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Showing 1 to 20 of 334 for “""Love Among the Ruins" Catholicism"”.
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Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins
<p>This thesis examines Walker Percy's manipulation of time in Love in the Ruins as a component of indirectly communicating his solution to problems in twentieth-century Western society: existential authenticity. By examining this often overlooked novel, I clarify the process by which Percy conveys …
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
… a terse, but stimulating comment on art and the creative process: “An act of art is essentially a gratuitous act. [...] It is essentially ‘play.’” The aim of this dissertation is to examine Jones’s work in relation to the concept of playfulness. Although it makes the most of play’s various …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, these authors discovered a public realm in which modern literature's aspirations to “make it new” could find their fullest expression. …
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Dwelling among ruins: landscapes in the late 8th century BC Argolic Plain, Greece
This thesis explores the meaningful character of traces of earlier occupation and burial locations visible in the late 8th century BC landscape of the Argolic Plain in the northeast Peloponnese, Greece. It will be argued that, where ruined former habitation remains and burials were observed in the …
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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta
… art, documenta in its current form is known in the art world for its scale, site-specificity and rotating Artistic Directors, each with their own theme and agenda. On a unique schedule, the expansive show is displayed in Kassel, Germany from June to September every five years. The origins of the …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
… project establishes that English poets replayed the Reformation conflict over ""true religion"" on a battlefield of Petrarchan lyric. Conventional, theology-based methodologies insufficiently account for the ongoing appeal of Catholicism and the ubiquity of representations of ritual practice in …
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The culture of the Mayas as shown by their ruins
<p>It is the purpose of this paper to deal with the high state of culture attained by the mysterious Mayas of Central America and Yucatan.</p><p> How old is their civilization? No one knows.</p><p> Where did they come from? Who can say?</p><p> What did they wish to tell us in their writings that …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
<p>“Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico” examines the emergence of Catholicism and its local expressions among Africans and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home to the second …
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Among the Ruins: Memory, Trauma, and a Residential Treatment Facility for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at Fort Casey, Washington
This architectural design thesis is shaped by the intersection of time, memory, narrative and contemporary construction and use in an encounter with military ruins. This thesis argues that ruins need not remain entirely sacrosanct, but rather can, with understanding and care, become sites partly …
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The love dialectic
<p>The dialectic concerning romantic love and its place in the lives of men and women has for many centuries provided much of the matter of literature. How important is it, or should it be, the poets have asked; is it more important in the lives of women than in the lives of men; how do or should …
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Identity, Catholicism, and Lozi Culture in Zambia's Western Province
… and cultural level. Using ethnographic fieldwork among Lozi Catholic communities in the Western Province of Zambia, the case is made that both conversion and inculturation represent the same process of identity formation. Conversion is defined as a process in which a person grants him or herself a …
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Between love and fear - determinants of sexual behavior among Ugandan university students
… African countries, including Uganda, occur among young people between the ages of 15 and 24, the most sexually active period of their lives. Understanding the contextual determinants of sexual behavior in this group is crucial in combating the pandemic. Aim: The overall aim of this study was …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
A thesis is about what architecture can be. In my thesis I propose that urban infrastructure built in the late nineteenth-century, can be the foundation for urban public space in the late twentieth-century. I propose that by exploring the value inherent in an existing structure, or fragment …
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Paul's doctrine of Christian love
[All the voices of revelation units in ascribing the supremacy, among the virtues, to love. The institutes of Moses, and the new commandments of Jesus; the abstract reasonings of Paul, and the practical exhortations of James; the vivid and impulsive rhetoric of Peter and the subdued and tender …
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Theology of Arcavatara and the Eucharist: A Comparative Study
<p>The diversity in the world today is undeniable and quite imposing. The claim to uniqueness and universality of faith in each religious system cannot be sustained without factoring the implications and impacts of this claim on the well-being of humanity and reality hermeneutics. The postmodern …
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The Religion of Consumption and Christian Neighbor Love
<p>Loyola University Chicago</p><p>THE RELIGION OF CONSUMPTION AND CHRISTIAN NEIGHBOR LOVE</p><p>Consumerism is a word frequently used in various disciplines to express the variety of attitudes, motivations, and practices found among the middle and upper classes. It drives the global economy and …
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Love in Separation: An exploration of longing in devotion (Viraha-Bhakti) in the Hindu and Christian faiths.
… is a Hindu-Christian comparative study on the subject of viraha-bhakti, devotional love-in-separation. Although possessing distinctive characteristics, the longing for God in his divine absence that is encountered in Hinduism and Christianity corresponds closely with each other and forms an …
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Postcombat Military Job Satisfaction Among Vietnam Helicopter Aviators
This project investigated the relations between recalled job-satisfaction, ability, and task demands in Vietnam era helicopter aviators. It attempted to detect and describe factors present in a dangerous combat environment which may influence some individuals to enjoy and take satisfaction at being …
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