It was a long way from my home in New Jersey to Brazil where I was able to share that bus ride with Rosangela and interview her on her life's work. It was a journey that began with a personal experience when I took classes ...
In this thesis, I will explore how Lorde wrote about difference from two perspectives: differences within an individual, and differences within or between communities of people. I will examine Lorde’s understanding of how ...
In this paper, I place the QIV-C within ecological spirituality, a movement that is grounded in a faith in organic interdependence and wholeness, an ethic of care, and an inclusive sense of community. Underlying these ...
Clifford Geertz in his essay, Religion As a Cultural System, makes the argument that the function, purpose, and structure of religion ought to be understood as an entire cultural system. By employing an analysis of the ...
In this thesis, I plan to answer the following question: How does [James] Baldwin think Christianity and the Nation of Islam function as organizing bodies within the black community?
This thesis examines the history and ministry of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea in light of, and as representative of, the conservative and evangelical form of Korean Protestant Christianity as practiced ...
Since the film adaptation of Go Tell It on the Mountain was released in 1985, scholars have given little attention to its validity as a source of analysis alongside the vast discourse on Baldwin's novel. Considering that ...
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a writer who came to prominence during the American Civil Rights movement. During his career, he engaged issues of race, class, sexuality, and American identity through a plethora of novels, ...
On February 12, 2013, the Seating Ceremony for the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) took place outside of Bangor, Maine. Less than one year earlier, June 29, 2012 marked the ...
Moishe House (MH) is an international organization conceived of in 2006 by a Jewish philanthropist concerned about the dwindling numbers of young American Jews who remain affiliated with their Jewish communities after ...
This thesis explores two twentieth century blues artists, Son House and Honeyboy Edwards, and the confessional and critical voices in their art and lives. House (b. 1902), grew up and became musically competent in the black ...
Activist burnout, a state of emotional exhaustion that causes previously committed individuals to disengage from social action, should be a central concern for those interested in sustaining healthy activism over time. My ...
In A Theology of Liberation, Gustavo Gutierrez defines theology as a reflection on praxis. In this reflection, he creates an ontological system that unites the temporal and eternal world. In this formulation, Gutierrez, ...
This thesis explores the process of translating peacebuilding theory in the field by looking into a case study from Rwanda. The first section is a theoretical view on the necessity of using vernacular translation, considering ...
My thesis is about the Episcopal curriculum known as Godly Play and the way in which it presents the Book of Job to children. The Godly Play method is unique in that it believes that children are able to comprehend even ...