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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Philosophy religion and theology"”.
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Healing, honoring, transforming: The power of spiritual activism in Marilou Awiakta's work
… work reveals the web that connects all life and demonstrates how important it is to protect and honor every living thing. I believe that poet/author Marilou Awiakta's work exposes the interconnections between all living things—her work is part of the heartbeat that initiates spiritual …
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Leibniz on intra-substantial causation and change
… a world of causally interacting substances and issues pertaining to Leibniz’s own positive metaphysics of immanent causation and change.</p> <p>Chapter 1 is devoted to stage setting for the remainder of the dissertation. I first offer a historically informed overview of efficient causation …
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
This thesis encourages the tens of thousands of Christian missionaries traveling yearly to Honduras to look to the ecofeminist theories of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Judith Ress in order to more effectively confront the social, political, and economic hurdles preventing more Hondurans from …
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A defense of the ambiguity theory of 'knows'
… the form ‘S knows that P’ where S is a subject and P a proposition) and knowledge denials (sentences of the form ‘S doesn’t know that P’) have been at the fore of a certain sector of analytic epistemology and philosophy of language. These questions include “How do we determine the truth …
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A phenomenological inquiry into sacred time in Hinduism
… Applying the methodology of phenomenology of religion, I inspect the ways in which human beings experience sacred time in Hinduism and present an argument against Mircea Eliade’s understanding of the nature of sacred time in Hinduism. Eliade asserted that all sacred time in Hinduism is …
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African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… to explore African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community and their decisions to inform the proper authorities. This exploratory study was developed in order to draw both public and academic attention to the understudied phenomenon of …
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African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community
… to explore African American pastors' beliefs and actions regarding childhood incest in the African American community and their decisions to inform the proper authorities. This exploratory study was developed in order to draw both public and academic attention to the understudied phenomenon of …
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Exploring the relationship among marital satisfaction, level of faith development, and differentiation of self
… satisfaction, level of faith development, and differentiation of self. The study looks at marriages using Bowen family systems theory and Fowler's faith development theory. This quantitative study collected data through a convenient, snowball method. The sample consisted of 124 individuals …
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
… institutional powers of the NFL. There are more and more professional players questioning these lessons on how to be a football player, questioning the expectations of speech and gender performance. Using Deleuzian constructs of becoming, gender performance theories, and rhetorics of affect and …
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Thinking about Justice from “the Outside” of Nationality: Re-Thinking the Legal and National Dimensions of Citizenship
This dissertation examines the legal and national dimensions of citizenship, focusing on the nature of social justice, multiculturalism and state formation in light of an increasing "migrant" population in the United States. For many individuals, Hispanic people and undocumented immigrants are …
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The relationship between participation in organized church youth activities and health risk behaviors
… in organized church youth activities and selected adolescent health risk behaviors. The sample used for the study included 72 youths representing eight Episcopal churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. The survey instrument included 95 items: 83 questions from the 1999 Youth Risk …
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A black art: Ontology, data, and the Tower of Babel problem
… integrating (Heiler, 1995; Pileggi & Fernandez-Llatas, 2012) divergent data to represent reality and in so doing applied computational ontologies alter conceptions of materiality and produce new realities based on levels of informational granularity and abstraction (Floridi, 2011), …
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A Consensus on the Definition and Knowledge Base for Computer Graphics
… of historical innovation, measurable impacts, and multiple specializations the existing knowledge base for Computer Graphics (CG) lacks consensus, and numerous definitions for it have been published based on distinct contexts. Disagreement among post-secondary academics has divided CG programs …
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