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All Saints and Sinners
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Saints of Grand Rapids
These stories examine the lives of working class people in light of the current economic and social climate. They address and attempt to empathize with the despair and disillusionment many working class Americans express in response to their economic and social realities, and the stories attempt to …
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The female saints of Cornwall.
This thesis seeks to identify the female saints of Cornwall and their connections to each other and to the saints of other Celtic regions. The aim of the research was to establish if there were common links and themes between these saints, given that so many of them are found and remembered solely …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to argue their hagiographers construct them performing multiple gender states, regardless of their assigned sexes. Additionally, it examines St …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to argue their hagiographers construct them performing multiple gender states, regardless of their assigned sexes. Additionally, it examines St …
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Saints in Space and the Queer Fantastic
… thesis is a creative work focused around saints, space, and whales. The work is comprised of both fiction and creative non-fiction pieces, introduced by a critical-creative preface which examined the intellectual background of the work as well as the author’s creative process. The pieces …
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Lesser Saints of Central Illinois - A Novel
An examination of contemporary Catholicism told through the stories of a priest undergoing a crisis of vocation, a young man alienated from his family, and an immigrant struggling to keep his family together.
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Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
… of Church, which he describes as the loss of the saints. Balthasar conceives of this separation as a shattering of truth — the "living exposition of theory in practice and of knowledge carried into action." The consequence of this shattering is the impoverishment of both divine and creaturely …
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‘Holyest Erth of England?’ Glastonbury Abbey: Saints, Sanctity and Pilgrimage
… by John of Glastonbury. The cults of various saints were promulgated at Glastonbury during the abbey’s history. These are examined in three groups: firstly, early saints from the Celtic regions, some of whom play a role in the foundation narratives of the abbey. Secondly, St Dunstan who …
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Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
Scholars have evaluated the causes of clergy political preferences and behavior for decades. As with party ID in the study of mass behavior, personal ideological preferences have been the relevant clergy literature's dominant behavioral predictor. Yet to the extent that clergy operate in bounded …
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
Seventeenth-century Lives of colonial saints in Peru reflect the Spanish colony's growing independence and changing missionary strategies. Lives of saints Luis Bertran, Francis Solano, Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Juan Macias, Rose of Lima, Martin de Porras and the unrecognized Nicolas de Ayllon …
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When Saints Speak: Stories of Spirituality From Senior Southern Baptists
The purpose of this study is to explore and develop an understanding of the perception and role of spirituality in the lives of senior Southern Baptists. Narrative paradigm was used as a theoretical basis for developing an understanding of the stories of spirituality offered by participants. …
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Saints George, Sebastian, and Eustace in Medieval Castilian Prose Hagiography
This thesis explores the legends of Saints George, Sebastian, and Eustace as presented in five fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts of the corpus of Castilian prose hagiography known as Compilation B. Chapter One provides an introduction to the thematic and codicological contexts of the …
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Gendering virginity and violence in Ælfric’s lives of female saints
… saint and female sanctity in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Special attention is paid to the influence of the early-medieval ecclesiastical and secular contexts which resulted in the widespread glorification of the virginal status and the subsequent inextricability of virginity from female sanctity. …
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The Power of Coptic Women Saints: Historical and Analytical Study of Coptic Women Saints as Spiritual Models for Coptic Women in the USA and Egypt
… Coptic female experience and Coptic female saints through the use of in-depth interviews of 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Southern California and 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Egypt. The interviews explore women’s relationships with, and knowledge of their female saints, as well as …
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