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Title: "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Author: Mesibov, Sally
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
Description: SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...

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: 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: 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: Christian Sun Worship and Theurgy in Late Antique Rome
Author: Sells, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pan...

Title: Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of his Movement: An Evaluation of Methods (1952-2010)
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew and Aramaic texts representing more than 800 manuscripts. Found between 1947 - 1956 in 11 caves near an ancient Qumran archaeological site, they consist of copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls h...

Title: De natura religionis Romanum: A Re-appraisal of the Role of Roman Private Cult and Practice
Author: Young, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching
Description: This study questions the contemporary privilege afforded Roman civic cult and its relationship with the divine over the private cult of the individual or group. Exploring the historical underpinnings of the civic cult theory as exemplified by such...

Title: Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: McElveen, Viola
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Ancient
Description: ABSTRACTVIOLA L. MCELVEEN. Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls(Under the direction of DR. JAMES D. TABOR) The central purpose of my thesis is to attempt to identify the methods and crite...

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 Gospel of Luke as Rewritten Mark: Jesus as a Hellenistic "Divine Man"
Author: Melton, Tyler
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: In a society that reveres "divine men" who typically hold positions of power, it should be no surprise that an author would want the subject of their writings to emulate traits that line up with such a title – even if they are rewriting an earlier...

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 Vanity of a Visionary: A Close Reading of the Inquisitorial Trial of Francisca de los Apostáles (de Avila)
Author: Rice, Tabitha
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: This thesis explores the trial of Francisca de los Apostáles, a woman who lived in Toledo, Spain, during the mid- to late-sixteenth century. Her Inquisitorial trial provides insight into the subversion of female authority and autonomy by the Spani...