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Lassiter, Katharine E.
Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2012, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10885 
► My project examines the construction of the feminist pastoral subject. Moving between theory and practice, I reflect on data I gathered by interviewing hospital chaplains…
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▼ My project examines the construction of the feminist pastoral subject. Moving between theory and practice, I reflect on data I gathered by interviewing hospital chaplains on best practices of gender specific pastoral care and review literature on feminist pastoral theology, care, and counseling to understand the subject. The dissertation is guided by a critical correlative method that prompts three overarching questions. First, what is the state of subjectivity in feminist pastoral theology? Second, what resources in philosophy and psychology deepen our theories of subjectivity, suffering, care, and justice? Third, what does feminist pastoral theology have to say in response? I discovered that feminist pastoral theology describes its subjects through a lens of gender difference but does not adequately account for the psycho-social process of recognition-assertion. Drawing on psychological and social theories of recognition attentive to gender injustices, I develop a feminist pastoral theology of recognition and praxis of encounter.
Advisors/Committee Members: McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: feminist pastoral theology; subjectivity; recognition; pastoral care; social justice; just care
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APA (6th Edition):
Lassiter, K. E. (2012). Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10885
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lassiter, Katharine E. “Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10885.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lassiter, Katharine E. “Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology.” 2012. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lassiter KE. Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10885.
Council of Science Editors:
Lassiter KE. Recognizing Other Subjects in Feminist Pastoral Theology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10885
Vanderbilt University
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Voelz, Richard William.
A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2011, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11516
► This dissertation seeks to strengthen the relationship between preaching and adolescents. I begin by narrating a critical homiletic history of adolescence in North America, showing…
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▼ This dissertation seeks to strengthen the relationship between preaching and adolescents. I begin by narrating a critical homiletic history of adolescence in North America, showing how a once fruitful relationship deteriorated. I then examine the contemporary period through three related but non-conversant literatures: the homiletic guild which largely neglects youth, youth ministry literature on preaching which does not engage homiletic theory, and critical youth studies which does not address preaching. These preliminary surveys show how the contemporary homiletic disposition marginalizes the voices of young people. In this context, I propose a new theological and ethical disposition characterized by a dialectic between liberation and formation. The liberation of a “youthful homiletic” requires attentive listening to communicative practices of adolescents, which can offer correctives to preaching and to Christian faith/practice. The formation of a “youthful homiletic” requires adults to maintain a carefully focused interest in young people’s formation as theological communicators, grounded in prior listening. In order to put this disposition into practice, I develop a method of rhetorical analysis that listens to adolescents’ preaching and religious communication, and subsequently assess where they offer correction to adult assumptions and practices as well as where further formation might be warranted.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ted A. Smith (committee member), Dale P. Andrews (committee member), McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (committee member),
John S. McClure (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: youth; preaching; homiletics; critical youth studies
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Voelz, R. W. (2011). A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11516
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Voelz, Richard William. “A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11516.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Voelz, Richard William. “A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents.” 2011. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Voelz RW. A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11516.
Council of Science Editors:
Voelz RW. A Youthful Homiletic: A Practical Theological Examination of the Relationship Between Preaching and Adolescents. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11516
Vanderbilt University
3.
Walters Young, Laine Christine.
Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2019, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15517
► Intimate, romantic adult relationships today are marked by ever greater struggles in work-life integration and gender equity in an increasingly commodified, fast-paced world. Often in…
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▼ Intimate, romantic adult relationships today are marked by ever greater struggles in work-life integration and gender equity in an increasingly commodified, fast-paced world. Often in response to these factors, relationships today are more ambiguously defined, informal, and impermanent as people decenter romantic relationships from being their primary concern. Given this, I argue that cultural and religious mores which have traditionally seen marriage as a paradigm for all intimate relationships need to be significantly updated and re-interpreted. Specifically, I suggest that relationships should be evaluated based on the capacity for and presence of intimacy as psycho-relational quality. This will set the groundwork for more creative relational ethic that can speak to a world of impermanence.
This project asks: What do scholars and practitioners in religion, and even young adults themselves, need to understand about young adults today to develop an adequate relational ethic that comprehends, and can respond to, the complexity of their needs and lives? First, it is important to know what is actually happening in the intimate lives of young adults and figuring out the questions that young adults are asking of themselves in terms of how postindustrial precarity affects their worldview, psychology, and behavior. This will lead to appreciation of how these factors serve to encourage a program of bolstering people’s psychological resilience and moral creativity through processes of auto-ethnographic reflection and guided praxis of how to connect their lives to ancient religious and ethical ideals of love and justice.
Advisors/Committee Members: Phillis Isabella Sheppard (committee member), Jacobus Hamman (committee member), Thelathia Nikki Young (committee member), McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: feminism; psychology; queer studies; gender; Millennials; young adults; counseling; cultural studies; sociology; intimacy; religion; human development; ethics; identity; neoliberalism
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Walters Young, L. C. (2019). Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15517
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Walters Young, Laine Christine. “Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15517.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Walters Young, Laine Christine. “Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.” 2019. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Walters Young LC. Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15517.
Council of Science Editors:
Walters Young LC. Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15517
Vanderbilt University
4.
Walters Young, Laine Christine.
Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2019, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14646
► RELIGION Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics Laine Walters Young Dissertation under…
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▼ RELIGION
Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics
Laine Walters Young
Dissertation under the direction of Professor
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore
Intimate, romantic adult relationships today are marked by ever greater struggles in work-life integration and gender equity in an increasingly commodified, fast-paced world. Often in response to these factors, relationships today are more ambiguously defined, informal, and impermanent as people decenter romantic relationships from being their primary concern. Given this, I argue that cultural and religious mores which have traditionally seen marriage as a paradigm for all intimate relationships need to be significantly updated and re-interpreted. Specifically, I suggest that relationships should be evaluated based on the capacity for and presence of intimacy as psycho-relational quality. This will set the groundwork for more creative relational ethic that can speak to a world of impermanence.
This project asks: What do scholars and practitioners in religion, and even young adults themselves, need to understand about young adults today to develop an adequate relational ethic that comprehends, and can respond to, the complexity of their needs and lives? First, it is important to know what is actually happening in the intimate lives of young adults and figuring out the questions that young adults are asking of themselves in terms of how postindustrial precarity affects their worldview, psychology, and behavior. This will lead to appreciation of how these factors serve to encourage a program of bolstering people’s psychological resilience and moral creativity through processes of auto-ethnographic reflection and guided praxis of how to connect their lives to ancient religious and ethical ideals of love and justice.
Advisors/Committee Members: Phillis Isabella Sheppard (committee member), Jacobus Hamman (committee member), Thelathia Nikki Young (committee member), Bonnie J. Miller McLemore (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: young adults; queer ethics; Millennials; intimacy; psychology; feminism; ethics; sociology; neoliber
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Walters Young, L. C. (2019). Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14646
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Walters Young, Laine Christine. “Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14646.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Walters Young, Laine Christine. “Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics.” 2019. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Walters Young LC. Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14646.
Council of Science Editors:
Walters Young LC. Young Adults, Intimacy, and Mutuality in Late Modernity: Contemporary Updates to Theological, Psychological, and Marginalized Perspectives on Relationship Ethics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14646
Vanderbilt University
5.
Fuller, Leanna Kelley.
When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2013, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10721
► In this project, I use extended case studies of two Protestant churches to explore the sources and dynamics of congregational conflict around theological issues. My…
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▼ In this project, I use extended case studies of two Protestant churches to explore the sources and dynamics of congregational conflict around theological issues. My thesis is that at the heart of congregational conflict lies anxiety triggered by encounters with difference. Using insights from psychodynamic psychology and social psychology, I show that this anxiety is a normal part of human development, as are the desire for sameness and identification with groups of similar others. However, the anxiety raised by difference can be dealt with in a variety of ways, some of which are reactive in nature and destructive in their consequences. Such behaviors include splitting and projection, strong needs for sameness, group polarization, and contentious tactics, all of which can lead to divisive conflict and can potentially damage or destroy communities of faith.
With the goal of articulating a more constructive approach to conflict in congregations, I offer a theological re-framing of conflict as a natural outcome of the diversity inherent in human life. Further, I argue for diversity as a desirable theological norm—one that was intended by God and that should be embraced rather than eliminated. Building on this argument, I explore the notions of vulnerability and hospitality as theological categories that encourage human beings to "sit with" the anxiety stirred by communal life, and to seek ways to remain connected across differences rather than trying to change them. With this theological grounding in place, I return to the congregational case studies and reflect further on the similarities and differences between them. This comparison forms the basis for the practical strategies I ultimately commend for congregations in conflict.
Advisors/Committee Members: McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (committee member),
William P. Smith (committee member),
John J. Thatamanil (committee member),
Barbara J. McClure (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: hospitality; vulnerability to difference; diversity; social psychology; psychodynamic psychology; ecclesiology; family systems theory; pastoral theology; practical theology
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Fuller, L. K. (2013). When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10721
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Fuller, Leanna Kelley. “When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10721.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Fuller, Leanna Kelley. “When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations.” 2013. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Fuller LK. When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10721.
Council of Science Editors:
Fuller LK. When Christ's Body is Broken: Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10721
Vanderbilt University
6.
Helderman, Ira Philip.
“Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13621
► Psychotherapists’ interest in Buddhist traditions, once described as a new popular trend, should today be considered an established feature of the mental health field in…
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▼ Psychotherapists’ interest in Buddhist traditions, once described as a new popular trend, should today be considered an established feature of the mental health field in the United States. Recognizing their religio-cultural import, religious studies scholars increasingly attend to clinicians’ approaches to Buddhist teachings and practices. However, existing literature on this topic frequently overlooks therapists’ own reportage about their activities. As a consequence, the variety of approaches that clinicians have taken to Buddhist traditions are often lost in the sweep of totalizing interpretations. Scholars declare these phenomena to be cases of either secularization or religious transmission. Commentators who herald a “spread of the Dharma” do not sufficiently acknowledge those who believe they are successful in secularizing Buddhist practices for audiences unaware of their origins. Meanwhile, those who describe the “secularization of Buddhism” brush over therapists who advance a Buddhist qua religious path as superior source of psychological healing. Moreover, such analyses do not account for recent scholarship demonstrating that categories like “religion” and “secular” have been socially co-constructed by particular communities for particular purpose. I conduct textual analysis, personal interviews with formative published clinicians, and ethnographic observation at continuing education conferences where therapists receive training on aspects of these approaches. I show that psychotherapists are molded by their own understandings of what defines “religion” and “secular.” Therapists’ relative levels of investment in preserving psychotherapy’s qualification as a secular biomedical discipline produce a multiplicity of treatments of Buddhist traditions. I delineate six overlapping sets of approaches that therapists take to Buddhist teachings and practices. Clinicians have (1) therapized, (2) filtered, (3) translated, (4) personalized, (5) adopted, and (6) integrated those elements of Buddhist traditions they view as religious. My study offers a more accurate description of these phenomena. It also clarifies how the ongoing re-construction of categories like “religion” and “secular” function “on-the-ground.” I demonstrate that these concepts are not only abstract categories for scholarly classification but concrete determinants of behavior for contemporary communities.
Advisors/Committee Members: David L. McMahan (committee member), Robert Ford Campany (committee member), McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (committee member),
Ruth Rogaski (committee member),
Volney P. Gay (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Religion and science & medicine; Buddhist studies; Religion and Psychology; Secularity studies
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APA (6th Edition):
Helderman, I. P. (2016). “Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13621
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Helderman, Ira Philip. ““Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13621.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Helderman, Ira Philip. ““Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions.” 2016. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Helderman IP. “Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13621.
Council of Science Editors:
Helderman IP. “Religion” and “secular” in U.S. psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13621
Vanderbilt University
7.
Phillips, Nichole Renee.
Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2012, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11423
► I conducted ethnographic research on ritual, race, evangelical faith, and southern civil religion in the rural West Tennessee community of Bald Eagles. I asked: What…
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▼ I conducted ethnographic research on ritual, race, evangelical faith, and southern civil religion in the rural West Tennessee community of Bald Eagles. I asked: What can death rituals disclose about Southern evangelical Christianity, civil religion, and the racial politics of this American town? The American public and some scholars fail to recognize the distinctive forms of Evangelical faith, the racialized nature of Evangelical faith and civil religion, and civil religion and how it functions in different communities. Rituals, I suggest, sacralize public and private spaces in this locale. I study how members of two institutions, the Church and civil religion, employ death rituals to reinforce their political understanding.
Death rituals such as American military ceremonials, U.S. civic holidays, and other practices pay homage to ancestry by venerating the dead. In that way they exemplify the faith and civil religious practices of townsfolk. I seek to explain how non-traditional death rituals are central to the functioning of civil religion and to show how evangelical faith undergirds its operation. To do this I used three research methods.
First, I created a macro-level case study of two congregations—one white, the other black. Second, I employed Don Browning’s concept of a critical hermeneutic theory of society to generate a thick description of these rituals. Third, I used a (")revised critical correlational(") method to bring psychological and anthropological discourses about ritual spaces into conversation and to enhance each. Five important findings emerged from this empirically-based, social psychological study. I show how these public and private rituals answer the question: (")How should we live?(")
Advisors/Committee Members: McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (committee member),
Lewis V. Baldwin (committee member),
Thomas A. Gregor (committee member),
Volney P. Gay (Committee Chair),
William L. Partridge (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Religion; Race; Ritual; Politics; Practical Theology; Congregational Studies; Sociology; Cultural Anthropology; Southern; Ethnographic; Death
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Phillips, N. R. (2012). Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11423
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Phillips, Nichole Renee. “Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11423.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Phillips, Nichole Renee. “Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites.” 2012. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Phillips NR. Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11423.
Council of Science Editors:
Phillips NR. Evangelical Faith and The Ritualization of Politicized Death: The Power, Authority, and Identity of Rural Blacks and Whites. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11423
Vanderbilt University
8.
Kreiselmaier, Laura Rosser.
Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology".
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11164
► People who are highly creative seem to have an increased propensity for mystical experience, on the one hand, and psychological suffering, on the other. Michael…
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▼ People who are highly creative seem to have an increased propensity for mystical experience, on the one hand, and psychological suffering, on the other. Michael A. Thalbourne and colleagues’ concept of “transliminality”—the hypothesized tendency of psychological material to cross thresholds into and out of consciousness—helps corroborate and explain this observation. In this dissertation I propose a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model for understanding the types of phenomena that people with large amounts of transliminality often encounter and for informing a holistic, empathic, effective clinical and pastoral response.
First, I review evidence that transliminality is a valid construct, and I offer a model for how high amounts of this trait interact with contextual factors to result in individuals with a wider-than-usual range of flourishing versus decompensation. Next, using the 16th-century mystic St. Teresa of Ávila, 20th-century depth psychologist C. G. Jung, and contemporary musician Alanis Morissette as case studies, I examine how each embodies creativity, transcendent experience, and possible psychopathology; demonstrates a high degree of transliminality; and finds ways to move through psychospiritual suffering into ultimate flourishing and generativity. I then explore the psychological and theological ramifications of transliminal, transcendent moments by correlating the writings of practical theologian James E. Loder and cognitive psychologist Harry T. Hunt on the nature and potential purpose of these experiences (and, by implication, the type of personality that increases one’s tendency to have them). Finally, after integrating “transliminality theory” with insights from Loder, Hunt, Teresa, Jung, and Morissette, I translate this research into practical recommendations for how pastoral caregivers and psychotherapists can help highly transliminal people ameliorate suffering and actualize their considerable gifts.
Advisors/Committee Members: McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof.
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (committee member),
Prof. John S. McClure (committee member),
Prof. Sohee Park (Committee Chair),
Prof. Volney P. Gay (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: personality; neurocognitive; psychosis-proneness; interdisciplinary; case studies; temperament; outcome; sensitivity; sensation-seeking; Highly Sensitive Persons; HSP; Elaine Aron; integrative; noesis; phronesis; practices; suggestibility; altered states; proprioception
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APA (6th Edition):
Kreiselmaier, L. R. (2016). Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology". (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11164
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kreiselmaier, Laura Rosser. “Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology".” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11164.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kreiselmaier, Laura Rosser. “Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology".” 2016. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kreiselmaier LR. Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology". [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11164.
Council of Science Editors:
Kreiselmaier LR. Transliminality and Transcendence: An Exploration of the Connections among Creativity, Mystical Experience, and Psycho"pathology". [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11164
Vanderbilt University
9.
Ka, Yohan.
A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2008, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14065
► This project provides a concrete theory and effective theological model of spiritual and psychological development for contemporary Korean Christians. Three interconnected major challenges of Korean…
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▼ This project provides a concrete theory and effective theological model of spiritual and psychological development for contemporary Korean Christians. Three interconnected major challenges of Korean spiritual and psychological development are presented and investigated: the challenge of narcissism and the formation of the self; the challenge of religious and cultural identity formation; and the challenge of the embodiment of religious beliefs and practices. Strengths and weaknesses of a popular model, James W. Fowler’s faith development theory (FDT) are also carefully and critically reviewed and evaluated concerning current situation in the Korean church and society.
In developing a theory and model, this dissertation engages in serious psychoanalytic, anthropological, theological explorations in order to correct, complement, and embellish FDT. Key concepts such as selfobject, friendship, communitas, habitus, jeong, grace, and sanctification are introduced and explored in depth. Among these terms, jeong and grace have particularly deeper cultural and theological meanings as the energy for lifelong spiritual and psychological development.
In this dissertation, I argue that the dynamics of jeong and grace in dialectic divine-human, and human-human relationships are necessary for Korean spiritual and psychological development, and propose a long-term small group dynamic model within the faith community as an ideal matrix for the formation of the self, identity, and change of daily practices. The proposed model is the harmonious combination of group spiritual discipline and psychotherapy, and provides the experiences of egalitarian, intimate dynamics to those of family members or friends where participants can grow with energy of grace and jeong.
This dissertation claims the need for a faith community as a foundation for small groups and a bridge between small groups and the wider society. The ultimate goal of spiritual and psychological development is the interplay of personal growth and communal and social transformation.
Advisors/Committee Members: M. Douglas Meeks (committee member), Beth Ann Conklin (committee member), Volney P. Gay (committee member), McLemore%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: grace; friendship; jeong; habitus; selfobject
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APA (6th Edition):
Ka, Y. (2008). A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14065
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ka, Yohan. “A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14065.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ka, Yohan. “A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community.” 2008. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Ka Y. A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2008. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14065.
Council of Science Editors:
Ka Y. A Model of Spiritual and Psychological Development: A Korean Wesleyan Perspective on the Significance of Community. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14065
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Campbell-Reed, Eileen Renee.
Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2008, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13475
► In the early 1960s the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entered a period of conflict and change including disputes over biblical interpretation and women’s ordination. The…
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▼ In the early 1960s the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entered a period of conflict and change including disputes over biblical interpretation and women’s ordination. The Biblicist and Autonomist parties emerged and struggled for control between 1979 and 1990, and the conflict eventuated in a schism of the SBC. Recent studies portray women’s ordination as a primary cause of the split. However, the lives and experiences of clergywomen have rarely been studied as a viable source for interpreting the religious conflict. This dissertation challenges the oversight and asks: How can the narratives of Baptist clergywomen interpret the fracture of America’s largest Protestant denomination? As a project of practical theology, the study makes its case by exploring the two intertwined situations: the rise of Baptist women in ministry and the schism of the denomination. The study argues that between 1920 and 1960 Baptists negotiated tensions of belief and practice, as described by Bill Leonard. Between 1960 and 2000 the intertwined stories of SBC schism and women’s ordination escalated and polarized those tensions. Narratives from eight Baptist clergywomen, gathered in ethnographic interviews, are analyzed for ways they reinterpret the key Baptist concept of “soul competency,” which holds in tension the dialectical authorities of the Bible and the individual’s liberty of conscience. The theological anthropology of Edward Farley and object relations theories of D.W. Winnicott and Jessica Benjamin are utilized to expose the underlying anatomy of soul competency, highlighting its flexibility and durability. Clergywomen reinterpret soul competency by rejecting its effective history of sexism, and incorporating their experiences and vocations. Their reinterpretation shows how Baptist beliefs and practices of soul competency withstand conflict and change individually and institutionally. Clergywomen’s choices to remain Baptist in the face of widespread opposition, demonstrate how late-twentieth century Baptist culture was not only a site of contest, hostility and division, but also one of clarity, creativity and freedom. Rather than being merely a cause of schism, clergywomen are better understood as exemplars of the changing shape of Baptist identity, creators of new roles for women in Baptist life, and innovators for understanding ministerial identity in the Baptist culture.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bill J. Leonard, PhD (committee member), Kathleen Flake, PhD (committee member), James P. Byrd, PhD (committee member), Deborah Wells Rowe, PhD (committee member), Mary McClintock Fulkerson, PhD (committee member), McLemore%2C%20PhD%22%29&pagesize-30">
Bonnie J.
Miller-
McLemore, PhD (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: twentieth century Baptists; object relations theory; Biblicist; southern baptist controversy; theological anthropology; ethnographic interviews; Autonomist; Baptist clergywomen
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APA (6th Edition):
Campbell-Reed, E. R. (2008). Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13475
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Campbell-Reed, Eileen Renee. “Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13475.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Campbell-Reed, Eileen Renee. “Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention.” 2008. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Campbell-Reed ER. Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2008. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13475.
Council of Science Editors:
Campbell-Reed ER. Anatomy of a schism: how clergywomen’s narratives interpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13475
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