Theses from 2023
Syncretistic Religiosity in the Mausoleums of Bangladesh: Exploring the Possibility of a Blended Religious Identity, Sadia Afrin
Between Choice and Compulsion: An Examination and Critique of the Evolution of 'Original Sin', Matthew James Wynn
Theses from 2022
A Nation of Priests: Authority, Expertise, and the Religious Nones, Riley CT Brown
Theses from 2021
Pentecostalism: A Comparative Study of African and African American Churches in Springfield, Emmanuel Kumah
Luke and Legacy: Bruce Lincoln and the Construction of Jesus's Prophet-like Authority in the Gospel of Luke, Kendall Joseph Mayo
Theses from 2020
The Unlimited Absorbs the Limits: Analyzing the Religious and Mystical Aspects of Virginia Woolf's Work Through the Lens of William James, Zachary J. Beck
Theses from 2019
Supernatural Pilgrims: A Journey to a New Apostolic Reformation Congregation in the Ozarks, Samuel Wayne Gingerich
Chang (Beer): A Social Marker, Ritual Tool, and Multivalent Symbol in Tibetan Buddhism, Kayla J. Jenkins
Theses from 2018
A Kingdom of Priests and Gods: Angelic and Participatory Deification in John's Apocalypse, David A. Armstrong
The Lingering Menace, Logan M. Burke
How God Writes History: A Gramscian Analysis of Religion and Nature in the Writings, Life, and Legacy of John Muir, Daniel R. Jones
Theses from 2017
Who Are the Apistoi? Symbolic Boundaries and Anthropological Language in 2 Cor 6:14-7:1, Nii Addo Kobina Abrahams
Theses from 2016
The Problem Of Authority In Conservative Evangelical Christianity: A Critique Of American And South Korean Expressions, Harold Arthur Brower IV
The Selfish Law: A Memetic Study Of The Transition From Generational Morality To Individual Morality In Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18, And Jeremiah 31:27-30, Jonathan Michael Gracza
Theses from 2015
Of Dogs and Disciples: Gentiles and the Discourse of Identity in the Gospel of Matthew, Angela D. Ingram
Moving Past: Making Space for Memory after the Boston Marathon Bombing, Austin Thomas Jacobs
Bodies Bending Boundaries: Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Identities of Modern Postural Yoga in the Ozarks, Kimberley J. Pingatore
The Myth of a Secular Economy: Capitalism's Unarticulated Theology, Daniel F. Sebastian
Theses from 2014
The Mending Wall: Social Capital and Civic Engagement in the Ozarks Homeschooling Community, Michael William Bohlen
Losing My Religion: Spiritual but Not Religious Metaphysicals, Spiritual Pluralists, and Free-Range Christians, Steven Wayne Fouse
Religion and Anthropogenesis: Other Animal Presences in the Science-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Harrison Hall King
Praying Through Windows and Peering Through Wood: Examining Vernacular Devotions in American Eastern Orthodoxy Through a Materialist Lens, Sarah Amy Riccardi
Jacobites, Hivites, Spaces, and Places: Genesis 34 in Light of Spatial, Archaeological, and Anthropological Perspectives, Brock Addison Whisler
Theses from 2013
The Pendulum Slowly Swings: The Unusual Journey of an Ozarks Pentecostal Congregation, Katherine Ashley Graul
Between Others, Between Ethics: Resisting Domination Through Postcolonialism, Environmentalism and Ecocriticism, Matthew Ronald Hartman
Theses from 2012
The Ethics of Amos in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern Context, Mark D. Arnold
Sowing the Seeds of Change: An Ethnographic Study of the Religious Motivations of Producers and Consumers of Locally Produced Foods, Monica Leigh Peck Cottrell
A Generously Imagined World: the Reception of Tzedakah Texts in Diasporic Jewish Communities, Krista Nichole Dalton
Ecclesiology After God: Materialism and Doubt in the Emerging Church Movement, Matthew James Gallion
“Be Not Conformed to This World": A History of Worldliness in the Assemblies of God, Micah L. Hildreth
Tell Me The Old, Old Story: The Hymns and Testimonies of Ancient Israel and American Pentecostals, Meghan D. Musy
The Cautionary Tale of Communist China: Missionaries and the Pentecostal Shift Towards Anti-Communism from 1914 Through 1951, Jason Marc Pudlo
Public Expression of Religion in the United States: Inside the Wall of Separation Between Church and State, Canaan Aaron Vermillion
Theses from 2011
Jesus, the Slayer of Death: The Descensus Ad Inferos in the Demonstrations of Aphrahat, James Wesley Bennett
Ecstasy and the Kinesthetic Body: An Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Penecostal Worship, Travis Warren Cooper
Dine becoming Bahai: Through the Lens of Ancient Prophecies, Linda Sue Covey
(Re)Creating Paul: Toward a More Generous Historiography, Darryl James Schafer
Mourning and Reversal/Joy in the Hebrew Bible: David's Lost Child in 2 Samuel 12:15-23, Christine Rene Tibbs
Theses from 2010
Karaikkal Ammaiyar: A Study of Feminine Autonomy, Power, and Prestige in the Medieval Bhakti Tradition, Meghan A. Faries
Selling Timeshares in Heaven: A Psychological-Historical Analysis of Revival Preaching in the United States, Nena Leann Kircher
Theses from 2009
Theology, Music, and Emotion: The Gethsemane Section of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Kimberly Kay Clark
Xxxianity: A Safe, Non-Pornographic Place to Shop for All Your Christian Sex Toy and Romance Needs, Miles Adam Park
The Role of Jewish Transformational Mysticism in Paul's Thought, Tyson Lee Putthoff
Call And Response: Aesthetic Reception of Lamentations 2.20-22, Jane Ellen Terry
Theses from 2008
This-Worldly Explanations for Otherworldly Growth: Vitality in an Ozarks Megachurch, Joseph Lee Dutko
From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Emergence of an American Pentecostal Intellectual Life, Jonathan William Olson
Anthropodicy: How Non-Theists Explain Evil, Katharina Sandmark Phoenix
Theses from 2007
Christian Science and Anxiety in the Life of Principia College Students, Heather J. Fabian
The Influence of Some Late Medieval Devotional Literature on Margery Kempe, Carla Jeanette Jeanette McKinney Heifner