Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 6 of 6

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Doctoral Education Among Latter-Day Saint (Lds) Women: A Phenomenological Study Of A Mother's Choice To Achieve, Jonathan Glade Hall May 2008

Doctoral Education Among Latter-Day Saint (Lds) Women: A Phenomenological Study Of A Mother's Choice To Achieve, Jonathan Glade Hall

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) have been compellingly counseled by church leaders that motherhood should be women’s greatest ambition, and as such that it should demand mothers’ full-time in the home; at the same time they have been taught to get all of the education that they can. Mothers with young families must decide if they should continue their educational pursuits, or spend their full-time in the home. This study sought to fill a gap in the literature and understand the lived experience of these women by researching how LDS mothers with young children …


Givens, John Wesley Tyler, 1870-1967 (Mss 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Givens, John Wesley Tyler, 1870-1967 (Mss 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 202. Sermon notes, letters, genealogical and biographical information, and news clippings; letters related to his courtship and marriage. Includes two collections of poetry.


Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, And Agency In Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman Jan 2008

Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, And Agency In Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to Christianity in the region often experienced a contraction of the range of their activities. Bauman analyzes this counterintuitive result of missionary work and then draws on the work of Saba Mahmood and others to interrogate the predilection of feminist historians for agents, rabble-rousers, and gender troublemakers. The article concludes not only that this predilection represents a mild form of egocentrism but also that it prevents historians from adequately analyzing the complexity of factors that motivate and influence human behavior.


Men Mentoring Women : The Impact Of Male Leaders On Women Entering Vocational Christian Ministry In The Church Of God, Jesse S. Mclain Jan 2008

Men Mentoring Women : The Impact Of Male Leaders On Women Entering Vocational Christian Ministry In The Church Of God, Jesse S. Mclain

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Learning Resiliency: An Opportunity For Clergywomen, Mindy Johnson Jan 2008

Learning Resiliency: An Opportunity For Clergywomen, Mindy Johnson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Identifying Gender Worldview Roadblocks To The Ordination Of Women : A Case Study Of The Church Of Christ In Nigeria, Stephen Nalde Yarkum Jan 2008

Identifying Gender Worldview Roadblocks To The Ordination Of Women : A Case Study Of The Church Of Christ In Nigeria, Stephen Nalde Yarkum

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.