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Description:: The Ohio River Valley was the site of an intense rivalry between Protestants and Catholics in the nineteenth century, as members of each group vied to extend their control through the development of churches, schools, orphanages, and other institutions. This dissertation explores the process and analyzes the effects of Catholic...
Keyword:: Philanthropy, Transatlantic Catholicism, Women religious, Urban development, Catholic institution building, and Lay women
Subject:: American history and Religious history
Creator:: Creason, Carl C.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_985337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16554

Description:: One of the pressing concerns of the fifteenth century was monastic reform, and reformers of the Observant movement rose to meet the challenge by attempting to return monastic houses to stricter observance of their earliest rules and governing documents. In this dissertation, I examine how Dominican nuns in German-speaking parts...
Subject:: Women's studies, Medieval history, and Religious history
Creator:: Pokorski, Robin K.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16244 and etdadmin_upload_928339

Description:: This dissertation purposely prioritizes Tibetan and Himalayan tsunmas’ perspectives on the topic of restoring a full ordination lineage for ordained women. To do so, it examines the gendered landscapes of Buddhist women’s ordination, which has been a contentious issue throughout Buddhism’s twenty-six-hundred-year history, beginning with the Buddha’s eventual acceptance of...
Keyword:: Ordination, Vinaya, Tibetan Buddhism, India, Tibet, and Buddhist Nuns
Subject:: Gender studies, Asian studies, and Religious history
Creator:: Price-Wallace, Darcie M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_927827 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16233

Description:: This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...
Keyword:: religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance
Subject:: American history, Religion, and Religious history
Creator:: Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204

Description:: At the turn of the twentieth century, the Russian Orthodox Church established a dense network of social and material aid for thousands of migrants who travelled from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires to find work in the United States. The church’s growth followed the path of Progressive Era industrialization, with...
Keyword:: Orthodox Church in America, Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian immigration, American immigration, and Orthodox Christianity
Subject:: American history, Religion, and Religious history
Creator:: Sarkisian, Aram Gregory
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14581 and etdadmin_upload_658824

Description:: This dissertation is a history of religious conservatism between 1880 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Its main argument is that conservative religion in America, rather than being defined by fundamentalism, theological disputes, or cultural antipathy towards pluralism, was an outgrowth of a profound faith in capitalism...
Keyword:: Culture Wars, Conservatism, Fundamentalism, Capitalism, and Billy Sunday
Subject:: History and Religious history
Creator:: Noddings, Timothy Robert
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_657277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14570

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