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1. McCullough , Amy Peed. Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2012, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11034

► RELIGION HER PREACHING BODY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN MEANING, AGENCY AND PROCLAMATION IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE PREACHERS AMY P. MCCULLOUGH Dissertation under the direction of Professor… (more)

▼ RELIGION HER PREACHING BODY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN MEANING, AGENCY AND PROCLAMATION IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE PREACHERS AMY P. MCCULLOUGH Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ted A. Smith While homiletics has long recognized the importance of the preacher’s body, its theories have been dominated by prescriptive advice about best postures, voices and movements. Scholarship has also been governed by an assent to the male preaching body amid an increasingly diverse field of preaching bodies. Consequently, the actual body of the preacher awaits full examination as an essential resource for preaching. This dissertation seeks an exploration of the preacher’s body by beginning with the preacher’s experience of her body as she prepares to and does preach. It assumes a phenomenological foundation based on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in which meaning always emerges from a person’s perceiving, acting body or their “being in the world.” Fourteen contemporary female preachers participated in a qualitative study focused on the decisions they made about their bodies in relation to their preaching. Through interviews and one-on-one observations, the preachers revealed their choices around clothing, accessories, preaching posture, voice and movement. They shared stories of preaching amid pregnancies and with the challenges of a chronic disease. To analyze their choices, the researcher employed a lived body approach. The lived body theory defines embodiment as the complex and evolving interaction of an individual’s materiality, culture and agency. Believing we are our bodies whenever we preach, this study pushed towards uncovering the meaning preachers assigned to and discovered in their embodied preaching decisions. At the outset, this dissertation was concerned with agency. The researcher hoped to gain insight into how women encountered bodily constraints and labored towards bodily freedom. While freedom and constraint were not without value, deeper insights emerged in how a preacher grasped the knowledge within her body and came to understand herself as an embodied being. A preacher’s recognition of the embodied nature of all life, which contains both depth and contradiction, heightened her capacity to view embodiment as a tool for proclamation. The move towards self-conscious and intentional embodiment calls for changes in how homiletics conceives of a fully embodied sermon and how homileticians teach preaching. Advisors/Committee Members: Robin M. Jensen (committee member), John McClure (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Ted A. Smith (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: body; female preachers; preaching

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McCullough , A. P. (2012). Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11034

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

McCullough , Amy Peed. “Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11034.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

McCullough , Amy Peed. “Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers.” 2012. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

McCullough AP. Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11034.

Council of Science Editors:

McCullough AP. Her Preaching Body: A Qualitative Study of Agency, Meaning and Proclamation in Contemporary Female Preachers. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11034

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2. Newell, Zo Margaret. Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2011, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11111

► 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… (more)

▼ 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 Hindu " 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" , 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: Ellen T. Armour (committee member), John J. Thatamanil (committee member), Jinah Kim (committee member), Richard J. McGregor (Committee Chair).

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/11111

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Newell, Zo Margaret. “Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11111.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Newell, Zo Margaret. “Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Newell ZM. Picturing the Goddess: Bazaar Images and the Imagination of Modern Hindu Religious Identity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11111.

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/11111

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3. Alekseyeva, Alexandra. Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel.

Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2018, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15495

► The aim of this dissertation is to define and defend a viable concept of ideology. I seek to do this by situating myself within the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Social Pathology; Spinoza; Hegel; Ideology; Desire

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Alekseyeva, A. (2018). Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15495

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Alekseyeva, Alexandra. “Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15495.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Alekseyeva, Alexandra. “Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel.” 2018. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Alekseyeva A. Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15495.

Council of Science Editors:

Alekseyeva A. Rethinking Ideology from Spinoza to Hegel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15495

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4. Bostow, Raquelle Kathleen. Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies.

Degree: PhD, French, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15502

► This study explores the depiction of female bodies in three works of francophone literature in the late 20th and 21st centuries: Standard (2014) by Nina… (more)

▼ This study explores the depiction of female bodies in three works of francophone literature in the late 20th and 21st centuries: Standard (2014) by Nina Bouraoui, Sitt Marie Rose (1977) by Etel Adnan, and La répudiée (2000) by Eliette Abécassis. The specific thesis of my work is that the main characters of study—Marlène, Marie-Rose, and Rachel—are portrayed as both dangerous and endangered, a characterization that is intrinsically tied to societal expectations for female anatomy and feminine gender. Through this dangerous/endangered paradigm, I assert that their imagined capacity to cause harm ultimately places them in figurative and literal states of danger. While the novels under study address vastly different narratives about sexual relations, each furthers the exploration of the dangerous/endangered paradigm through the myth of Medusa. I use the Roman account of the Medusa myth, and French author Hélène Cixous’s poetic rewriting of it, while critically examining how other layers of identity, including race, religion, and nationality, inform the depiction of the mythical Medusa and these “dangerous” female characters in their respective textual environments. Using primarily the lenses of Hélène Cixous’s writing on sexual difference from 1975 to 2015 and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic notion of the “abject,” I examine the dangerous/endangered paradigm in various contexts: a contemporary Parisian suburb, the postcolonial intra-state war of Lebanon, and an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Israel. By emphasizing the Medusa myth and Cixous’s rehabilitation of it, I insist on the contemporary pertinence of Medusa as a representation of death that continues to pose a danger to masculine identities. Through Cixous’s writings on sexual difference, which I also explore as “queer,” I argue that the female characters in this dissertation challenge rigid, patriarchal conceptualizations of sexual difference. Ultimately, I accentuate that Medusa’s resilience has roots within her etymology, which Cixous highlights in a 2015 interview: in the M-E-D, there is a female body that demands justice, and that thinks, criticizes, and meditates. Advisors/Committee Members: Paul B. Miller (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (committee member), Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: women's studies; gender studies; francophone literature

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Bostow, R. K. (2017). Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15502

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bostow, Raquelle Kathleen. “Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15502.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bostow, Raquelle Kathleen. “Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Bostow RK. Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15502.

Council of Science Editors:

Bostow RK. Dangerous and Endangered: Female Bodies in Contemporary French Studies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15502

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5. Daniels, Brandy Renee. Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12644

► Examining the turn to practices in contemporary theological method, a trend that has its roots in postliberalism but has become common in feminist theology, this… (more)

▼ Examining the turn to practices in contemporary theological method, a trend that has its roots in postliberalism but has become common in feminist theology, this dissertation identifies and challenges the ways in which methodology and ethics function together teleologically in accounts of formation, as methodological-ethical frameworks, in ways that undermine these accounts’ aims of inclusion/faithful community amidst difference. More specifically, this project explores the claims and ramifications of this methodological-ethical turn to, on, and for non-normative gender and sexuality, turning to two feminist theological accounts of formation (Sarah Coakley, Serene Jones) as case studies. Placing theological analyses of postliberal methodology in conversation with queer theoretical reflections on temporality, this project argues that, and explores how, temporality, teleology, and normativity are marshalled together in methodological-ethical frameworks in ways that undermine their aims and that produce and reify formational processes that ultimately undermine gender and sexual difference, as a particular vision of normative religious identity functions as the telos that other markers of difference are assimilated into or subordinated to. This dissertation argues that these feminist methodological-ethical frameworks of formation function according to what queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz names as straight time, and in doing so, they obscure and fail to fully contend with negative subjectivizing effects of positive identity formation within the sphere of Christian formation, limited epistemic access on theological grounds (anthropology, eschatology) and how such limits might impact a stable telos of flourishing, and that they thus foreclose on the theological and ethical possibilities of and in un-formation. Placing queer insights on sociality and ideals alongside theological reflections on these themes, this project ultimately seeks to wrest these accounts of identity, community, and formation from “straight time,” and proposes an alternate frame, an anti-telos, of belonging in difference. This dissertation argue that an ethical-methodological account of formation that engenders flourishing approaches “the future” not by asking “how do we secure or obtain it?” but rather, “who is the ‘we’ that make up and enact it?” Advisors/Committee Members: Paul DeHart (committee member), Kent Brintnall (committee member), Laurel Schneider (committee member), C. Melissa Snarr (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: Serene Jones; feminist theology; formation; queer temporality; theological methodology; Sarah Coakley

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Daniels, B. R. (2017). Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12644

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Daniels, Brandy Renee. “Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12644.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Daniels, Brandy Renee. “Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Daniels BR. Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12644.

Council of Science Editors:

Daniels BR. Who's the "We?" Futurity and the Formation of Spiritual and Sexual Subjectivities. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12644

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6. Cook, Hubert Alexander. Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative.

Degree: PhD, English, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15488

► Literary scholarship has proceeded with the assumption that empathy is a moral achievement. This assumption has hidden not just the elaborate process wherein one projects… (more)

▼ Literary scholarship has proceeded with the assumption that empathy is a moral achievement. This assumption has hidden not just the elaborate process wherein one projects one’s own feelings into an object of identification but also the implications of that projection. “Empathy’s Dark Labor” challenges the assumption that empathy is a moral category by reading this notion in the historical and cultural context of work by U.S. black writers of the late nineteenth century. It holds that empathy is a process that commodifies its object and is better understood through the grammars of capital. To make visible this revision of empathy, this study pays close attention to the writing careers of Ida B. Wells, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois from 1892 to 1905, a period in which knowledge about black persons was increasingly managed on the written page. It argues that the brutal history of U.S. slavery—one rife with the violent commodification of black bodies, where others determined the fate of black lives—made black writers wary of subjecting black personhood to narrative exploitation as well. These writers transformed their narrative style and their practice in order to rebuff any further abuse to black persons. Their métier became to move the text away from being an easy-access site that prepared and packaged black bodies for commodification to one that permitted them to instruct their readers differently about black persons, especially at the safe distance that reading permits. This study analyzes these writers’ usually unexamined letters—their notes to publishers, advocates, and mentors; their journal entries; and manuscripts in progress—to show that they were attempting to tutor their readers in how to regard black bodies and persons with nuance and an assumption of complexity. To undertake their work, the writers examined rejected, or at times exploited, the emotional identification a text presumes from its reader and strategically adopted the seemingly impersonal use of facts—statistics, citations, capital, international cartographies, and percentages to portray black persons. Advisors/Committee Members: Vera M. Kutzinski (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Hortense J. Spillers (committee member), Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: Progressive Era reader response; literature; empathy; black subjects

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Cook, H. A. (2017). Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15488

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cook, Hubert Alexander. “Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15488.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cook, Hubert Alexander. “Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Cook HA. Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15488.

Council of Science Editors:

Cook HA. Empathy’s Dark Labor: Feeling, Fact, and the Black Subject in Late Nineteenth Century Black Narrative. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15488

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7. Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise. Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2011, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13377

► In this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tanner’s way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific… (more)

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/13377

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise. “Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13377.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Louise. “Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Wigg-Stevenson NL. Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13377.

Council of Science Editors:

Wigg-Stevenson NL. Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13377

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8. Corbin, Christopher Wesley. Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12437

► 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… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Methodism; Romanticism; Theology; Eighteenth Century

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Corbin, C. W. (2017). Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12437

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Corbin, Christopher Wesley. “Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12437.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Corbin, Christopher Wesley. “Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Corbin CW. Uniting Warmth and Light: Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Defender of Evangelical Anglican Christianity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12437.

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/12437

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9. Kars, Aydogan. Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15379

► This dissertation examines the formations, historical developments, and contextual regulations of negative speech (apophasis) in pre-modern Sufism, and its contemporary representations in Islamic Studies. The… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the formations, historical developments, and contextual regulations of negative speech (apophasis) in pre-modern Sufism, and its contemporary representations in Islamic Studies. The dissertation (i) problematizes the current approaches to apophasis and negative theologies in the study of religion, particularly in relation to Islam (Ch.1-3); (ii) constructs a genealogy of the terms “apophasis” and “negative theology” in the last two centuries (Ch.1-2); (iii) presents in-depth case studies that provide contextual analyses of Sufi performances of apophasis in the fields of theology (Ch.4-7), and mystical union (Ch.8). The first two chapters bring a fresh perspective to the field by approaching “apophasis,” and “negative theology” as second-order, scholarly categories that are not sui generis religious, critical, or mystical. This shift in perspective makes clear that contemporary studies on apophasis and negative theologies, as well as their reflections on Islamic Studies and Sufism, are in large part responses to the challenges and demands of modernity. Chapter 3 argues that “negative theology” is a blanket term that cannot distinguish between the varieties of theological questions that medieval scholars asked. I differentiate “negative theologies of the divine essence” from “negative theologies of divine attributes.” Chapters 4-to-7 introduce the formations and historical developments of four prominent negative theological positions on the divine essence that circulated among medieval Sufis. Chapter 8 examines Sufi approaches to the unio mystica in the thirteenth century, in order to display the ways in which negative speech is governed by context-specific norms and institutions. Advisors/Committee Members: Devin A. DeWeese (committee member), Lenn E. Goodman (committee member), Allen Hibbard (committee member), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), David J. Wasserstein (committee member), Richard McGregor (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: mysticism; intellectual history; apophasis; negative theology; sufism; islamic studies; islamic theology; study of religion

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Kars, A. (2016). Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15379

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kars, Aydogan. “Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15379.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kars, Aydogan. “Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Kars A. Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15379.

Council of Science Editors:

Kars A. Sufi paths of negative speech: apophasis in thirteenth century Islamic mysticism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15379

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10. 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://hdl.handle.net/1803/12231

► 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… (more)

▼ 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 Niebuhr’s 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 “the people” 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 “reason”, which itself mutates from a self-limiting process for the sake of unity into a totalizing metaphysical entity. Finally, sovereignty comes to rest on “the dictator” for German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and nationalist “ideology” for German political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). This dissertation finds that sovereignty is justified by two doctrines in Western canonical discourse: that of “the state of nature” and “the political body.” The state of nature is a figure of speech, a primordial myth that has been taken literally, and the political symbol of the “political body” is mimetically derived from one’s 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 Hobbes’ 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 world’s poor. The conclusion proposes implications of this migratory narrative of sovereignty from monarchialism to ideology in light of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s discourse on the “state of exception” and African American cultural critic Cornel West’s description of the new American imperialism. This dissertation attacks the “secularization thesis” 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: Ellen T. Armour, Ph.D. (committee member), Stacey Floyd-Thomas (committee member), Theodore A. Smith (committee member), Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (committee member), Victor Anderson (Committee Chair).

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/12231

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th 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 April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12231.

MLA Handbook (7^th 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. 14 Apr 2021.

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 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12231.

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/12231

Vanderbilt University

11. Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn. Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2015, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11129

► 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… (more)

▼ 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-Philo’s 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 “putting on” the gender “female” and playing with the signs of women’s 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 “woman warrior” 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://hdl.handle.net/1803/11129

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn. “Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11129.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn. “Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Tamber-Rosenau C. Striking Women: Performance and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11129.

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/11129

Vanderbilt University

12. Ringer, Christophe Darro. Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2014, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10995

► 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… (more)

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/10995

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ringer, Christophe Darro. “Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10995.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ringer, Christophe Darro. “Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration.” 2014. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ringer CD. Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10995.

Council of Science Editors:

Ringer CD. Necropolitics: The Religious Situation of U.S. Mass Incarceration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10995

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13. Davis, Carolyn Jane. Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2014, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11051

► 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… (more)

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/11051

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Davis, Carolyn Jane. “Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11051.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Davis, Carolyn Jane. “Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality.” 2014. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Davis CJ. Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11051.

Council of Science Editors:

Davis CJ. Aflame With Passion: Towards a Theology of Adolescent Sexuality. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11051

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14. 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://hdl.handle.net/1803/14580

► 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… (more)

▼ 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 “self” 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 God’s 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. “I am the breast”). The resulting argument is that egoic self-consciousness emerges as an act of identification that slowly condenses around “our” 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: “I am this body.” Furthermore, this theorization can be synthesized with an Augustinian/Thomist anthropology as a distinct identifying “layer” of the soul—complete with an apprehensive and appetitive power—that stands “between” 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 unity—the soul, self-knowledge, and the vertical alignment of our appetites—all 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), Ellen T. Armour (committee member), Paul J. DeHart (Committee Chair).

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/14580

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th 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 April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14580.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ellis, Daryl Tad. “Desire, Knowledge, and the Origins of Self-Consciousness: A Theological Account in Conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

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 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14580.

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/14580

Vanderbilt University

15. Davis, Joshua Bradley. Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.

Degree: PhD, Religion, 2010, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12161

► 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… (more)

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://hdl.handle.net/1803/12161

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Davis, Joshua Bradley. “Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12161.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Davis, Joshua Bradley. “Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency.” 2010. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Davis JB. Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12161.

Council of Science Editors:

Davis JB. Waiting and Being: Creation, Grace, and Agency. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12161

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