Archived Proposals

• Dissertation Proposals are available for reading before the Proposal Defense.  Archived here are the proposals that students have already defended.

• Felicia George - Dissertation Proposal.docx

  The Struggle is Real: Constructing Liberative Meaning Making that Enables Black Students to Navigate and Flourish at Predominantly White Institutions

• Rebecca Hensley_Dissertation Proposal.docx 

  Striving Toward Racial Solidarity in a Culture of White Christianity: Multi-Race + Multi-Faith Organizing in Texas

• Aaron Lockhart Dissertation Proposal.docx

  The Christological Motif of Identity and Authority in the Gospel of Mark

• Shubham Sapkota_Dissertation Proposal.docx

  Seeing the Unseen: Bridging Realities of Experience Through Dependent Origination

• Casey Flynn Proposal.docx

  Reading as Exposure to Another: An Exploration of Vulnerable Reading as a Re(ve)lational Method in Emmanuel Levinas and Susan Howe

• Madison Tarleton Proposal.pdf

  New Tools: An Exploration & Examination of Anti-Judaic and Antisemitic Spanish Medieval Material Art Objects in Culture. 

• Rudolph Reyes Proposal.docx 

  Divergence: Toward a Latinx Neurodivergent Liberative Social Ethic.

• Camilla Raymond Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  Jewish Ethnic Migrations and Symbolic Boundaries in the Damascus Document. 

• Anthony Roberts Proposal.pdf

  “No Respecter of Persons”: A Constructive Black Theology of Otherness

• Padraic Fitzgerald - Proposal.docx

  "Til Valhall!": The Formation of Norse Pagan Identity, Religiosity, and Community at Heavy Metal Festivals.

• RGreen -Abstract to Ayahuasca's Religious Diaspora.docx
  
  Ayahuasca's Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery.  

• LaminackProposalDefense.pdf

  Freedom Called into Question: Political Subjectivity in Levinas and Barth

• GabelProposal.docx

  Dehumanization in the Nazi Era: Relationship to the Death Drive
  

• Coulter Dissertation Proposal Oct 23.docx

  Somatic Spiritual Practices in Intercultural, Evidence-Based, Spiritually Integrated Trauma Care

• Chris Ghan Dissertation Proposal.docx

  And There Was Battle in Heaven: Angels, Demons and Zoroastrian Influence on the Apocalyptic in the Second Temple and Early Christianity

• OUT OF TIME_Meghan Johnston Aelabouni dissertation proposal[1].docx

  "Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater" 

• Creaven proposal.docx

  Somatic Spiritual Practices in Intercultural, Evidence-Based, Spiritually Integrated Trauma Care

• Rode Molla's Proposal 9-18-19.pdf

  "Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities through Subjective In-betweenness: A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia’s Era of Identity Politics" 

• Joshua Lawrence Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  Witness and Infinite Responsibility, the Martyr's Desire in Emmanuel Levinas

• Roger Green.pdf

  The Political Theology of Ayahuasca's Religious Diaspora

• Joshua Bartholomew Proposal.pdf

  Economic Liberation from the Margins, The Power of Racial Politics in Social Change

• McClure - Dissertation Proposal

  Life after Death: Post-Mortem Mutilation in Ancient Israel & Judah

• Seth Walker Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  Righteous Remixes, Sacred Mashups: Rethinking Authority, Authenticity, and Originality in the Study of Religion

• Rob Heaton Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  From “Most Edifying Book” to Scriptura Non Grata: Canon, Religious Constrictiveness, and the Loss of the Shepherd of Hermas in Early Christianity

• Dissertation Proposal - David Pettit - Sept 2018

  “Turning the Tempest for God’s Forgotten:” Psalm 42 as an Independent Lament and Synecdochic of the Elohistic Psalter

• Nestor Gomez-Research Proposal.docx

  "En el Poder del Espíritu:” A Qualitative Research Study on Social Ethics among U.S. Latina/o Pentecostals

• Patrick Stefan Dissertation Proposal.docx

  "The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance through the Rise of Disciplinary Power"

• David King DissertationProposal.pdf

  "Recovering the Radical Economic Message of Luke"

• Ben Peters Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Narrativizing Theory: The Role of Ambiguity in Religious Aesthetics"

• Shawn Fawson Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Sustaining Lamentation in Traumatic Grief through the Contemporary Elegy: A Practical Theology of the Poetics of Testimony"

• Brandon Tsark Dissertation Proposal.docx

  "Rethinking the God-relationship in Schleiermacher: a Comparative Analysis of Schleiermacher’s and Kierkegard’s Doctrines of Sin"

• Howard Kramer Dissertation Proposal.docx

  Jihadist Fanboys/Fangirls: The Role of Social Media, 'Jihadi Cool,' and Fandom in Attracting Young Western Audiences to ISIS and Other Radical Groups

• Teresa Crist Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Decolonizing Interfaith: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Operative Assumptions and Categories of Interfaith Interaction" 

• Jennifer McCurdy Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Excavating (e)urochristian Colonial Themes in Bioethics: Locating Liberative Spaces"

• Josh Schachterle Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Formation of Early Monastic Subjectivity"

• D. "Andy" Yost Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "The Amorous Imagination: Event, Saturation, and Hermeneutics in Jean-Luc Marion's The Erotic Phenomenon"

• Heidi Rhodes Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "Negative Dialectics and Massumi's Politics of Affect"

• April Woodson Dissertation Proposal.docx

  "Dialogical Offense:" A Postcolonial Womanist Deconstruction of the Colonial Experience of African American Women through U.S. Institutional Apparatus Known as Welfare & Criminal Justice Policy

• Jeff Appel Dissertation Proposal.docx

  "Religion as a Circuit of Memory Transmission: Bernard Stiegler, Technology, and Time"

• Tom Barlow Dissertation Proposal.pdf

  "The Movement of the Spirit: A Constructive Comparison of Divine Grace in Paul Tillich and John Wesley"