Sewanee DSpace: Recent submissions
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CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN HUNTINGTIN 513 AGGREGATION AND PROTEOTOXICITY IN C. ELEGANS BODY WALL MUSCLE CELLS
(University of the South, 2017-05)Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the insidious onset of choreiform movements (rapid, jerky involuntary movements), cognitive decline, and early death. Huntington’s ... -
SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM: HOW THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF JOB ILLUMINATES THE WORK OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR
(University of the South, 2017-05)American author Flannery O’Connor, a devout Roman Catholic, made no attempt to disguise the theological nature of her work. Her short stories and novels contained numerous lessons about faith, God, and human failing. Yet ... -
“ Our Anglo-Saxon Blood”: How Belief in Anglo-Saxon Racial Supremacy Connected Men at the University of the South Architecturally and Ideologically to the Larger Nation from 1886-1912
(University of the South, 2016-04-26)In August 1890, the Board of Trustees for the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee met for their annual deliberations. When the Board left Sewanee several days later, they had accepted both the resignation of the ... -
My Old Kentucky Home: A Maze in Grace
(University of the South, 2016)My Old Kentucky Home: A Maze in Grace is a lengthy, whimsical circular definition of the life of the narrator who is constantly referred to as the old man upstairs. It is a story of the old man upstairs, a semi-paralyzed, ... -
The Hollywood Mafia
(University of the South, 2016)The Hollywood Mafia is a novel-in-progress that focuses on one woman’s desire to redeem her family’s legacy by seeking revenge on a sect of the Italian Mafia, called The Six, who took out a hit on her father when she was ... -
Components of Transformation: Exploring Memory, Humility, and Sacrament To Find Resolution in the Novels of Walker Percy
(University of the South, 2016-05)The aim of this study is to investigate the nature of protagonistic transformation in the six novels of Walker Percy. Because Percy’s works of fiction are so notedly open-ended, and because the final spiritual, emotional, ... -
PERCY DEARMER REVISITED: DISCERNING AUTHENTICALLY ANGLICAN LITURGY IN A MULTICULTURAL, ECUMENCIAL, 21ST CENTURGY CONTEXT
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)As the worship of The Episcopal Church stands on the cusp of a new period of renewal and innovation, important questions must be explored about what constitutes Anglican liturgy in today’s multicultural and ecumenical ... -
Transforming Communities: The formation and impact of monastic communities in the 19th Century And the formation and impact of Episcopal Service Corps houses in the 21st Century
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)One of the persistent patterns in Church History has been the emergence, development, and, usually, the decline of intentional communities of a monastic nature. In the 19th century Episcopal Church, against a good deal ... -
THE CONTINUING CRISIS OF MINISTRY: A HISTORY OF CHANGES TO TITLE III CANONS FOR EVALUATION, EDUCATION AND FORMATION OF PRESBYTERS IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1967 to 1979
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)This project is a historical review of changes by General Convention to canons within Title III of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church from 1967 to 1979. Chapter One reviews the background to the ordination ... -
Our Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving: Rene Girard and the Eucharist
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)This paper reviews mimetic theory described by Rene Girard. The mimetic cycle of mimetic desire, mimetic rivalry, mimetic conflict, the scapegoat mechanism, and generative violence craft a portrait of human society as ... -
Toward a ministry of Economic and Spiritual Development: Sustainable Agriculture at the Crossroad of Spiritual, Economic Development and Social Justice for Haitian Migrant Workers
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)Project under the direction of Professor Robin Gottfried The purpose of this project was to explore the plight of reported mistreatment of Haitian Migrant workers in the Dominican Republic, and to create and implement ... -
The Church-Idea for an Episcopal Moment
(University of the South, 2015-12-16)Project under the direction of Professor Ben King This dissertation argues that two figures, William Reed Huntington at the turn of the twentieth century and Brian McLaren at the turn of the twenty-first, correctly ... -
Practice of Christian Mindfulness as an Imaginative Challenge in Parish Ministry
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)Project under the direction of Professor Julia Gatta In an age when anxieties around church attendance and participation prompt pastors and lay leaders alike to explore myriad leadership resources, there is another, ... -
Nature's Sacrament: The Epic of Evolution and a Theology of Sacramental Ecology
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)The ‘Epic of Evolution’ is the scientific story that reveals that we live in an approximately 14 billion year old universe on a planet that is approximately 4.6 billion years old and that we are a part of the ongoing process ... -
Methodism 101: Theology Through Charles Wesley's Hymns
(University of the South, 2017-05-11)Project under the direction of Professor Joe Burnett Why should United Methodist members care about their Christian foundational beliefs? United Methodist members know less and less about the theology of the church. ... -
In Defense of Communicating God's Word: Conversational Preaching
(University of the South, 2017-03)The preacher as a communicator of God’s Word and a conveyer of things Holy was the premise that began this work. If someone is called by God to this awesome vocation, then the need to develop skills and tools to be proficient ... -
College of Arts and Sciences Catalog and Announcements 2015-16
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Lena in Lent and Other Stories
(University of the South, 2016-05)“Lena in Lent and Other Stories,” a collection of eight pieces of short fiction, explores ideas of desire, agency, obligation, faith, isolation, and community. The first four stories in the collection, the Lena stories, ... -
"Worthy of th'heroic dead": Gratitude, Memory, and Local Action in a Grieving Britain
(University of the South, 2016-04-25)Remembrance both haunts and supports a community. A form of preservation, the process of remembrance requires both collaboration and clear objectives: more specifically, what emotions should future generations inherit? In ... -
The Franco-Prussian War: Its Impact on France and Germany, 1870-1914
(University of the South, 2016-04-11)Historian Niall Ferguson introduced his seminal work on the twentieth century by posing the question “Megalomaniacs may order men to invade Russia, but why do the men obey?” He then sought to answer this question over the ...
