예술을 통한 인간한계상황의 초월 : The Well of the Saints와 Deirdre of the Sorrows를 중심으로

김소량 이화여자대학교 대학원 1986 국내석사

National Security Expertise, and Borderland Saints: Policing Religion and Police Religion

Ward, Megan University of Washington ProQuest Dissertations & 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

A skeletal saint graces the side of DEA collectable coin, busts of a mustachioed bandit fill sets of crime-drama television, white blocks of cocaine top shrines during police press releases. Images of borderland religion have arrived in United States popular media, the news cycle, and its defense culture and US law enforcement officers routinely profile migrants who practice these forms of Catholicism. Saints like Jesus Malverde and the now infamous Saint Death, Santa Muerte, have entered into the American cultural consciousness. Termed “narco saints” by law enforcement– these informal saints have been appropriated into the professional cosmologies of police and security practitioners as representations of alterity and threat, resulting in religious profiling and arrests of devotees. Through ethnographic and textual analysis of recent religious profiling incidents, police training manuals, and online culture in US security communities this project uses mixed-methods to ask why these religious communities have become visible in law enforcement spaces. This project argues that as state agents link religious beliefs to forms of crime and violence, they reflect a robust ideological defense culture that resists reform efforts and emotionally rationalizes state policing of already vulnerable individuals and communities.

Digital Scripture: An Investigation of the Design and Use of a Mobile Application for Reading Sacred Text

Carpenter, Neil Utah State University ProQuest Dissertations & The 2021 해외박사(DDOD)

Digital sacred text reading is rapidly growing as digital devices such as mobile smartphones are becoming more common across the globe. Although sacred text can have strong influence on identify and behavior, the effects of a digital revolution on scripture reading practices are not well understood. In particular, current research literature indicates that more information is needed about the design and use of digital sacred text applications (apps) such as mobile Bibles across different religious groups or cultures. Therefore, this study builds upon and extends previous work to analyze a religious text app, Gospel Library, which is designed and largely used by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Data about the design of the app were collected by analyzing app store description text, conducting a technical app walkthrough, and interviewing current app design team members. Data about the usage of Gospel Library were collected by gaining permission from the design organization to access user analytic data collected during normal app operations. Results of the study show that this digital sacred text app is designed and used in ways that support religious or cultural reading values and norms. In particular, this study suggests that Latter-day Saints appear to value the King James Version of the English Bible and other unique religious text such as the Book of Mormon and General Conference sermons or messages. Results also suggest Latter-day Saints value church-wide directed scripture reading efforts situated in a culture of listening and receiving interpretation as opposed to social discussions of scripture. Furthermore, this study reports unique features or affordances that digital sacred texts can offer including audio capabilities, videos, search functions, sharing, highlighting, and other annotations. This study contributes to the research field of digital sacred text literacy by offering data gathered from an app design organization including interviews and user analytic data. It also adds to the broader conversation about religious literacy and digital versus print-based reading.

Venenum bibit: The Poison Trial in Medieval Hagiography

Timmons, Jennifer Lynne Sandstrom ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

This study investigates the capacity of medieval poison metaphors to express anxiety about the human ability to distinguish the truth from a falsehood. Because poison was often administered covertly, things that were described as “poisonous” in the medieval world were not simply destructive, but dangerous in a way that relies on both deception and adulteration. I argue that poison imagery in the medieval monastic context was a tool adapted to deal with epistemic crises, in that it was used to simultaneously highlight the dangers of verisimilitude and false signifiers and to attempt to adjudicate seemingly plausible alternatives. The language of poison provided a vocabulary to think through problems of deception and hypocrisy, and, in the context of medieval hagiographical stories of saints surviving the ingesting of poison, to arbitrate competing claims to truth using the medium of holy bodies. Using liturgical manuscripts, collections of saint’s lives, poetry, hymnody, theological treatises, histories, and sermons, I trace poison trials from their origins into the thirteenth century. Once it had become a means of asserting a saint’s ability to distinguish truth from falsehood in the presence of ambiguity, the hagiographical poison trial was used to arbitrate a variety of contests internal and external to religious communities, both theological and political.

Navigating Ideals: Latter-Day Saint Women and Latter-Day Saint Cultural Master Narratives

Ostler, Elizabeth Ann Fordham University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2023 해외박사(DDOD)

Cultural master narratives are a primary way that cultures proscribe how and who cultural members are supposed to be. This study coupled cultural consensus analysis and cultural consonance analysis with the master narrative framework to identify Latter-day Saint (LDS) cultural master narratives that emerge from the perspectives and lived experiences of Latter-day Saint women. Building upon the findings from a previous study that identified descriptions of an ideal LDS woman, a pile sorting analysis was conducted with LDS women (N = 30) living in the United States. The findings from pile sorting analysis were used to create a cultural master narrative survey. The responses from survey by LDS women in the United States (N = 2,436) were analyzed using cultural consensus analysis and cultural consonance analysis. This study successfully identified nine Latter-day Saint cultural master narratives. The research design demonstrated that cultural consensus analysis and cultural consonance analysis combined with the master narrative framework effectively identify cultural master narratives. The consensus analysis successfully attended to the master narrative principles of ubiquity, invisibility, utility, and rigidity. The remaining principle, compulsory, as well as utility, were addressed through cultural consonance analysis. .

Literary and natural landscapes in the earliest Latin lives of three Irish Celtic saints: Brigit, Patrick and Columba

Olsen, Cristina Graduate Theological Union 2000 국내석사

World system archaeology at three saints harbor, an eighteenth century Russian fur trade site on kodiak Island, Alaska

Crowell, Aron Lincoln University of California, Berkeley 1994 해외박사

La Morphologie nominale dans“Le recit des saints martyrs boris et gleb”(XIIeme siecle)

Lee, Mi Ra Universite de Paris-Sorbonne 1989 해외석사

La signification de la "Nuit" dans Le Mystere des Saints Innocents de Charles Peguy

황세용 효성여자대학교 1981 국내석사

Discursive Constructions: Space and Time in Northern Italy in the Late Fourth Century

Cady, Alyssa M Princeton University ProQuest Dissertations & Thes 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

Late Antique scholars have become increasingly interested in questions of regionality, time and landscape, as well as the intersection between oral and visual media. A fruitful angle from which to examine these topics proves to be the cult of saints in northern Italy in the late fourth century, due to the conception of saint as exemplar and to its manifestation in physical and discursive spaces. My dissertation compares three figures who provide different viewpoints on these issues, namely: Zeno of Verona, Ambrose of Milan, and the poet Prudentius. It examines lesser-known evidence, such as Prudentius’ Tituli Historiarum, and provides the first English translations of four sermons of Zeno as well as Ambrose’s Disticha. We begin with Zeno, whose tenure coincides with the earliest sermons in Latin, as well as the earliest martyr veneration and church-building in Verona. His Tractatus illuminate a tightrope upon which this bishop balanced pious intervention against the stubborn autonomy of his congregants. Ambrose, meanwhile, enjoyed far greater resources than his Veronese predecessor, and compares contemporary substitutes to historical exemplars whom he integrated into nascent ecclesiastical institutions. In Prudentius we see the rise of the elite Christian poet, whose concerns differed from episcopal programs of authoritative expansion. He periodizes history through the lens of triumph and decline, explaining contemporary practice through exemplars. In these figures, we see a generational and professional divide in their use of space and history as ideological canvases upon which to layer ideals of Christian ethics.