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Author:

Billinger, Anthony John

Title:

IT’S THE HARMFULNESS, STUPID: IMAGES OF GOD AND THE ROLE OF CRIME PERCEPTIONS IN PERCEIVED CRIME SERIOUSNESS AND RECOMMENDED SENTENCING

Graduate Program:

Crime, Law and Justice

Keywords:

religion
crime perceptions
sentencing

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Amato, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Amato, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Adamczyk, Amy

Title:

Religious Contexts and Adolescents' Risky Behaviors

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

context
delinquency
sex
religion
friends
schools

File:

Download full_dissertation_document_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Eva Sharon Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Richard B Felson, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Carissa Dawn Turner

Title:

Placing Religion: The Spiritual Geography of Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

religion
feminism
spiritual geography
literature
place

File:

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Committee Members:

Deborah L Clarke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Lee Gorby, Committee Member
Iyunolu Folayan Osagie, Committee Member
Robin G Schulze, Committee Member

Author:

Tucker, Catherine Denise

Title:

Broken Bridges: Disrupted Religious Participation Among the New Immigrants

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

religion
immigrants

File:

Download FinalThesisCopy.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

O'Hara, David L

Title:

THE SLOW PERCOLATION OF FORMS: CHARLES PEIRCE’S WRITINGS ON PLATO

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Peirce
Plato
semiotics
theaetetus
cratylus
metaphysics
religion
miracles
transcendentalism
Henry James Sr.
Emerson
Thoreau
God
Neglected Argument
Autobiography
Platonism
Lutoslawski
unpublished manuscripts
Hume
Parmenides
Sophist
Apology
Welby
Forms
Ideas
stylometry

File:

Download dissfinalgrdsch.v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Doug Anderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Joseph Conway, Committee Member
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Member
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Member

Author:

Ohlander, Julianne

Title:

The decline of suicide in Sweden: 1950-2000

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

antidepressants
religion
identity
Protestant work ethic
social regulation
Weber
Durkheim
solidarity
Sweden
suicide
social integration
family
individualism-collectivism

File:

Download OHLANDER_Dissertation_03.18.2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon De Jong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon De Jong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Schoen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Emily Kate Greenman, Committee Member
Mark R Leach, Committee Member

Author:

Ruiz Tresgallo, Silvia

Title:

De-Witching Female America: The Figure of the Sorceress in the Representation of America

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

sorcery
religion
transatlantic studies
gender
power
colonial
Latin-American
picaresque
Witchcraft
misogyny
corporeality

File:

Download Silvia_Ruiz_Tresgallo_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Robert Blue, Committee Member
Laurence E Prescott, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Barnard, Committee Member
Djelal Kadir, Committee Member

Author:

Flynn, Jr., Tyler B.

Title:

Calvinism and Public Life: A Case Study of Western Pennsylvania 1900-1955

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

modern America
social reform
religion

File:

Download Tyler.Flynn.dissertation.Pittsburgh.Calvinism_-_with_CV1.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Scott Cross, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
On Cho Ng, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Committee Member
Joel Carpenter, Committee Member

Author:

Wesley, Timothy Leon

Title:

The Politics of Faith: Religious Authority and Politics During the American Civil War

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Civil War
religion
preachers
politics

File:

Download Timothy_Wesley_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

McClure, Jennifer Marie

Title:

Sources of Social Support: Congregational Context and Social and Private Involvement in Religion

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Social support
religion
congregation

File:

Download 20120412McClureThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Harris, Jaime Dean

Title:

The Determinants of Religious Conflict: A Cross-national Examination of Conflict Manifestation

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

religion
religious conflict
religious freedom

File:

Download Harris_Final_Dissertation_3-13-14_Submit_to_Grad_school.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member
Errol Anthony Henderson, Committee Member
David P Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Xiang, Hongyan

Title:

Land, Church, and Power: French Catholic Mission in Guangzhou, 1840-1930

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Chinese history
religion
Christianity in China
Catholicism
East Asian studies.

File:

Download Dissertation-XIANG.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronnie Po Chia Hsia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Giguette Atwill, Committee Member
KATHRYN ALEXIA MERKEL-HESS, Committee Member
Anouk Patel, Committee Member

Author:

Green, Spencer Lincoln

Title:

Coming of Age in the Latter Days: Adolescent Folklore and the Paradox of Mormon Identity

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

america
religion
mormon
LDS
adolescent
folklore
identity
coming of age

File:

Download Dissertation_GrowingUpMormon1.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Christopher Hollenbeak, Special Member

Author:

Kondas, Dorian C

Title:

The Development of the Spiritual Conflict Scale for Same-sex Attracted Individuals

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

Counseling Psychology
Counseling
Psychology
LGBT
gay
lesbian
spirituality
religion
religious studies
queer
Christian

File:

Download Kondas_Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen Bieschke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member
Mary Mc Clanahan, Committee Member

Author:

Gurrentz, Benjamin Thomas

Title:

Family, Faith, and Friends: Incorporating Social Networks into the Study of Family and Religion

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

family
religion
social networks

File:

Download Final_dissertation_gurrentz.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Felmlee, Committee Member
David Johnson, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Outside Member

Author:

Lankes, Jane Louise

Title:

RELATIVE ASSETS AND CONFORMITY IN ATTITUDES: A TEST OF BARGAINING THEORY ON NEWLY MARRIED INDONESIAN WOMEN

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

bargaining theory
attitudes
identity
religion
Indonesia

File:

Download Lankes_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Kay Luke, Committee Member

Author:

Ruiz, Andrea Liza

Title:

The Past Hurts: Examining the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Abuse on Adult Psychological, Physiological, and Interpersonal Well-Being

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

child abuse
life-course
health
well-being
childhood trauma
resilience
coping style
interpersonal relationships
religion
social support
social optimism

File:

Download ALR_DISSERTATION_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary J Adler Jr., Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Member
Sandra T Azar, Outside Member

Author:

Porter, Nathaniel Douglas

Title:

Religious Islands, Partners, and Bridges: Studying Cross-Denominational Shared Ideas Using Book Co-Purchase Networks

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

sociology
religion
social network analysis
sna
network science
denominations
amazon
culture
consumption
Christianity
US religion
affiliation networks

File:

Download ndp_etd_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Outside Member

Author:

Peterson, Brice Anders

Title:

Regeneration in Early Modern English Literature: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Early moden English literature
religion
Protestant soteriology
regeneration
spiritual rebirth
romance
tragicomedy
politics

File:

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Committee Members:

Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick G Cheney, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Outside Member
Carla J. Mulford, Committee Member

Author:

Goff, Kerby

Title:

Missionaries Of Modernity: The Women’s Protestant Missionary Movement And The Expansion Of Female Education Outside The West, 1950-2010

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

educational expansion
gender
religion
missionaries

File:

Download Woman_s_Missionary_Movement_and_Female_Education.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Member
Nancy Kay Luke, Committee Member
Charles Seguin, Committee Member