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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Religious Studies"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis examines the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist movement using the eco-contextualist approach in an attempt to address some ambiguity involved in the eco-Buddhist research field. The contextual strategy methodology, which ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Both the second century and the modern age are suspicious of the message and influence of Christianity within their respective cultures; the culture of religious pluralism and the prevailing civil religions of each time ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Euthanasia is an important political topic in contemporary Canada. Bill 52 in Quebec and the legal cases of Sue Rodriguez and Gloria Taylor demonstrate a slow societal shift towards politically accepting the practice of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-05-11)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)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. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Biomedicine and the traditional healing practices of the Mi‘kmaq are outgrowths of their respective cultural backgrounds. In the socialized biomedicial milieu of contemporary Nova Scotia this has created unique and nuanced ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-12)France was a major European imperialist country and increased its reach by colonizing many parts of Africa, Asia, North America, and the Caribbean. This brought the French into contact with different cultures and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Martin Luther struggled with the problem of how an individual could stand before God. He believed that there was nothing that an individual could do to achieve salvation. This caused Luther much torment. He remained in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Religious residential summer camps have played a unique role in the civic and religious development of young people within Canada for the past 150 years (Eells, 1986). Through the use of the theory of social capital this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This undergraduate honours thesis examines the role of contemplative and spiritual education at the Shambhala School of Halifax in the aim of developing compassionate, socially engaged citizens. Literature and field research ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012., 2012)This study explores the religious phenomenon of Hindu-Inspired meditation movements. The question of how these movements should be interpreted in the context of religion in North America is examined in association with the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)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 ...
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