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'Peace: A Gift Of God, A Human Task': Toward A Liberation Theology For Northern Ireland, David Miles Moore

Honors Theses

PREFACE: I would have to cite the five months I spent in Cork, Ireland as the biggest motivating factor behind this paper. I knew next to nothing about Northern Ireland before this period. Soon after my arrival in Cork, however, I became fascinated with the socio-religious anomaly to the north of me. Since I became a religion major at Colby, I have always been interested in liberation theology. As I read about the poverty, injustice and violence that pervades Northern Ireland, I was reminded of the context in which Gustavo Gutierrez, Tissa Balasuriya, and Elsa Tamez write and live. The …

Representing African Music, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Of all the currents of change that have swept the humanities during the last half-century, the most far-reaching revolve around language. Philosophy, history, and literary criticism, among other language-based disciplines, have developed what is often presented as a largely unprecedented self-consciousness about representation. The message to scholars in nonlanguage-based disciplines is clear: to be taken seriously, one can no longer view language as a transparent window to an objective reality but must confront the foundational political and ideological baggage of the medium itself, as well as its constant slippage in the hands of the producer.

The Sacred And The Secular: Exploring Contemporary Meanings And Values For Religious Buildings In Singapore, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The study of human environmental experiences has engaged a range of disciplinary attention, with work deriving chiefly from environmental psychologists and geographers. However, most research has focused on the sensory aspects of environmental experience, while the intangible, immeasurable experiences of environments have been somewhat neglected. Certainly, the meanings and values that are invested in places, which form part of the interaction between humans and environments, have not been sufficiently researched. My intention in this paper is to address one aspect of this silence, namely the ways in which humans experience their religious environments, and more particularly, the symbolic meanings and …

Three Days In August: Reflections On The Soviet Coup And Its Consequences, Alan Geyer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Japan Looks At An Uncertain China: The Role Of Japan's Aid To China, Yixin Yang

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis discusses the role the Japanese aid has played in accommodating the structural change of Sino-Japanese economic relations and in dealing with the economic and political crisis that has jeopardized their bilateral relations and Japan's own national interest. Japan's early resumption of economic aid to China after Tiananmen reflects how aid philosophy differs from that of most of the other Western aid donors. The conclusions are that Japan's large loan to China has played a vital role in maintaining and strengthening Sino-Japanese economic relations, that the aid has made the interdependent relations between the two countries an asymmetric one, …

Christian Ethics And The Future Of Eastern Europe, Charles C. West

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Nationalism, Religion, And Peace In Eastern Europe With Special Reference To Yugoslavia, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Orthodox - Catholic Relations In The Ussr, Patricia Lefevere

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Laubach In India: 1935 To 1970, S. Y. Shah

The Courier

Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary and adult educator, dedicated his life to the cause of literacy for development and world peace. During his travels to 103 countries, he worked toward helping some 60 to 100 million people become literate. In addition, he founded or helped found four literacy organizations, including Laubach Literacy International; wrote forty books on adult education, Christian religion, world politics, and culture; and co-authored literacy primers in more than 300 languages. He was awarded four honorary doctorates—one of them from Syracuse University.

Although Laubach worked in many other countries, it is said that his heart was always …

The Role Of Religion In Newly Pluralistic Societies Of Eastern Europe: A Protestant Perspective, Jakub S. Trojan

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Poland: Pluralism After The Experience Of The Desert---A Roman Catholic Perspective, Waldemar Chrostowski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

In This Issue, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Perestroika Without Christ?, S Popov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Protestant Theology In Eastern Europe Prior To 1989, James E. Will

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Despair That Is Yugoslavia, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Suffering, Chosenness And Mission Of The Polish Nation, Waldemar Chrostowski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Truth Telling In Eastern Europe: The Liberation And The Burden, Walter Sawatsy

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Struggling For A Christian Perspective On The Contemporary Soviet Union, James E. Will

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Experience And Expression: Life Among Bedouin Women In South Sinai, Deborah Wickering

Faculty Books

No abstract provided.

Senegalese Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Economic Development In Sine-Saloum And Dakar, Sarah-Joy Hunter

College Honors Program

The complex nexus of Dependency theories, Self-Reliance, and Afro-centric feminisms frame this exploration into economic development strategies Senegalese women deploy in the peanut and fishing sectors to ensure the survival of their families and communities.

In The Shadow Of Oriental Culture: A Study Of The Impact Of Confucianism On Japan's Economic Development After World War Ii, Xuedong Xu

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Japan's fast economic growth after World War II can be ascribed to different factors. This study seeks to determine whether the cultural factor, more specifically Confucianism in Japanese version, has constituted the dynamism behind the success stories of Japan. The study approaches the problem by examining the Confucian doctrine and original works of important Japanese philosophers concerning the Confucian ethics and values, which are recrystallized into new organizational patterns in industrial corporation. While the period after World War II is the focus of the study, the unique features of Japanese industry like "Life-time Employment" and "Groupism" are reviewed to determine …

The Origins Of The Department Of Defense Recommendation To Cross The 38th Parallel During The Korean War, Wayne A. Kirkbride

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis considers the reasons the Department of Defense (DOD) developed its recommendation concerning the U.S. involvement in the Korean War. The United states initially committed its forces to restore the status quo antebellum. However, by 31 July 1950, the DOD recommended that a free, unified, and representative Korea should be the policy object of the war and that the occupation of all of Korea and the defeat of the North Korean armed forces north and south of the 38th Parallel should be the military objectives.

Several factors contributed to the recommendation of a change in policy and strategy. A …

Inter-American Indemnity: Internal Security And The Mutual Security Program For Latin America (1951-1961), Robert George Baker

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the purpose of U.S. military aid in the American Republics from 1951 through 1961 and proves that concern for internal security became dominant during that period. At first military aid supported hemispheric defense against communist aggression, which Washington orchestrated through mutual defense agreements, but by 1953 maintenance of internal security emerged as the major aim of aid to several Central American nations. In 1956 the National Security Council determined that internal security was a vital goal of the military aid program for Latin America. The ascendance of internal security concerns is described and analyzed in three parts: …

A Time Of Transition For Religion In Yugoslavia, Arthur B. Keys Jr

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Sources Of East Germany Revolution And German Unification, Frederick O. Bonkovsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Dulles-Hromadka Encounter Revisited: Two Churchmen Anticipated Some Current World Changes, Paul Bock

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Doug Munro's Review Of Nancy Y. W. Tom's The Chinese In Western Samoa, 1875-1985, Doug Munro

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Ideology In An Interdependent World, Charles C. West

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Muslim Resurgence In Soviet Central Asia, Hafeez Malik

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Letter To The Editor, Max L. Stackhouse

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.