Abida Parveen, often referred to as the Queen of Sufi music, is one of the only female qawwals in a male-dominated genre. This thesis will explore her performances for Coke Studio Pakistan through the lens of gender theory. ...

This thesis examines the development of the field of Mormon studies, and the concomitant shift in authority from religious official to scholar. Scholars are continually reminded that they do not work in a vacuum. They are ...

This thesis traces the genealogy of contemporary Muslim scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s diagnosis of the environmental crisis. I argue that if one understands the thought of thirteenth century Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi’s ...