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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Title
"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Author
Mesibov, Sally
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
Description
SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Title
A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Author
Staton, Jonathan
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
Description
The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....
Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of his Movement: An Evaluation of Methods (1952-2010)
Title
Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of his Movement: An Evaluation of Methods (1952-2010)
Author
Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, Religion, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description
The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew and Aramaic texts representing more than 800 manuscripts. Found between 1947 - 1956 in 11 caves near an ancient Qumran archaeological site, they consist of copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls h...
Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
Title
Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
Author
Argonauta, Matthew
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Bible, Sex role, Religion
Description
The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...
Maintenance of a Tradition: An Analysis of Identity and Memory Making Processes at Rock Springs Camp-Meeting
Title
Maintenance of a Tradition: An Analysis of Identity and Memory Making Processes at Rock Springs Camp-Meeting
Author
Manlove, Wyatt
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Religion
Description
The Rock Springs camp-meeting in Denver, North Carolina is a communal religious gathering, the maintenance of which is passed down generationally and regarded by some as an important piece of Denver's community history. The camp-meeting phenomenon...
Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
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...
The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
Title
The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
Author
Boaz, Stephen
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Religion, Area studies, Folklore
Description
This paper primarily examines how white conservative Evangelicals engage narrative constructions of identity through the use an embattled lens. The paper does also consider two other Evangelical groups (black Evangelicals—largely civil rights lead...