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Title: Sacrifice and Violence: Paśubali in Nepal
Author: Carroll, Lindsay
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: Animal sacrifice in Nepal—known as paśubali—exemplifies the complexities of ritual animal sacrifice. It also complicates understandings of the relationships between sacrifice and violence. The word "violence" in sacrificial studies has been met wi...

Title: Sanctuaries, "Special Needs," and Service: Faith Community Leader Perceptions on Including Children with Disabilities
Author: Stewart-Ginsburg, Jared
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Early childhood education, Religion
Description: Religion plays an important role in providing support, purpose, and positive emotional health in the life of a family with a child with a disability. Yet studies on parent and child perceptions indicate that many families struggle to feel accepted...

Title: Semantic Change: Marian Phrases in Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Rosary, Puerto Rican Folklore and Spanish
Author: Quiñones-Ayala, Brenda
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Language and languages, Area studies
Description: En el habla popular puertorriqueña se utilizan expresiones de carácter mariano en forma de interjección fuera de su contexto teológico originario. En Puerto Rico, antes de que acaeciera una serie de eventos socio-históricos, el uso de estas expres...

Title: THE HISTORY OF THE CURSE: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL TABOOS OF MENSTRUATION AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY TODAY
Author: Webster, Samantha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Religion
Description: ABSTRACTSAMANTHA B. WEBSTER The history of the curse: a comparative look at the religious and social taboos of menstruation and the influence they have on American society today. (Under the direction of DR. KENT BRINTNALL).James Frazer, in his lat...

Title: THE PRAGMATISM OF FOOD PORN: MODERN MEDIA AS A MODE OF ZEN PERPETUATION
Author: Haley, Gabrielle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: The revolving door of food trends – particularly those regarding vegetarianism and veganism – provides a unique opportunity for food cultures that are traditionally associated with religions to sit down at the table and enter the conversation. Thi...

Title: The Broken Shelves: Ex-Mormon Reddit Narratives of Deconversion
Author: Wright, Lesley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: What are the reasons ex-Mormons give for why they leave their religion? This study identifies what causes Mormons to lose their religion—or to use an ex-Mormon parlance—causes their shelf to break, by analyzing online deconversion narratives poste...

Title: The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
Author: Boaz, Stephen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies, Folklore
Description: This paper primarily examines how white conservative Evangelicals engage narrative constructions of identity through the use an embattled lens. The paper does also consider two other Evangelical groups (black Evangelicals—largely civil rights lead...

Title: The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events
Author: Brightman, Alexis
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Religion, Spirituality
Description: Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to othe...

Title: The Insta-Hijra: South Asian Hijra Photographic Performances
Author: Flaherty, David
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Religion, Art--Historiography
Description: Indian hijras have captured anthropological, religious, and media attention as they have been categorized as "third-sex," "neither men nor women," and most recently, indexed under the identity structures of "transgender" and "kinnar." From their s...

Title: The Persistence of Images: Mūrti, Monotheisms, and Museums
Author: Bowmer, William
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Aesthetics, Area studies
Description: Even anciently one finds debate among Indian sources as to whether image-worship is unacceptable, ignorant, tolerable, laudable or ideal as a means of connecting with divinity. Yet it has been ubiquitous in Indian society for thousands of years, t...

Title: The varieties of secular experience
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Secularism, Religion
Description: Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...

Title: This Generation Will Not Pass Away Before All These Things Take Place
Author: Cataldo, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, Religion, Theology
Description: This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia,...

Title: “The Name With Which You Ascend to Heaven”: Semiotic and Linguistic Ideology in the Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el
Author: Cornett, Aleah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Linguistics, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el may appear much like other midrashic exegetical texts that seem ubiquitous in Rabbinic Judaism. It is, however, different not only because it appears much later and is a part of a larger recontextualization con...