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Title: Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
Author: Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...

Title: Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Author: Molina, Luciano
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Religion, Philosophy
Description: The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
Author: Flores, Bertha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Religion
Description: ABSTRACTThe objective of this thesis is to use two films: Marcos Loayza’s Cuestión de fe (1995) and Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s The Devil’s Miner (2005) to analyze their representations of Indigenous religious practices. I focus on two dif...

Title: Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Literature, Religion
Description: TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...

Title: Semantic Change: Marian Phrases in Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Rosary, Puerto Rican Folklore and Spanish
Author: Quiñones-Ayala, Brenda
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Language and languages, Area studies
Description: En el habla popular puertorriqueña se utilizan expresiones de carácter mariano en forma de interjección fuera de su contexto teológico originario. En Puerto Rico, antes de que acaeciera una serie de eventos socio-históricos, el uso de estas expres...

Title: The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events
Author: Brightman, Alexis
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Religion, Spirituality
Description: Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to othe...