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Davis, Joshua Bradley.
Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2010, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-04152010-131547/ 
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► This dissertation isolates and analyzes the different historical approaches to the systematic theological problem of the union of the doctrines of creation and grace. I…
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▼ This dissertation isolates and analyzes the different historical approaches to the systematic theological problem of the union of the doctrines of creation and grace. I argue that the history of Western theologyâs grappling with the problem of this unity is oriented by the unique status of the will as distinct from the intellect and desire, and ordered toward the positive, ethical affirmation of otherness. I make the case for this claim through an archaeological investigation of the Roman Catholic and Protestant paradigms for uniting these doctrines, noting how each paradigm arises out of the two conflicting impulses of Augustineâs early doctrine of creation and his mature theology of grace. I contend that it is only with a clear apprehension of the nature of the will, in distinction from intellection and desire, and an irreducible orientation toward the positive affirmation of otherness that the unity of creation and grace can be coherently thought. I further insist that the discussion of that unity must be reconstructed in light of this fact. I conclude with my own programmatic sketch for what such a reconstruction must look like.
Advisors/Committee Members: John J. Thatamanil (committee member), J. Patout Burns (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Paul J. DeHart (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Henri de Lubac; Karl Rahner; Karl Barth; Friedrich Schleiermacher; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; creation; grace; the supernatural
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Davis, J. B. (2010). Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-04152010-131547/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Davis, Joshua Bradley. “Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-04152010-131547/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davis, Joshua Bradley. “Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.” 2010. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Davis JB. Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-04152010-131547/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Davis JB. Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-04152010-131547/ ;
Vanderbilt University
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Davis, Carolyn Jane.
Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2014, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222014-191454/
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► This dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy…
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▼ This dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian sexual rhetoric that highlights the role of sexual control and discipline in the interest of social stability. I contend that Protestant sexuality education curricula tend to use theological language as an ideological cipher, often serving as an endorsement for the vocation of married, middle-class American life advanced through political and market discourse. Adolescent sexual desire is often presented as risky mainly for its potential to destabilize this idealized future. Such paradigms fail to provide young people, and especially LGBTQ youth, with resources to make productive meaning of their sexualities in light of religious commitments and practices. In search of theological foundations more attentive to the diverse lived experiences of young people, I offer a constructive response grounded in feminist retrievals of eros and Christian pneumatology. Chiefly, I propose that faith-based sexuality education is best grounded within broader reflections on desire, justice, and care for the vulnerable.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ellen T. Armour (chair), Bonnie Miller-McLemore (committee member), M. Douglas Meeks (committee member), Bruce T. Morrill (committee member), Mark D. Jordan (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: theology; feminist theology; adolescence; sexuality; sexuality education; Christianity
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Davis, C. J. (2014). Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222014-191454/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Davis, Carolyn Jane. “Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222014-191454/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davis, Carolyn Jane. “Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.” 2014. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Davis CJ. Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222014-191454/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Davis CJ. Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222014-191454/ ;
Vanderbilt University
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Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn.
Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2015, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232015-094404/
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► In recent decades, feminist exegesis has had a profound and wide-ranging effect on biblical studies. Many scholars have treated the accounts of Jael in Judges…
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▼ In recent decades, feminist exegesis has had a profound and wide-ranging effect on biblical studies. Many scholars have treated the accounts of Jael in Judges 4 and 5 from a feminist perspective, examining the interplay of gender and violence in the story. Other scholars have done similar work for the Book of Judith, and a handful have taken a feminist look at Pseudo-Philoâs reimagining of Jael in Biblical Antiquities. In the last few years, a small number of scholars have begun to look at one or the other of these stories through the lens of queer theory. To date, however, no one has undertaken a systematic study, both text-centered and deeply engaged with queer-theoretical frameworks, of the motif of the woman-turned-warrior in ancient Jewish literature.
This dissertation asks how the character of Judith and the two different portrayals of Jael play with the signifiers of gender and sexuality, also researching possible parallels for this play in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman literature. I also ask how gender interacts with the tone and goals of each book. I show that Judith and both Jaels were characters who did not closely resemble the feminine ideal of their time periods. I argue that âputting onâ the gender âfemaleâ and playing with the signs of womenâs sexuality allowed these characters to get in position to slay their respective enemies. In other words, their efficacy as assassins is directly tied to their performance of the feminine.
This project advances the scholarship on Judith and the two Jaels regarding how gender and sexuality factor into the portrayals of the main characters and the resolution of their stories. More broadly, it provides a new understanding of how the âwoman warriorâ motif plays with conventional notions of sex and gender. Feminist interpretation has helped bring these characters out of the shadows, but it has not gone far enough. I employ promising methods of analysis derived from queer theoretical frameworks to shine new light on three strong female characters from the Hebrew Bible and the early days of Jewish literature.
Advisors/Committee Members: Douglas A. Knight (committee member), Jack M. Sasson (committee member), Annalisa Azzoni (committee member), Herbert R. Marbury (committee member), David J. Wasserstein (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: women in the Bible; Biblical Antiquities; Pseudo-Philo; Book of Judges; Jael; Judith; Second Temple literature; queer theory; Hebrew Bible
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Tamber-Rosenau, C. (2015). Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232015-094404/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn. “Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232015-094404/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn. “Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.” 2015. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Tamber-Rosenau C. Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232015-094404/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Tamber-Rosenau C. Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232015-094404/ ;
Vanderbilt University
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Ringer, Christophe Darro.
Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2014, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03212014-113806/
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► This project analyzes the religious situation of mass incarceration in America. I employ the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz to investigate the deeply sedimented meanings…
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▼ This project analyzes the religious situation of mass incarceration in America. I employ the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz to investigate the deeply sedimented meanings that legitimate and rationalize mass incarceration as an enduring formation of social power. These meanings are interpreted within our religious situation, which is the political economy that sustains life and the social relationships that give it meaning. These meanings are also traced genealogically to disclose their presence within the religious depth of America, its civil religion. Orlando Pattersonâs social death, Abdul JanMohamedâs death-bound-subject and Michelle Alexanderâs the New Jim Crow are three images I employ to interpret the religions situation of mass incarceration. These images reveal the role of political economy in the organization of the power of death, a necropolitics that occasions mass incarceration. The study has also disclosed possibilities of hope and the affirmation of life within the structures of death that constitute mass incarceration.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lewis V. Baldwin (committee member), Stacey Floyd-Thomas (committee member), Volney P. Gay (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Victor Anderson (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: civil religion; mass incarceration; New Jim Crow; death-bound-subject; social death; religious situation; necropolitics
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Ringer, C. D. (2014). Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03212014-113806/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ringer, Christophe Darro. “Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03212014-113806/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ringer, Christophe Darro. “Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.” 2014. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Ringer CD. Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03212014-113806/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Ringer CD. Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03212014-113806/ ;
Vanderbilt University
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Ellis, Daryl Tad.
Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11172016-132059/
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► This dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground…
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▼ This dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground the âselfâ circularly through an act of epistemic reflection (e.g. Descartes) or a priori presupposition (e.g. Kant). It does so by constructively resourcing two intellectual traditions: (1) the Augustinian/Thomist synthesis and particularly its meta-physical framework for specifying the exitus-reditus structure of creation, the human soul and the interrelated diversity of its vertically layered powers of apprehension (viz. knowledge) and appetite (viz. desire), and the varieties of intensive and extroverted unity that characterize human existence as deficient similitudes of Godâs simplicity and (2) the metapsychology of Sigmund Freud and particularly his discovery of a human capacity through which we unconsciously identify with certain sense-perceptions such that they are perceived in terms of a pre-reflective wholeness that eludes the subject/object division (e.g. âI am the breastâ). The resulting argument is that egoic self-consciousness emerges as an act of identification that slowly condenses around âourâ bodies following the painful disruption of our archaic identification with the maternal body. For as long as this act endures it produces the pre-reflective wholeness that we later signify reflectively and epistemically: âI am this body.â Furthermore, this theorization can be synthesized with an Augustinian/Thomist anthropology as a distinct identifying âlayerâ of the soulâcomplete with an apprehensive and appetitive powerâthat stands âbetweenâ the sensitive and intellectual layers of the soul. The resulting anthropology yields a maximally orderly ac-count of the developmental, created, and teleological relation between self-consciousness, the powers of the soul, and the varieties of unity in human existence. When situated in this manner, self-consciousness can be understood alongside three other analogous types of intensive unityâthe soul, self-knowledge, and the vertical alignment of our appetitesâall of which are deficiently similar to the intelligible whence and whither of all creation: the absolute intensive simplicity of the divine essence.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bruce Morrill (committee member), Bruce L. McCormack (committee member), J. Patout Burns (committee member), Paul J. DeHart (chair), Ellen T. Armour (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Sigmund Freud; Augustine of Hippo; Thomas Aquinas; knowledge; desire; self-consciousness; theological anthropology
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Ellis, D. T. (2016). Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11172016-132059/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ellis, Daryl Tad. “Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11172016-132059/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ellis, Daryl Tad. “Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.” 2016. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Ellis DT. Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11172016-132059/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Ellis DT. Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-11172016-132059/ ;
Vanderbilt University
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Todd, Asante Uzuri.
The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04272016-162856/
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► Dissertation under the direction of Dr. Victor Anderson: The one and the many has been the perennial philosophical problem from Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas to…
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▼ Dissertation under the direction of Dr. Victor Anderson:
The one and the many has been the perennial philosophical problem from Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas to H. Richard Niebuhrâs classic, Radical Monotheism and Western Culture. This dissertation tracks sovereignty as a political symbol throughout modern Western political theory. It begins with the early modern writings of French theorist Jean Bodin (1530-1596) and English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), both of whom embraced monarchial views of sovereignty. It then tracks the four-fold transmigration of the discourse on political sovereignty, which rests next on âthe peopleâ in the theories of John Locke (1632-1704) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). With Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and GWF Hegel (1770-1831) sovereignty comes to nest in the authority of âreasonâ, which itself mutates from a self-limiting process for the sake of unity into a totalizing metaphysical entity. Finally, sovereignty comes to rest on âthe dictatorâ for German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and nationalist âideologyâ for German political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).
This dissertation finds that sovereignty is justified by two doctrines in Western canonical discourse: that of âthe state of natureâ and âthe political body.â The state of nature is a figure of speech, a primordial myth that has been taken literally, and the political symbol of the âpolitical bodyâ is mimetically derived from oneâs view on nature. Thinking on the state of nature conditions thinking on the political body, and thus the state of nature becomes the central theme for how one thinks about sovereignty. This dissertation finds that Hobbesâ doctrine of the state of nature has become hegemonic in the discourse on sovereignty, and that his doctrines of the state of nature and the body politic have problematic enduring cultural-historical effects, especially for African Americans and the worldâs poor. The conclusion proposes implications of this migratory narrative of sovereignty from monarchialism to ideology in light of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agambenâs discourse on the âstate of exceptionâ and African American cultural critic Cornel Westâs description of the new American imperialism.
This dissertation attacks the âsecularization thesisâ about sovereignty, where according to theologians such as Anglian thinker John Milbank (1952), sovereignty has is legitimated by a heterodox theology (Theology and Social Theory, 1990, 2006). The discourse on sovereignty is necessarily embedded in political-theological discourse. Thus political theologians bear a great responsibility for the history of effects and consequences of sovereignty as the ideology of totality and power in the twenty-first century. In this sense the dissertation is prolegomena to an African American political theology in the state of exception (Agamben) and the henotheism of the market forces of aggressive militarism (where might makes right), free-market fundamentalism (an unfettered, deregulated market, even at the expense of public…
Advisors/Committee Members: Victor Anderson (chair), Ellen T. Armour, Ph.D. (committee member), Stacey Floyd-Thomas (committee member), Theodore A. Smith (committee member), Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: political theology; black theology; liberalism; civic republicanism; sovereignty; public theology
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Todd, A. U. (2016). The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04272016-162856/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Todd, Asante Uzuri. “The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04272016-162856/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Todd, Asante Uzuri. “The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology.” 2016. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Todd AU. The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04272016-162856/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Todd AU. The One and the Many: A Discourse Analysis on Sovereignty in Liberal Civic Republicanism with Prospects for an African American Political Theology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04272016-162856/ ;
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Newell, Zo Margaret.
Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2011, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232011-101111/
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► STUDY OF RELIGION PICTURING THE GODDESS: BAZAAR IMAGES AND THE IMAGINATION OF MODERN HINDU RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Zo Newell Thesis under the direction of Prof. Richard…
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▼ STUDY OF RELIGION
PICTURING THE GODDESS: BAZAAR IMAGES AND THE IMAGINATION OF MODERN HINDU RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
Zo Newell
Thesis under the direction of Prof. Richard J. McGregor
This project inquires into the role of visual print technology in the construction of a pan-Indian sense of religious identity at the end of the colonial era. I take as my starting point the statement by Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta that "a real HinduÂ" is someone who has, and worships, pictures of deities – specifically, pictures of the mother goddess – and proceed to the phenomenological and historical consideration of a selected set of images. I argue that these images represent deep-rooted cultural symbols of a narrative through which a loosely-related "family" of indigenous practices came to be imagined by its practitioners as a cohesive and inclusive religion, in contradistinction to European narratives which reduced Hinduism to a form of paganism or a "colonial construction". This idea of Hinduism embraced members of all communities as "children" of Mother India. Moreover, the ubiquitous availability of inexpensive, mechanically reproduced deity made it possible for devotees of all castes and genders to worship independently of formal religious settings and specialists. I develop my arguments in conversation with Benedict Anderson's concept of nation as "imagined community"Â, Walter Benjamin's theories on art as mechanical reproduction, and Arvind Sharma's insights on dharma as a crucial category for thinking about Indian religion . Drawing on the work of Mircea Eliade and Bruce Lincoln, I argue for myth as represented visually in these images - as a form of sacred narrative which gives meaning to historical catastrophe by homologizing the individual's particular situation with cosmic reality. I apply this theory to the religious anxieties aroused, for late-nineteenth century Hindus, by the historical catastrophe of colonization. I undertake a genealogy of selected images in terms of their religious symbolism, their narratives of power and versatility as exemplified through the goddess, and their ability to inspire what Anderson calls a "broad, horizontal" sense of religious community and of communal agency in India on the cusp of independence.
Advisors/Committee Members: Richard J. McGregor (chair), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), John J. Thatamanil (committee member), Jinah Kim (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: imagined community; Hindu goddess; Indian nationalism; Hinduism; Indian colonialism; Bharat Mata
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Newell, Z. M. (2011). Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232011-101111/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Newell, Zo Margaret. “Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232011-101111/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Newell, Zo Margaret. “Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.” 2011. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Newell ZM. Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232011-101111/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Newell ZM. Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03232011-101111/ ;
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Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise.
Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2011, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07212011-110912/
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► In this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tannerâs way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific…
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▼ In this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tannerâs way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific modes of Christian discourse (everyday theologies) and more specialized, coherent, systematic modes (academic theologies) compete and cooperate with each other. To bring this model to life in practice, I develop a form of self-implicated ethnography, grounded in the reflexive ethnographic methods of Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant. This self-implicated form of ethnography offers a complementary alternative to the traditional ethnographic modes of participant observation that have typically been used by theologians. In particular, I contrast my theological ethnographic methods with those employed by Mary McClintock Fulkerson.
The form of self-implicated ethnography I develop here deployed a loose, performative integration of my own competing and cohering roles as both minister and academic theologian within my community of study (First Baptist Church, Nashville). Specifically, in order to perform this loose integration of my competing and cohering roles, my fieldwork primarily consisted in teaching two adult education theology courses: âTopics in Theology: Jesus Christ and Salvationâ and âTopics in Theology: God as Trinity.â By teaching these two courses, I sought to guide a process by which everyday and academic theologies were brought together in a shared conversational process. And this conversational process was comprised of a community of people speaking various theological fluencies in order to pursue wisdom together.
Advisors/Committee Members: Paul DeHart (committee member), Ted A. Smith (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (chair), Graham Reside (committee member), John Thatamanil (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu; Loic Wacquant; Mary McClintock Fulkerson; Kathryn Tanner; ecclesiology; Baptist Studies; adult education; Southern Baptist; identity; agency; habitus
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Wigg-Stevenson, N. L. (2011). Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07212011-110912/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise. “Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07212011-110912/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise. “Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.” 2011. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Wigg-Stevenson NL. Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07212011-110912/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Wigg-Stevenson NL. Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07212011-110912/ ;
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Corbin, Christopher Wesley.
Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2017, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05312017-004726/
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► Samuel Taylor Coleridge has long been considered one of the most important literary figures from English Romanticism. In recent years, he has increasingly been recognized…
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▼ Samuel Taylor Coleridge has long been considered one of the most important literary figures from English Romanticism. In recent years, he has increasingly been recognized as an important figure for philosophy and theology as well. Using a model of religious identity that looks beyond formal belief and practice to include a constellation of âculturalâ features as well, one can locate Coleridgeâs religious affiliation in the landscape of religious movements and identities in late 18th and early 19th century Britain. When one looks to Coleridgeâs doctrinal and theological emphases, one sees the elevated importance of original sin, the human need for divine grace through justification by faith alone, the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, and a moderate view of divine election. Looking to the broader elements of his âreligious culture,â one finds in Coleridgeâs work modes of piety, literary genres, a view of the church, an understanding of Baptism, and polemical opponents that were also common to second generation, moderate Anglican Evangelicals. The explicit theology and doctrine found in Coleridgeâs published and unpublished writings, as well as the markers of his religious cultural identity, demonstrate that he very likely became some form of moderate Anglican Evangelical by the time he died.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Paul J. DeHart (chair), Dr. Paul C.H. Lim (committee member), Dr. Bruce T. Morrill (committee member), Dr. Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Dr. Colin Jager (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Methodism; Romanticism; Theology; Eighteenth Century
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APA (6th Edition):
Corbin, C. W. (2017). Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05312017-004726/ ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Corbin, Christopher Wesley. “Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed December 15, 2019.
http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05312017-004726/ ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Corbin, Christopher Wesley. “Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.” 2017. Web. 15 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Corbin CW. Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 15].
Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05312017-004726/ ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Corbin CW. Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05312017-004726/ ;
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