Dissertations

As a prospective student you will be interested in knowing the range of dissertation projects supported within this program. The following list of recently completed and current dissertation titles may help answer that question. In addition you may wish to review the individual faculty web pages to learn more about their particular research expertise and interests.

Vaccines against Mimetic Desire:  A Girardian Exploration of Jewish Ritual

A Model for 21st Century Black Ecumenism

Images of Jesus in Shi’a Narrations: A comparative examination

Christian Theologies of Suffering across the Centuries: An Examination of Suffering and Grief in the works of  Gregory the Great, Julian of Norwich, Jeremy Taylor, C.S. Lewis and Ivone Gebara

Why can’t they be more like us? Questions of baptism and (forced) conversion in Sixteenth-century Spain and New Spain

Nasir al-Din al-Albani

The History of Interfaith Dialogue of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) and its Impact on Economic Globalization in Asia

The Coptic Orthodox Church in America: Expanding Horizons

The Search for Sakina: An Exploration of the Evolving Marital Expectations of Young, American Muslims

Christian-Muslim Interfaith Dialogue beyond Nationalistic Racism in S. Korea

Living a Responsible Life: A Comparison of the Thought of Said Nursi and Reinhold Niebuhr

Theological Agents: Puritan Women as Partners and Parents in New England, 1620 – 1660

Theological and Religious Implications of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

The Impact of African Traditional Religion and Cultural Values on Christian-Muslim Relations in Ghana from 1950 through the Present

Analytical Dialogue: Serge de Beaurecueil and Abdullah Ansari

Finding a Lutheran Theology of Religions: Ecclesial traditions and Interfaith Dialogue

Communicating Islam in the Public Sphere: An Intellectual History of Contemporary Islamisms in Pakistan with Specail reference to Khurshid Ahmad

‘In the Beginning’: Rethinking the ‘Oneness’ or Unity of God in Western Christian Trinitarian Theology from Augustine to Aquinas