Perspectives on Creativity: Theoria, Praxis, and Poiesis.
LUKAS RAY DEAN, M.S. A DISSERTATION IN PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved: Michael Finke Chair of the Committee Ozzy Akay John Salter Alan Reifman Nathan Harness Accepted by Peggy Miller, Ed. D.

Steven M. Smith, Thomas B. Ward Mental processes are the essence of creative endeavor. The Creative Cognition Approach extends this particular view of creativity, first proposed and developed by the editors in their earlier book Creative Cognition, to the programs and theoretical views of some of the most prominent researchers in the areas of problem solving, concept formation, and thinking.

My dissertation joins this growing interest by examining the importance of friendship in the political thought of Socrates and Aristotle. Specifically, I analyze the divergent approaches that Socrates and Aristotle take to politics and trace these distinct approaches to their differing conceptions of friendship. Through an examination of two Platonic dialogues—the.

Our definition of religious social capital did not emerge as a result of an ethnographic or qualitative study. The specific components of religious social capital measured were designed to easily map to a neighborhood social capital measures and hence may not adequately capture the unique features of social capital in the context of a religious community. The dichotomization of the religious.

Mental Imagery Bibliography. This is an extensive, but inevitably incomplete, bibliography of the science and philosophy of mental imagery (it includes the items listed in the selected bibliography on the main entry page). Many, but not all, of the works listed here are cited and discussed in the text of the entry on Mental Imagery, or its supplements. Many items here are annotated, but lack.

Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies? Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke. American Sociological Review 2007 72: 4, 633-658 Download Citation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and.

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders Denise A. Spellberg Knopf 2013. In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In.