This thesis will look at Canadian Pentecostalism in order to understand the interplay between religious identity, theology, and socio-cultural context in the formation of faith-based social concerns. Although attempts to ...

This thesis, in a novel interdisciplinary fashion, examines The United Church of Canada (UCC) from a social-psychological framework of Social Identity Theory and Categorization. Focusing on four broad ingroup-outgroup case ...

I examine seasons one to three of Westworld to extract specific ideas of gender using the characters Dolores and Maeve as primary figures for analysis. I argue that the show uses ideas of creation and gender that ...

The ancient texts found at Nag Hammadi have been studied by the leading scholars in the field of textual analysis. Included in Nag Hammadi was The Gospel of Thomas, which has also undergone significant critical and historical ...

This study engages the conversations between religion and ecology, and contributes two points to this conversation. Firstly, that the environment is as much constructed as it is apprehended, and religio-social understandings ...

This thesis focuses on Simone Weil’s philosophical, ethical, and religious perspectives on affliction by clarifying the essential difference between what is necessary and what is good. According to Weil, reality is governed ...

This thesis is an investigation of the image of God arising from understandings of quantum science and argues that it enhances ideas about God. It considers the significance of religious interpretations of quantum science ...

Literary critic René Girard pays special attention to the work of Friedrich Nietzsche in his writing. His assessment is generally negative, and those writers who have participated in Girard‘s project tend to share that ...

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 ...