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A prophet unwelcome : motive magazine, the Methodist Student Movement, and midcentury Methodism.
(2017-04-20)motive magazine (1941-1972) was the official magazine of the Methodist Student Movement and, for several of its final years, for the University Christian Movement as well. Controversial from the beginning, motive stood ... -
Abram Ryan, Orestes Brownson, and American Catholics during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
(2017-07-26)This thesis explores how American Catholics reacted to the Civil War and Reconstruction and how those reactions influenced Protestant perceptions of Catholics. Orestes Brownson, a famous Northern convert, polemicist, and ... -
“AD MAJORDEM DEI GLORIAM": Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Michael Novak & Catholic Identity in Crisis in Mid-Twentieth Century America
(2018-07-20)The 1960s were a time of great change in terms of Catholic identity and its relationship to American culture and politics. The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962-1965) deeply unsettled the American Catholic Church as ... -
American Christianity in the maritime world : challenges to faith in the early national period.
(, 2012-08-08)The stereotypical eighteenth-century sailor was a superstitious man with little concern for Christianity. While it is true that most mariners at this time practiced a syncretic faith, historians have minimized the influence ... -
An examination of English Catholic preaching under Queen Mary I, 1553-1558.
(2020-08-03)An examination of English printed sermons during the reign of Queen Mary I, showing their similarities to other Catholic Reformation sermons and demonstrating their place in the evolution of English homiletics. -
An examination of women’s piety as depicted in medieval and early modern stained glass.
(2016-07-29)This thesis explores the impact of gender and religious piety on expressions of women’s agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Chapter One introduces Oxfordshire stained glass as the area of inquiry, with the ... -
Asad’s Syria : the key to the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1984.
(2019-04-17)Syrian President Hafez al-Asad strove to lead Arab resistance against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. When Egypt made peace with Israel in the 1970s, Asad had an opportunity to assume the leadership position Egypt vacated. ... -
August Sebelin's Civil War : a German sailor in the Union Navy, 1861-1865.
(, 2011-12-19)From 1861-1865, the United States of America was in the grip of a civil war. It was fought on land and at sea. One participant was August Sebelin, a young German sailor. Sebelin entered the war to enhance his navigational ... -
Between isolation and engagement : the history of the Dutch Calvinist school movement in the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada.
(2010-06-23)Over 200,000 Dutch immigrants have settled in Canada since the end of World War II. The Dutch Calvinists within this larger body have largely maintained their distinct religious and ethnic identities through the establishment ... -
Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
(, 2013-09-24)The nineteenth-century American physiological reform movement was deeply religious. While historians have noted the moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers’ dietary recommendations, few have examined ... -
Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects.
(, 2012-11-29)This thesis examines the relationship between Gaius (Caligula) and his Jewish subjects via unrest in Alexandria and the emperor’s decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius ... -
Confederate empire and the Indian treaties : Pike, McCulloch, and the Five Civilized Tribes, 1861-1862.
(2011-05-12)From its beginning, the Confederacy looked to expand in power and territory by courting the Five Civilized Tribes away from the United States. To accomplish this, the Confederacy sent an unlikely pair of ambassadors: ... -
Crossing the color line.
(, 2011-09-14)Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part of American History. There is a rich field of scholars discussing the experiences of interracial couples from Colonial America through ... -
Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
(2017-03-27)The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply “prohibition,” has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist “drys” overcame anti-prohibitionists “wets” ... -
Defining the Christian college : the Council of Church Boards of Education and American religious higher education, 1911–1950.
(2018-04-17)This thesis explores competing definitions of the “Christian” college in the early twentieth-century United States, particularly as articulated by mainline Protestants in two national organizations: the ecumenical Council ... -
Dissension within the Confederacy : the Tenth Legislature of Texas during the U.S. – C.S. War.
(2014-10-29)At the time that Texas’ Tenth Legislature began their session in the autumn of 1863, the war between the United States and the Confederacy was in its third year. The Eighth and Ninth Legislatures worked to respond to the ... -
Educating the Protestant International : the influence of Halle Pietism in eighteenth-century charity education.
(2020-07-02)Scholars have accepted the general influence of August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism among English-speaking Protestant groups in the eighteenth century. One of the institutional byproducts of Francke’s influence was ... -
Evangelical Jeremiads and consuming Eves : the relationship of religion and consumerism in Eighteenth-Century Colonial America.
(2015-07-28)This thesis examines the commercial world of the American British colonies from the Great Awakening to the American Revolution through the lens of eighteenth century American religious history. It examines evangelical and ... -
The forest : a history of ideas : the movement for civil rights in suburban Madison, New Jersey 1955-1970.
(, 2013-05-15)The ideas emergent from the movement for civil rights in the American South transformed suburban Madison, New Jersey, and its nearby townships in the span of one generation. Protests burgeoned from the largely one-dimensional, ... -
The Freedmen's Bureau schools in McLennan County, Texas.
(2011-05-12)The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established by the War Department on March 3, 1865, in an effort to provide relief to the 4,000,000 slaves emancipated at the end of the Civil War. From the beginning, ...