Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1990. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-99).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of West Florida, 2009. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 304 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.D.(Dogmat.)--Universiteit van Pretoria, 2005. / Title page in English. Used title page and an extra page with Afrikaans title for cataloging. Thesis in Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-368).

Diss.--Graz Universität, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 321-346. Index.

This thesis examines how women negotiate their identification within and as a group when engaging in interreligious dialogue. It is an in-depth case study of the women’s interfaith book groups, the Daughters of Abraham, located in the Greater Boston Area. This focus facilitates an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of relationships within one group, between different groups, and as situated in the American sociocultural context. I explore the tensions arising from religious diversity, and the consequences of participating in an interreligious dialogue group for understandings of religious self and others. Categories such as boundary, power, sameness, difference, self and other serve to explore the complexities and fluidity of identity constructions. I answer the following questions: How do members of the Daughters of Abraham engage with the group’s religious diversity? How does their participation in the Daughters of Abraham affect their self-understanding and understanding of the “other?” What can we learn about power dynamics and boundary drawing from the women’s accounts of their participation in the Daughters of Abraham and from their group interactions? Two interrelated arguments guide this thesis. One, I show that Daughters members arrive at complex and fluid understandings of what it means to identify as an American Jewish, Christian, and Muslim woman by negotiating various power dynamics arising from ideas of sameness and difference of religion, gender, and sociopolitical values. Two, I contend that the collective emphasis on commonalities in the Daughters of Abraham is a double-edged sword. Explicitly, this stress intends to encourage engagement with the group’s religious diversity by excluding those deemed too different. However, whilst this emphasis can generate nuanced understandings of religious identity categories, at times it highlights differences detrimental to facilitating such understanding. Moreover, this stress on commonalities illuminates the power dynamics and tensions characterizing this women’s interfaith book group. Scholarship has by and large overlooked women’s interreligious engagements with explicit ethnographic studies of such being virtually non-existent. This thesis addresses this gap by using ethnographic methods to advance knowledge about women’s interreligious dialogue. Furthermore, it pushes disciplinary discourses by speaking to the following interlinked areas: Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, formalized interreligious dialogue, interreligious encounters on the grassroots level, women’s interreligious dialogue, a book group approach to engaging with religious diversity, and interreligious encounters in the American context post-September 11th 2001.

This diploma thesis aims to analyze the varied aspects linked with the themes of immigration and assimilation in the fiction of the Jewish-Lithuanian immigrant writer Abraham Cahan. The protagonists of his fiction are all Jewish immigrants struggling to adapt to the American cultural life economically, but also linguistically, socially, as well as in appearance. The thesis examines struggles such as alienation from and suppression of many cultural features of the old country, and analyzes one novel (The Rise of David Levinsky), two novellas (The Imported Bridegroom and Yekl, A Tale of the New York´s Ghetto) and four short stories ("A Providential Match", "A Sweatshop Romance", "Circumstances" and "A Ghetto Wedding").

Few can claim to have never heard of Abraham or Gilgamesh. In terms of renown, the two are so rooted in our cultural awareness that it is highly unlikely that they will ever be truly forgotten. But whilst there have been many publication analyzing one or the other, few have ever attempted a side by side comparison of the duo. Therefore we shall not focus on introducing both characters, but try to see where their key differences lie. Since a complete comparison of every individual motive would be too broad for the purpose of this work, we are going to focus on three particular concepts: the hero's journey, immortality and relations to the divine. The first of these is also a brief introduction of the concept itself, since along with its author Joseph Campbell, it is a rather obscure topic on czech academic grounds. The second and third concepts are closer to an analysis of the cultural and religious settings and norms relevant for the authors of both texts.

Orientador: Ademir Jose Petenate / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Csmpinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Ciencia da Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T14:16:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aguilar_MarceloAntonio_M.pdf: 2580896 bytes, checksum: 4181150ef6d3175def5bf4b0c11a521a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 / Resumo: O estudo desenvolvido nesta dissertação referencia o comportamento humano a partir da sua relação com a Organização "trabalho", visto que, foi a partir deste contexto organizacional que surgiram as mais arraigadas convicções sobre a Motivação Humana. Interessou-se explorar a motivação, privilegiando-se explorar o conjunto de bases teóricas que respaldaram e nortearam a análise crítica das informações que foram coletadas gradativamente, através da experiência e experimentação, à medida em que foi se percebendo como a motivação é definida no interior das organizações. Os capítulos apresentados referem se ao entendimento das diferenças comportamentais entre os indivíduos de uma organização; clarifica o conceito e a importância da motivação a partir de sua definição e objetivos; ressalta os modelos de motivação mais utilizados por estas; exemplifica as técnicas de motivação e traz à tona as principais armadilhas ligadas à essas técnicas; analisa as modificações motivacionais ocorridas ao longo dos tempos na IBM - Intemational Business Machines e na UTP - Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. A conclusão permitiu entender o grau de incerteza na compreensão por parte das Organizações sobre o assunto Motivação Humana, e como a abordagem do assunto é inadequada devido à esta falha. Permitiu também, não considerando se o modelo motivacional da organização está correto ou não, verificar que qualquer que seja o modelo, este só pode realmente permear toda a organização se for definida, implementada e policiada pelo seu dirigente máximo, utilizando e defendendo os princípios organizacionais. / Abstract: The development of this study refers to the human behavior according to its relation to the element "work" since the strongest convictions about Human Motivation were first considered in the Organizational contexto The basic interest was to explore the subject motivation with emphasis to the set of theories which supported and guided the critical analysis of the gathered information throghout personal experience and probbing after the perception of how "motivation" is perceived by the organizations. The following chapters address the understanding of different individual behaviors inside an organization, clarify the concept of motivation and its refevance according to its definition and objectives, bring up the most considered models by the organizations, show up the traps implied in the motivation techniques used by organization and its personnel, evaluates the motivational approach modification along time which occured inside IBM - lntemational Business Machines and UTP - Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. The conclusion of this study reveals the lack of compreension, by the Organizatlons, on the subject Human Motivation, and how inadequate is the approach due to this fail of compreension. Also, not considering if the motivational model adopted by the organizations is correct or not, the conclusion shows that the model can be deployed only, and while, it is defined, implemented and enforced by the Chairman, using and defending the organization principles. / Mestrado / Mestre em Qualidade

This paper argues that the notion of death is omnipresent and essential for Emmanuel Levinas through all periods of his thought, although not always explicitly thematized. It tries to show this through a close reading of, firstly, his early period as an explicit polemic against Martin Heidegger’s analysis of death in Being and Time; secondly, his middle period, as an implicit polemic against Alexandre Kojèves influential readings of Hegel; and thirdly, his late period, in the light of psychoanalytical theories about trauma, loss, mourning and survival. This paper further argues that this notion of death, explicitly or implicitly present through all periods of Levinas’s thought, can be characterized as a traumatic survival experience in which a refusal to mourn holds sway. Finally, the paper sketches some consequences that this survival experience of death might have for contemporary post-Levinasian philosophy, to be examined in future research.

Significant differences as well as similarities between Islam and Christianity in the areas of the transcendence of God is the main discussion of the thesis. The investigation of the transcendence of God in the Bible and the Qur’an is within the limits of corresponding relationship accounts of God with Adam, Abraham, and Moses. Selected passages are used as examples to fulfil the aim of the study. Through this study an attempt is also made to determine what constitutes different aspects of theologies and practices of Christianity and Islam. The preliminary preparation of the study and the orientation of the readers into the transcendence of God are dealt with in the first three chapters: Chapter 1 presents an overview of the research as well as the various aspects of research methodology, chapter 2 describes the similarities and differences of the Qur’an and the Bible in order to present an appropriate approach to the exegesis of the selected passages, and chapter 3 establishes the theological issues of the transcendence of God from the views of both Christian and Muslim scholars. The main discussion of the transcendence of God unfolds in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 investigates how God reveals his will in respect to the Qur’an and the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, and describes and analyses the transcendence of God revealed in the Old Testament and the Qur’an within the limits of the parallel passages dealing with Adam, Abraham, and Moses. Chapter 5 carries over the results of chapter 4 to find the cause of the differences between the corresponding episodes of the Old Testament and the Qur’an with regard to the transcendence of God, and analyses the implications of the transcendence of God with regard to the differences in Christianity and Islam theology. Finally, chapter 6 concludes the study as well as presents implications and solutions for the Christian-Muslim conflicts and the necessity for further studies. In conclusion, the exegesis of identical passages concerning God’s relationship with man found in both the Qur’an and the Bible establishes that the Qur’an presupposes that God, maintaining absolute transcendence from creation, will not allow his immanent state with man. Thus, Muslims can only have a transcendent relationship with God, which diminishes their ability to know God, and closes the door to personal relationships between God and man. The lack of God’s personal relationship with man has been a key factor in shaping the theology of Islam. In the Bible, on the other hand, God’s relationship with man is expressed in both his transcendence and immanence. God first wanted his immanent state with man, but due to man’s sinful state the ontological transcendent relationship has been established. God, in turn, uses his transcendence as a method of immanence with man. This transcendence-immanence of God is evident through Christian theology which can be expressed as God’s horizontal-vertical relationship compared to the vertical relationship of God in Islam. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Biblical and Religious Studies / unrestricted