This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Kirtan in the Americas: Music and Spirituality in a Transcultural Whirlpool, Gustavo Moura
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Messages from the Margins: How Mature Women at Risk of Homelessness Sustain Their Psychosocial and Spiritual Lives, Catherine E. Tovell
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Tradition as Flow: Decolonial Currents in the Muslim Atlantic, Jason Sparkes
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism in the United States during the “Yellow Peril,” 1899-1957, Ryan Anningson
Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Role of Food and Drink in Transnational Experience for North African Muslim Immigrants in Paris and Montréal, Rachel D. Brown
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario: Integrating Christian Principles with the Practicality of Farming, Suzanne M. Armstrong
Canadian Christian Nationalism?: The Religiosity and Politics of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, Leah A D McKeen
The Reinvention of the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplaincy and the Limits of Religious Pluralism, Michael T. Peterson Rev. Dr.
The Reinvention of the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplaincy and the Limits of Religious Pluralism, Michael T. Peterson Rev. Dr.
Masjids, Ashrams and Mazars: Transnational Sufism and the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, Merin Shobhana Xavier
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Social Ethic of Religiously Unaffiliated Spirituality, Siobhan Chandler
You Can’t Go To Zion with a Carnal Mind: Slackness and Culture in the Music of Yellowman, Brent Hagerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dhamma Education: The Transmission and Reconfiguration of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Tradition in Toronto, Deba Mitra Bhikkhu
Interfaith Grand River: The Potential and Limits of Dialogue to Transform Participants and Impact Communities, Jonathan Andrew Napier
But Where Will They Build Their Nest? Liberalism and Communitarian Resistance in American Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish-Gentile Romances, Holly A. Pearse
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Saltwater Sacraments and Backwoods Sins: Contemporary Atlantic Canadian Literature and the Rise of Literary Catholicism, Andrew Peter Atkinson
Knowing Body, Moving Mind: Ritualizing and Learning in Two Buddhist Centres in Toronto, Patricia Q. Campbell
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Fitting Under the Marriage Canopy: Same-Sex Weddings as Rites of Conformity in a Canadian Liberal Jewish Context, Shari Rochelle Lash
Destruction at the root: Religious genocide in Tibet?, Jackson Elijah Sherratt
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Children's Bible story books in a Protestant church context, Louise Gilmour
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Buddhist values and ordinary life among members of the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple, Patricia Q. Campbell
The making of the virgin: Mary in the 'Protevangelium of James', Sherry Angela Smith
Chinoiserie in the novels of Robert Hans van Gulik, Daniel Franklin Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Evangelical critical discourse and the modern world: The sources and implications of the work of Craig Gay, Stephen L. Anderson
On the edges: Mennonite peacemakers on Christian peacemaker teams, Carolyn D. Reimer
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Heracleon: Fragments of early Valentinian exegesis. Text, translation, and commentary, Timothy James Pettipiece
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Contemporary Western representations of Jesus in Islam, Harold Chad Hillier
Two voices (Sylvia Jamieson Sandy, Mohawk, Ontario), Judith Anne Jamieson Mitton
Situating 2 Timothy in early Christian history, Mona Joy LaFosse
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
'Speech unhindered': A study of irony in the Acts of the Apostles, Alexander Lorne Damm
Florence Nightingale's autobiographical notes: A critical edition of BL Add. 45844 (England), Heather Kelly
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Holocaust: A catalyst for theological evolution as exemplified by the writing of Dr. John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., David Joseph Levy
The life stories of a woman from Rosebud: Names and naming in 'Lakota Woman' and 'Ohitika Woman' (Mary Brave Woman Olguin, South Dakota), Larissa Petrillo
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The gospel of Denys: The central character in 'Jesus de Montreal' (Denys Arcand, Québec), Laurence William Broadhurst
The use of "exempla" in 'Fasciculus morum', Sarah Anne Gray
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Manufacturing concern: Worthy and unworthy victims. Headline coverage of male and female victims of violence in Canadian daily newspapers, 1989 to 1992, James William Boyce
Rebuilding the broken wall: The EFC and Canadian evangelicals, Mark Denis Chapman
Native theological training within Canadian evangelicalism: Three case studies, Graham Gibson
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Going by the moon and the stars: Stories of two Russian Mennonite women, Pamela E. Klassen
The person of Paul: A study in the apostle's ethical appeal, John W. Marshall
Thomas Scott's 'The Force of Truth': A diplomatic edition from the first and final editions with introduction and notes, Gordon Bruce Rumford
'The Book of Mutual Love' of Adam of Perseigne: A translation with a revised critical edition and commentaries (France), Bryan Trussler
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Funeral rites among Ashanti immigrants in Toronto: A case study (Ontario), Paul Adjin-Tettey
Otto Rank's theory of cultural transition, Thomas James Clearwater
Jerome's commentary on Jonah: Translation with introduction and critical notes, Timothy Michael Hegedus
Purity and power: A rhetorical study of the ideology of purity and defilement in the Book of Ezekiel, Armin Siedlecki
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Gender and The Search for Identity in Gwendolyn MacEwan’s Julian and Noman Stories, Anne Marie Martin
The early Latin sources for the legend of St. Martha a study and translation with critical notes, Diane Peters
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The role of ideology in Hebrew nation-making, Gerald Cressman
Sumptuary guidelines in Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus and Seneca's Epistulae morales, Stephen Crump
A neurophysiological model of trance with practical application, Alexander Sasha Antony Marusich
Feminist ritual healing, transformation and empowerment, Eileen R. Ormond
Socialization or hermeneutics? The fundamental cause of conflict over sexual morals in the United Church of Canada, Derek Albert Parry
Judean pithoi of Iron Age Eretz Israel, Penny Lynn Pearson
The arguments of the Apocriticus a re-evaluation of the apology of macarius magnes, Benedict C. Sheehy
Gottfried Arnold on worship a translation from Die erste Liebe, 1696, Paul Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
A Weave of Women in the context of contemporary feminism and traditional Judaism, Patricia J. Bush
The hermeneutics of Lonergan and Gadamer: A comparison (Bernard Lonergan, Hans-Georg Gadamer), Terry Graham
Ancient Mesopotamian concepts of death and the netherworld according to ancient literary texts, John William David McMaster
The symbolism of the eye in Mesopotamia and Israel, Helen L. Seawright
Stamped Greek amphora handles in Israel, Thomas C. Seawright
Invisible presences: Virginia Woolf and biography, Stephanie Kirkwood Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Didymus the Blind on 1 Corinthians 15, Alice Thompson Croft
The significance of female imagery in the book of Proverbs wisdom and wife compared, Anna Doris Piskorowski
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Religious Sanctuaries in Ancient Cyprus During the Iron Age, Lenia Chamberlain
Anglican and Reformed: Ecumenism and Confessionalism in the Perspective of the Reformation, Timothy Ronald Cooke
“The Greatest Human Travail”: Faith and the Context of Rhetoric in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road, James Cameron Hall
A Short History of the Anabaptists of High and Low Germany: A Diplomatic Edition with Introduction and Notes, E. Hugh K. Hill
A Reconstruction of the Contributions of Mitanni to the Ancient Near East, Richard E. Jarol
The Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, 1955-1968: The Implications of the Social Dimensions of Faith for a Missionary Endeavour, Erin Frances Phillips
The Samaria Region During the Israelite Period: An Urban Study, Olaf Johannes Bogh Poulsen
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The evolution of modern Catholic social teaching on labour and social justice, Hugh J. Campbell
The Paleolithic mother: Man's first God?, Patricia Frances Dutton
The temporal-eternal continuum of C.S. Lewis, Paul Medford Knowles
The institution of betrothal in the early rabbinical literature, Emma McLennan
The stations of the cross: A calculated trap?, Susan D. Shantz
Hosea's contribution to Israel's covenant thought, Byron L. Wheaton
A critique of the nouthetic counseling technique of Jay E. Adams, Roger Clayton White
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
American fundamentalism and nuclear deterrence a critique, Glen Robert Amy
A theological assessment of Paulo Freire's view of education in terms of the perspective of Juergen Moltmann, Janice Davies
Imagining God a critical review of the theology and method of Gordon D. Kaufman, H. Victor Froese
A comparison of the theology of salvation in the teachings of Martin Luther and Joseph Smith, Jr, Gordon Frank Hodgins
The Late Bronze Age temple in Palestine, Thomas Glen Lee
Mythos and metaphor in the Apocalypse Northrop Frye's literary criticism applied to the Book of Revelation, Daniel Nightswander
Emil Brunner's theological anthropology a Neo-Thomistic critique, Arden Paul Schellert
Meaning in ancient synagogue art a study in methodology, Ruth M. Vale
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
The rib in the Book of Job, John MacLaren Evans
The concept of the object relation in the writings of Gotthard Booth, M.D.: An example of an emerging paradigm in medicine, Thomas Charles Foster
The role of the mystic actor at the decline of civilization, Susan Dunlop Harper
The Cylinder Seals of Late Bronze Age Palestine as Indicators of Hurrian Influence, Mary-Louise Mussell
Approaching The Scarlet Letter: Spatiality as theme and method, Susan L. Scott
The Kingston Harbourfront site: An evaluation of urban development (Ontario), Warren Bruce Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Suspicious-disclosure and the dialectic of self-appropriation in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, Blaine Allen Barclay
Daughters of a jesting God: The religious sensibility of Margaret Laurence, Patricia Stibbards-Watt
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Significance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Today, Veronica Ertis-Kojima
Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Linda Joanne Lubin