jan 2016

Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration, Yaeko Takada

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project examines how the bluesman, guitar, and migration have interacted with each other and brought about transformations to American popular music, based upon scholarly works, magazine articles, and the sound recordings of the prewar blues performers. In popular theory, the blues sprang out of the cotton fields and articulated the life experiences of the oppressed people in isolated areas, particularly the Jim Crow south. These are certainly truths of the blues. Also true is that the blues was a product of modernization in every way and a representation of the African American bluesman's aspiring life. The bluesman's mobile lifestyle …


Boxing Men: Ideas Of Race, Masculinity, And Nationalism, Robert Bryan Hawks Jan 2016

Boxing Men: Ideas Of Race, Masculinity, And Nationalism, Robert Bryan Hawks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Abstract: Jack Johnson and Joe Louis were African American boxers who held the title of world heavyweight champion in their respective periods. Johnson and Louis constructed ideologies of African American manhood that challenged white hegemonic notions of masculinity and nationalism from the first decade of the twentieth century, when Johnson held the title, through Joe Louis’s reign that began in the 1930's. This thesis investigates the history of white supremacy from the turn of the twentieth century when Johnson fought and does so through several lenses. The lenses I suggest include evolving notions of masculinity, Theodore Roosevelt’s racially deterministic agendas, …


Exploring Anthropological Monism For Pastoral Care Practice In A Local Church, Michael Robert Mcleod Jan 2016

Exploring Anthropological Monism For Pastoral Care Practice In A Local Church, Michael Robert Mcleod

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research project explored the viability and benefits of anthropological monism for pastoral care practice in a local church. Monism, as it relates to human nature, refers to humanity consisting solely of materiality or physicality from which emerge all capacities and functions of the human individual⎯feeling, thinking, relating, acting, or experiencing God, self, others, or the world in general. Biblically and theologically, anthropological monism can point to integration for holism to overcome life disruption and fragmentation due to sin. It can also highlight embodiment and refocus the church towards human physicality and the prominence of resurrection for end-of-life outcomes rather …


The Faith At Work Movement At Westwood Community Church, Daniel Albert Bolt Jan 2016

The Faith At Work Movement At Westwood Community Church, Daniel Albert Bolt

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigated the faith at work (FAW) movement through the lens of philosophical hermeneutics. The work concepts of both Old and New Testaments were explored, along with theologian’s voices on the intersection of work and faith. The literature review demonstrated the one-dimensional emphasis of the FAW for the church and the working world. The church and world need the FAW as an ethos with an emphasis on the whole person. The research was a mixed method of case study utilizing qualitative and quantitative method. This mixed method helped underline the shallowness of current scholarship of the FAW as an …