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J.M. Dawson Institute Graduates - Theses and Dissertations (2006-2012)

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J.M. Dawson Institute Graduates - Theses and Dissertations (through 2000)

Last	First	Year completed	Degree	Title
Abegunde	Olefumi	1987	MA	The Impact of Islamic Resurgence on Church-State Relations in Nigeria Since 1950.
Allison	Penny Peach	1976	MA	Public School Textbooks as the Subject of Church-State Controversy, with a Case Study of Kahawha County, West Virginia."
Bochis	Lidia	1998	MA	Physician Assisted Suicide in the Church and State Context.
Brantley	Randy	1991	MA	The United States Sanctuary Movement for Central American Refugees: A Church-State Analysis.
Buitron	Rick	1991	MA	An Analysis of the Advocacy Role of President Ronald Reagan in American Church-State Relations.
Craddock	Jay	1998	MA	The Role of Religion in the Placement and Care of Dependent and Neglected Children by the State.
Davis	Derek H.	1988	MA	The Perspective of William H. Rehnquist on the First Amendment Religion Clauses in the Light of the Original Intent of the Framers.
Day	Kathleen LaNell	1978	MA	State Licensing of Religious Child-Care Institutions: A Case Study of Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises, Inc.
Deng	Xioagang	1988	MA	The Impact of Nationalism on Church-State Relations in China, 1840-1986.
Dokupil	Susanna Gooch	1996	MA	The Separation of Mosque and State: Islam and Modernization in Turkey.
Elhard	D. Wayne	1976	MA	The Brooks, Alberta, National Anthem Controversy.
Eubanks	Franklin Gibson	1983	MA	The National Historic Preservation of Churches and Related Church-State Issues
Ferguson	Kelly Cook-	1992	MA	A Critical Review of the Supreme Court's Use of the 'Compelling State Interest' Test in Light of Employment Division v. Smith: Continuity or Discontinuity.
Gan	Hai	1997	MA	Discussion of the American Military Chaplaincy in Relation to War, the Bible, the First Amendment, and Constitutional Cases: Ethical and Constitutional Considerations.
Gape	Peter	1994	MA	The Catholic Church and the Struggle for Justice and Human Rights in the Philippines Since Independence (1946-Present).
Glanzer	Perry	1991	MA	The Establishment of 'Secular Humanism' in the Public Schools: A Critical Analysis.
Hamilton	Gregory	1998	MA	Sandra Day O'Connor's Judicial Philosophy on the Role of Religion in Public Life.
Hankins	Barry	1983	MA	Billy Graham and American Nationalism
Hansen	Timothy J.	1984	MA	Public Aid to Church-Related Higher Education: Constitutional and Religions Implications of the Texas Tuition Equalization Grant.
Holcomb	J. David	1992/1997	MA/PhD	(MA) "An Analysis of the Equal Access Act of 1984 and Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens and Their Impact on the Future Course of Religion, the State, and Education." (PhD) "The Nexus of Freedom of Religion and Separation Church and State in the Thought of Leo Pfeffer"
Kim	Heung Soo	1986	MA	The Unification Church and the State: A Case Study in American Church-State Relations.
Kousz	Gertrude E.	1999	MA	The Development of American Lutheran Advocacy: 1914 to the Present.
Kristof	Deana	2000	MA	Charitable Choice: An Examination of the Prevailing Church-State Implications in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.
Latimer	Brett Hugh	1995	MA	Theological Foundations and Contemporary Applications of the Involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in U.S. National Politics.
Li	WenXue	1999	MA	Maoism in Chinese Civil Religion: Apotheosized Mao Zedong in China since 1935.
Logsdon	Jim Hank	1970	MA	The Election and Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Writings of Ewing Stanford James, Editor of the Baptist Standard 1954-1966.
Longacre	James C.	1972	MA	International Conflict in the Work of Herbert Butterfield.
Marcus	Brian	1995	MA	Religion and Antebellum Politics: A Comparison of the Religious Genesis and Elements of the Anti-Masonic and American (Know-Nothing) Parties.
Mattingly	Terry Lee	1984	MA	A Unity of Frustration: Civil Religion in the 15 October 1969 Vietnam War Moratorium.
Moses	H. Vincent	1973	MA	The Relationship of Nationalism and Religion in the Writings of Hans Kohn and Carlton J. H. Hayes.
Nunnallee	Christopher	1995	MA	The American Liberal Experiment: Rights, Duty, and Virtue in the United States.
Oyedokun	Michael Oloyede	1973	MA	Foreign Interventions in the Nigerian Civil War with Emphasis upon the Role of the Roman Catholic Church.
Perkins	Bernadette	1997	MA	Civil Religion in Russia: Fifteenth Century to the Present.
Phillips	J. Stephen	1998	PhD	Thomas Helwys and the Idea of Religious Liberty
Schleicher	Dorothy	1993	MA	A History and Analysis of the Role of the Baptist Joint Committee, 1972-Present.
Smith	George Wayne	1978	MA	A Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Religious Liberty in the Thought of Robert F. Drinan, S. J., and the Dignitatis Humanae of Vatican Council II
Tison	Richard	1999	MA	Materialists Employing Science: Phillip Johnson's Critique of Darwinian Evolution and Its Church-State Implication."
Ubben	Donald Thomas	1972	MA	The South Carolina Church Act of 1706: The Triumph of Anglican Establishment.
Uzzel	Robert L.	1976	MA	The Nation of Islam: Belief and Practice in Light of the American Constitutional Principle of Religious Liberty.
Warren	Dwayne	1990	MA	Church Discipline and the Right to Privacy
Watson	Micah	2000	MA	Cultivating the Authentic: C. S. Lewis and Natural Law.
Watts	John A.	1979	MA	A Refutation of Robert N. Bellah's Concept of a World Civil Religion as the Fulfillment of America's Eschatological Hope.
Wells	William G.	1996	MA	The Church-State Dimensions of Soren Kierkegaard's Writings: Toward a Kierkegaardian Conception of Church-State.
White	Daniel R.	1973	MA	Religious Liberty in Spain Since 1943: The Interaction of Political, Religious, and Social Forces."
Wink	Kenneth Alan	1987	MA	Deprogramming and the First Amendment
Zhou	Ya-rong	1994	MA	The Influence of Nationalism on Christianity in China, 1840-1994.