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Spiritual and religious experiences of gay men with HIV illness
Seegers, Debra L Virginia Commonwealth University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe spiritual and religious experiences throughout life in gay men with symptomatic HIV illness. People with HIV illness identify spiritual and religious supports as important in maintaining their physical and mental health. Gay men with HIV illness may experience spiritual distress as their illness progresses. Spiritual supports from the religious communities and traditions of their youth may not be wanted, or may be unavailable to these men. Ten gay men with symptomatic HIV illness described their religious and spiritual lives. All were members of social minorities living in central Virginia. Transcendental phenomenological methods were used to guide the study, in which the following major themes were identified as essential to their experiences: (a) spirituality was experienced as a dynamic, evolving, reciprocal relationship with oneself, God, or a universal spirit; (b) co-researchers developed an identity of self-in-relation-to-church through the creative resolution of dissonance between institutionalized prejudice in the church and the lived gay Christian experience; (c) spirituality is expressed through religious practices; (d) experiences of religion and spirituality were intertwined with family relationships; (e) religious experiences were perceived as more important to spiritual satisfaction than experiences defined as spiritual but not religious; and (f) for African American co-researchers, the traditions and practices of the Black Church were the foundation of spiritual and religious experiences. Eight co-researchers identified others' negative responses to their homosexuality as social problems that affected their behavior in formal religious settings, but not their self-acceptance.
Fully Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Seeger, Benjamin ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2019 해외박사(DDOD)
This thesis is concerned with the theory and applications of certain fully nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. First, we present several new results regarding the well-posedness of the equations. Among these are proofs of the comparison principle for equations with nontrivial spatial dependence. We also prove some new path-stability estimates, and we give a very general proof of existence using Perron's method, which characterizes the unique solution as the maximal sub-solution.We also discuss a general framework for approximating solutions numerically. A variety of convergent approximation schemes are considered, including finite difference schemes and Trotter-Kato splitting formulas, and the results are general enough to allow for many more examples. For first-order equations, we derive explicit error estimates.Finally, we introduce a family of homogenization problems that arise from scaling limits of fully nonlinear equations with highly oscillatory spatio-temporal dependence. We prove, under suitable assumptions on the nonlinearities and the random dependence, that the limiting behavior is governed by a spatially homogenous, stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equation.
Domesticating the Reformation: Religious revolution and the vocabulary of English popular piety
Hampson, Mary Regina Seeger University of Virginia 2000 해외박사(DDOD)
This dissertation examines the devotional works and thought of three influential Protestant writers in sixteenth-century England. Each of them translated complex theological notions of reform into laymen's language during the religious Reformation. At the core of the dissertation is a consideration of popular modes of expressing religious dissent; in order to do this I conducted a detailed examination of three books that have been little-studied despite their being certifiable “best-sellers” in their day: Thomas Becon's <italic> The Sicke Manne's Salve</italic>, Edward Dering's <italic>A Briefe and Necessary Instruction for Householders</italic>, and John Norden's <italic>A Pensive Man's Practice</italic>. As popular preachers, writers, and clergymen whose carters spanned the troubled reigns of four Tudor monarchs, these authors and their best-sellers merit close scrutiny. We will consider each writer's presentation of the new, reformist lay theology and efforts to normalize it for the ordinary English household. The chapters provide background to popular print and devotional cultures, content, and strategies of expression in each best-seller, as well as analyses of theology, social criticism, pedagogy, homiletics, and literary technique. The dissertation addresses the following questions: What were these writers' primary concerns? What sorts of men, women, households, and commonwealth were they striving to forge? What are the possibilities of, or obstacles to, gauging the breadth of personal and civic absorption of these ideas? What were the twinned roles of literacy and orality in this process? Also, how does the incalculability of some of this data affect assessments of how, and how fast, popular English religious culture was “protestantized”? These three books permit an exploration of the thinking of a significant generation in English Protestantism, and its most popular writers' uses of sixteenth-century mass-media to inculcate their controversial new piety. This dissertation seeks to magnify the salient features of those writers' world of ideas.