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Title: Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
Author: Amezquita, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
Description: An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...

Title: Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
Author: Argonauta, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bible, Sex role, Religion
Description: The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...

Title: Mark: A Messianic Post-War Gospel
Author: Beaumont, Jenny
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Bible, Theology
Description: The Gospel of Mark, understood as our earliest post-70 CE early Christian/Jewish writing, can provide a new interpretive lens for setting forth the parameters of an understanding of spirituality for Mark’s community in a new era in which Jerusalem...

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: Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Bruce, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...

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: PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
Author: Carskaddon, Chelsea
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Ethics, Philosophy and religion
Description: The question driving this thesis is to what extent religious othering is actually experienced compared to the extent to which religious othering is simply perceived. To seek an answer to this question the author chose to analyze the ways in which ...

Title: South Park's Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror
Author: Casper, Joshua
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, Ethnology, Area studies
Description: JOSHUA CASPER. South Park Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror. (Under the Direction of DR. SEAN MCCLOUD) In this thesis, I argue that Satan in South Park is portrayed as a sympathetic character who acts as both a role model o...

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 Origin and History of the Cenacle on Mount Zion: An Examination of the Textual, Artistic, and Archaeological Evidence
Author: Clausen, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects, Archaeology
Description: Scholars have, for nearly a century, theorized about the origins of the building known as the Cenacle on southwestern Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Some suggest that it represents the surviving remnants of either or both of the large-scale churches tha...

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...

Title: Reporting the “Summer of Shame”: Clergy Sex Abuse and U.S. Catholic Journalism in 2018
Author: Davis, Samuel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Religion, History--Religious aspects
Description: This paper explores how two US Catholic newspapers—the National Catholic Reporter and the National Catholic Register—reported on the topic of sex abuse in the Church in 2018, revolving around how they presented and discussed the events surrounding...

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: Praise the Sun: The Game Dark Souls Illuminated by Ritual Theory
Author: Gonzales, Aaron
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: By focusing on the social meaning-making of ritual Catherine Bell paved the way for new avenues of exploration for religious studies. My paper pulls this theory into a realm of playful activity unique to the digital age: the world of video gaming....

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: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: Counting Days in Ancient Babylon: Eclipses, Omens, and Calendrics during the Old Babylonian Period (1750-1600 BCE)
Author: Jedael, Steven
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Astronomy, Area studies
Description: STEVEN JEDAEL. Counting days in ancient Babylon: eclipses, omens, and calendrics during the Old Babylonian period (1750-1600 bce).(Under the direction of DR. JOHN C. REEVES) Prior to the sixth century BCE, each lunar month of the Babylonian calend...

Title: PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
Author: Kimbrel, Suzannah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Area studies
Description: This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...

Title: American Atheism: An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Stigma Borne by Twenty-First Century Citizens
Author: Lee, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion
Description: This paper analyzes the stigma that surrounds atheists in twenty-first century America, and shows that assumed moral shortcomings of atheists have remained mostly unchanged over the course of America’s history. By outlining the development of a Ch...

Title: Maintenance of a Tradition: An Analysis of Identity and Memory Making Processes at Rock Springs Camp-Meeting
Author: Manlove, Wyatt
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: The Rock Springs camp-meeting in Denver, North Carolina is a communal religious gathering, the maintenance of which is passed down generationally and regarded by some as an important piece of Denver's community history. The camp-meeting phenomenon...